FujiFilm FinePix S5100 Zoom

usability, price, design, portability, zoom

shutter, focus, flash

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, price, performance, portability, image quality

viewfinder, control panel, connectivity

86% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Affordable, compact and speedy. Takes bright, crisp, and well-exposed pictures. RAW support and an AF assist lamp.

Lacks important refinements, like antishake technology, a real-time histogram, and a hot shoe. Manual focus is inconvenient to use. Small (1.5-inch) LCD. Uses less common xD memory format. Charger and rechargeable batteries not included.

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High resolution, lots of detail, Sharp, bright F2.8-3.1 10x zoom lens, Low distortion, Excellent color rendition, Comprehensive photographic controls, Fast and responsive operation, Very reliable focus and exposure, Excellent handling, Well built,...

Minimum focus distance too long in normal mode, Small screen, Some exposure/dynamic range problems in high contrast/very bright scenes, No image stabilization, Occasional focus errors at long end of zoom in low light, Some vignetting at wider focal...

When we reviewed the S5500/5100's predecessor a year ago, Phil commented 'Throughout my time with the S5000 I was left wondering what would have been like had Fujifilm used a standard four or five megapixel CCD'.

With a street price of under $400 and a great deal of versatility, the FinePix S5100 offers a lot of value. Usable by every member of your family, it will produce high-quality images of everything from family events, objects for sale at online auctions, a

Design and handling are great, the lens offers plenty of scope and the colour screen is small but (almost) perfectly formed.

The EVF is poor and the camera eats alkaline AA batteries faster than a swarm of locusts.

The 5500's a pleasing little camera (bar the EVF) that rewards your efforts with nice shots. The AF is a tad slow for my liking and the lack of image stabilization means, at longer focal lengths, camera shake rears its ugly head; a tripod will be a...

The FujiFilm Finepix S5500 Zoom is a solid update of what was already a good digital camera, the 3 megapixel S5000. The new S5500 adds a number of improvements which although not crucial are still very welcome - these include ISO speeds of 64 and 100...

Very good image quality overall.Excellent colour rendition.Capable of very good long exposures.10X optical zoom.EVF viewfinder.Good ergonomics.

Limited choice of image size/quality settings.Compression a bit strong at the highest JPEG quality setting.No image stabilizer.No controls over RAW format images.

Good photo quality for the most part ; Stylish, mini-SLR design ; Full manual controls (though somewhat inflexible) ; AF-assist lamp ; Great redeye test performance ; Excellent movie mode ; Supports conversion lenses ; Great battery life ; RAW image...

Noticeable vignetting in images ; Noise levels a little above average ; Small LCD, low res EVF; both are hard to see in low light ; Poor macro test performance ; Manual focus feature poorly implemented ; Full shutter speed range only available in "M"...

Overall I recommend the S5100 as a good, low-cost ultra zoom camera. Do note that it doesn't have an image stabilizer, which comes in handy for those long telephoto shots, but few cameras in this category have that feature at this point.