Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7503 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: FujiFilm
• Model: Fujifilm FinePix Z20fd, Black
• Released on: 2008-04-01
• Dimensions: 2.22" h x 3.59" w x .74" l, .24 pounds
• Display size: 2.5

Manufacturer's Description

  United Kingdom

The colourful, feature-packed compact camera. The FinePix Z20fd comes in five mesmerising colours – Ice Blue, Panther Black, Tropical Green, Champagne Pink and Diablo Red. This stylish new 10 megapixel ultra-compact digital camera is packed with technological marvels. It features a Fujinon 3x optical zoom lens, 2.5" LCD screen, and a new MPEG-4 movie-recording mode, so creating and sharing videos and images has never been so easy. All this and it is small enough to slip into your handbag or pocket with ease.

At a glance

10 megapixel CCD Sensor

Fujinon 3x non-extending optical zoom lens

MPEG-4 movie recording mode

Hi-resolution 2.5" LCD screen

Face Detection with Red-eye removal

Picture Stabilisation

Fast wireless transfer, dual Blog mode

14 scene modes

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FinePix Z20fd Features and Benefits

The pocketable 3x optical zoom camera

For portability, the Z20fd features internal lenses to zoom, rather than extending from the camera body. This maintains the slimline proportions so popular in Fujifilm's Z series cameras. Despite its compact size, there are no compromises with optical clarity and speed of operation. The lens is robust, reliable, and delivers sharp pictures every time.

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In a snap

The camera controls have also been designed with you in mind. The menus are accessed by two circular rocker buttons, while the GUI (graphical user interface) is clear, easy to use and allows super-fast access to the camera's many features.

The FinePix Z20fd also features new ‘dual shutter releases’ which means that at the touch of a button you are ready to take still shots, and with the touch of another you are instantly ready to capture a movie. This together with the Z20fd’s advanced movie capture capabilities means you’ll never miss a precious moment again.

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Easy to use movie capture and editing

The FinePix Z20fd's impressive new full motion MPEG-4 video mode makes capturing and sharing internet-friendly video clips easier than ever - with a single press of the movie capture button!

In addition, you can edit and join movies together inside the camera to create up to 60 second compilations.  This combined with Fujifilm's technology to reduce image blur caused by camera shake or low-light conditions means your movies will look better than ever. This just leaves you ready to upload to your favourite websites!

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Big screen viewing

For viewing your pictures or sharing with friends, the Z20fd has a superb  2.5" LCD screen with a resolution of 230,000 pixels, you can't get much better.  Sensing ambient light, the LCD automatically adjusts brightness for optimum viewing indoors or outdoors.

Unlike some inferior cameras, the LCD is protected by a scratch resistant coating, so even in your pocket the screen has its own protection. And for showing off to friends, it even allows you to navigate up to 100 thumbnail images on screen at the same time.

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Ultra-fast Face Detection with red eye removal

Featuring Fujifilm's acclaimed ultra-fast Face Detection technology, which will seek out faces in the darkness of a party to give perfectly focused and exposed pictures every time and instantly finds and corrects any red eye from every face in the frame.

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Get the perfect photo - even with flash

Fujifilm’s Intelligent Flash system detects subtle lighting differences within a scene, and then varies the flash intensity accordingly. It also uses the high sensitivity of the FinePix Z20fd to enable the camera to use less flash, preventing that "blasted with light" effect.

In addition, the Natural Light & Flash mode takes two photos in quick succession, one with flash and one without. Both photos are then displayed side by side for quick comparison so that you can decide which one to keep.

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No more blurry pictures

You will instantly appreciate the benefits of Fujifilm's Super CCD sensor. The increased surface area means it is far more sensitive to light, with faster shutter speeds to reduce image blur and reduce the need for flash in low light.

The Picture Stabilisation mode on the Z20fd uses high sensitivity (up to 1600 ISO) to help reduce camera shake, freeze subject movement and improve low-light background detail to deliver virtually blur free images.

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A mode for every occasion

No matter what the event or where you travel, your Finepix Z20fd is ready with 14 easy–to–select modes bringing you a simple point-and-shoot camera with the ideal automatic settings for key features such as shutter speed and exposure. The 14 scene modes include Party, Beach, Portrait, Snow and Night modes.

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Photo sharing made simple

There's no fun in taking pictures if you can't share them, and the FinePix Z20fd makes it easier than ever with fast, easy wireless transfer of images between cameras using IrSimple™.

For users wanting to share their creative output with a wider audience, the FinePix Z20fd's new Dual Blog mode automatically resizes any still image or movie you've captured, letting you post pictures and videos to websites or e-mail to friends with ease.

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Customer Reviews

Recommended
This is a truly exellent camera for eveyday use. It is a superb size, slips easily into your pocket and it ready to use straight away when opened. Something that worried me when I was searching for a camera was that this one only has 3X optical zoom. I did find however that 3X zoom was enough, otherwise you certianalty need a stand or something to balance it on.

If you are looking to become a professional photographer, don't buy this, but otherwise if you want to take great pictures at partys etc, this will be a great buy for you.

Fantastic Camera
What a fantastic little package this is. The setup took a bit of "playing" with to get it to take the photo's I was doing most of, baby shots. But once done it is top notch.

It's fast, ready before I am, it focusses quickly even taking photo's of the baby on a swing, and it's as sharp as a needle. Red eye reduction is the best I've seen and in the main fading from the flash is not a problem, although it can some times get carried away.

For such a small package, and at a relatively cheap price, this is unbeatable.

This Fu-Gee-Film is killing me softy...
Cameras these days seem to have a year or so lifespan then they die on you. I've been through four digi-cams now, each time they get a little bit slimmer, have a little larger screen and more megapixels.

In my case I started with a modest 1 million pixeler about the size of a club sandwich too big for your pocket and screen the size of a stamp. In the Fuji's case it's pocketsize.
Second off I had a Casio, 2 mega-pixel, this time designed on a packet of cigarettes, theory was if you could carry a pack of them, you could carry that. Great, however it had a lens that came out when you turned it on which was fine until I took it to the beach and sand got into the mechanism grinding it to a halt. Again in this one's case, lens `n' zoom is internal so that eliminates the danger of it breaking on that bikini shot.
Thirdly I had a small Konica, internally zooming, 2 inch screen, and doubled my pixelage again to 5 mil. Worked great, but again died young at about 18 months so I found myself buying this.

On paper it seems like I'd be getting another upgrade: bigger screen at 2.5 inches, slimmer frame, yet again twice as many pixels at a whopping 10 million and the slidey on-off that I love. Trouble is 3 out of 4 shots I take with this produce terrible images. Now I'm not an expert by a long shot, but I have taken a few hundred thousand photos on these pocket cameras in most conditions and it seems that unless you are in broad daylight, with no glare behind you you'll get a blurry or over exposed shot.

Good points are as above really, it's compact, huge screen, point and shoot, pocket size and good battery life.
But maybe have a play first. It seems it flashes even if you're taking a picture of the sun which has a tendency to make people look like ghosts, and if you remove the flash you'd better have a hand as steady as a miniature ship-in-a-bottle maker because otherwise you'll get blurrrrs everrrrry tiiimme.

There are plenty of modes from action, to party, to beach etc, but if I'm honest they are all the same, i.e. flash.

-Oh, there is one good mode called `auction shot' where you can take multiple shots in one image (in quarters) for eBay and stuff...unfortunately you cant take photos of the camera itself otherwise that's where mine would be....