Fujifilm FinePix HS10 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 30x Wide Angle Optical Zoom and 3-Inch LCD | 
| Brand: Fuji
Category: Photography
List Price: $499.95
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 104
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 30
Display Size: 3
Maximum Focal Length: 126
Minimum Focal Length: 4.2
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.5 x 3.9
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MPN: HS10
Model: HS10
UPC: 074101003789
EAN: 0074101003789
ASIN: B0035WTVZA
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| Features:
| | 10-megapixel CMOS image sensor for superior low-light performance and photo-quality, poster-sized prints | | | Fujinon 30x (24-720mm equivalent) manual optical zoom lens; 24-720mm (equivalent on a 35mm camera) range from true wide-angle to ultra telephoto | | | HD movie mode with stereo sound; mini HDMI output | | | Triple Image Stabilization; 'Super Intelligent' Flash | | | 3.0-inch High-Contrast Tilting LCD and Electronic View Finder |
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Product Description
Prevent capturing blurred photos so often caused by camera shake and subject movement with the HS10's highly effective Image Stabilization technology. By combining CMOS-shift and Digital Image Stabilization, the FinePix HS10 ensures that all your shots are sharp and clear even at the full zoom range.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 80
 I am not an expert, this is just an end user comment... September 5, 2010
E. Lam (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am not an expert and I use mostly auto, SRauto, adv1 and adv2 mode. After testing it few days and compare it with my Samsung i6 compact camera (yes, it is cheap and old), here is what I found. The raw mode produces excellent outdoor image but poor indoor image (I guess it needs a lot of light). The jpg is below average for outdoor and very below average for indoor; its jpg processing adds a lot of noise!!! I took the indoor pictures with windows open in day light and with flash on. All jpg pictures are soft (very soft). It should not happen to a company with so much experience in camera. It is like a Ferrari car with a bad driver. However, its marco mode is excellent. When zooming to max. (even to a small object), the result is above average too. My Samsung drops its IQ a lot when it zooms to its optical max. I guess if you want zooming and you don't mind soft pictures, this is the camera for you. Also if you don't mind to take raw pictures with 15MB each, it can be a very good camera for you. I hope the future firmware can improve the jpg processing (a lot).
If there is any setting I can try to improve the jpg processing on this camera, please advise. I am going to call Fujifilm later. Thanks.
good camera - but autofocus is messed up September 2, 2010
Waffle Lover (Washington, DC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bottom line - this is a GREAT camera, but the autofocus takes time and missed the mark often, which is very annoying and my biggest gripe with it.
I guess it isn't fair to complain about it too much, because I am taking pictures in low light where this is especially a problem and with other cameras I wouldn't be able to do this at all... it's still annoying though.
 The Best! September 1, 2010
azinn (The Sunshine State)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not a camera expert.............................. but its the best I've ever owned. Does everything I want it to do and does it well. After all is said and done this baby gets the job done. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. ;^)
This is NOT a DSLR, but it's pretty dang good August 31, 2010
A. McCullough (Carnegie, PA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've seen reviewers call this camera a mini-DSLR - it's not. It's a fixed-lens bridge camera with a small image sensor and a simply massive 30x OPTICAL zoom, period - there's no mirror to get out of the way as a DSLR would have nor interchangeable lenses. Now that the nomenclature is out of the way - it's a VERY GOOD bridge camera with excellent lens sharpness, vivid color reproduction and overall quite good image quality up to ISO 800 (which is very good for this category of camera). I've taken over 1400 hundred images with mine thus far, and have been extremely pleased with the unit overall. The image stabilization is surprisingly good (a necessity if you're fully racked out without a tripod!!) and I don't really have a quarrel with battery life, unlike many posters here; I've updated the camera with both firmware updates (one of which addressed the issue with the battery warning light coming on too soon) and I get about the same usage out of a set of Eneloops with this camera as I do with its predecessor, an Olympus Sp570UZ (also a very good bridge camera with a 20x zoom). Frankly I've never really counted the shots, but I did get something like 300+ images (many of which involved the onboard flash) in one afternoon's shoot before the battery light came on. You can usually get another 30-40 shots before the camera shuts down when that light kicks in.
What I like:
1) Obviously, the zoom. There are three focusing ranges - tele, macro, and supermacro, and if you find you can't focus in any of the modes you're probably out of the range for that mode. Simply switching modes can bring you into a decent focus area (although you may still have to "focus with your feet" a little bit depending on what you're shooting). The lens is pleasingly sharp throughout its range with well-controlled chromatic aberration - not a whole lot of "purple fringing" to be found here. I find the manual zoom to be quite smooth and easily controlled.
2) The control feature set. There are a number of mode presets or you can go fully manual where you choose the shutter and aperture - this is my preferred method but it has to be said that this camera's "auto" modes are pretty good. You have the full range of DSLR-style control modes - P, A, S, M along with quite a few varied scene modes (I was seriously impressed with the "fireworks" scene mode).
3). This lens is threaded - you can use 58mm filters easily. I use a circular polarizer frequently. It can even do some basic infrared photography with an inexpensive IR filter attached - it's not the best camera for that application but it is indeed capable.
4). Weight and handling. It's a fairly hefty camera (all that glass has to go somewhere) but it's well balanced and though I have small hands I have no problem with it. The battery well forms a nicely-shaped handgrip and the HS10 feels quite good to shoot.
5). Unlike a lot of reviewers, I LIKE the fact that the camera takes AA's - being able to run into the 7/11 and grab a set of alkalines has saved my bacon in the past with a couple of cameras when I've been too dense to recharge the spares!
6) Noise doesn't become a serious issue until you get past ISO 800; up to that point, most images are very good or at the most can be "tweaked" lightly with a quick run through of your favorite noise reduction software (I use Adobe Lightroom 3 which has FANTASTIC n/r).
7) The supermacro mode is excellent. You can get as close as one centimeter to your subject without any additional lenses. I have a Raynox DCR250 that I can use with this camera if I wish to get even closer, but out of the box the Fuji's macro range is impressive.
8) The onboard flash is actually quite good; this camera boasts an "Intelligent Flash" system which actually does reasonably well at controlling blowouts and makes for an excellent fill flash mode. There is a hot shoe as well - while there is no dedicated flash available for this model, one flash that can be used is the older Vivitar 2800D (NOTE THE "D"!!!) which is pretty easy to come by on eBay and works very well with this camera. Do NOT buy the 2800 Vivitar - its trigger voltage is too high, you'll fry the camera. Be sure to get the D designation.
9) Menus are intuitive and very complete - there's a setting for nearly everything you can think of including white balance adjustments.
The few things I don't like:
1) For a bridge camera that uses an LCD/EVF viewfinder system, it's not really a "live view"; what you see in the viewfinders isn't necessarily what your finished image will be. If you've severely underexposed it, for example, there's a "light meter" gauge in the bottom right of the screen that you'll need to train yourself to watch because the view you're looking at won't generally reflect the true scene as the camera will see it. Coming from a Panasonic FZ28 and an Olympus SP570, both of which DO show you what your image will look like, this took a while to get used to.
2) Come on, Fuji - a printed manual would be nice. What ships with the camera is essentially a pamphlet that doesn't even begin to cover the model's functions. I printed it out from the PDF on the CD and got it bound myself.
3) This camera's "low light" capability is a bit overrated, though that shouldn't be a surprise, given how much glass the light has to get through - for most indoor shots (especially if there's kids or pets) you will need that flash. The Pro Low Light mode works if there's no moving objects in the scene - it won't do you a bit of good if you're trying to photograph your child bouncing on the bed, for example.
Overall, this camera is a great model for learning how to shoot manually or just as a "grab it in Auto mode and start shooting". It's not perfect, but it's close enough for the type of shooting I do. I don't use it for video, nor do I shoot RAW, and I don't shoot action/sports venues, so I can't speak to its qualities in those areas.
Sophisticated technology for quality photography August 21, 2010
Eric Robert Morse
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a strictly amateur photographer, I got this camera in the hopes of adding a little artistry to my pictures. Thus far, I have been able to take advantage of some of its features, and am rather pleased with the product. The main drawbacks rest in its user interface.
Generally speaking, the controls are not very intuitive. This is coming from someone who has used primarily point-and-shoot cameras (Canon PowerShot SD890IS 10MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom). Those cameras are very intuitive and provide a pretty reasonable interface for a number of key functions. The FinePix has more functions, to be sure, and the way they are laid out is somewhat cumbersome.
Specifically, I have attempted to experiment with depth of field and have been rather unsuccessful. There are ways to adjust aperture and shutter speed on this camera, but this amateur has not been able to master these functions in at least a dozen uses. I have resorted to using automatic settings and manipulating depth of field through other means--not an expert technique, but it gets the job done.
With that being said, the automatic settings allow for a much higher quality on the FinePix than point-and-shoot cameras, and, when I have been able to attain the effects I wanted, the outcome has been great.
Other quirks with this camera include a PDF-only instruction manual (saves trees, but it would be handy to have in the field), and the use of AA batteries (for someone used to the simple plug in power supply of a point-and-shoot, this is fairly burdensome).
Otherwise, this is great piece of equipment, and I look forward to learning more about its powerful functions.
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