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| Fujifilm Finepix F200EXR Digital Camera - Black (12MP, 5x Optical Zoom) 3 inch LCD |
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Fujifilm Finepix F200EXR Digital Camera - Black (12MP, 5x Optical Zoom) 3 inch LCD
FUJIFILM
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| Product Details |
ISBN/ASIN: B001SN6XQI
Release Date: 2009-03-16
Sales Rank: 4735
Average Rating: 
Media: Electronics
Audience Rating:
Product Group: CE
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| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 4.0/5 | | Love it: Rating: 5/5 |
At last, an affordable compact that makes taking pictures a pleasure! The wide-angle lens and macro function make you feel creative and the speedy shutdown is very useful when you're out and about.
Okay, it's a little on the heavy side and the menus aren't as intuitive as they could be. True, the ISO rating it chooses is often high, but the "F" menu does allow you to set a maximum ISO that it won't exceed. Yes, after making menu selections and then changing modes, you do sometimes find yourself accidentally taking 6 megapixel pictures when you assumed it was set to 12.
As other reviewers have said, don't push the battery life because the camera can shut down with the lens out. But actually the battery life isn't bad at all if you avoid "EXR Auto" mode and turn down the brightness of the display. (I've taken 600+ pictures at a time indoors.) Granted outdoors, on a sunny day, you do need to turn the brightness back up, and the thing I miss most then is a viewfinder.
However, I chose this camera for two good reasons: low-light shots are by far the best I've ever taken with a digital compact, and the miraculous "dynamic range" option does such a good job, preventing washed-out skies and murky shadows, it simply makes you want to get out there and start taking all those shots you had to give up on when you retired your old film camera.
| | Great pictures, but buy a spare battery!: Rating: 4/5 |
If you want a compact camera that gives you some control over your pictures, but also has a point and shoot mode that can cope with difficult conditions, this camera is highly recommended. The EXR mode is incredible, detecting faces with ease and producing rich, vivid images. One word of warning though: if you have the camera in EXR mode it will consume battery power at a rate of knots, so have a spare battery with you at all times, as my camera died with the lense half way out.
I wouldn't recommend this camera for someone who just wants a point and shoot model and starts to panic if they have to make choices, but if you want something that approaches SLR quality, you won't be disappointed with this camera.
One other point - this camera has a wider-angled lense than most, which is very handy with indoors, group shots and can also deliver stunning landscapes. | | Great Camera for all occasions: Rating: 5/5 |
I was prompted to get this camera after taking dark and blurry shots at my friend's wedding (with an old Sony Cybershot). I was enticed by the low-light performance reputation of this camera, and it hasn't disappointed. In EXR mode, the camera can adjust night and evening shots to capture background details and natural light. While this inevitably means upping the ISO setting and increasing noise, the compensation is a picture which is true to life. In auto mode, the flash can light up a low light scene as bright as day, and so give bright colours and sharp faces, if the more true-colour EXR is too noisy for your tastes.
For outside shots with better lighting, the camera produces very sharp pictures, with an excellent colour range. In cloudy conditions, an impressive degree of detail and contrast is retained in the clouds, and scenes are still captured sharply. Compared to my old camera, skin tones are truer and pictures much less soft.
I would recommend this camera for those who like to fiddle with settings, because although the EXR mode will take a great picture 9 times out of 10, it helps to have a programmed AUTO mode that you know is a good alternative. All of the settings you need are there, but menus can sometimes be confusing or poorly explained. I found I could set a limit on the ISO setting without help, but needed instruction to set manual shot times for tripod use. All in all, the camera is a great all-rounder.
| | CAMERA FOR WISHING NOT TO MAKE PHOTOS ANY MORE: Rating: 1/5 |
It seems that the philosophy of compact cameras today is to push the ISO sensitivity higher and higher and to provide the camera modes which are restricting shutter speeds to extremely short time (1/60 sec, or 1/30 sec). This approach offers to users not to have blurry pictures but on the other hand the noise is ridiculously high. I haven't used yet this camera in open space and with good daylight, but the results of indoor photos are awful. At the moment I think that only "tripod night mode" used from hand can provide some decent indoor photos. The shutter speed I had was 1/6 sec which is quite easy to shoot from hand with no necessity to use a tripod. Manual and Program modes are not the modes which the user of compact camera should rely on for obtaining a good photo.
I would like to know why it is not possible to limit, in the majority of modes, the ISO sensitivity to light at 100 or 200 and to have wider apertures, slower shutter speeds and blurry photos in a case we are not able to hold the camera still during the process of photographing!
I would like to point out that it is possible to make a good photo by holding camera in two hands in good weather conditions (no wind or cold which can disturb a user in standing still) with shutter speeds as slow as 1/2 sec.
| | a camera with character: Rating: 5/5 |
I've spent the last couple of weeks getting to know this little fella and I am mightily impressed. Quite simply, it delivers wonderful pictures. Not only are they sharp, consistently well exposed and displaying a remarkable dynamic range but it produces quite filmic, un-digital results.
I've left it set to EXR (Dynamic range priority 400%), Auto ISO (capped at 400) and I switch between Astia, Velvia and Black and White (the black and white sim is great with the increased Dynamic range). And all of the settings stay where they are when you power down or switch to playback (unlike the Sony DSCN1 I was using before. Drove me nuts).
This is a remarkable little photographic tool and well worth £150.
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