Fujifilm FinePix S200EXR Reviews: Digital Hybrid Camera

+ Quite an amazing Zoom lens - very sharp through out its range. The EXR system is quite spectacular - it is as good any budget SLR as a comprehensive all round camera. A bonus - the fixed lens also prevents dust on the sensor

- View finder typical electronic type - but probably the best one I have used

+ Good image quality if you adjust lightning. Portraits very good, other pictures need a staddy hand, then also good! Fun making pictures!!

- Snapshot in difficult lightning without using flah

+ EXR sensor - Image quality and features are superb. I have been using a Nikon D1 for the last 10 years and this produces comparable if not better images. Not been able to check the RAW files yet, but the jpegs are truly super.

- It sounds naff, but I have found no bad points about the camera, but ...... No Raw conversion software available, even now, a couple of months after product launch - big oversight on the part of Fuji!!

+ Good lens. Fast processor. Print quality. Good weight and balance. Careful design and attention to detail

- LCD too small. Electronic viewfinder OK, but the image quality looks like a compromise. (A similar electronic viewfinder on the Fujifilm S9500 was excellent.) The display of an image when shooting through the viewfinder appears on the viewfinder, not the LCD, which is annoying. HOWEVER, you can get used to all these, and they are more than balanced by the other qualities.

+ Fairly easy to use, I have not yet worked out all the features

- Paper instruction manual not very good. Flipping back and forth with the CD ROM version can be a pain.

+ The Fuji S200 EXR is a very well specified and versitile camera which makes use of Fuji's advanced sensor design and firmware to produce a camera that is capable of capturing detail not only in the ordinary situations but in difficult situations where it would be impossible otherwise to get the quality of image you want. It captures images at up to 12 megapixels, has a 14x zoom and an ISIO range up to 12800. It is well-built without being heavy or as bulky as a pro-DSLR. It's EXR dunctions as very useful.

- It can't take 12Mp images at its fastest continuous shooting speeds.

+ Excellent all round but for the below

- No lens hood, no cable release socket

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- - Lens too big and heavy
- No HD Video