Fujifilm Finepix 50i

managed to snap this puppy up for a cool three hundred pounds when they released the newer version the 50i. What a bargain. No need to read the manual. It is quite intuative! Camera .... 2.4 mega pixels and doubled with enhancement. Digital zoom, 2 inch LCD display. With 128 card you can have around 350 (approx) pictures on lowest resolution or about 60 on highest. Pictures come out superb even on the lowest setting. MP3 player is superb. Sounds great. The headphones it comes with are not the best and the remote control isn't too flashy but it does the trick. With a 128MB you can have around 2 whole albums. Video player is cool too. It records ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, I should mention that Fuji was rather pioneering and creative in a fun way to come up with this 2 Megapixel gadget. It didn't do anything particularly better than their unipurpose competitors (namely: MP3 players, "real" digital cameras, video cameras, and digital voice recorders) however it did them all together in one relatively small package. I owned first the 30i model and only had repeated batter cover breakage due to a poorly designed nearly microsopic outcrop of plastic meant to withstand an approximate 3 foot-pounds of outward pressure. But afer watching a few episodes of MacGuyver, I went to my hardware shop and solved the problem with ...  Read the complete review

None finer than Finepix I should first point out that the Finepix 50i is currently only available from Dixons and PeeCee World, neither of which are particuarly my favourite retailer (see my earlier bitch about Dixons), however the features this camera provides at the price in my view makes it unbeatable. The camera currently costs £400, which is steep, until you consider that this little (and it IS incredibly dinky!) beauty boasts a top resolution of 4.3 megapixels (million pixels)- unheard of at the price. It acheives this startling resolution by cheating a bit - it's technically capable of 2.4 megapixels but uses some clever internal ...  Read the complete review