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Fujifilm Finepix AX350
by shirleyleunicorn
A few years back, who would have thought that they could buy a decent 16 megapixel camera for under a hundred pounds? Not me, certainly, but yet nowadays, with technology advancing and advancing, there are many different brands and types of cameras you can choose from within quite a low price range. I wanted something that could take ... good quality photos with a decent amount of megapixels... and all this for the cheapest price possible.
What caught my eye immediately was the Fujifilm Finepix range. I had many friends who owned Fujifilm cameras, and they were very pleased with the results they received from their cameras, and recommended them to me because of the attractive picture quality (I noticed that Fujifilm cameras do tend to give photos a more pleasing effect, even if the amount of megapixels is not that high). I pretty much trusted the Fujifilm brand; I had owned several of its old analogue film cameras which gave pleasing results every time. To top this all off, Fujifilm Finepix cameras are some of the cheapest cameras you can buy from the market nowadays.
The Recommended Retail Price on Amazon for the Fujifilm Finepix AX350 is £89.99, very cheap for a 16mp camera; other brands may charge you well over a hundred pounds for this. I caught this on a very good sale, at a little under £60 last year, and so I was very pleased with my bargain buy- a 16mp camera for £60, who would've thought? Currently, there is a sale on this camera (but only for the silver colour) for £76.48- not a bad deal at all; if you are looking for a cheap but good camera then I would say go for it whilst it is still this cheap!
The Amazon page offers this camera in either red or silver; I chose silver because it just has more of a timeless feeling if you know what I mean, and besides, if the paintwork chipped, red would look horrible. I was not really sure about the quality of these cameras before buying, so I decided that I should play it safe.
The build of this camera is lightweight, but robust. At first, it feels too light to be a credibly good camera, but after surviving being dropped repeatedly (no, I am not the most careful of people) and being sat on without so much as a noticeable scratch, I think that this Fujifilm has more than proved its worth. It is very light and portable- you can slip it in your pocket and start shooting whenever you feel the time is right. It also a little chunkier than your average compact camera, but not by much at all; it has a rather sophisticated design that makes the exterior of the camera look attractive.
Though this camera is robust, I would still buy a case for it to be on the safe side; this will protect it from nasty bumps and scratches.
With 16mp, it takes dazzlingly clear photographs, that can be zoomed in quite a lot on the computer without being the slightest bit blurry. It also takes attractive photos too, with portraits and scenery alike, unlike some other high megapixel cameras which tend to focus on the unattractive aspect of your pictures. The photos are hardly very blurry, and you can take nice videos as well. You can capture your everyday life in crystal clear precision with this camera.
There are many functions and settings you can set your camera as. A favourite of mine is the panoramic mode, which can give some really cool effects! The navigation buttons may be a little tricky to understand at first but soon you get used to them and can navigate around without thinking twice. Sometimes you have to press down harder than usual on the big shutter button to take the actual picture.
The main problem about this camera that may stop you from wanting to buy it (but, as you can see, I can live with it and it has not stopped me!) is that instead of having an internal rechargable battery that you remove, charge and replace, this one requires AA batteries, which may cost you more as you have to continually throw away and replace your batteries. If you go on holidays, you will have to carry spare batteries around with you. This could be seen as not very economically friendly, but nowadays it is not very hard to buy cheap but good quality batteries. I regularly buy mine from the pound store, which can save me quite a bit of money. An alternative would be to buy rechargeable AA batteries, which could save you quite some money.
If you are looking for a cheap good quality camera, then this is the one for you. It may have its slight faults, but what do expect from something this cheap? I think this is great value for money, and I would give it a well deserved 5 out of 5 dooyoo stars.
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Fujifilm Finepix S2950
by helen190390
I purchased this camera through Amazon and wanted to be able to take photos outdoors when walking with my daughter. I also wanted to use it for taking close up shots of the products I made for my business. I had a small compact digital camera which was good, but when zoomed in, the quality was terrible. I ended up buying this for £112 ... and received it a few days later.
The zoom:
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The zoom is amazing. I got a great photo of Jupiter at night a few months ago and the picture looked great. (obviously it was just a zoomed in bright light but it looked fab).
When Hollie is running in the park and is far away, I can zoom in pretty close to her and the quality remains great.
The standard camera:
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Zoom in, flash off, the camera is great. I always always use the EVF (electronic view finder) which you look through to take the photo. You can just use the LCD screen if you want to, but I find I can concerntrate better and focus on what I want in the photo better as my eye is right up close to the image.
Inside:
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This camera doesn't seem to work well inside. The photos aren't great quality in the dim light and with the flash on, everything around the focused image is dark. For example, we went bowling, and the quality looked that bad, it looked like I'd used a mobile phone. The flash made it look dark, but no flash was just poor quality.
Outside:
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This is where the camera excels. I take this wherever we go when we go out for the day because you never know if something pretty will catch your eye or if the place your going is beautiful. I have a daughter so I always have an excuse to take photos :).
The quality is almost on par with a DSLR.
The look and functionality:
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This camera is black with a strange pattern which looks like raindrops splattered all over it. As you can see from the photo, it looks very similar to a DSLR camera and the zoom lens extends out pretty far when it's at it's maximum zoom level. You cannot take the lens off or change them. It's got an easy grip and has been moulded to fit into your hand when taking photos really well. The shoot button is on top and is easy to press when holding it. The LCD screen is 3inches wide and the quality of the photos on the screen is amazing. They look better on that little screen than when put onto the computer.
At the bottom of the camera is where the 4 AA batteries are put. It is rather irritating to have to use batteries and the costs can mount up, but I buy them in discount stores to try to lessen the cost.
The other function buttons of the camera are all to the right of the screen and on the top near the shoot button. The zoom slider is also at the front. It wraps around the shoot button for easy access.
My Thoughts:
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I really enjoy using this camera outside. It is brilliant for taking landscape photos and also photos of children. You can take brilliant photos with the macro feature which can take perfect photos of things a few centimetres away from it. If you wanted to take a photo of a flower up close, or of a butterfly etc etc, it would prove it's worth with the results.
I do however feel letdown by how poorly it takes photos indoors. Maybe I need to mess around with the settings some more to get the best image quality, but I just can't seem to find the right one to get perfect indoor images.
I still give this camera 4/5 stars just because I do use it more outdoors anyway, so my little digital camera will do the rest of the work indoors.
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Fujifilm FinePix S4200
by TheReviewingGuy
I bought this product two months ago as I decided I wanted to get into a new hobby, and photography seemed perfect for me.
Although I have never had an extensive range of camera's, the picture quality on this camera is truly mind blowing, and that's all you'd expect at 14 MP (Mega Pixels). The camera has some very handy and ... impressive features, such as a 24 x Optical Zoom, which allows you to zoom in a great distance without loosing too much quality like you would with other cameras.
As I'm quite new to photography, I decided to buy an affordable camera, and the price of this camera is amazing for what you receive! I bought the product for £149.99 off Amazon, even though it's on there for £119.99, so get it while it's cheap! I promise you that you will NOT regret the decision a single bit.
The camera has a 3 inch LCD screen which is great for viewing the high quality picture you have just taken, as well as having a USB port so you can conveniently transfer your picture to and from you computer and laptop!
The product comes with a shoulder strap, a lens cap, a lens cap cord, a CD-ROM, as well as an Owner's Manual which is really helpful to amateur photographers such as myself!
The camera has a built in feature known as "Tracking Auto Focus", this feature allows you to capture dynamic close-ups as this function keeps fast moving subjects in the frame and in focus, this is helpful if taking pictures of events such as an air show, a football match or horse riding.
As well as taking very high quality pictures, this camera also allows you to shoot 720p HD movie capture at 30fps, this makes for some smooth movies which can be connect to HD ready TV's for instant playback using a HDMI output.
Another great feature is the fact that this camera doesn't require any special batteries or charging every hour or so, because this camera runs off simple AA x Batteries which can be bought from almost any store.
The camera also seems to work great in any type of atmosphere or lighting situation such as at night time or in other dark areas.
The only two downsides I can see to this camera is: One, the camera is slightly heavy which can lead to your hand shaking if trying to get that perfect still picture, although this can be solved easily using the shoulder strap which comes with the product. The other problem, which to me is quite a major one, is the fact that it requires SD (San Disc cards), this is because the camera has NO internal memory. This is such a big problem because unless you buy a SD card with a high memory storage, it can lead you to having lots of SD cards scattered around the house, not knowing which one is which. SD cards can also be quite expensive on top of the price of the camera.
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