FujiFilm's 10 megapixel S2000HD with 15x wide angle zoom quietly introduced
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Aug 1st 2008 3:47AM
posted Aug 1st 2008 3:47AM
[Via 1001noisycameras and dpReview]
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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...
I'd bet that would beat the iphone's camera.
Nah, no way.
I know it beat the 700P camera, but I got the Panasonic TZ5 to get real (not fake phone) pictures.
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.
Looks beautiful, but no thanks. It's not a Canon :P
720p in Motion JPEG? The files were large enough when it was QVGA, thanks.
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?
Can it really be that cheap? 188 euro's?
You know as well as I do it will be €300 in €uroland. Or at least 250.
damn! this thing can rival the Canon XTi! except the whole lack of interchangeable lenses thing. sacrifice "movie mode" and get a real camera :)
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?
Are YOU ready for closeups of animals with a wide-angel lens, cuz you know we are!
CUE MUSIC!
This is great! I have had my eye on the f1000sd but this improves the game - hooray for waiting for the next update!
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.
Eric.....Sorry I meant the S1000fd in my previous note! :)
Eric.....Sorry I meant the S1000fd in my previous note! :)
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
I'm with jayshen on this one...
yet another potentially great camera spoiled by a crappy tiny sensor.
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.