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Category: Beginner Amateur

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Fujifilm FinePix F30 Review is based on a production model. All sample images are unretouched, except where specified.

This review has been submitted to DIWA Awards [Total: 77%].

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The Fujifilm FinePix F30 Zoom has raised the bar previously set by the award-winning FinePix F10 (and F11). Fujifilm's new 6th Generation SuperCCD HR image sensor, 2nd Generation Real Photo Technology processing and quality Fujinon lens work together in the Fujifilm F30 to produce excellent picture quality with exceptional low noise at high ISOs, which can now go up to ISO 3200.

Noise is low from ISO 100 to 400 and acceptable at ISO 800. At the higher ISOs of 1600 and 3200, noise is not much of a problem if you stay at regular sized 4x6 in. prints or display for web [see our Fujifilm F30 Photo Gallery]. For many amateur photographers, the possibility to use a digital camera in sunny and low-light conditions alike makes the Fujifilm F30 an easy choice.

It has a new attractive and more streamlined look that I like very much, good handling, fabulously long battery life (580 shots per charge), a new extra large and high resolution 2.5 in. LCD monitor that is easy on the eyes and gains up in low-light situations -- and is really fast on startup and operations.

The Fujifilm FinePix F30 is a beautifully crafted digital camera with low-light capability that most closely matches that of a digital SLR. Beginners, as well as seasoned pros, will find it a compact take-anywhere digital camera that is fast and responsive -- and be impressed by its excellent image quality, exceptional low-light capability in a non-dSLR, and additional manual control in the form of Aperture-Priority AE and Shutter-Priority AE mode. This is one digital camera that is easy to recommend.

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