Fujifilm 16202014 14 Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD (Black)

Was looking for a camera in this class type. Amazon has the best price. I've seen lower end models of the same series go for more at local retailers. This camera is great if you want high quality photos. It has 30x zoom and an "easy" mode. If you are feeling confident you can adjust a lot of settings manually to get a more professional picture. Great for a family where 1 person knows what to adjust and 1 doesn't. This has all the latest technologies, like auto scene recognition, red eye reduction, face detection, in camera framing, panorama, and photo tagging. The Panorama mode lets you choose auto or manual. With auto you line up a crosshair after each picture. With manual it shows you about 20% of the last picture you took so you can line up the next picture yourself. You can do continuous shot mode where the camera will quickly take photos. To make the best use of the camera's speed be sure to get a class 10 SD memory card. The camera has 14 megapixels, but that is worthless. The average user doesn't need more than 8. Unless you are a professional photographer or photo editor and are going to zoom in to edit the photos or print poster sized pictures then you can turn the megapixels down to get more photos on your memory card. The camera has a great textured body to help reduce losing your grip. It runs off 4AA batteries which we wanted. This way when you are traveling you don't have to worry about charging a battery, you can buy AA's anywhere. The electronic view finder is also great. If it is too sunny outside you can turn the LCD off and look through the viewfinder (just a small, about 1/2 inch LCD) to see just fine. Overall great camera!

My 9 year old daughter bought this with her birthday money. It is a really nice point and shoot and makes her feel like a real photographer as its body is shaped similarly to a DSLR. The lens does not come off (which I knew already). The best thing about this camera as far as imagery is that it takes AMAZINGLY detailed macros. My expensive DSLR cannot take photos as sharp as this can. I actually steal it once and a while to take macros of insects. In indirect sunlight, where the sun is either behind or somewhat to the side, this camera takes gorgeous photos. The colors come out great and I love that you can use the viewfinder or the screen. The viewfinder view IS digital though, which is kind of odd to look at at first. If the sun is in front of you there is not really a good way that I have found to compensate for over exposure and therefore things may be blown out. But the beauty of digital photography is that you can see the result right off so you can try again. The worst thing about this camera so far is the strap. This is an important problem even though it may sound trivial. The strap is what keeps the camera from falling and smashing on the floor! This strap is USELESS. The second time that it let go around my son's neck (he has one too!) I threw the strap away and got one off my old Minoltas and rigged it up. The little metal brackets that hold the strap in place are very narrow so you have to have some kind of adapter for it. I used yarn tied tightly for my daughter's and then another camera strap that had metal clips on it. Don't even try using the one that comes with it as it only takes one time for a camera to hit the floor and break inside. In all this is a great stepping stone for climbing up the ladder to a DSLR that gives you some user control over your shots but is still lightweight, portable, and versatile.

I own an older generation of this camera and loved it! I bought it one day and took it to Europe the next with little knowledge on how it worked. I had no problems with the older camera on that trip as it was very easy to figure out how to use the settings and it took fantastic photos! When the knob broke off days before my vacation last month I had a panic attack as I wasn't up on the latest cameras and little to no free time to go camera shopping. When I saw there was a new generation of the FujiFilm I have owned for 5 years, I decided to buy it given how happy I had been with the original FujiFilm that I owned. When I opened the box and powered it on, there was a thick white line down the middle of the display on the back of the camera so I called Fuji tech support. The person I spoke to quickly informed me there was nothing that could be done. He said it was damaged and to return it! He did me a favor with his advice. I was actually disappointed at how flimsy the new generation of this camera had become. The case is cheap plastic and I feel strongly it could easily crack without much trauma to it. My old camera was well made and held up after many trips in which I took hundreds of photos each time. I packaged the new camera up and sent it back to Amazon the next day. I ended up with a Canon PowerShot SX500 IS which operates much the same way as the FujiFilm I originally owned. It is constructed of much heavier materials and takes terrific photos. I would recommend the Cannon as it's well worth it. I was very disappointed in the FujiFilm camera. If you buy it you won't be happy. Holding it in your hands you can tell it's cheaply made and probably doesn't have much of a lifespan. I feel badly that I'm writing this review after owning the older model which I absolutely loved, but I felt I needed to so no one else makes the same mistake, especially if they are in a time crunch and need a camera quickly. This is not the camera you are looking for. I hope FujiFilm figures out that they've cheapened a great camera and make it right with the next model.