Fujifilm Fuji FinePix E900

Fujifilm FinePix E900

Fuji FinePix E900 Review, by Richard Baguley March 15, 2006

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• Latest User Reviews 2 reviews
• Reviewed by: roseok

  Duration of ownership: 7 Months

  Strengths: GREAT OUTDOOR PICTURES. LIGHT WEIGHT EASY TO HANDLE LOOKS GREAT. OUT DOOR SPORTING EVENTS TAKES GOOD ACTION SHOTS. EASY DOWNLOAD AND I THOUGHT GOOD SOFT WEAR. STRONG FLASH.. WORKS WITH JUST TWO AA BAT... LIGHT WEIGHT,EASY TO POP IN A POCKET..

  Weaknesses: TAKES POOR INDOOR PICTURES UNLESS YOU USE FLASH. DOES NOT PERFORM WELL UNDER INDOOR LIGHTING.. EVEN WITH THE HIGH ISO PICTURES ARE OFTEN BLURRY. VERY DISSAPOINTED IN MOST OF MY INDOOR PICTURES IN LOW LIGHT.EVEN IN THE N MODE.. ISO SHOULD WORK BETTER INDOORS,AT LOND DISTANCES IN GYM ETC,POOR BLURRY PICS.. BATTERY COMPARTMENT DOOR FEELS FLIMSY,AND IS NOT EASY TO CLOSE.

  Overall: RETURNED THE CAMERA TO BJ`S AFTER SEVEN MONTHS USE.TOOK HUNDREDS OF PICTURES. FOR A 9 MEGA PIX CAMERA I WAS VERY DISSAPOINTED.BOUGHT THE CAMERA BECAUSE I LOVE TO CROP MY PICS.OUT DOOR SHOTS WHERE REALLY GOOD,INDOOR NOT GOOD.BASKETBALL GAMES,WRESTLING,ECT PICTURES TAKEN OF MY GRANDCHIDREN PLAYING THESE INSIDE SPORTS WHERE NOT GOOD..BAD PART IS YOU ONLY HAVE ONE SHOT AT A GOOD MOMENT EVEN WITH A DIGITAL...LOST A LOT OF GOOD CANDID SHOTS. CAMERA DOES NOT LIVE UP TO IT`S HYPE...... READ THE MANUAL CONSTANTLY,TO LEARN ALL THE CONTROL FEATURES,STILL COULD NOT GET GOOD PICTURES. VERY DISSAPOINTED IN FUJI THEY CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS.

• Reviewed by: ashok

  Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

  Strengths: What I liked: 1. Bigger super CCD, comparatively more light sensitive than normal CCD 2. Wide angle lens starting from 32mm 3. Very fast prefocus shutter lag of 0.01 4. Live histogram display and button for changing exposure compensation without going to menu 5. Auto exposure bracketing 6. Support RAW mode, but need third party software like adobe photoshop or s7raw to process image 7. Very good ISO performance for compact camera, although not as good as F30/F31fd model 8. Weight less, two AA Battery, and pocketable 9. Battery and Charger included 10. Program shift capability in program auto mode when flash is not in use 11. Optical viewfinder 12. Good picture if you do post processing 13. Excellent Resolution

  Weaknesses: What I missed: 1. An AF assist lamp present in S-series/F-series camera 2. Good Manual focusing through magnification at the LCD 3. AE/AF locking option (button) for later use. Button for switching between AF and MF. 4. Custom and preset shooting modes. 5. Stitch assist mode and software to stitch photos 6. Good software for editing and handling RAW files 7. Swivel LCD 8. Face detection AF technology 9. Optical image stabilizer 10. Stronger and Intelligent flash There are some free softwares that can manipulate Fujifilm Raw (.RAF) files, such as, GIMP (GIMPShop) with DCRAW or UFRAW plugins, Picasa, StudioLine basic, s7raw, etc. Gimp, s7raw and Picasa work both with Windows and Linux. Autostitch, a free software, can be used to make panorama.

  Overall: Fujifilm E900 is a very capable camera and produce very good results. You'll very much satisfied with it feature sets and large print results even in high ISO. Excellent value for money. Also E900 has following limitations that should be corrected in their future model: 1. Highlight blow out problem, although the camera gives warning in playback mode. But no correction in camera. Note that highlight problem is correctable if you shoot RAW and process later. You may also use negative exposure compensation. 2. Long file writing time, sometimes annoying 3. Limited maximum lens aperture of F2.8-F5.6, telephoto should start from F4.0 for low lighting IMO. 4. Limited micro capability 5. Image compression (jpeg) is not good. Limited option. Should have super fine mode. 6. Small optical viewfinder coverage 7. Outdoor photos are slightly dull looking and dark straight out of the camera. Should use increased saturation and contrast for outdoor shoot. Bottom line: Fuji should hear what people wants in the camera and build their product such way. I think they can sell double number of their camera if they use high speed SD memory instead of slow and costlier xD memory.

• Reviewed by: stritz33

  Strengths: Compact size with many features of the big cameras. 9 MP is awesome in such a small camera.

  Weaknesses: Flash could be better.

  Overall: I wanted a compact camera for the times when I didn't want to lug around my digital SLR. The E900 fit my needs perfectly. The pictures are sharp and crisp. I was impressed with its ability to take good pictures indoors, too. It's definitely not in the same league as my Canon 20D, but for a compact camera I was pleased at how well it performed. I now take the Fuji E900 along when I wouldn't have taken my SLR because of weight. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase this camera again.

• Reviewed by: skinnycritty

  Strengths: Clear pictures, east to use, many different picture sizes to save memory.

  Weaknesses: To get the highest quality photo you'll need to use 4MB worht of memory to store it.

  Overall: I wanted a camera that could fit in my pocket, which this one does, takes great pictures, and easy to use. I'm not an expert photographer so this worked for me. Even though I think this is good for semi-pro photographers.

• Reviewed by: Adam99

  Strengths: Fast start up time, fast picture taking, lots of features

  Weaknesses: color balance could be off, uses XD memory (sd slots seem to be on more devices; xd is more expensive), flash is a manual pop-up

  Overall: Takes good pics at 9mp even in standard mode, good for cropping; digital zoom useful, but to a limit. access times are fast. sometimes when compared to my dad's 5mp sony dsc-v1 ("semi-pro" like the e900), the colors do not seem as rich, but that could be b/c of the settings. Lots of modes & features, can output to raw (menu option) most basic functions are quick to get to via extra buttons--good layout-easy to learn, but I am still learningcan handle type H high-speed XD memory (apparantly many XD cameras can only use type M standard speed)natural light setting is great--pushing shoot button in a bit shows a preview of that setting--almost like having a flash without disturbing those around you (could have used it at a wedding a few weeks ago where flash photog not allowed!)flash has same preview--if flash is up and set to come on, pushing shoot button down shows you what the pic might look like with the flash. good auto setting warns you when to put the flash up, but you have to push a button to release the flash mechanism so it can come up--perhaps there is some advantage to this that I don't know of (I'm just an amateur, with the occasional amazin shot)Read somewhere that optical viewfinder only covers 70% of actual view, but I did not notice much and I'm just glad to have one--lots don't these daysonly comes with 16mb typeM card, so definitely get a 1GB type H--the price is low enough these days.happy photoshooting!

• Reviewed by: call4quote_1131767556

  Strengths: GREAT CAMERA ,BATTERY RECHARGEABLE AA OR ALKALINE CAN BE USED,GREAT FEATURES,EASY TO USE SOFTWARE.

  Weaknesses: LCD display hard to see images in full sun..

  Overall: Great quality photos,on movie mode perfect images and you control the time of the recording based on the card capacity.Great to have additional memory card,buy 2 xD card type "H"(FASTER)- 1GB cards with those you never run out space for photos or video. the 16mb that comes with the package only fits 3 photos on high 9mb mode. LCD on full it's hard to see the images,but is not a problem ...

• Reviewed by: uhale

  Strengths: Wonderful shots in low light situations (Natural setting). Fast startup, little lag between shots.You can record video as long as you still have room on your card.9 Megapixels!

  Weaknesses: Some blue tinging with certain backgrounds such as the sky during the day. No MPEG-4 video encoding makes for limited recording time (15 minutes per 1GB card).Manual pop-up flash.

  Overall: This is the 3rd in a line of Fuji digital cameras that I have purchased. They just keep getting better. The best feature of this camera, in my view, is the Natural setting, which allows exposure without the flash in lower light shooting situations.I would buy this camera again.