Fujifilm Finepix F40fd
Fujifilm Finepix F40fd Review: This Fuji F
40fd impresses me all the time with the quality of its pictures. I bought this camera because of its strength in low light. The lack of manual controls was a known concern, but 99% of the time, it is a non-issue. I have another camera (big and bulky) with those controls and a big zoom and better macro. But for general use, it doesn’t take pics any better than this Fuji. And the Fuji wins sometimes. This F40fd can be had for a very good price and who knows how long they will be available. Look at the prices for the used F30fd and F31fd.
Fujifilm Finepix F40fd Review: I would not consider myself a digital camera expert by any means, but I’m very happy with the Finepix F40fd. The numerous modes make it such that you can get a good shot in almost any environment. The simultaneous natural/flash mode is especially useful. As far as video is concerned, the sound quality in much better than I expected; it’s not nearly as garbled as video I’ve seen taken from other digital cameras. The only sticking point is that the photo quality is merely sufficient. This camera won’t get any shots that take your breath away, but for the price, the quality is about what I expected. Overall, I’m definitely satisfied with this purchase.
Fujifilm Finepix F40fd Description: The FinePix F40fd features stunning, slim-line design, 8.3 megapixel high-performance Fujifilm Super CCD sensor, 3x optical zoom lens and an easy-to-view 2.5-inch LCD monitor. The FinePix F40fd also features low-light performance of ISO 2000 at full resolution and Fujifilm’s unique Intelligent Flash system, which enables users to capture natural looking images without the ‘washed out’ effect that can be the result of traditional on-camera flash.
Fujifilm’s hardware-based Face Detection technology captures up to ten faces in a frame in as little as 0.05 seconds, optimizing focus and exposure to take the best portrait shots. Face Detection sets imagination free to compose photos without the need to manually set the camera to get the best photo; a simple push of the shutter button is all that is required. In playback mode, Face Detection can be used to maintain faces as the key focus of a photo when cropping or zooming in.
Fujifilm Finepix F40fd Review: I recently returned from an extended sightseeing trip to England, Scotland and Wales. I took over 450 pictures under many different lighting conditions like indoors, outdoors, cloudy, rainy or sunny and even through a window of a bus. When I got back home and downloaded them on my computer, that’s when I really began to appreciate the rich and sharp colors under all these different shooting conditions. This camera has the features I wanted for a simple point & shoot camera with extra shooting settings when I needed them. The face detection (fd)feature on this camera produces outstanding skin color tones while producing vivid surrounding colors. The low light shooting feature on this camera will not disappoint you.
You can count on in door pictures, under low lighting conditions, turning out with remarkable contrast not dark. I especially like the two picture setting where the camera will take a flash and non-flash picture. You can then review the results and pick the frame you like best. This eliminates taking a one time only picture, reviewing it and then wishing you had used a fill-in flash. The controls all on the back side. By turning a dial or simply pushing a button you will really appreciate your setting options right at your finger tips for that just right picture.
Fujifilm Finepix F40fd Review: Good camera for all types of lighting conditions. The image is significantly better than my old Canon A520 (4 megapixel) under low light. However, the Canon produced better images under good outdoor lighting. The button interface on the Fuji camera is easy to use, but Fuji’ software for downloading photos from the camera to a PC is amazingly dumb. During each download, Fuji’s software creates a single new folder named with the date that you are downloading the photos. Fuji’s software then downloads ALL photos on the camera into this single folder, regardless of whether certain photos have previously been downloaded or not.
You cannot select which photos to download; it’s all-or-nothing. To prevent the camera from repeatedly downloading the same photos, you must either delete these photos from the camera after each download or manually force the download into a previous folder that already contains these photos. After being accustomed to using Canon’s software in the past, I’m amazed that Fuji’s software is so backward. Although the camera produces good images, it’s an irritation each time that I download these images to my PC.
Fujifilm Finepix F40fd Review: I bought one of these cameras and so did my mom and friend, Im suprised there were not more reviews about the blurry pictures, you can take 50 pictures but atleast half of them will be blurry and no good, and its not just me my mother and friend have the same problem, and also you cannot use night time mode its almost impossible to get a picture that is not blurry in that mode, we all got these cameras last christmas because they sounded so great and were supposed to take great pictures, we were all dissapointed, it does take nice pics when you acutally get one thats not blurry, but to me its really annoying when ever I take a picture of the kids or something I have to take 4 of them atleast to get 1 or 2 to not be blurry.
Price: $129 to $338