Fujifilm Finepix E900 9MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom (Black) Reviews.

The Thrill Is Back, April 8, 2006

Reviewer:
Ellie "Eilean Siar" (North Shore of Boston, USA) - See all my reviews
I confess! I love this camera. Of course, I loved my 1963 VW beetle, too. The connection: they're both a little homely - but superbly funcional. The Fuji Finepix E900 has an acclaimed lens (my shots at F2.8 were unexpectedly sharp), extreme pixel count for a point-and-shoot camera, ease of use on automatic (but the 130 page owners manual is worth reading on a rainy afternoon), 30X total zoom, VGA quality video for up to 15 minutes at 30 fps with sound (with 1GB xD card), total control with Manual, Shutter and Aperture priority, several Auto modes. The menus are extensive but logical and after a bit become easy to navigate. Manual focus! Flash suppression, too. On a camera that fits in the palm of your hand, easy to carry at the ready with quick startup time. You want to know the best part? You can get this for as little as $309! List about $460. Where? Beach Camera in Edison, New Jersey online. No shipping charge (got it in 3 working days). No sales tax (except in NJ). A good accessory: The AC power

supply to use while uploading files (frames) to your computer. Bad news to lose power during the process. Just 2 seconds upload time for each 9 Megapixel image. With the 1 Gigapixel xD card I use, there are over 200 such shots available. For 5 MP, there are over 800 shots! In Picassa, the photo editing software from Google, using the zoom bar allowed amazing magnification from the highest resolution shots whilst retaining sharpness and color. Remember that scene from the film "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford where he takes a photo and directs his computer to do enormous magnification of the image to help him get a clue? You can nearly do that with this kind of resolution and pixel count. Hint: for uploading images to blogs, etc., use no more than the 5MP resolution - the site may choke on the higher resolutions. Well, let them eat cake! You've got a high res camera now, baby!

Product Reviews:

Fantastic Point and Shoot Digital Camera, March 12, 2006
Reviewer: John Frisbie
After buying and trying several cameras over the last year, I can finally say that I've found the right camera for me. Beautiful pictures, fast action -- super-fast start up and minimal shutter lag, solid feel, and excellent zoom picture quality.
Additionally, it uses AA batteries (recommend rechargables), gets plenty of pix out of them and of course, there's 9 megapixels of info to play with.

I've only been playing for a week or so, but I've used in low-light restaurant situations, on the streets of New York at night, in the car and sitting on the couch at home all with no flash and the pictures look great. It's not a miracle-worker, but these are the best low-light pix I've seen.

Daylight and flash pix look amazing. Bright broad daylight pix in the park on 'Auto' mode turned out perfectly balanced. (love the Histogram feature in manual mode for balancing more complex shots - basically a small waveform monitor on the lcd screen. Awesome!)

Manual controls are a bit tough to memorize - focus requires touching two buttons - but what else to do with a point-and-shoot of this size?
But, it HAS all the manual controls - unlike most digital cameras of this size.

I've tried Olympus, Canon, Nikon, Pentax and even another Fuji. To say I am pleased is an understatement.

Is it perfect? Nope. Eats power. But, better to have more rechargeable AAs than to have to carry around a charger for a dang proprietary battery.

And, Consumer Reports is right, this camera has amazing image quality.
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Great Camera for the Price, March 3, 2006
Reviewer: Jonathan Schatz

I've had my E900 for about a month now. For the price you pay for this camera you can do alot. For beginners like me it takes some playing around to figure out all the manual settings. The cool thing is you can always put it in auto mode or set it to one of the programmed settings as well. Once I figured out how to set the manual setting I realized how great of pictures you can get out of this camera. One thing I really wanted was a camera that you didn't have to wait on. It takes less than 2 seconds on startup and only a couple seconds for the flash between shots. The 4X zoom isn't exactly impressive but the 9MP image quality makes up for that so you can always crop your photos and still get nice close ups. Battery life is pretty good compared to most cameras I've used. The video quality is even better then what I was expecting. With a 1GB card you can get 15 minutes of video on the highest setting. Like I said for the price you can't go wrong. This is a nice looking camera with alot of bang!

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Fuji Finepix, February 24, 2006
Reviewer: M. Dolack

So far best camera on the market for the price. Easy to use, great pictures, still will use my 35MM but not nearly as often as I have in the past. The change to the digital and use over time will more then pay for the cost of film and developing.

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Great Camera for the Price, March 3, 2006
Reviewer: Jonathan Schatz
I've had my E900 for about a month now. For the price you pay for this camera you can do alot. For beginners like me it takes some playing around to figure out all the manual settings. The cool thing is you can always put it in auto mode or set it to one of the programmed settings as well. Once I figured out how to set the manual setting I realized how great of pictures you can get out of this camera. One thing I really wanted was a camera that you didn't have to wait on. It takes less than 2 seconds on startup and only a couple seconds for the flash between shots. The 4X zoom isn't exactly impressive but the 9MP image quality makes up for that so you can always crop your photos and still get nice close ups. Battery life is pretty good compared to most cameras I've used. The video quality is even better then what I was expecting. With a 1GB card you can get 15 minutes of video on the highest setting. Like I said for the price you can't go wrong. This is a nice looking camera with alot of bang!
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