Fuji Finepix F610

It seems a shame that the Fuji Finepix F610 digital camera has all those pixels, but it does not produce satisfactory pictures because of the overexposure. It does something violent with greens.

I have had a Fiji Finepix F610 digital camera for a couple of months, after my wonderful, stunning, intelligent, lovable wife got me one for Christmas.

Then she took 'our' camera out to her works leaving bash, and LOST IT ON THE BUS COMING HOME, STONED ON COCKTAILS.

I weeped. There were tears.

A few months later, I got another Fuji. Repeat business is the sure sign of a satisfied customer, no?

This clever little camera does some thing like "superFujitechnocolour" to your picture between closing the shutter and writing it to memory. The result is fantastic colour quality, but at the price of about a second between taking the picture and the writing the final image, and somehow they seem to regularly come out blurry. But it's a digital so it's easy to delete the picture and try to capture the moment again.

I had the 601 zoom before the F610 and was expecting a lot, and it didn't disappoint, Great images and great move to use xd cards. Amazing video, looks better than a lot of camcorders. Small and fairly light. Only grumble is the lack of RAW mode, or at least be able to choose JPG quality. Apart from that a great camera.

Having checked out the reviews of the Fuji Finepix F610, none of which gave a score lower than 8 out of 10, I bought it a couple of weeks ago prior to a trip abroad. The camera is an excellent choice, with a myriad of functions, including various flash and iso settings. As a fairly useless photographer, I find the auto setting works perfectly fine in most conditions. The l-ion battery works a long while, only needing recharging once during the 7-day holiday, despite much use. As well as photos, the camera enables 30fps video with sound, but no voice memo recording (as was available on the previous 601, but I wasn't particularly interested in that anyway). The only niggle that I have with this camera (and the reason I'm only giving it a 9 out of 10) is the functions dial at the top-right, which can been knocked quite easily, resulting, for example, in video being shot when you actually want a photo. A double-check of the the function selected is therefore recommended. Admittedly, it's a small niggle, and out of the four digital cameras I have had, this is by far the best.

Fuji Finepix F610:

I already own a DSLR Canon 300D. I bought the F610, because I want a small camera to carry on bike rides.

The Fuji F610 produces stunningly sharp images with a small amount of noise from a body that fits into your shirt pocket.

Colour is rich and saturated and the 4th generation SuperCCD sensor definitely seems to control the highlights. Skies have a more complete tonal range than my previous Nikon Coolpix.

Somehow the designers have just missed making the camera easy to hold - as a result I generally screw a tiny tabletop tripod into it and use that as a handle.

I have large hands and the tiny buttons are fiddly.

It us possible to obstruct the lens as it pops out, but you'll only do this a couple of times before you learn where to position your grip. The ridge on the front appears to be designed to indicate where to hold it - it flattens off beside the lens.

The tiny rotary selector can get turned around, so it has to be checked after taking it out of a pocket.

I like the twin screen system, with the upper screen displaying images and a full menu when required and the lower LCD screen showing information icons with each icon paired with a button. Changing options is intuitive and fast.

I miss being able to check a histogram - the F610 has none. One oddity is that regardless of whether the exposure is correct (it usually is correct; the 64 segment multi metering is very effective) , when the histogram is checked in Photoshop, it fills the chart from shadow to highlight. Normally, incorrect exposure shows as a gap at one end or the other.

I'm not impressed by the instruction manual - everything is in there, but not easy to find. There is no index at the back.

Battery life has been OK - I went out for a morning and shot a full 128 mb card (about 50 12mp shots.)

I like the camera very much. There is no "perfect" camera and the little F610 puts a very useable powerhouse into a compact body.

I can live with it's minor faults - which relate to ergonomics - while enjoying the poster sized prints this little beauty puts out - plus movies...plus voice memos....

Third Fuji digital camera now in 5 years... Started with the MX600 zoom, which ended up being stolen. Followed by a Fuji F601 which the cat killed.. Don't ask. Have had this Fuji Finepix F610 as a replacement now for 4 months and so far in excess of 2500 pictures taken, the only gripe I have had is don't take pictures of tall buildings as the end result is not so good. However in this price class of digital camera i do not know of any competing camera that can do that properly!!

Having bought this Fuji Finepix F610 digital camera to replace my Finepix 4700 I was very pleased with the picture quality it has a 6.3 million pixels with super CCD, its body is constructed of aluminium like the larger 4700 but the battery is like the ones used in mobile phones small and flat, down loading pictures to ones computer is very easy, the large screen on the back is very clear and the picture and colour reproduction is very good and zooms in really well without all those iritating little squares,the video with sound mode is also longer than the 4700 and much clearer and if you have an empty card seems to run on and on, it also has continuous shooting mode and macro, a little more complicated than the 4700 however playing around with it was a good way of finding ones way around the controls, again a little more expensive than some of the cameras on the market but the Fuji quality lives up to its name in other words I love it