Fujifilm FinePix Z90 Digital Camera - Blue (14MP, 5x Optical Zoom) 3 inch LCD

Fujifilm FinePix Z90 Digital Camera - Black (14MP, 5x Optical Zoom) 3 inch LCD
This camera is all I require, very easy to operate and gives a clear picture. The ease with which you you record video is so quick and simple and all options are clear to understand. A great little compact camera.I have given a link to the camera but admit the one I chose was silver but I do not think colour affects performance.

I got this camera as I had a panasonic Lumix which was getting a bit long in the tooth and this one came on sale and seemed to have updated features that my Lumix didn't have.

Firstly its sits nicely in my hand although I find sometimes that my finger will often get in the way off the shot, so I have to watch that.

The people who have been suffering with blurry photos. Well I did too have this problem to begin with, and then I realised that I didn't have it set to fine in the settings, so even though I had it set at the full pixels it was still taken a lower grade picture.

Also its worth noting that the SR auto scene recognition function, while at first seems a good idea, actually fails quite miserably. It certainly seems to select some scenes accurately but then it goes on to take an awful picture. Pictures too orange/blurry/colours odd. I have two of these camera's so its not down to a camera anomaly this seems to go in the range. When I swapped to just plain auto, the camera does well with this and all my pictures have been crystal clear and the colours are awesome, so much so that actually my editing pictures has been reduced quite dramatically, and I love how the camera corrects the red eye on the camera itself. Again cutting down on my editing time.

I really like the Touch and shoot mode, this is great for when you want to take a focal shot, it changes the aperture so that the focus is central, to the object you have set, and has produced some quite dramatic shots. I wasn't that impressed with the touch and track, except for portrait shots. The panorama mode is really fun to use, I actually took quite a dramatic shot of my living room using this, I am often found tinkering with this mode lol. Scene position is pretty good for most of its scenes, although i found sports to be sadly lacking, but then I am used to the speed of my DSLR. The natural flash is good if you want to save the time of framing a shot twice, giving you the best of two to choose from.

The HD video does quite well, its not as good as my panasonic in the day, although its only a small difference, but much better at night. Seems to cope with low light really well. Much better than my panasonic.

I agree about the screen turning on, I haven't read the instructions so that could just simply be in the settings maybe? But I just bought a hard case to keep it in my bag to avoid the problem.

Conclusion: For the price your paying its a good little camera, you don't often find a camera of this spec with a lithium battery. Its got good function, it lets itself down a little on the SR mode, but all in all I am pleased with it. I think it is good value for money.

I have had this camera about 3 weeks and used it about 3 times for nights out/meeting the new nephew etc etc. I read all the reviews and thought that as I only wanted a "snap and go" style camera that this would be a good camera for me despite the mixed reviews...

The good stuff is:
1) it's small,
2) light,
3) fun/nice colour
4) competitively priced against other similar spec compacts (I bought it when reduced to £80 from £150).
5) Also a nice big screen and easy on/off function with slide screen.

Now for the Bad bits!!(unfortunately these far outweigh the good, for me, even though there are less of them!)

1) Most of my pictures are coming out blurry - especially with no flash.
2) Its turns itself on and off in my bag and sometimes the screen on the back is on, even when it's the shutter slide is closed so the camera should be completely off - if that makes sense...?
3) Battery life is bad - perhaps due to the above? - but either way its a flaw. About "an evening and a bit" of photo taking can be done and then the battery dies.
4) It is dissapointingly slow to actually take the photo.

Essentially Fujifilm has not ticked my main 3 boxes which are 1) sharp pics, 2) quick photos 3) decent battery life. Which is all I want from a compact camera! not much to ask for nearly £100 is it!?

really dissapointed really. Prob make a good first camera for adolescent age group (?) but I would have expected more for the price and the from this brand. My last camera was a Sony Cybershot but only spent about £100 on it so its a similar value to this - that camera fell apart after a year of hard usage - however I just really enjoyed using it and the quality of the photos regularly impressed me right to the end. I just cant say the same here. It has potential, but that wont get back those pics it missed because it was too slow to respond or it blurred out peoples faces.