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This is a wonderful entry level digital camera. I put off the purchase of a digital camera for ages before I finally settled on the A400 after plenty of research.
DO NOT be fooled by a camera boasting 6, 7 or 8 million mega pixel photo quality. Any digital camera is only as good as the lens it has fitted. Mega pixels really only count when you come to print your photos. The A400 has a good quality 3x fujinon technology lens coupled with a perfectly adequate 4.1 mega pixel resolution. The A400 is lightweight and compact enough to fit neatly into most trouser pockets, unless you still wear really tight jeans. The LCD screen is 1.8" in size, which is smaller than many digital cameras being produced today but is suitable to frame any picture and take video effectively. Being LCD technology, you have to look directly at it to see a clear picture. If you view the screen from an angle or with the sun directly behind you, the images are harder to make out and frame.
When you turn the camera on there is inevitably a momentary period of inactivity whilst it loads. This means you are not going to be 'camera-ready' if you need to take an emergency photograph of your uncle falling into a river on his daily walk. Also, when you turn the camera on the LCD screen immediatley lights up by default. This uses up battery power, so it is a good idea to select the function which turns the screen off. That said, the rechargeable batteries I have in my A400 have only been recharged 4 times since April this year. A more significant absence from the camera is an audio recording feature when taking video. This surprised me as I had assumed that the audio feature was guaranteed in a camera capable of video recordings.
Downloading your photos from the camera to a PC or viewing them on a TV is blissfully easy. Both cables are included in the basic package as is the easy-to-use software. The speed at which the pictures transfer from camera to PC is very good indeed via a USB connection. Photo results are stored as JPEGS and video as AVI files, both of which integrate into the most commonly used media applications of PC's.
Various flash modes, macro options and changeable picture quality features means the A400 has left very little out in terms of a persons requirement to take photographs of family days out, holidays and picturesque landscapes. To date, I have not needed the A400 to perform any function which it has not already catered for.
Overall, this is a robust, lightweight, value for money camera which is serving me well and satisfies my digital photography needs.
Good review, I never knew that about the lenses, I knew this camera had pretty good optical zoom, but I always thought it came down to the megapixels in the end - after all, a high megapixel count kind of implies a good lens, doesn't it?
ory, Super CCD sensor, special scene settings and 1.8 inch LCD screen. Includes Wrist strap, video cable, USB cable, CD-ROM, USB driver and FinePix Viewer.
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09.07.2008 22:53
Good review, I never knew that about the lenses, I knew this camera had pretty good optical zoom, but I always thought it came down to the megapixels in the end - after all, a high megapixel count kind of implies a good lens, doesn't it?
13.09.2006 17:59
good first review
13.09.2006 16:02
good review