Evaluation:  
Conclusion: Not happy.
Review: I would love to like this camera and have kept it by my side for two weeks trying to find a "happy place" with it. Many valid points in the previous reviews. I am no professional. I just have way too many blurry shots that would have been clear with my previous camera. Returning item and will continue to research.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Dissappointed with Fuji S2000HD
Review: I purchased the S2000HD to replace my Fuji FinePix S5000. After firing over 130,000 pictures through the S5000, I thought purchasing another FinePix camera would bring the same or better results. This camera has let me down!
The S5000 shots at 6 megapixels with amazing clarity and color saturation. I have printed pictures up to 2' X 3' where you begin to notice the pixels. An 11" X 17" picture turns out sharp and crisp. When I read the specs about the S2000HD, I was excited to have picture quality with additional upgrades including a larger LCD screen, wide-angle lens, and faster `burst' picture mode for sporting events. But the results were offset by poor performance and even poorer customer service.
On Halloween I shot about 100 frames of `trick or treaters' at my door. About a dozen were clear enough to see details in their costumes. I shot on the automatic mode and almost created a traffic jam as the kids had to wait for the camera to focus, set, and flash. My old camera would perform this function in less than a second while the S2000HD thought about it for several seconds then produced a poor shot. I soon learned to forget trying the automatic setting and move on to one of the pre-set shooting modes.
I just returned from a cruise to the Caribbean and tried to find a `comfort level' with this unit, because like others I `wanted' to like this camera. After almost 2,000 pictures, I am here to report it did not happen.
Others have reported the view finder `whiting out' when viewing a bright scene, and it frustrated me! Any shot with a bright sun forced me to take the shot `blind' hoping to catch the scene and waiting for the picture review to see what I shot. The `BEACH' scene position produced washed out results of the beach (along with the automatic setting), but the `LANDSCAPE' setting produced great colors. But don't use this setting in a medium to low light setting. After down loading the pictures today, the good color results were wiped out by poor focusing.
The lens cap is a total joke. It doesn't stay on unless you keep it in a bag. After visiting the Turk Islands I was reviewing my pictures and noticed a blurred spot on the pictures. Somehow when the cap fell off I must have touched the lens and left a smudge mark thus ruining almost all the shots.
The topper is trying to contact Fujifilm to ask questions. I tried their website and found the typical preset question-answers did not address my concerns, and when I tried to complete a questionnaire/problem form, the response came back after hitting the send tab that the page could not be found. I tried their technical service hot line in New Jersey for 4 hours and was told on the answering message to call back during normal hours. I called from Seattle on a Tuesday from 8:00 AM to about 1:00 PM! I tried other location and actually reached a lady in Texas who put me through to a technician. The guy could barely speak English and after several minutes finally said the focusing may need to be adjusted and send it their New Jersey facility where they would take a look at it and get it back in a couple of weeks. I was leaving the next week on vacation!
The bottom line is if you haven't bought this camera....DON'T! I passed the 30 day return window for Amazon's return policy during my trip so I am STUCK with this thing. I could tell you about some good points about the camera, but it would be like me telling you everything wrong about your girl friend, but adding she cooks a great pot of chili.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: A Great Camera
Review: I received this camera as an early Christmas present. The Digital Zoom is great, and the pictures turn out clear and sharp. There are so many programed and manual settings that this camera is great for seasoned and beginning photographers. The Ten Megapixels make cropping easy. This camera has exceeded all of my expectations.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Love it!
Review: I love this camera, the price has gone down since I bought it and I am amazed at all the features. Go for it, for the money you can't go wrong. Still looking for the HDMI cable to watch photo's thru HD TV. Haven't spent much time looking tho. Pics look great with the cables supplied till I do find them.
Evaluation:
Conclusion: Enjoying my camera
Review: So far so good with this camera. I'm still learning about it. Colors are vibrant & I have taken some pretty amazing shots with it. As mentioned in another review there are sometimes purple smears on the LCD screen when the camera is pointed at a very bright light. I don't know where he got his info that this is a camera defect but I looked this up on Fuji's website and here is what it said:
When composing an image, vertical stripes appear on the viewfinder and LCD screen. However the vertical stripes are not displayed on the played back image or downloaded image on the PC.
This symptom (CCD smear) is not a camera defect. When the camera receives strong incident light on focal plane, the image signal temporally over flows internally inside the image capture device (CCD), and appear as vertical lines.
However when the shutter is released, the amount of the light coming into the image capture device is controlled by the aperture and shutter speed; Therefore the recorded image does not show vertical stripes. This problem is usually noticeable during framing or movie mode.
So, apparently this is not a defect. I can attest to the fact that nothing shows up on the actual picture.
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