Digital Camera Review

Digital Camera Review

The Fujifilm FinePix A330 is designed to target the amateur digital photographer, providing a technologically streamlined imager within a sleek silver body. The camera is armed with a 3x optical and 1.6x digital zoom to focus images onto its 1/2.7” (3.2 megapixel) CCD. Perhaps most appealing to point-and-shooters for its foolproof simplicity, the A300 has an intuitive menu, direct printing capability using PictBridge, and an optional camera dock that makes sharing photos a breeze. With an affordable MSRP of US $179, the FinePix A330 will appeal to budget conscious consumers as well. Included in the package is a 16MB xD-Picture card, though the camera can accept up to 256MB cards. It also comes with Fujifilm’s FinePix Viewer and ImageMixer software to supply simplistic easy editing out of the box.
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 Picture Quality / Size Options (7.0)
The picture quality choices available to the Fuji FinePix A330 are 3M, 2M, 1M (2016 x 1512 pixels, 1600 x 1200, and 1280 x 960, respectively). The quality choices can be found in the menu under any shooting mode. When in movie mode, two different size options are available: 320 x 240 pixels and 160 x 120.

Picture Effects Options (0.0)
The Fuji FinePix A330 has no preset picture effects. Other cameras in this price range, such as the Canon PowerShot A400, include vivid-color, neutral, low sharpening, sepia, and B&W color options. While in-depth, funky effects aren’t necessary, I think that black and white, sepia, and vivid-color options are required at this price point and are appreciated by those who don’t want to spend time on the computer tweaking their photos. For the target audience, it would have been a nice inclusion.

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