buy me buy me buy !! yes I am going to buy you! (Fujifilm Finepix 2200)

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Product:	Fujifilm Finepix 2200
Date:	21/05/01 (412 review reads)
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Advantages: amzing price, good quality pics up to A4 full prints, easy to use

Disadvantages: eats batteries for breaky, flash a bit too small, not many manual features

Fujifilm FinePix 2200 is a fine camera (please excuse the pun). Yes this camera is very good. Its not the best but then you don't pay the best price for it. I got mine on a special deal that a certain shop were doing at the time. It was selling for half price!!. It use to retail for £349.99 but then at the sale price I bought it at a STEAL! price of £179.99.

I THINK THAT IS AN ABSOLUTLEY amazing price!. You would think for that price you would only get a 1 mega pixel price. But you get a full 2.1mega pixel. This is good enough for full A4 print outs on my photo printer. But it does scale very well. it is supllied with a rather paltry 8mb Smart Media card. After a while I got myseldf a 64mb card which wasn't that expensive buying from the Internet.

The 8mb card will do

10 MAX res 2.1mega pixels
32 Mediam res 1mega pixel
64 Low res 0.3mega pixel

the 64mb card will do
82 Max Res 2.1mega pixel
160 Mediam res 1 mega pixel
300 Low res 0.3mega pixels

This is a very good camera for the price.

if you do intend to take more high res then I would definately op for the 64mb card to buy ASAP, but the 32mb will do. I just wanted to be able to have more if I did.

There are some minor critisms though. The image is good but the flash is a bit too small for my liking. It doesn't have much range and if the subject you are taking is more then 5 metres away then the light is not so uniformed and doesn't look natural. But in saying this you can edit the pictures using a graphics program and altering the colours so it can be easily fixed. This is fine for outside use but I think the flash is a bit too small for indoor use if the light is dark.

It doesn't use any of the new battery technologies it uses 4 AA batteries. its good and bad. Good you can just pop in to any shop and buy some or just use rechargeables but bad that it doesn
9;t last very long. The camera does use the batteries up fast. About 40 mins of use and it will need new ones.

it has a 1.6 screen which is slight smaller then the 1.8 screens found on most cameras and the small .2 difference is a lot more then you would think. This is slight disapointing but but the price you really can't complain much.

It even has a usb cable to transfer your pics to the computer. This is far faster then the usual serial found even on some of the newer cameras. All digital cameras should have usb otherwise its very slow in transfering pics.

its a very easy camera to use in operation. Everything is all easy to use and deal with. You select what you want using a job dial which is easy to use. This camera is really aimed at the person getting in to digital photography as it really doesn't offer the high end manual features that the more advanced user would want to use. but this is fine as its not aimmed at them. They would definately spend more then £179.99 for it.

Buy this if you want a new toy to play with take good pics for either good prints up to A4 or net pictures.

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