Fuji S6000fd Digital Camera Review

Fuji S6000fd

Digital Camera Review

Nov 03, 2006 - By Emily Raymond
2.1 I know what you’re thinking: “I just read this review a few weeks ago.” It’s true that we gave you our first impressions of the Fujifilm FinePix S6000fd from the show floor at Photokina 2006, but this article was written after spending more time with the camera and subjecting it to our thorough testing process. Rather than snapping photographs in the strangely lit overcrowded convention center, we’ve run the S6000fd through a battery of tests in and out of the studio and taken hundreds of pictures with it. This FinePix comes with a long 10.7x optical zoom lens and a face detection system that is the model’s headline feature. The 6.3-megapixel digital camera retails for $499 and has been on the market since September.
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Fujifilm Finepix S6000fd Di...

Likes
-    Long zoom lens
-    Face detection works fast
-    Great LCD resolution
-    Very capable i-Flash
-    Dual shot mode (Natural Light & With Flash)
Dislikes
-    No image stabilization
-    Horrible viewfinder resolution
-    Hard to control lens in movie mode
-    Inadequate burst mode
-    Not easy to use at all

Conclusion
The 6.3-megapixel Fujifilm FinePix S6000fd touts its face detection technology foremost, but has a lot of other features to brag about. The 10.7x optical zoom lens has the look and feel of an interchangeable model, but remains sealed and keeps dust out of the camera. There is plenty of manual control, albeit sometimes difficult to access. The i-Flash system keeps details in the background of pictures and doesn’t over-exposure faces. The combination of the i-Flash system and the face detection technology keeps portraits perfectly focused and exposed. The Fujifilm FinePix S6000fd is one of the best digital cameras out there for portrait photography, but it doesn’t do well in other areas. It lacks image stabilization and its zoom ring is difficult to smoothly control, so movies are jumpy. The zoom and focus rings are great to work with when shooting still images, but don’t function well at all while shooting video. The S6000fd is definitely not a candidate to be one of those ultra-zoom hybrid digital cameras, so it won’t be a crowd pleaser with the mass market. The SLR-shaped camera, called the FinePix S6500fd in Europe, retails for $499 and will be a good camera for consumers who want to take fabulous portraits or shoot indoors with available light.

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