Fujifilm FinePix V10 reviewed
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 21st 2006 11:15PM
posted June 21st 2006 11:15PM
We first peeped Fujifilm's compact FinePix V10 at CES earlier this year, but if you've been wondering how it actually performs, the folks at Lets Go Digital have got your fix in the form of an in-depth review. The camera itself is a 5 megapixel number, with a 3.4x optical zoom, and a large 3-inch LCD taking up pretty much all of the real estate on the rear side of the device. Also notable is the high ISO settings (up to 1600), which is rarely seen in a camera of this class. Lets Go Digital really didn't find much negative to say about the camera, giving it high marks for its great lens, fast start-up speed, good color rendition, and general user-friendliness -- they even dug the camera's built-in games. Sticker price is still $349, but it looks like most retailers are selling it for closer to the $300 mark -- although the orange model here seems a bit harder to come by. Why, we don't exactly know; we're assuming it's probably not due to demand.[Via DP Blog]
Cool I like the orange. But as my girlfriend said, she'd like to see a pink version too. :)
The high ISO would be the seller for me. That's one of the reasons I love my DSLR so much. Most P&S's need so much light becasue of low ISO and I hate using the flash.
5 megs is a good number, it's 5x8 print quality, but not pro quite yet... it also is easy on mem cards...
i like this picter taker, i think i want one...
Looks perfect for birthday parties and other gatherings where the typical snapshot is taken.
--Bill
Has anybody played with these first hand yet?
Neal Saferstein
I am not in to all these different colour cameras, i just like the silver ones, i feel that having these bright colours are just an invitation for someone to try and swipe it from you, but hey that’s just me
The only camera I would bother buying is one that looks like a camera at the front, and has a PSP screen on the back. No wastes-of-pixels that are 4:3 for me (anymore, thanks psp feva!)...Camera companies are just too up themselves to give me what I want to tho. >:|
"didn't find much negative to say about the camera," tee hee
I like the orange, anything to add a bit of style into the mix. With so many camera's having almost identical specs these days it's nice to have something fun looking. Plus if it's different looking it becomes a conversation piece which in turn makes it easier to get photos of complete strangers :)
-Has anybody played with these first hand yet?
I own one.
Yes, the screen is big bright and beautiful, and the camera is nicely small with just enough heft to be able to hold and yet light enough to hang around your neck.
I also like the pictures it makes as they are pretty HQ.
i don't play the games, and that wasn't what I bought it for. In fact, I wish I could make my own for this thing, as that would be pretty cool - image editing on the fly anyone?
The optical zoom is pretty damned good I use it all the time. The macro is fantastic too, of course.
So far I've taken about 400 pictures since I've bought the thing - largely owing to it's portability and also how quickly it starts up and shuts down.
The battery life is a above average, although I wouldn't mind some new tech batteries or maybe power saving electronics on the inside to increase the lifespan. I took about a full days worth of pictures and still had enough battery life to transfer about 100 or so images to my brother's laptop.
I also chose it because it works with Linux - right out of the box.
The movie quality is pretty impressive. I liked it. I have yet to compare this to my brother's Casio Exilim pictures, but I could really care less.
The only things I don't like about the camera would probably have to be that when I zoom into an image fo 1:1 pixels on my computer, it looks a bit grainy - but that's at a resolution at about 2560x1600 or something along those lines. It's really high resolution.
I also found the included 16MB Xd card _way_ too small. I bought a 1GB card and it wasn't too expensive. I only have it about half full at any one time though.. =)
Also, I'm bordering on the obsessive compulsive (not really, maybe anal is more descriptive ;P), and I freak out anytime anyone touches my screen.
I also carry it around my neck so that it doesn't get scratched.
What I would recommend if you bought this camera:
A case and a 1GB card. The rest is pretty much all in this package.
Basically, I really like this camera, and as a plus, I bought it online, sent it to my brother, and ended up getting about 100 dollars off the store price up here in Canada. That's pretty sweet man.
I have this camera, I bought it off of eBay. I got the Silver and it's awesome. I don't know much about digicams but I love this soo much. the huge 3" screen helps. The quick loading is sweet. The fact that I can take two shots with natural light and with flash is pretty cool(as I said I'm not super familiar with digicams yet) because I can pick one when I can decide if I should have flash or not. Oh, even with out a flash the picture comes out very colorful. I was gonna go for other camera's that were higher mega pixel but I really just need it for photo size and not planning on making it as a poster. Also the size is nice since I can still carry it around.
If you do plan on this item, I just recommend getting a screen protector and a good case as the screen is so big on the back that you'd fear it would scracth.
I don't play the game function much or at all since they are really simple and as an owner of DS, games included on the camera is a bit mediocre.
I've played with it at work and it's a decent camera but it suffers from all the things compact Fuji's suffer from. The XD card which is minor annoyance and the bloody four point directional arrows which is HIGHLY annoying. In every other camera they give you a sort of circle or square and each side is a direction. In Fuju cameras there is a single up and down switch and on each side of that is a left and right button. It doesn't sound too bad until you actually use it. It's like two buttons on each side of a light switch. It works but it's horrible to use. ESPECIALLY for the games.