Fuji Camera

[mideastrider]

What about a Fuji Finepix S1000 10mp 12x optical zoom? Its factory refurbished for 170 bucks. Comes with usb cable 4gb SD memory card. Looking for a good camera without dropping 4 or 5 hundred bucks. Just something lug around the races. Will this do the trick?

 

[Chili]

Don't know anything about that specific camera but Fuji makes some very good cameras in general.

Here is a review from a very good site http://www.steves-digicams.com/2008_reviews/fuji_s1000fd.html

Overall based on the conclusions in that review if you just want a camera for grabbing a few shots of your buddies on raceday it should be fine, if you are looking to get into taking a lot of action shots you can likely do better although not for that same price point.

 

[Rich Rohrich]

I have a Fuji E900 (an earlier version of what you are looking at) , and it's a fantastic camera overall, but a poor choice for any sort of action shooting. It can be done, but it's tough to get good results.

For non-action stuff, you'll find it to be amazing. It produces really impressive pictures for a little pocket camera. :cool:

Here's a couple of sample shots from my E900 to give you an idea of the quality.

 

[mideastrider]

Those shots look very good to me. I'm still looking around and I found a S700. Can I assume its an earlier model than the 900 or 1000.

 

[Rich Rohrich]

I'm not really familiar with the S700 but I found this very positive review at Steve's Digicams (a good review site) :

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_reviews/fuji_s700.html

Bottom line - Fujifilm's FinePix S700 is a very capable and appealing "entry-level" prosumer digicam. With 7-megapixels, a versatile 38-380mm 10x zoom lens, loads of useful exposure modes, great performance, and comfortable SLR style body, the S700 will be hard to beat, especially with an MSRP of only US$249 or less! The only downfalls I found were the above average amounts of purple fringing, and the fact the LCD blacks out in between shots (when shooting in a sequence not burst mode.)

 

[mideastrider]

I went with the S700 Finepix. I felt like it was the best buy for the money. It came this afternoon I will read up on it and maybe try to post a pic. May need some help with that though.