Fujifilm FinePix S1500

Manual Controls

The S1500 has a good array of manual controls. You can adjust your ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. The latter two are unommon. It has 256-zone metering. You can also set a custom white balance. On the manual control setting, up and down sets the shutter speed and left and right adjust the aperture.

The S1500 has more manual controls than a point-and-shoot.

Focus

The S1500 does not have manual focus. Its autofocus can be set to area, multi, center, tracking, or continuous. 

ISO

The ISO settings on the S1500 go up to 6400. For the 3200 and 6400 settings, however, the pictures drop to 3 Megapixels. 

White Balance

There are options for both custom or preset white balance. The presets are fine, shade, fluorescent (daylight, warm white, cool white),  and incandescent.

Metering

The S1500 has 256-zone metering. You can set the camera to multi, spot, or average.

Shutter Speed

The shutter speed ranges from 1/4 seconds to 1/2000 seconds in auto mode. In any non-auto mode, the range opens up to 8-1/2000 seconds. There is both a shutter priority and a manual mode.

Aperture

The aperture range is F2.8 - F6.4 for wide. If you're using a telephoto, the F-stops change from 5-8. Each increment is 1/3 EV. In addition to the manual settings, the S1500 has an aperture priority mode. 

Image Stabilization

The S1500 has dual image stabilization. This means it has both optical (a mechanical sensor) and digital stabilization (software-based stabilization). This tag team of anti-shake should increase the overall sharpness of your pictures.

Picture Quality & Size Options

Your images can come in 3648×2736, 3648×2432 (3:2 format),  2592 x 1944,  2048 x1536, 1600 x 1200, and 640 x 480 pixels.                                               

Picture Effects

There are just two picture effects to chose from: chrome and black & white.