Home > Consumer Reviews > Fuji FinePix F40fd Digital Camera - Silver (8.0MP, 3x Optical Zoom ) 2.5" LCD

We were given this camera as a gift from someone who owned a similar Fuji and who liked theirs enough to think we would be pleased to receive one as a gift. They were not wrong. We are amateurs - point and click people, but love this camera to bits. It probably does a lot more than we need, but for normal family, holiday etc photographs it is great and the ease of handling and clarity of the pictures is first class together with easy downloading onto the computer is great. Would definitely recommend.

This was bought for my son to use with the underwater case he already had for use in Thailand when he takes tourists on pleasure dives. They like to give them the pictures afterwards for them to take home and show friends and family the underwater experience they had on their holidays. My son likes this camera very much as it is simple to use and sturdy.(He is biased as all his cameras are made by Fuji).His diver colleagues often borrow this camera when taking tourists on their diving trips.

Being an amateur photographer I was not really able to decide on which digital camera I should buy. I had bought one from Nikon (S6) earlier for an aweful amount of money. That turned out to be a big disaster and I hated the kind of images it took. So I was extremely skeptical regarding my second purchase.

I had seen the results of Fuji F30fd and liked them very much but unfortunately that model was stopped and the ones selling on ebay were about $800. Though the reviews say that F30 was much better, I found F40 to be closest to that one and bought it. I have had it for over 4 months now and I must say that I am very pleased with it. It takes great pictures in almost all conditions and gives very sharp results.

For a simple point and shoot it is a great buy. Highly recommended.

This is my second Fuji Camera.
I had a Fuji-F10 and a Fuji-F40 FD
Both eventually failed with the same problem.
Lines across the photo caused by failed CCD Sensors.
Judging by the web this is a common problem with Fuji but not mentioned at all as a problem on the support websites.
For me the Fuji-F40 also developed a faulty zoom lens.
In the 18 months I had the camera 6 of that was spent in repair.
Camera's should at least be made to last 3 to 4 years.
Mine both went not far outside warranty.
The F40 FD also took dark photos for about 3 months before the sensor went.
The camera appeared good originally out of the box but its been so frustrating since I couldn't give it any more than one star.

Fuji for me has always been a good reliable make with good customer service & after sales extended warrantys, which i cant fault cause other manufactuers dont, except for paying up front with Allianz insurance which is quite pricey.

I am on my 10th Fuji camera with no complaints all ranging from compacts to big zooms like A- series A202/A400, F- series F450/F455/F11/F30/F60fd, Z- series Z5fd to S- series S6500fd & now this one, the F40fd.

I have been in the market for 3 new fuji compacts, 1 for me to replace my F11, very hard to do ! & 2 for christmas presents, so to start im thinking back to a year ago i purchased a Z5fd for my girlfriend which has served very well with good picture quality as a p&s ! so decided to buy 3 of them but ended up taking all 3 back with faults from chips out the side of the lcd to dead pixels from new, not just the odd ones, many of them, per camera, had all the cameras replaced but still the same unacceptable problem so had refund on all 3, next for me was a nearly top of the range F60fd but was so disappointed ! nice camera but the picture quality was noisey, grainey, under exposed so compared it side by side image quality wise to my girlfriends Z5fd and it blow the F60fd away.

Next was this camera the F40fd after reading many reviews thought i had found the perfect presents & a treat for me so ordered 3 of them, great compact size, great image quality & uses sd card format but again had to return 2 of them as one had a blob under the lense with 4 green stuck pixels & other was covered in dead/stuck pixels all over the lcd, i no lcd screens do suffer with the odd 1 or 2 but this was crazy, had 2 replacements sent out but again same problem which by now is putting me right off fuji quality! so canon is my next choice.

If you can put up with these faults it is a great little camera but for me giving them to family for christmas presents its not on ! Sort your self out Fuji. I will say Amazon customer services were brilliant & i cant fault them in anyway, so keep up the good work ! but as for this Fuji F40fd camera, if u can get a decent one then you will love it but its a no from me & i would avoid !!!!