Customer Rating: 
Summary: Taos to Coos Bay
Comment: My wife and I just used this camera on vacation,it was a new piece of equipment for us, but the on screen prompts made it easy to select the appropriate setting for our photos. The prompts are brief descriptions of each setting. We loved to powerful zoom and got some pretty clear wildlife shoots with it. Its a nice high end amature camera, a LCD lens cover would have been a nice addition, and a auto night setting would be nice too, but overall it is a great little camera that shoots very nice pictures with ease.
Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd 10MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Zoom
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hot and Cold. NOT Recommended
Comment: Well, the price is good but performance is spotty and very problematic. You get less than what you paid for. Aggravation is pretty costly.
When it works (half of the time) it's pretty good. Lots of features but not enough for a pro and for "normal folks" the auto mode is poor.
For example;
1) When using auto mode, the camera renders colors well in bright sunlight but often (not always - no pattern discovered yet) makes the images very yellow under indoor lighting or in mixed sun and shade.
2) The camera also has trouble writing to the memory card on about 1 in 100 shots. Opening the battery cover to reset the system works but you have to retake the shot.
3) The included software does not play well with XP professional - possibly because this computer only has a slow speed USB port. USB driver would not install and software hangs for periods of fifteen minutes when trying to download images. It also lacks customization features like which exact folder to send the images to. How dumb!
4) It's not even possible to easily bypass the crappy software by direct access because the memory card does not show file sizes. Still photos sometimes download fine and sometimes crash. A power cycle of the camera will repair. Avi videos do not download at all. Transfer just hangs until an error msg pops up. Cannot move files either. Must copy, paste, then delete manually.
5) Camera does NOT come with an AC adapter jack. You have to buy a horribly overpriced gadget that plugs into the battery compartment instead of your batteries. Then you ALSO need an overpriced AC adapter to connect to that. Sixty bucks later and you could have had a better camera.
I would avoid this camera. I never had any of these problems with my four year old Nikon or my 30 year old SLR. They've worked perfectly in all respects. Fuji missed the boat.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great value for the money
Comment: The Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd is a great camera for the money. I must clarify by stating that this camera shoots great photos if you know how to use the manual settings. Most of the images I have taken with the auto presets haven't been that great. Using the manual settings allows you the same quality you would expect from higher end cameras. The close-ups are crisp, the color is very clean. The zoom is really good. For those of you who are considering getting into photography seriously or semi-seriously, this is a wonderful starter camera. The fact that you can't change lenses or filters is the only things standing in the way of this camera competing with some of the middle to higher end jobs. If you are looking for a point and shoot, this may not be the best bang for the buck. There are easier to use cameras for less money that will compete with the auto settings on this camera. It is really more for people who can use the manual settings to get very crisp clean images. I would advise getting a tripod. It will make your shots come out a lot clearer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Intermediate Camera
Comment: Good step up from a pocket size compact. Not a dslr, but plenty of controls when you want to go manual. Fuji optics are good and the 10 mp resolution gives a sharp picture, even on the long zoom. That long zoom is the real selling point. Great to have that much power in a small, easy to handle package. Option to use xD or SD mem cards is a plus since my gps uses the SD and the other camera, also a Fuji, uses the xD. Do not like the current version of Finepix Viewer that came with this camera. Not nearly as handy to use as the previous version. All in all, a very good buy for the money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fujifilm FinePix s1000fd
Comment: I am very happy with this camera. I was wanting a camera that would do a little more than just point and shoot and this camera does it. A few features that I'm not so happy are that there is no image stablization with the continous shooting so images can turn out pretty blurry if you're not holding very still. Using the camera with a tripod would probably solve this problem. Overall I'm very pleased with my purchase.
Summary: Taos to Coos Bay
Comment: My wife and I just used this camera on vacation,it was a new piece of equipment for us, but the on screen prompts made it easy to select the appropriate setting for our photos. The prompts are brief descriptions of each setting. We loved to powerful zoom and got some pretty clear wildlife shoots with it. Its a nice high end amature camera, a LCD lens cover would have been a nice addition, and a auto night setting would be nice too, but overall it is a great little camera that shoots very nice pictures with ease.
Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd 10MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Zoom
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hot and Cold. NOT Recommended
Comment: Well, the price is good but performance is spotty and very problematic. You get less than what you paid for. Aggravation is pretty costly.
When it works (half of the time) it's pretty good. Lots of features but not enough for a pro and for "normal folks" the auto mode is poor.
For example;
1) When using auto mode, the camera renders colors well in bright sunlight but often (not always - no pattern discovered yet) makes the images very yellow under indoor lighting or in mixed sun and shade.
2) The camera also has trouble writing to the memory card on about 1 in 100 shots. Opening the battery cover to reset the system works but you have to retake the shot.
3) The included software does not play well with XP professional - possibly because this computer only has a slow speed USB port. USB driver would not install and software hangs for periods of fifteen minutes when trying to download images. It also lacks customization features like which exact folder to send the images to. How dumb!
4) It's not even possible to easily bypass the crappy software by direct access because the memory card does not show file sizes. Still photos sometimes download fine and sometimes crash. A power cycle of the camera will repair. Avi videos do not download at all. Transfer just hangs until an error msg pops up. Cannot move files either. Must copy, paste, then delete manually.
5) Camera does NOT come with an AC adapter jack. You have to buy a horribly overpriced gadget that plugs into the battery compartment instead of your batteries. Then you ALSO need an overpriced AC adapter to connect to that. Sixty bucks later and you could have had a better camera.
I would avoid this camera. I never had any of these problems with my four year old Nikon or my 30 year old SLR. They've worked perfectly in all respects. Fuji missed the boat.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great value for the money
Comment: The Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd is a great camera for the money. I must clarify by stating that this camera shoots great photos if you know how to use the manual settings. Most of the images I have taken with the auto presets haven't been that great. Using the manual settings allows you the same quality you would expect from higher end cameras. The close-ups are crisp, the color is very clean. The zoom is really good. For those of you who are considering getting into photography seriously or semi-seriously, this is a wonderful starter camera. The fact that you can't change lenses or filters is the only things standing in the way of this camera competing with some of the middle to higher end jobs. If you are looking for a point and shoot, this may not be the best bang for the buck. There are easier to use cameras for less money that will compete with the auto settings on this camera. It is really more for people who can use the manual settings to get very crisp clean images. I would advise getting a tripod. It will make your shots come out a lot clearer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Intermediate Camera
Comment: Good step up from a pocket size compact. Not a dslr, but plenty of controls when you want to go manual. Fuji optics are good and the 10 mp resolution gives a sharp picture, even on the long zoom. That long zoom is the real selling point. Great to have that much power in a small, easy to handle package. Option to use xD or SD mem cards is a plus since my gps uses the SD and the other camera, also a Fuji, uses the xD. Do not like the current version of Finepix Viewer that came with this camera. Not nearly as handy to use as the previous version. All in all, a very good buy for the money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fujifilm FinePix s1000fd
Comment: I am very happy with this camera. I was wanting a camera that would do a little more than just point and shoot and this camera does it. A few features that I'm not so happy are that there is no image stablization with the continous shooting so images can turn out pretty blurry if you're not holding very still. Using the camera with a tripod would probably solve this problem. Overall I'm very pleased with my purchase.
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