Fuji Finepix S5000 Review

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Fuji Finepix S5000
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simes69's Review of Fuji Finepix S5000

7th Sep 2004

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Image Quality
    4 stars
  • Features
    4 stars
  • Time Digital Camera Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Battery Life
    3 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
Good Points

Excellent build quality
Good picture quality
10x optical zoom
Macro facility
Easy to use out of the box, with auto settings for beginners and a whole raft of manual settings for you to learn.
Fantastic value for money.


Bad Points

Low Battery life
Inadequate memory card as standard (as always!)
Manual focus a little fiddly.
May be physically too big for some.


General Comments

Let me say from the outset that the Fuji Finepix is my first serious camera. Before this I was restricted to taking snaps with my wife's APS. Having owned the S5000 for 6 weeks now, these are my comments.
Bad points first: The manual focus control is very fiddly, requiring you to press a button on the top of the camera and use the zoom control at the same time. I would have preferred either a separate focus control, or to be able to "caps lock" the focus feature. You do need to use the manual focus quite often, as the auto focus regularly gives up when taking extreme close ups or zooming in on small objects. I guess this is a "feature" of auto focus and not a criticism of this camera. Some of the on-screen icons to change between modes are a bit subtle - the 3 types of rapid-fire for example, but I'm really being picky now.
Good points: Taking great photos (well, shots that I'm impressed by) with this camera is like taking candy from a baby! Set it to any of the auto or semi auto modes, point, lock and shoot. Lovely! It has every override that I as a beginner would want, although I admit not having fathomed them all out yet! My dad took one look at my camera and bought one himself.
Points to consider: go to the shop and buy a bigger memory card and some rechargeable batteries. Then buy some more! This guy really chews those AAs! Expect only ONE session of shooting from a set of 4 batteries if using the flash. I have lost count of the times that I have kicked myself for not having a spare set of batteries in my camera bag. At least it uses AA batteries, which are ubiquitous enough to never leave you without.
To summarize, although I don't have experience of many other cameras, I find the S5000 good value and easy to use. The pictures it produces are rewarding and I have not given full marks only because I never give full marks out of principle

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