Fujifilm FinePix F810 Zoom

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Fujifilm's second 'widescreen' F-series camera, the F810 Zoom sports a new 6.3-megapixel Super CCD HR sensor which can deliver interpolated pictures with 4048 x 3040 pixels. The widescreen function appears to work by cropping the top and bottom of the frame. The F810 offers P, A, S and M shooting modes and RAW capture but many settings (widescreen, digital zoom, burst mode and ISO 800) are disabled when RAW is selected, and the conversion software is primitive and slow.

The FinePix F810 Zoom was announced worldwide at the end of July 2004, though it was only made available to customers in North America very recently. The F810 is essentially the same camera as the F700/710 with a different sensor. Whereas the F700/710 cameras used the new Super CCD SR technology found in the upcoming FinePix S3 PRO DSLR, the F810's sensor is the fourth generation of the now well-established Super CCD technology, offering 12.3MP output from 6.3 million effective pixels. Like the F700/710 the new camera offers a 4x optical zoom (32.5-130mm equiv.), widescreen (16:9) LCD and shooting mode, fast operation and a fairly comprehensive array of manual controls in a compact, traditionally-styled all-metal body. Interestingly the lens, sensor, processing and user interface are identical in every way to a less expensive, non-widescreen, plastic-bodied camera, the FinePix E550, which we will be adding to this review shortly. So what does your five hundred dollars get you?

Definitely worth a look, Fujifilm's FinePix F810 is a camera that will appeal to people wanting TV connectivity with widescreen viewing.

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