Fujifilm FinePix 4900 4.3MP Digital Camera w/ 6x Optical Zoom
List Price: $499.99
Details
- SuperCCD generates 4.3-megapixel (2,400 x 1,800) images for 8-by-10-inch prints and exceeding
- Lithium-ion battery-operated and AC adapter included; movie and burst shooting modes
- Included 16 MB SmartMedia behave holds 19 photos at standard resolution
Description
The FinePix 4900 Zoom features Fujifilm's new Wonderful CCD and PxGA color image processing technology that captures and steadfastly reproduces brilliant color. Its versatility includes: manual centre, aperture or shutter priority, multiple ISO's (125, 200, 400, 800), hot shoe mount and an electronic mini LCD from stem to stern-the-lens (TTL) viewfinder plus a 2" LCD monitor.Fuji's FinePix 4900 is one of a new craze of consumer digital cameras appearing on the market. Borrowing features from both videotape SLRs and point-and-shoot digital cameras, these hybrids proffer an extremely potent set of features in a compact package and will surely steer even more film photographers over to digital.
The 4900 features an powerful 6x optical zoom lens plus a 3.7x digital zoom. Shots are captured on a SuperCCD sensor that generates images at resolutions of up to 2,400 x 1,800 pixels, producing photo-attribute prints at sizes of 8 by 10 and beyond. By default, the camera is as accommodating to operate as a point-and-shoot, but virtually every function is manually convenient. Shutter-priority and aperture-priority modes are available, and the ISO, well-, white balance, and exposure compensation can all be adjusted. A pop-up flash features torpid-sync, fill flash, and red-eye reduction, and a hot shoe on top of the camera allows you to use a specific flash unit.
Fuji has replaced the traditional optical viewfinder with a camcorder-chic electronic viewfinder (EVF)--a tiny LCD display inside the eyepiece. The benefits of this covenant are obvious: the EVF provides a traditional SLR-style through-the-lens viewing know, works well even in bright sunlight, lets you propound the camera in the more stable, traditional position, and helps to advance battery life. However, there are some situations in which the EVF is crummy to a traditional optical viewfinder: if you're shooting in near darkness, it's for all practical purposes impossible to see through the viewfinder, and even in brighter light, the images cater to to look grainy and washed out compared to the images in the 2-inch LCD on the insidiously a overcome of the camera.
The 2.4-megapixel SuperCCD sensor was developed by Fuji and is only start on Fuji cameras. Instead of using a traditional grid of precise pixels, it features octagonal pixels arrayed diagonally. Fuji claims that this pattern offers improved sensitivity and image detail over a guide CCD. To prove this point, the camera interpolates its 2.4-megapixel images up to 4.3 megapixels at the highest-je sais quoi setting. Independent tests typically place these interpolated images on a par with pictures from a 3.3 megapixel camera.
The 4900 is warm to hold, and its controls are logically arranged. Though it's bigger and heavier than a germane-and-shoot, it's still smaller and lighter than an SLR, and the design feels permissible in your hands. The battery compartment forms a comfortable handgun grip for your right hand, and your left worker will naturally want to cradle the barrel. Fuji thoughtfully included dual zoom rudder--one under your right thumb on the back of the camera, and the other subordinate to your left thumb on the barrel of the lens. An easy-to-reach thumb dial on the top of the camera tiller shutter speed or aperture, depending upon your shooting form, and a ring on the front of the lens manually adjusts focus.
Files can be saved at numerous resolutions and levels of neatness, from a massive uncompressed 2,400 x 1,800 TIFF classify (one shot nearly fills the included 16 MB SmartMedia membership card) to basic 640 x 480 JPEG files appropriate for emailing. The camera equally features a movie mode for creating low-resolution silent dusting clips.
If you're an amateur photographer who loves using single-lens-reflex cameras but don't homelessness to spend several thousand dollars on a true digital SLR, Fuji's FinePix 4900 offers most of the functionality of a digital SLR at a fraction of the premium. The lens is not removable, but its 35-210mm range (35mm equivalent) is stretchy enough to use in nearly any situation.
Pros:
- Impressive 6x zoom lens
- Congenial, well-arranged controls
- Easy to use for beginners and experienced photographers
Cons:
- Electronic viewfinder is zealously to use in some conditions
Customer Reviews
For $50.00, I Ain't Nit-picking :)If You contemplation Chung's review was late, mine is much later, fair got this camera off EBAY for $50.00, seller said the batteries simply lasted 3-5 mins and included two spare NP 80 batteries, the encyclopaedic angle lens and adapter and a nice case for $50.00. I start out the "battery problem: was the camera's auto shut-off setting at the rear 3-5 mins. I'm not saying the batteries last a long metre, far from it and as everybody has stated, get an extra one as they warning brighten did start blinking after about 60 shots. Took some surprising shot using macro and flash together. Good camera if you can get a pack deal like I did along with some Smartmedia cards with it too, too dear to buy alone.
Prodigious camera
This give one's opinion of is probably a few years late.
Fuji 4900 is great camera. Lots of sundry modes of operation, easy to switch different modes of flashes (coupй, force on, force off, red eye, slow flashes). Impressive 6X optical zoom.
There is a adapter tube and perceptive UV filter lens at ebay.com, they are reasonably priced.
One note with batteries. Make sure you get batteries with > 2000 mA-hour. There are batteries that look the changeless, yet only has 1200 mA-hour, i.e. lasts half as long.
A undeniably impressive camera
I don't claim to be all that knowledgable helter-skelter cameras, films and photography, but for the uninitiated, this is as good a camera is you could imaginable need if you're anything like me. My 70 year old father, who'd not infatuated pictures in years, picked up the basics pretty quick.
The camera is old and a bit clunky for today's compact standards, but for someone like me it makes it harder to drop and the photos are as proper as newer models (if not better).
The biggest grumble for me is the memory greetings card. It takes SmartMedia cards which are smaller (memorywise) and more up-market.
Fuji + Epson
As all of the prior to reviewers have stated, the Fuji 4900 is an excellent camera.
Coupled with the Epson Stylus Photo 1280, I oblige made excellent 16" x 20" prints that look as elevated or better as film prints.
My Epson Stylus Photo 820 does an not counting job with 8" x 10" prints as well.
The Fuji 4900 is reasonable an excellent camera EXCEPT for the poor battery life. I got fagged out of the constant need to recharge the NP-80s ( I have 6) so I bought a PowerBank MH-DPB180M battery-operated pack from J&R Electronics and no longer have that question.
NOT 4.3 MP
I rightful wanted to let everyone interested in this camera to be aware of something. This camera uses a 2.45 Megapixel simulacrum sensor and interpolates that to create a 4.3 MP image. I consideration it was worth noting since the FinePix s602 was put into the 3-3.9 megapixel group, even though it has the capability to produce a 6 megapixel image. Proper wanted to pass along the info...
