Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd aims high in its class of compacts. With good performance numbers in most shooting situations, its photos come out sharp and bright with very few compression artefacts. Plus, besides savvy silver, it comes in ravishing raspberry

Pros: Attractive design; decent photos shot at high ISO sensitivity levels

Cons: Flat, hard-to-feel buttons; lens too close to camera edge; doesn't zoom or refocus in movie mode

Verdict: The Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd is thin, pretty and reasonably fast, but exposure problems make it hard to recommend to its budget snapshooter audience

Review summary: Featuring a 6.3 megapixel Super CCD HR imager in place of the 5.1 megapixel sensor used in the previous Z3 model, the Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd retains the same Fujinon 3x optical zoom lens and much the same styling as its predecessor

Verdict: Another significant change in the Fuji FinePix Z5fd is the addition of the company's Face Detection function, first seen in the FinePix S6000fd model. Achieved with a dedicated LSI chip in the camera, the feature can detect up to 10 faces in the photo sim

Pros: Attractive design; decent photos shot at high ISO sensitivity levels.

Cons: Flat, hard-to-feel buttons; lens too close to camera edge; doesn't zoom or refocus in movie mode.

Verdict: It's thin, pretty, and reasonably fast, but exposure problems make the Fujifilm Z5fd hard to recommend to its budget snapshooter audience.

Pros: Useful advanced automatic features. Responsive operation. Sturdy build.

Cons: Noticeable artifacts in photos. Limited manual adjustments. Some frequently used functions aren't quickly accessible.

Verdict: An inexpensive pocket camera, the Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd shoots quickly and provides handy automatic features that improve your chances of getting a good shot. But image-processing artifacts mean that if you want to print your shots in a large format, this