The 2800 is exceptionally easy to use, with manual controls limited to adjusting white balance and exposure compensation--more experienced photographers will miss the ability to fine tune aperture, shutter speed, ISO settings, etc. The 6x optical zoom is superb and makes an enormous difference to picture quality and ease of composition--it equates to a zoom range of 38mm to 228mm on a standard 35mm camera.

Fuji has included a movie mode with sound running at 10 frames per second and at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. Disappointingly, this is limited to 60 seconds of recording time, regardless of the capacity of memory card in use, and does not make use of the optical zoom, instead relying solely on the digital zoom. Other features include voice captioning and, bizarrely on a camera of this specification, a video conferencing mode allowing use as a WebCam. A notable omission however, is the lack of a video-out socket.

As you would expect from Fuji, the 2800 is straightforward to install and includes paper manuals for both the camera and the supplied software--this includes a simple viewer/organiser, QuickTime, Videoimpression and Adobe Photodeluxe. The 2800 uses 4 AA alkaline (supplied) or NiMH rechargeable batteries. Fuji recommend avoiding lithium batteries as the heat discharged can damage the camera. --Nick Baxter