Fujifilm FinePix S1 16 MP Digital Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)

Fujifilm FinePix S1 16 MP Digital Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)

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• The world's first weather resistant 50x zoom camera (24x1200mm)
• 16.2MP 1/2.3-inch backlit CMOS sensor
• Full HD movie capture (1920 x 1080, 60i)
• 3.0-inch, approx. 920K-dot, Vari-angle LCD monitor with 920k EVF
• Wi-Fi connectivity

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Brand : Fujifilm
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,Point & Shoot Digital Cameras
Rating : 4.3
Review Count : 230

Fujifilm FinePix S1 16 MP Digital Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)

• I bought this camera used in 2015 after a lot of research, and it still holds up. Cheap enough to be a decent starter camera, not too expensive to bring traveling abroad. It is able to focus on full zoom maybe 4 feet away in macro mode, making it significantly easier to take close up pictures of things that don\'t let you get very close, like tiger beetles, or caiman. I use the macro setting for just about everything, I don\'t touch the white balance or anything. The pictures are usually crisp and clear, however, as you can see in the picture of the roseate spoonbill, the whites can be harsh. On the other hand, the picture of the sloth is reasonably balanced. All photos shown were taken using the macro mode without any settings change, no editing done. Bought along with some BM Premium batteries, in 2015, which are fantastic and still hold up.
• The media could not be loaded. I purchased this camera as a secondary video camera... why would I buy a still camera as a video camera, you may ask? Because the resolution on this camera 1920x1080 @ 60p is unbeatable for even twice the price (the description on the Amazon page says it\'s 60i, but the specs on the Fujifilm site says it\'s 60p and my tests indicate that it is in fact progressive - p, not interlaced - i.) Seriously, it\'s really hard to find an affordable video camera that shoots 1080/60p. You can find 1080/30p or even 1080/60i (which is completely different and can leave your digital videos with \"rake-marks\" across them if you don\'t process it just right.) In this price range it\'s pretty common to still see 1280x720/60p which is almost 30% smaller than 1080. The quality of the video on this is absolutely beautiful with even, natural saturation and contrast (lower price camcorders tend to bump up the saturation and contrast to make the colors \"pop\" more, which tends to give the video an artificial, amateurish look - this camera doesn\'t do that) and sharp details. I\'ll add some video to this review, but Amazon tends to process the crap out of the videos that we attach to reviews so it will not accurately express the output of this camera... try searching \"Fujifilm FinePix S1 sample video footage\" on Youtube and you may be able to find my footage there... youtube compresses also but not to the extreme that Amazon does.Along with the 1080/60p, this camera has a massive optical zoom which is an excellent bonus. I would have loved it if this camera had an audio jack for an external mic, but I can live with that since I record most of my audio onto an external Tascam DAR. The internal mics record in stereo and are decent quality - nothing to rave about, but a little better than you\'d expect for built in mics at this level. The only thing I don\'t love about this camera is that when you are recording video you can\'t use the manual focus. Regardless of what you have it set on, the auto focus kicks in when you hit the record button. This can be an occasional problem: once in low light it had a hard time focusing, but I zoomed all the way it (so the face of the person I was shooting completely filled the viewfinder) this forced it to focus on the detail of the face so when I zoomed back out to the proper framing the face was still in focus. I did have it shift the focus for a few seconds almost randomly while I was shooting close up in daylight one time, but that hasn\'t happened since. I show an example of this camera\'s ability to do an auto-rack focus, which impressed me quite a bit (though I haven\'t used it extensively yet so I don\'t know it\'s limitations.)The only other limitation when shooting video on this camera - and this might be a deal-breaker for you - it has a 15 minute cut off on the video (24 minutes if you\'re shooting 720/60p). So you can\'t just set it up and let it run (as I would normally do with a secondary camera) you have to make sure you check it at least every 13 or 14 minutes and end the shot and then hit the record button again. I\'ve had cameras with 15 minute file-size limits before and on those the camera would just keep shooting regardless of how long but instead of saving the entire shot as one file they would save the shot in 15 minute increments, so if you shot for an hour you\'d end up with four sequential files instead of one. This camera doesn\'t do that - it just turns off the recording at the end of 15 minutes. Period. I\'m pretty diligent about constantly checking my equipment to make sure it\'s operating properly, so it\'s not that big of a deal for me, but if you tend to just turn on your equipment and let it roll it might end up being a problem for you.A couple of nice features that might be important to you - it has wifi capabilities so you can use your ipad or phone as a remote control and monitor. That\'s a big bonus that helps with the 15-minute-video problem - I can set the camera up in a secondary location and manage it from an ipad mini attached to the tripod of my primary camera. The other feature, if you use your camera for blogging or tutorial videos - you can flip the 3\" monitor on the camera completely out and flip it around so it faces you allowing you to check your framing. You can also flip the image on the monitor so what you see is like a mirror rather than the opposite which can be annoying.The bottom line for me is that I couldn\'t find this combination of features that were important to me (1080/60p and a big optical zoom) on any kind of camera (either video camcorder or primarily still camera) for anywhere near this price, so I\'ll deal with the 15 minute cut off and the lack of an audio jack to get the high resolution video.PS - Writing reviews has become an accidental hobby for me, and it always makes my day to know that people find my reviews helpful (and if not, why.) Also, if you have any questions, clarifications, or comments please feel free to leave a comment below. I usually respond pretty quickly and almost always within 24 hours. This item was provided for review consideration.Cheers! Claire

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