Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71907 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: FujiFilm
• Model: N076020a
• Released on: 2004-10-28
• Dimensions: 3.19" h x 4.44" w x 3.12" l, .66 pounds
• Display size: 1.5

Manufacturer's Description
The latest addition to the FinePix range of SLRstyled cameras, the S5500 Zoom features a 4 million effective pixel CCD and an awesome 10x optical zoom lens. The lens gives a 35mm equivalent range of 37370mm, more than enough scope for even the most demanding photographers.

Building on the success of the bestselling FinePix S5000 Zoom, the S5500 retains the ergonomic design and the easytouse functionality of its predecessor. The S5500 Zoom also adds full VGA movie recording at 30 frames per second, custom white balance control, histogram playback and 100% frame coverage; features you would normally expect from a highend digital camera. The professional look and feel to the S5500 Zoom is supported further with an average shutter lag time of approximately 0.05seconds, one of the quickest seen in this style of camera.

Created with ease of use and convenience in mind, the FinePix S5500 Zoom is powered by four AA size batteries or an AC power adapter and comes complete with a Video Out socket for reviewing images and movies on a compatible TV screen. The S5500 Zoom also adds PictBridge functionality, the industry standard for direct printing without the need for a PC or Mac.

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Customer Reviews

Arguably the best camera I've ever had
I've been into photography most of my life. I built my own darkroom when I was 14. I'm now 60 and I've owned Pentax, Fuji, Cannon and Olympus cameras. In terms of ease of use and results I have never come across a camera that is so trustworthy. The results are wonderful time after time. The manual settings allow me to go back to my youth if I so please and also to disagree with the auto' chip when I think that I know best.
I truly believe that this camera is so good it may well see me out. On at least three occasions it has compensated for my forgetting things like backlight and saved pictures that I could have lost completely. I would advise anyone to buy this camera.
If you know nothing about photography it will do everything for you. If you are, like me, a lifelong fan it will allow you to do all the things you did on SLR cameras with the luxury of fully auto. The speed of processing when a picture is taken is also very impressive and allowed me to snap away to my hearts content at my grandson's Easter show.
Buy this camers and you won't regret it, it really is in a class of its own.
Wonderful to use and very good looking as well, what more could you need ?

FinePix S5500
This is my first digital still camera. I saw my brother's S5000 and fell in love with it but by the time i could get one it had been superseded by the S5500. What can I say? I use an Olympus OM101 SLR as my other camera and this whacks the pants off it! I have a 256 card that allows me to shoot off as many pictures as I like before transferring to PC and editing/deleting. At 2M setting I managed 20 shots of the supplied 16m card so I'll be happy with the 256! The picture quality, the lens quality, the feel, looks and ease of use and all the tricks that come with it make it the best value camera I have ever bought. Do yourselves a favour - before you buy your first digital camera, get yourself off to a supplier and ask to try this one out. You'll not want to see any of the others in stock!
If you already have a camera - give it away as a gift to a loved one and treat yourself to an S5500. Don't worry about "red-eye" either... with this in your possession your subjects will have "green-eye"!!!

Dubious ? don't be......BUY IT !
Having used both conventional film SLR and compact digital Cameras, this camera beats them all. The 10x optical zoom is superb....I personally have found very little tendency for Photos taken at the maximum zoom to suffer from camera shake, the results tend to be sharp quality images almost every time.
Another plus in my estimation is the light weight of the camera,it is actually lighter than my Kodak 3x zoom compact digital, a real consideration if you are going to be carrying it around alot !
The build quality is very good, and the camera "feels right", with the main features being readily to hand.
Finally, I found the electronic viewfinder to be very useful, as it can be used to good effect when sunlight has cut down the visibility of the main screen, also, a real plus is that this view finder "looks" through the camera lens just like an SLR, so what you see is what you get on the photo.
There are enough features on this camera to keep the keenest enthusiast happy, conversely, it can be operated very simply if so desired.
Any criticisms ? the supplied memory card ( 16mb ) is too small, buy a 512mb card asap.