| Product: |
Fujifilm MX-1500 |
| Date: |
30/03/01 (229 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: really small and great quality for the price
Disadvantages: serial only, discontinued product
This is great & much better than I'd expected it would be. As it's discontinued now, you can probably find one for not too much cash (mine was £180 refurbished). I take pics for websites and to email people, and this has all I need:
pros:
really small (best feature! fits in my pocket so it's really easy to carry)
1.5 mega pixel
great picture quality
3 levels of photo quality
takes smartmedia (expandable to 64mb)
easy use controls
much smarter & cooler looking than most - impresses people!!
quite good battery life
several flash modes, and macro mode
cons:
only 2 picture sizes (a medium pic would be ideal as well)
digital 2x zoom (only useful for saving image size, as it doesn't actually take a closer pic)
not too fast between shots
LCD screen not well lit (can't see it in daylight)
serial link only (very slow)
The cons are a bit picky though, as you wouldn't expect anything like that on such a cheap camera. I've used fuji's costing much more, which have had these features and are great, but this one is 90% there for only 50% of the money.
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Update - 24/1/2003
D'oh! I got my camera nicked!
It's only now that I come to looking for a replacement that I realise how good it was. All the £200 & under digitals I've used since have been pretty uninspiring for what I want, which is basically:
Small (and thin for my pocket)
Metal bodied with a protected screen (it's took more knocks than any of my other gadgets)
Good in low-light
Relatively fast to start up and between pics (grab impulse shots)
Expandable to 64mb (holds 300ish small pics)
What I don't want is:
High mega pixels (for the web, I only ever really used 0.3 mega pix!)
Good flash (don't use it)
Photo-tweaking options (can do this in PaintShop)
Zoom (can ju
st crop a bigger pic)
The closest tough small cameras now seem to be another £100 more (a Pentax one or the Canon IXUS), which means my insurance cash won't stretch, and in any case, cameras now are "cleverer" and hence slower than they need be.
Oh well.. that's progress I suppose...
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