Fuji Finepix A202 Review

Good Points
Easy to use, very well writen simple manual. Point and shoot, software has lots of useful auto detect and load facilities.
Light and intuative to use, pocket sized dimensions, 4 resolution choices - highest grade memory card - web cam facility.

Bad Points
Low resolution LCD, limit to memory card upgrade

General Comments
As with Helen's review I compared the Olympus C-120 with the Fine Pix A202 digital camera and agree with a great deal of what she says. However, as someone who regularly authors "fool proof" manuals for complex systems I cannot agree on the ease of use comments. The Fine pix is an ideal camera for the technophobe. The manual is really very straight foward and the camera system is very intuative. I had never used a digi camera before picking up the A202 and was able to use it straight away but the C-120 I had to go to the manual.

Also the software loaded itself and recognised the camera when I plugged it in. I agree the Olympus has more fun stuff.



GET TO THE POINT. Absolute beginner - Fuji A202. Not afraid of a camera or technology - start with the C-120



Final point. The finepix uses an XD-picture card - which is the best memory format available at the moment (both Fuji & Olympus now use it as standard). The C-120 uses a smart media card which will eventually degrade and whilst slightly cheaper is not the best you can get.



Image quality is about the same between the two.