Fujifilm Finepix A170 Reviews: Digital Compact Camera

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Score: 8.8/10

38 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

+ This digital camera has no outstanding positive points. - It scores poorly on features. “I think that this is a great little camera, especially for the money. it powers-on…” Anonymous verified purchaser View all 38 real customer reviews

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38 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
83% of people recommend it.

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Build Quality8.4
Ease of use8.8
Features8.1
Image quality8.7
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.9
Overall rating8.8
Point & shoot (10)
Keen amateur (5)
Professional photographer (1)
Other (21)
 

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Anonymous verified purchaser , “Keen amateur” More like this »

Score 9.0/10

+ I think that this is a great little camera, especially for the money. It powers-on nice and quickly, and is fantastically easy to use. It produces some great, crisp, vivid images, even in relatively poor lighting conditions. The panoramic feature is great fun, and is capable of achieving some impressive results. Video quality is good, also, and all the various other features/shooting modes of the A170 work very well. Battery consumption is very reasonable, even on fairly bog-standard rechargeables. All in all it's a good quality, reliable camera which produces all-round good results. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a generic 'point and shoot'.

- There aren't any major bad points to the A170, in my experience of it. The quality of pictures taken with the digital zoom aren't the best, it has to be said. But the optical maintains very good clarity, so unless the digital zoom is of great importance to you, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. One slightly irritating factor regards the video capture feature is that if you zoom whilst videoing; it zooms in 'steps'/stages, as opposed to zooming in a single, smooth and steady motion. Again, this isn't a massive problem unless you want a really superb video feature (in which case....by a video camera!). The only two improvements that I feel could be made to a camera of this nature would be a slightly greater optical zoom, and a slightly more powerful macro feature.

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27 of 28 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Aug 2009

ann , dalton in furness cumbria , “Keen amateur” More like this »

Score 8.0/10

+ handy size- my SLR is too bulky for holidays this will be perfect for trekking in Nepal naxt year

- none except its very difficult to read which way up to put the batteries -but this is a very minor point

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Compact camera that produces good results

- Does not come with memory card

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Aug 2009

paul, london

Score 10.0/10

+ This camer is easy to use ,which is why i purchased for my 78 year old day , he loves it .

- screen hard to see on the back .

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 7.0/10

+ A neat sized camera, with very good quality images.

- Limited features with some others missing that other makes include even in this price range.
navigating your way through the menus is a bit tedious and took a little while to master.

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5 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Point & shoot” More like this »

Score 9.0/10

+ Compact with lots of extras

- Reviewer left no comment

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Aug 2009

Beryl, Letchworth Garden City

Score 10.0/10

+ After my last one, its a 100% !!!!!

- Reviewer left no comment

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Professional photographer”

Score 10.0/10

+ The picture quality is superb, Auto zoom and Facial recognition.

- usb cable isn't long enough as I only have usb port at the back of my pc.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Oct 2009

Andy, Oxford

Score 9.0/10

+ Easy to use, good picture quality

- Not many features

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 5.0/10

+ Reviewer left no comment

- The Batteries run out way to quickly

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3 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Sep 2009

Ratfink, Oxford

Score 9.0/10

+ Easy to use, good picture quality.

- Not many features.

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2 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 10.0/10

+ lovely camera, easy to use.

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Oct 2009

Malcolm, Peterborough , “Keen amateur” More like this »

Score 10.0/10

+ Far more internal uses, compared with a similiar camera bought apro 3 yrs ago.

- Unable to find the way to place the date etc onto the photo.

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purchased 12 Oct 2009

paul, upminster

Score 8.0/10

+ feels and looks good. easy to operate

- none found so far

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purchased 10 Oct 2009

alisha, dunstable

Score 9.0/10

+ good pictures taken better than my last camera

- the shutter button you have to wait to long to take the picture at least 5 secs

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purchased 16 Oct 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Point & shoot” More like this »

Score 8.0/10

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Short battery life and lack of accessories in the box.

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3 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Sep 2009

Leanne, Coleraine , “Point & shoot” More like this »

Score 10.0/10

+ Excellent quality camera to take pictures of my two daughters, easy to use and the price was brillant, would definitely recommend to someone else.

- dont have any.

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purchased 19 Oct 2009

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Product Features

Camera Type Compact
resolution (Megapixel) 10
Optical Zoom Ratio 3

Also known as: Fujifilm A170, Fuji FinePix A170, Fuji Fine Pix A170, Finepix A170, "Fujifilm FinePix A170

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