Fuji FinePix E900
Digital Camera Review
Jan 24, 2006
- By Patrick Singleton
1.8
The Fujifilm FinePix E900 is an ambitious camera – at 9 megapixels, its sensor has a higher resolution than Fuji's DSLRs. The camera is equipped with a 4x optical zoom lens that equates to a variable focal length of 32mm to 128mm (35mm equivalent), providing users with a true wide-angle to moderate telephoto perspective. The 1/1.6-inch SuperCCD imaging chip supports a top ISO rating of 800, and the camera's manual controls are both complete and convenient to use. With a list price of $499 and online prices closer to $400, the FinePix E900 has the features to be a worthwhile step-up from entry-level compacts.
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Picture Quality / Size Options (8.0)
The FinePix E900 offers seven quality settings. There are two settings at the camera's 9-megapixel maximum resolution: 9MF and 9MN. The MF setting provides a higher-quality JPEG, while the MN setting makes a smaller file. A 3:2 setting makes wider images at a comparable resolution. The other quality settings are 5 megapixels, 3 megapixels, 2 megapixels and 0.3 megapixels. The 0.3 setting is 640 x 480 pixels, which might be right for emails and web use.
The FinePix E900 also shoots in RAW format – an uncompressed file that can be opened and converted with Fuji software on either Windows or Macintosh computers.
Picture Effects Mode (5.5)
Fuji's FinePix menu features “FinePix Color,” which offers normal color and “F-Chrome,” which boosts saturation, imitating Fuji's color transparency films. The menu also offers black-and -white shooting.
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