£175 Cum un get it the price is right (Fujifilm Finepix 2200)

Member Name: drpete7

Product:	Fujifilm Finepix 2200
Date:	21/03/01 (390 review reads)
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Advantages: see below... light, inexpensive, good value

Disadvantages: none at the price of £175

Following Chris' fantastic review my interest in this product had been stirred, when funny enough I found a voucher in the Evening Standard saying half price £350 to £174.95 or something in PC World (or so the ad said on the web..)

Tried the web was still £350 for some reason; they obviously were trying to con people into visiting.

So retail I am afraid...I rang up confirmed stock at a local PC world and went, Staples Corner. The guy on the phone firmly told me to be early as they had 30 in stock but would sell out by 3pm on a Saturday if not earlier.

Bought it using the cut out voucher (one per customer apparently), thought I tried to seek alternatives. Unsurprisingly PC world had only crap at this sort of price (hardly a mega pixel job let alone 2.1 1600x1200 resolution like 2200). As per usual most of their things were overpriced.


So what do I think

*it is very light (considering it has 4 aa cells)
*manual is good
*pictures are excellent
*connectivity and software is sensible and *I think even includes adobe acorobat PDF generator (not the freebe reader but the writer which used to cost alot!)
*8mb card useful amount of memory
*contatry to my expectations the batteries are long lasting (unlike my old olympus where they were "piss poor" as we say in the trade)

Worth £175 definatly
Worth £350 I think not as it does not
*have rechargeables,
*is not small enough
*only has a digital zoom.
*does not have a lens cap and lens can easily get dirty
At the £350 price range much more research would be better, and a Canon job my boss just bought would be preferable.


Note I have also learnt this model is exclusive to Dixons group PC world and co. That’s why I couldn’t find any other web reviews. But Finepix 2400 will be released as the standard commercial model of this or so I believe on www.fujifilm.co.uk

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