Fujifilm FinePix XP10 12 MP Waterproof Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Green)

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1. C. Scanlon "least helpful reviewer" says:

   March 30, 2011 at 2:01 am

   378 of 405 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Unless you need a really long-lens telephoto and billboard sized prints, this is the perfect camera for every use, April 9, 2009

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   C. Scanlon “least helpful reviewer” (among us humans) –
   
     
   
     
   
     

   This review is from: Nikon Coolpix L20 10MP Digital Camera with 3.6 Optical Zoom and 3 inch LCD, (Deep Red) (Electronics)

   This is a professional camera capable of crystal clear prints worthy of publication or gallery display, up to 16×20.

   And it is incredibly inexpensive for a camera of such value.

   Ok, so its 3.6 optical zoom won’t pick sand off an eagle’s beak at a thousand yards. Okay, so it won’t blow up to billboard size without loss of definition. In the real world however and everyday use this is a fine and professional level camera that will do a far better job than you expected. Better than a cell-phone.

   Disguised as a point and shoot. That’s what makes it very effective; people are not intimidated by it. You can get right up to them, and it looks like any other camera. Yet, it is more.

   In fact, the generous three inch LCD screen means you do not have to hold it to your face. There is no optical viewfinder in any case. So you can hold it at your hip and glance down at it to compose, and snap shots while engaging the subject in small talk comfortably. I have done this effectively with Tarahumara Indian children in northern Chihuahua who normally run quickly from any camera. It works, and came out great. And that large LCD screen has a high-contrast, anti-reflection coating which keeps it clear even in strong sunlight.

   This camera is an improvement over the earlier, wonderful Coolpix, such as the great 8 megapix Nikon Coolpix L18 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Ruby Red) mainly because it has ten megapix capability. The earlier accessories such as the AC adapter, the Nikon EH-65A AC Adapter, are transferable if you have a long shoot to do in one place (like a schoolful of children, which I have done) or other reason to go off-battery. Nevertheless, a pair of Energizer® e²® “AA” Lithium Batteries For digital cameras, portable audio players, and more last in here last forever.

   Your old Coolpix camera pouch also still fits; use it and protect your investment. I like the Rokinon Compact Digital Camera Padded Carrying Case for Canon Powershot, Casio Exilim, Fuji Finepix, (GE) General Electric, Kodak EasyShare, Nikon Coolpix, Olympus FE Stylus, Panasonic Lumix, Pentax Optio, Sony CyberShot and Samsung Digital Cameras.

   Also new here, aside from the greater megapixels, is the new Expeed image processing system specially fine-tuned for the Coolpix series “to render natural-looking pictures of incredible quality and quick response” as if the earlier system of digital processing was not fine enough! Amateur enthusiasts will find their photos reaching a new magnitude of quality; even the professional will leave his camera bag and lenses at home (okay, so she might miss her long lens, but macro here gets in to two inches).

   The ISO settings are phenomenal, stretching from 64 ISO all the way out to 1600. Over twenty years ago when I was doing photo-journalism in Nicaragua, we used 64 for our slide film and 1600 was just coming on the horizon, very grainy but with a special charm for low light situations, like oil lamp, etc. Here you can do very low light and candlelight (if you do not mind some grain effect), and in fact there are special pre-sets which employ the faster ISO’s effectively.

   This is another expansion over the prior Coolpix L series. You can choose instead of Auto (with own its user-selected options) to use the pre-set “Scene” selections quickly and efficiently. The Scene modes now include: Portrait, Night Portrait, Sports, Landscape, Party, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Museum, Fireworks Show, Close Up, Copy, Back Light, Panorama Assist, Food. Food is one of the new ones, and you food photo-journalists might want to try it very inexpensively yet quite well here. The rest of the modes you can figure how they are set from the title and how you might apply their settings to similar situations; know that the Nikon impression of party might be much more sedate and candle-lit than the Animal House idea. This is not cheating, to use pre-sets; this is using the tool that you have in the way it was designed. Cheating would be setting this to its auto-scene setting in which it selects the Scene mode according to
   prevailing conditions, automatically. Yes, this can do it.

   The panorama assist is great. You can take a series of photos in a row in either of four directions (left to right, up and down, etc.) overlapping by one third (I really appreciate the rule…

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2. Savvy shopper "Andi" says:

   March 30, 2011 at 1:59 am

   330 of 339 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Excellent features, price and quality photographs!, May 15, 2009

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   Savvy shopper “Andi” (NJ United States) –

   This review is from: Nikon Coolpix L20 10MP Digital Camera with 3.6 Optical Zoom and 3 inch LCD, (Deep Red) (Electronics)

   I recently purchase the Nikon Coolpix L20 after lots of shopping.

   I have used only Olympus cameras only up to now.

   This time I wanted a smaller pocket sized camera, that still took the AA batteries, and that still gave great photos with all the features I was used to.
   This camera fit the bill!

   It takes 2 AA batteries, inexpensive SD memory cards and yet still delivers fantastic photos.

   I have already tried all the features, and was completly happy.
   I love using the different scene settings, and could not live without the video feature.
   Both still and video capture worked well in both bright light and low light.
   The sound playback via the camera is hard to distinquish (live music), but fine once uploaded.
   I didn’t really require the smile feature, but tried it out on my 3 year old, and was blown away….it really works!
   The blink feature is also quite ingenious. The camera actually asks you if your subject blinked when they do, but not when they don’t. This is particularly handy when taking photos of children. I would have loved this feature when I was still my daughter’s yearbook photographer.

   What can I say, fabulous price and awesome quality!!!
   Definately worth the money.

   Comparibly priced camera’s that we have used, produce grainy shots…..but have not found this with this camera at all.
   I would recommend this camera to anyone!

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3. S. Greene says:

   March 30, 2011 at 1:15 am

   65 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Surprisingly good little camera, with a couple of shortcomings, May 14, 2010

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   S. Greene (Palo Alto, CA USA) –
   
     
   
     

   This review is from: Fujifilm FinePix XP10 12 MP Waterproof Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Green) (Electronics)

   I got this camera to replace my previous underwater / shockproof Canon D10, which died after about 8 months for no apparent reason. When I got the D10, it was the only low-cost point-and-shoot I could find for light underwater use, which made it good in its own way, but the electronics and sensor and etc. were already a couple of years out of date on the Canon, plus it was really big and bulky.

   I don’t do serious underwater work, but do want a camera I can take out in the rain and occasionally in a swimming pool or to the beach, without worrying about it. Also with small kids, the likelihood of a camera getting dropped is high, so a sturdy model is key.

   This little Fujifilm advertises the same kind of water- and shock-proof characteristics as the Canon, but it’s a whole lot more modern in its features, and a whole lot smaller, which is great. I haven’t used it underwater yet, but for everyday use it takes good pictures.

   A few issues I have with it. One, the cable connector is nonstandard. It should be mini-USB, like so many other things – I keep a mini USB hanging off my computer anyway, and if I lose a mini USB cable it’s easy to find another, vs. the Fuji cable which doesn’t match anything else I own.

   Second, the mechanicals are not quite as polished as I’d like. The waterproof cover for the cable connector doesn’t seat well – it’s very hard to get in. And the battery cover has a strange hinge device that was confusing to figure out and I fear will not last well, since I have to open it frequently to extract the memory card, because the cable connector is nonstandard and hard to reseal.

   All in all I would still recommend this camera, and I hope these few flaws get corrected in a future model.

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