Fujifilm FinePix 40i 2.4MP Digital Camera /MP3 Player, Silver
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(5 out of 5)All in one with no comprimises!
I was stunned when I first saw this Fujifilm camera. I was originally looking for the Cannon Ixus, but this was smaller, very light-weight, and had a 4.3 million pixel definition! The advantage of this is that you do not need to zoom with the camera. It will allow for a 2400x1800 resolution, so you can zoom in on a quarter of an A4 sized picture with the software whilst hardly losing picture quality. The Quicktime movie mode works well and is fun showing a webcam like video with sound. Finally, it is an MP3 player which is hardly bigger than the dedicated ones. Sound is good, the MP3 player alone is worth having, allowing you to do voice recording and pictures when necessary. Oh, it also looks very cool! Only drawbacks that I've seen so far are no onboard memory and the MP3 player doesn't take VBR encoded files. I say nevermind!
(5 out of 5)Finepix 40i. Brilliant.
Ok, I have been dubious about digital cameras for a while now and have been very dubious over the 4.3mp claims of the fuji range, it is after all an interpolated octagonal 2.4 mg chip at the end of the day. Well all that doesn't matter. This baby rocks.
First off I had no problems with mp3's, I got mine ... and stuck 'em in the 40i and off I went. NO PROBS!!
This camera is tiny, it's light and it a joy to hold and use. The quality of the pictures are amazing, I took a shot of the sky just before sunset and the detail in the clouds is unreal.
The 16MB supplied card is a bone of contention for me. Yes it will store 19 or so max resolution pics. But compact flash would have been the way to go Mr Fuji.
The smartmedia is ok but it's wafer thin, looks like it could easily break with removing it all the time to go in a card reader and the industry seems to support the bigger CF cards. So why not Fuji?
I reckon a 64meg card would give you almost 80 pics at the max setting. Maybe enough for a holiday/vacation hmmm maybe.....
I did print out some pics first at max setting, then at norm setting and I couldn't tell the difference - even at 10 by 8 size so maybe a 64 meg card would do it.
Anyway, this is the camera for me, I don't buy things unless I am totally happy with them and I am totally happy with this purchase.
(3 out of 5)A MP3 Player and a Digital Camera into ONE, wha'd ya expect?
For those of you who have read the previous reviews, and think this thing is just what they said, your wrong. What do you expect from a Digital Camera and MP3 Player into one for only 500 dollars? Didn't think so.
One thing is the design of this thing, it's just plain out nasty. Why would any one wanna buy a thing which looks a fat,overloaded, 25 dollar camera?
The music quality isn't good either, and not to leave out the picture quality. The pictures come out too dark, even though you can make them light.
IT JUST ISN'T WORTH IT!
(5 out of 5)Best Digital Camera in the World!
This camera has the same image quality and features as the Fuji FinePix 4700, but it is smaller. Also, it is an Mp3 player. That alone is worth about $200. This is the only digital camera and Mp3 player in one. I ordered this camera from somewhere else before it became available here. This is the best digital camera there is. I'm sure that it will be a hot christmas item this year.
(2 out of 5)You'll regret the lack of zoom, believe me
Nice pictures, nice camera. But clearly, this is an attempt at selling a cutesy camera that has a humongous, and that means incredibly large, flaw. Or should I say, lack of a feature. You may think "aw, how often would I use a zoom?" Trust me, it makes a huge difference. And a digital zoom does nothing - you can do that on your computer, blowing the picture up, but without any increase in resolution - in other words, grain city. You need at least a 3X *optical* zoom. For this price, it should be there.
Get rid of the darn MP3 player and get a zoom. Since when is an MP3 player needed on a camera? You can get an MP3 player that is much smaller anyway.
Nice to have movies with sound - smart. But wow, no zoom was the biggest mistake that Fuji, or I, could have made. I cannot believe that management of such a quality company could possibly think that absence of a zoom would not be a big deal. This item will have a very, very high return rate.
I have one bit of advise: please...save your receipt, and wait for Fuji to wake up and smell the coffee. I am sure they will.