Fujifilm FinePix E900

Very well built with lots of features, very good for the price and comes with some very good software.

Excellent 9M images. Best movie capture I've seen. RAW images open in Photoshop CS2 with Adobe's plug-in. Third party lenses available - handy wide angle. Takes AA batteries, which last pretty well too.

You've got to be picky to find fault with this camera: The manual focus is poorly implemented, but be honest how often do you use it? Disconnecting from a Mac before unmounting volume often corrupt card data (so don't do it and you'll be fine!).

very good image quality very fast shutter response comfortable to handle

no low light assist light

compact

software a bit basic

Excellent feature set. The most comprehensive Digital Compact camera on the marget today. It has many of the features you would get on a low end Digital SLR and features expansion options.

The expandibiity option is a little on the steep price considering for example that you only gain an extra 1.94x zoom. If you want the best from this camera you have to read the manual...that is eiher a given to some or seems rather mundane to others.

Easy to use. Long battery life. Lots of useful functionality

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Great for amateurs who want lots of features that they are used to on their SLR. Great for having 800 ISO. Great for fitting in a pocket and taking everywhere.

A compact is a only a compact however - the delay between pressing the release and the picture taking, will mean that you miss plenty of shots in the street that you would have captured with an SLR; autofocussing in low light is also an issue.

Just what we wanted - an easy to use camera that was a vast improvement on our 3 year old digital camera. We especially liked the quick startup time and image quality.

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