For under £100? (Fujifilm Finepix 2200)

Member Name: hsiboy

Product:	Fujifilm Finepix 2200
Date:	29/05/03 (306 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap, good entry level digita camera

Disadvantages: no lens protection, maximum 64mb cards

I bought a refurb 2200. The camera was only sold by Pc world and dixons, and all their returns have been refurbed by fuji, and are on sale on the internet for sub £100 prices!

Despite it being a refurb, i can only describe its condition as brand new!! The only thing missing was the original box. Mine was supplied in a no frills fuji-factory labelled box, without any polystyrene etc. I did get all the books, software, cables etc required to go with the camera, these were supplied brand new in a sealed bag.
Its a great camera, my only concern is that the lens in unprotected, there is no cap, or recess, or anything to stop you smudging the lens, which results in fuzzy pics. So my next purchase is a case to put it in. (done)

Hooking it up to the PC was a breeze with Win98SE/Win2k/Me as the pc sees the camera as a new drive (and prompts for drivers, supplied on the cd-rom win98).
A simple drag n drop copies the files across, fairly quickly ( a lot faster than floppy disk, or serial).

Its quite a light camera, even with the 4 AA batteries, but not so light to make it feel like a toy.

It makes a small satisfying click when you take a photo, and the screen shows off the results very well. But the real quality of this camera comes, when you view the pictures on your pc.

The camera has two lens settings, one macro, and one, which is about 50mm in SLR terms. The macro lens is non too shabby, with a depth of field of around 8cm. When in macro lens the screen gives an excellent indication of what the finished picture will look like.

With a choice of image sizes & resolutions, plus the ability to set it to fully auto, or manual exposure the fuji makes an excellent first digital camera.

I bought one (another re-furb) for the father-in-laws 60th birthday. He doesnt have a pc, he prints straight from an HP Photosmart 100. Between us, we have not had a hitch with the cameras.

At time of writting this, r
efurbs are still available from morgan. We have both had ours for over 12 months.

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