Great camera if you can still get one! (Fujifilm Finepix 602 Zoom)

Member Name: duxbury02332

Product:	Fujifilm Finepix 602 Zoom
Date:	19/12/03 (321 review reads)
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Advantages: Lost of features, Not overly expensive, uses NimH batteries and compact flash memory

Disadvantages: lens shows slight distortion at telephoto and wide angle

The 602 is chock full of features for the serious amateur photographer. I picked the camera for sports photography because of the 6x zoom lense, pretty good shot to shot times, and 3 meg resolution. The camera uses readily available NimH batteries and compact flash or SD memory cards. I bought an IBM microdrive (1 gig drive) which allows me to store 868 3meg, jpeg - fine resolution images. No problem to take the camera on vacation for two weeks! I recharge the NimH's using a cigarette lighter adapter on my charger.

The camera has a host of features. You can change the ISO setting from 160 all the way up to 1600 for poorly lit indoor shots. The camera has a pretty decent flash thats good up to about 20 feet, and a hot shoe if you want to buy an external flash.

The 602 also has a decent video mode.

The only slight downside of this camera is the lens. Although the Fujinon f2.8 lens is 6x and reasonably fast, it does show exhibit some bending of lines at both telephoto and wide angle. The only thing stopping this camera from being a classic would have been an f2 lense that renders images flat to the edges.

Other than that, not much to gripe about. Really a great camera.

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