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Summary: Alex's Review
Review: Great camera but be careful with it if you need to get it repaired by fujifilm it will cost you a small fortune. I had to return my camera because they said I bent the contacts on the compactflash card and it cost me 86.00 to fix. They said that was the good customer price!!! I wonder what the bad customer price would have been? HAHAHAHAHAH
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Summary: Best thing I've Found Yet
Review: I'm a 38 year old mother of two, and have been a shutterbug and had a love affair with cameras since I could point and shoot,I've had all styles of cameras over the years but this one,my third digital camera is the best yet. I take pictures just about daily, I carry it everywhere with me, to work,in the car,I'm always getting compliments on it and it's professional design, and then...they see the finished product and they can't believe the fantastic results! I am now doing graduation photos and will be photographing two weddings this Fall! I have nothing bad to say about this camera except the pictures blur in lower light, but using a tripod helped with that. There are still features I haven't tried on it, and I've owned it six months.
You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Overall, an Excellent Prosumer Camera for 2002
Review: I've just recently sold my s602 with the intent of switching to the highly anticipated release of fuji's newest edition of s-series camera---the s7000, which should be due out in october 2003. But for the 4 months that i owned the s602, i was very impressed with many of the features that had been an improvement from many of the previous models. This camera is BY FAR the BEST ergonomically shaped with excellent added attention to button orientation and placement. The zoom in/out buttons are placed in the position that are easily accessed by the thumb which means you can zoom without taking your eye off the subject, limiting time spent searching for buttons. In addition, they're also tilted at a slight diagonal angle to insure that it meets the normal relaxed position of the operator's thumb. The on/off switch is rotational which means the operator won't accidentally turn off the camera. The camera body itself is very compact and very light. It adopts the make-up of many high-end digital slr's. Other features that impressed me besides the exterior were the "honey-comb" ccd image censor (super ccd) and the lcd screen. The super ccd image sensor allows the effective megapixel count to double this means an image taken at 3.3 mp may be optionally captured at a very high resolution of 6mp. One thing that separated this camera from other more expensive cameras was the LCD screen. The battery efficient lcd screen allows a user to take 400-500 shots before needing to change batteries. There's even a light that tells you when the batteries are low (green for good, orange for low batteries). The lcd screen resonates more crisp images with far less "dead pixel" count than better than Sony's F717 "L-shaped camera" as well as Canon's G5, G4, G3... I've also realized that the s602's lcd screen has a stain resistant + protective plastic plate that makes the lcd screen a lot more durable on trips. If you don't trust me, please test it out for yourself at any electronics store. You'll see an instant choppy graininess in the image quality from the aforementioned models that you won't see from the s602. Moreover, unlike most cameras offered in the market, the s602 features multiple media outlets. There are 2 media drives and the cool thing about them is that you can use two at the same time; you just need to toggle between them in the menu. This allows you to have more choices in what type of media to use and it also allows for a backup card if the one currently in use is full. For example, if your 64mb smartmedia drive is full, you can go to the menu and change to the microdrive that supports up to 1gb of storage!!! Besides the media storage i was also impressed by the electronic viewfinder. It's a lot more accurate than most optical viewfinders (that is, in reference to digital cameras). And it's also a great alternative to the lcd screen and battery efficiency. This camera has a lot of manual control and the pictures come out very nice. There's a built-in flash, but it also supports an external flash with the hotshoe that's placed over the built-in flash. The zoom on the camera has a macro option for close up pictures, which compliments its 6x capability. This camera also provides streamline 30fps movie mode which has no time limit. The 30 fps is equivalent to a camcorder (but the audio is horrible and sounds like it came from a paper-cup). This far outweights canon's g4 camera with a limited 3x zoom and 3minute limitation on 20 fps. With all the positive things going for the camera i could only find 2 negatives. One was the fact that besides, excellent macro zoom, the camera had only 1 lousy focusing point. That was a major reason for selling the camera. It's difficult to get multiple subjects from different field depths to be in focus, especially when i was trying to take a macro close-up of a lizard in my backyard. Even Sony's f717 has 5 focusing points. My other big complaint is that the camera has a VERY noisy zoom/focusing drive train. I don't understand why fuji decided to have such an loud drive train mechanism controlling the lens. Sony's f717 is super quiet, you can't even hear the it zoom or focus in the act. This kind of goes along with my other qualm with the cheap construction of the camera. The buttons are made of cheap plastic and pretty flimsy. I hope i've provided some info that other users of this camera haven't. If you're suspicious of my review of this camera in anyway, please go to your local Fry's or Best Buy and try it out yourself.
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Summary: The best camera i evere had
Review: I got my Camera in Insbruck Austria' 2 months after it came to the market.
I could get it in the U S A for lees mony, but i culd not wait any more, as i was in a tour in Tirol-Austria.
I have allso an 3 years old Fiji 4700 finefix, that i like very much. The new one is the best of all the cameras i ever had.
She is fast. She is fraindly and made no mistaks.She do not have a red eye problems, and with a big smartmedia, you can shoot and shoot, and shoot....still the end of a long tour/ Upsolotly F A N T A S T I C
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Summary: Absolutely Fabulous
Review: Everything you need, nothing you don't. Works like a charm. Great zoom, great flash, great manual and auto settings. Excellent photo quality. I have the wide-angle lens, love that too. Cannot say enough great stuff about this camera.
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Summary: The Cadillac!!
Review: I upgraded from a Fujifilm 28000. It's like driving a VW Bug and trading it in for a Cadillac! I didn't even read the manual first, I just popped the card and batteries in and took it for a test drive. I am not a "schooled" photographer by any means (I have always had automatic point and shoot cameras), but I have always enjoyed taking pictures and I can't wait to really use this one. It did cost a bit more than I would ever have thought that I would pay for a camera, but I don't have buyer's regret at all. I did do lots of research from several web sites before I made this purchase, so I know that some reviewers have issues with some things (the LCD screen outside)but I can live with that. Since I did have the 2800, I know about that will just use the viewfinder.
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Summary: Best all rounded 3M Digital Camera
Review: Used to have the Kodak DC4800 and luv it until I upgraded to the S602. This camera blows away the DC4800. It is feature rich. The only thing that it lost out to the DC4800 is the color saturation. I find the S602 easy to hold and handle. This is a cool and professional looking camera. It has almost everthing that I need to take good pictures, be it day or night. ... Sure, other camera may be 5M or 6M pixels but for me, 3M is more than good enough. Furthermore, 3M takes up less memory space and is faster to write (less delay). All my Letter size printout looks sharp and crisp. After thousands of images, I am still in no hurry to upgrade to anything else. Fujifilm have done an excellent job with this camera and it will be interesting to see what they can come up with to top this already excellent camera.
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Summary: I'm finally taking pictures again!
Review: I love photography - being outdoors, working with the camera, and the finished photos. I used to take so many pictures! I carried my huge full-featured 35mm camera everywhere, and usually got pretty good results. Then I went to school and got my own job and had to start PAYING for my own film and developing. I quickly slowed my picture taking to a trickle. I got this camera in February, and I have taken over 1000 pictures since then. I have all of the control I had in my 35mm camera, and more, so I do not feel constrained. Imagine being able to choose between 5 different speeds of film, eight different types of color saturation, plus black and white, and changing film between every shot! Pushing a button enlarges the center of the frame to check your focus, and pushing another button while in manual focus mode has the camera auto-focus once - which is perfect when I want to use the auto-focus feature but do not want to miss a shot because it is re-focusing. I tend to get more good pictures now because I can immediately view my shots and tell if I've got something wrong. Also, this camera feels well-balanced and all the controls are easy to reach. It has a tripod socket, but no cable release. There is a 2 second and 10 second timer. As with all digital cameras, there is a small delay between pushing the shutter button and taking the picture, but its pretty quick on this camera. You will get used to the timing with practice. For the serious photo buff, I suggest two full sets of recharable batteries (NiMH) and the highest-capacity high-speed memory cards you can afford. You then have free film for life! It didn't fit in my purse - so I bought a bigger purse.
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Summary: Great camera....
Review: You can't find a better camera for the price. The color, and quality of the images are great. The camera operation work flawlessly. The minute I took it out of the box, I was up and shooting great images. I use it as a back-up for photo-journalist work and many images I've used from this camera have been published. I dropped it about 6 feet off of a pallet, and it didn't skip a beat. Solid construction. It is a great little camera. Recommended.
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Summary: Great Digital Camera
Review: I've worked with Kodaks and Sony's in the past, and was looking for a digital camera with manual SLR features and an intuitive user interface. The S602 had enough manual features to keep me happy, things like manual focus, fstops, etc... The navigational features of the S602 are very intuitive and easy to navigate. I was seriously considering the Olympus C-4000, but the C-4000 didn't have an intuitive interface, so it was either more MegaPixels or good interface, for me a great interface means more time to take great pictures. The only problem and a common complaint on most digital cameras is that the batteries die too quickly. If you get this camera, make sure you get an AC-5V adapter when you download your images to your computer.
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