Fuji FinePix S9500 Review

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Fuji FinePix S9500
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Speckled Wood's Review of Fuji FinePix S9500

2nd Sep 2006

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Image Quality
    3 stars
  • Features
    5 stars
  • Time Digital Camera Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Battery Life
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
Good Points

Manual Zoom, use of AA Batteries, dual media slots


Bad Points

Erratic performance


General Comments

I have owned my Fuji Finepix S9500 since March 2006. I have mixed feelings about this camera. When it works well it works very well but its performance is erratic. distance shots are almost impossible if there is any haze is present.
I have managed some good macro shots but again performance is erratic, the flip up viewing screen is a good idea but it is difficult to use in normal lighting conditions.
Night time long exposure shots are very good and pointing it at the sky and taking 30 second exposure will reward you with plenty of stars.
Overall though the 9500 is not a worthy successor to the S30Pro, 7000, 602, 6900 linage. At its asking price a Nikon D50 SLR might be a better buy.

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Members' Comments onSpeckled Wood's Review

  • tmobyrne on 14th Feb 2007

    I have just bought another S7000 after the previous one was stolen, I had bought a S9500 to replace the stolen S7000 but in my opinion it has proved to be useless to me mainly because of its very soft images which I have had to sharpen in Photoshop every time.

    Fuji have not got the 9500 right, they are trying to squeeze too many megapixels from the same size ccd as the S7000. I do like the zoom mechanism on the 9500 and the very short lag time but overall I have decided to donate the 9500 to the bin!

    Terence

  • Dogmad Rank: MajorCompetition Winner on 30th Sep 2007

    There isn't a digital camera made that can produce sharp images straight from the camera, that's a fact, even the most expensive digital SLR's will need some degree of sharpening.

    If you search around the digital photography forums you will see posts from people asking how to sharpen their pictures in Photoshop.

    For the record I have in camera sharpening turned off and apply an Unsharp Mask in PS of 100%, Radius 3.0 pixels and threshold of 0.

    That generally does the trick, adjust the percentage up or down to suit each individual image.