Fuji Finepix E550 Review

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Fuji Finepix E550
4.4 stars
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martinhamilton's Review of Fuji Finepix E550

10th Jul 2006

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
Good Points

Excellent features and image quality
Long battery life
Robust construction
Good quality movies, but chooses ONLY the loudest source


Bad Points

Poor contrast / brightness balance in high contrast pictures
Very poor indoor shots without flash
Too many options for someone who prefers to point and shoot, although auto is good


General Comments

I was really disappointed with the Fuji Finepix E550 digital camera after having a Finepix 4700 for a couple of years. The E550 6MP has two BIG drawbacks when compared to the 4700 (which is only 2.5MP interpolated up to 4MP). Yes, you get all that's good about Fuji, including build quality and excellent poster-sized output, BUT the 4700 is streets ahead when taking indoor shots without flash (the 550 is either too dark or suffers from camera shake - blurring). AND if an outdoor shot has a big contrast between light and dark, you have to spoof the picture by focus locking on the darker area, which inevitably (slightly) over-exposes the lighter part; otherwise the whole picture comes out far too dark.

It's obsolete now, but I have seen "new" leftovers and nearly new examples on eBay - Don't buy one!

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