IMHO, An Excellent Camera (Fujifilm Finepix 1400 Zoom)

Member Name: wulf

Product:	Fujifilm Finepix 1400 Zoom
Date:	02/08/01 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: picture quality, sturdy construction, optical zoom

Disadvantages: battery consumption, LCD relatively unclear

At the end of March this year I was going on a two week trip to the States, and it seemed like a good time to invest in a digital camera - I wanted to create a website on my return and possibly to be able to send illustrated updates to friends and family when I was out there.

I'd found plenty of reviews in the computing press, but most of them either left me confused, or thinking that I would have to spend more than I wanted to get the quality I required. Therefore I took a trip down to my local camera shop and asked what they recommended.

They showed me two or three options, and the one that stood out was the Fine Pix 1400. The quality of picture was more than adequate for web pictures (my main use), the construction was sturdy, and the optical zoom was a useful extra tool to capture the pictures I wanted.

It did get through the first set of batteries in the first week... but that was down to using the LCD screen too much. Having done some reading on the subject, I started making much more use of the optical viewfinder and that let the next set of batteries last all the way from Texas to Georgia and well beyond my return to England.

I did invest in a case and an extra memory card when I purchased the camera but declined the optional power adapter. I found that a cheap multi-voltage adapter from Argos (£10, using the 4.5 volt setting) works perfectly well when tranferring pictures from camera to PC for digital manipulation... and this helps me eke out the battery life longer still.

For examples of images taken with this camera, see:

http://www.web-den.org.uk/houston/

You can also see some more heavily manipulated shots at:

http://www.web-den.org.uk/bassist/dtdjun2001.p hp

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