FujiFilm's 10 megapixel S2000HD with 15x wide angle zoom quietly introduced

FujiFilm Canada seems to have jumped the gun and outed a whole suite of cameras this morning. Starting with the headliner, we've got this 10 megapixel FinePix S2000HD with 15x wide angle zoom and 2.7-inch LCD. Listing for a thrifty CA$300, the S2000HD features a 1/2.3-inch CCD capable of capturing 3 megapixel images at 13.5fps and up to 6400 ISO at 5 megapixels with the help of FujiFilm's dual image stabilization. And "HD" in the name can mean only one thing: this cam also shoots HD video (720p Motion JPEG) in a pinch. No delivery date but we expect that to get sorted just as soon as this becomes officially official.

[Via 1001noisycameras and dpReview]

[who? @ Aug 1st 2008 3:58AM]

Sweet camera! Really not for me, but if I had a need for an excessively nice camera that none of the other 200 Engadget posts about high-quality cameras could help me with, I'd know right where to go!

Seriously though, we need an 'Engadget Camera' sub-site already...

[Muhammed @ Aug 1st 2008 3:56AM]

I'd bet that would beat the iphone's camera.

[gad get @ Aug 1st 2008 4:58AM]

Nah, no way.

[David Hamby @ Aug 13th 2008 7:37AM]

I know it beat the 700P camera, but I got the Panasonic TZ5 to get real (not fake phone) pictures.

[Crayola @ Aug 1st 2008 5:15AM]

I just saw this camera at a UK airport Dixons, and the price is about the same ballpark, so it got to be floating about already.

[Derek Neuland @ Aug 1st 2008 5:43AM]

Looks beautiful, but no thanks. It's not a Canon :P

[Ethan @ Aug 1st 2008 6:41AM]

720p in Motion JPEG? The files were large enough when it was QVGA, thanks.

[Tony C @ Aug 1st 2008 12:05PM]

Hells yeah!! This sucker must fill up a memory card in seconds flat recording HD video! Even with a 4-gigger! Where's the foresight into licensing MPEG4 or DiVX?

One thing to notice is that it uses SD/SDHC and not the proprietary Olympus-Fujifilm XD Cards. At all! Beginning of the end? Is the format that should never have have been created dead?

[suadion @ Aug 1st 2008 7:51AM]

Can it really be that cheap? 188 euro's?

[Bad Beaver @ Aug 1st 2008 10:39AM]

You know as well as I do it will be €300 in €uroland. Or at least 250.

[neofolklore @ Aug 1st 2008 7:53AM]

damn! this thing can rival the Canon XTi! except the whole lack of interchangeable lenses thing. sacrifice "movie mode" and get a real camera :)

[jayshen @ Aug 1st 2008 9:00AM]

oh! 1/2.3 CCD? that's slightly better than those-suck-in-image-quality 1/2.5's Hey! guess what? why don't they at fuji put an 1/1.8 inch?

[ShadowKain @ Aug 1st 2008 9:23AM]

Are YOU ready for closeups of animals with a wide-angel lens, cuz you know we are!

CUE MUSIC!

[EricR @ Aug 1st 2008 9:38AM]

This is great! I have had my eye on the f1000sd but this improves the game - hooray for waiting for the next update!

[Claude @ Aug 1st 2008 12:54PM]

Eric...You won't feel bad if you have to settle for the f1000sd before getting the S2000HD. I did and it is totally awesome. Burst mode is excellent and overall camera battery drain is very low and it has a great selection of settings within the camera itself making it a true winner.
I can see why they are staying with the same camera body but upgrading some specifics because this one is a keeper.

[Claude @ Aug 1st 2008 12:57PM]

Eric.....Sorry I meant the S1000fd in my previous note! :)

[Claude @ Aug 1st 2008 1:03PM]

Eric.....Sorry I meant the S1000fd in my previous note! :)

[Ghetto Jazz @ Aug 1st 2008 10:35AM]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

[ghettojazz @ Aug 1st 2008 10:35AM]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

[paul-engadget @ Aug 1st 2008 1:15PM]

I'm with jayshen on this one...
yet another potentially great camera spoiled by a crappy tiny sensor.

[Videoracer @ Aug 2nd 2008 2:30AM]

Fuji's small sensors are surprisingly clean. They've trumped everyone else there. I have both the E900 and S1000 (which use the same chip) and the image quality from them are great, even when you push 'em.

The only thing bad about this new cam is that the lens no longer has the manual zoom my S1000 does. Glad to see they went back to using AAs, unlike the S100FS. I hate cameras with proprietary batteries. Now they just need to put an optic like the original Fujinon 14.3 X with manual zoom and they're back to business as usual.