Customer Rating: 
Summary: Fuji F20
Comment: Received a Fuji F20 refurbished in like new condition. Camera works flawlessly. Pictures at high ISO are outstanding. I also have the F30 and the picture quality is identical.. Can't go wrong for the price.
Lenny
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Low Light AND All-Around Compact Digcam
Comment: I got this Fujifilm F20 primarily for its' low light capabilites, which are excellent (probably better than the newer F series cameras in this regard, since they have too many megapixels), but I've also found it to be an excellent all-around point-and-shoot compact digcam with a good lens and reasonably fast performance, good battery life, and very convenient. I especially like the Flash/Natural Mode which takes two consecutive photos, one with flash, one without, for instant comparison. Also the Manual capability, though limited, is handy for limiting or unlimiting the ISO range. This handy camera can take some very high quality images!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but not great
Comment: I've had this camera for 10 months before the lens finally got stuck in the "out" position. I'll see soon enough if they'll honor their warranty.
In the meantime, it's taken tons of wonderful pictures and videos. It was a great price and considering all the pictures and mini-vids that I've taken, it was somewhat worth it. Our family has taken so many pictures with this camera and they came out fine. It would have cost me more money to get a regular camera and to develop pictures that might not come out right than for all the pictures I've gotten out of this camera.
If I had gotten 4 years out of this camera before it broke down, it would have received 5 stars. The fact that I only got 10 months, it'll receive 3 stars for very nice pictures while it lasted.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great low-light performance
Comment: I bought this camera as I was looking for a FujiFilm F30 or F31 - looking for a solid performing low-light compact camera. Noise is minimal even at ISO400 and pics are usable at ISO800, which coupled with the very short focal length of compact digital cameras makes for very good available ligh shooting. This is what I expected after reading the F30 dpreview where it performed comparable to a Nikon DSLR at high ISO values (800, 1600) - as the F20 shares the sensor of the 30 and 31.
Manual control is minimal, there is no image stabilization (just a 'anti-blur button' or something - which is really a joke, it just throws the camera into a high speed automated mode with ISO2000, flash etc) but as we all know good high ISO performance is far more useful than stabilization.
A nice little camera, with amazing low-light performance for a compact.
Customer Rating:
Summary: problems with refurbished f20
Comment: the f20 has very good image quality but a poor AF system. in Auto mode, the aperture and shutter seems to be selected at random. that's not good for low-light, which is what you buy this for. so you get ISO 2000 shots with a shutter speed under 1/10 of a second and like f 5, which is too slow. if you want to shoot in low light with no flash, you have to go into menu and select natural light mode.
the low-light performance on this is great. its fairly compact, but the buttons, which seemed small at first, were easy and intuitive to operate after just a few hours of practice. the compact size does induce camera shake, however, which the picture stabilization function doesnt correct, since it's not optical stabilization but digital. i would strongly recommend getting a small tripod for night shots and long exposures.
there are some limited manual controls here, but it's really a basic point and shooter with a good sensor chip and great low-light performance.
i would have been happy with it, but my refurbished unit suffered from battery drain, which could be quite inconvenient, especially since the camera doesnt take AA's. i charged a battery for 12 hours -- 2 hours is what the manual says -- and the red charge light didnt go off like it was supposed to. the battery indicator read full, and the f20 appeared to work fine, but after a night of about 20-30 shots and a day of not using it, it wouldn't power up. this appears to be a camera problem, not a battery problem.
this is unacceptable, something that should have been fixed before the camera was okayed for resale. also the internal motor sounds like its dying everytime it autofocuses or zooms. i have no idea if this is normal.
really wanted to have this just for jacket pocket low-light stuff when the dslr is a bit much, but looks like i'll be sending it back.
Summary: Fuji F20
Comment: Received a Fuji F20 refurbished in like new condition. Camera works flawlessly. Pictures at high ISO are outstanding. I also have the F30 and the picture quality is identical.. Can't go wrong for the price.
Lenny
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Low Light AND All-Around Compact Digcam
Comment: I got this Fujifilm F20 primarily for its' low light capabilites, which are excellent (probably better than the newer F series cameras in this regard, since they have too many megapixels), but I've also found it to be an excellent all-around point-and-shoot compact digcam with a good lens and reasonably fast performance, good battery life, and very convenient. I especially like the Flash/Natural Mode which takes two consecutive photos, one with flash, one without, for instant comparison. Also the Manual capability, though limited, is handy for limiting or unlimiting the ISO range. This handy camera can take some very high quality images!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but not great
Comment: I've had this camera for 10 months before the lens finally got stuck in the "out" position. I'll see soon enough if they'll honor their warranty.
In the meantime, it's taken tons of wonderful pictures and videos. It was a great price and considering all the pictures and mini-vids that I've taken, it was somewhat worth it. Our family has taken so many pictures with this camera and they came out fine. It would have cost me more money to get a regular camera and to develop pictures that might not come out right than for all the pictures I've gotten out of this camera.
If I had gotten 4 years out of this camera before it broke down, it would have received 5 stars. The fact that I only got 10 months, it'll receive 3 stars for very nice pictures while it lasted.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great low-light performance
Comment: I bought this camera as I was looking for a FujiFilm F30 or F31 - looking for a solid performing low-light compact camera. Noise is minimal even at ISO400 and pics are usable at ISO800, which coupled with the very short focal length of compact digital cameras makes for very good available ligh shooting. This is what I expected after reading the F30 dpreview where it performed comparable to a Nikon DSLR at high ISO values (800, 1600) - as the F20 shares the sensor of the 30 and 31.
Manual control is minimal, there is no image stabilization (just a 'anti-blur button' or something - which is really a joke, it just throws the camera into a high speed automated mode with ISO2000, flash etc) but as we all know good high ISO performance is far more useful than stabilization.
A nice little camera, with amazing low-light performance for a compact.
Customer Rating:
Summary: problems with refurbished f20
Comment: the f20 has very good image quality but a poor AF system. in Auto mode, the aperture and shutter seems to be selected at random. that's not good for low-light, which is what you buy this for. so you get ISO 2000 shots with a shutter speed under 1/10 of a second and like f 5, which is too slow. if you want to shoot in low light with no flash, you have to go into menu and select natural light mode.
the low-light performance on this is great. its fairly compact, but the buttons, which seemed small at first, were easy and intuitive to operate after just a few hours of practice. the compact size does induce camera shake, however, which the picture stabilization function doesnt correct, since it's not optical stabilization but digital. i would strongly recommend getting a small tripod for night shots and long exposures.
there are some limited manual controls here, but it's really a basic point and shooter with a good sensor chip and great low-light performance.
i would have been happy with it, but my refurbished unit suffered from battery drain, which could be quite inconvenient, especially since the camera doesnt take AA's. i charged a battery for 12 hours -- 2 hours is what the manual says -- and the red charge light didnt go off like it was supposed to. the battery indicator read full, and the f20 appeared to work fine, but after a night of about 20-30 shots and a day of not using it, it wouldn't power up. this appears to be a camera problem, not a battery problem.
this is unacceptable, something that should have been fixed before the camera was okayed for resale. also the internal motor sounds like its dying everytime it autofocuses or zooms. i have no idea if this is normal.
really wanted to have this just for jacket pocket low-light stuff when the dslr is a bit much, but looks like i'll be sending it back.