Fujifilm FinePix S9100 First Impressions Review

An update of the venerable (well, venerable in the digital camera industry, at least) FinePix S9000, the S9100 has enough features to confuse a Ph.D. student. For starters, there’s a 10.7X optical zoom, a 9 megapixel sensor that uses Fuji’s Real Photo technology, a flip-out 2-inch LCD screen, plus picture stabilization and an intelligent flash system which Fuji claims more intelligently balances the flash output with ambient light. There are also dual CompactFlash and xD-Picture Card slots. It’s all built around a 9 megapixel Super CCD HR Image sensor in a case that has the look and feel of an SLR camera, but has a non-removable lens. One thing to note: the S9100 is known as the S9600 outside of the US, where our images were taken at the Photokina show in Cologne, Germany. So we didn’t get out models confused: we just traveled a bit to get them.