Fujifilm FinePix S5100 Reviews

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Reviewed by:

thedill
( Intermediate)

Review Date
February 17, 2010

Overall Rating
3 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

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5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Review 1 of 5

Price Paid: $200.00 from Purely Gadgets

Summary:

I purchased this camera for my daughter as she is learning photography at school. It's a neat compact little camera resembling a DSLR. The zoom lens is fixed to the body and is not interchangeable. There is no filter thread on it so you can't attach a protective filter which was disappointing. The build quality is good considering the price. After 5 months of light usage it developed a fault. Horizontal purple lines appeared across the viewing screen and the resulting prints. It was returned to the supplier who said the cost of repair exceeded the current value of the camera and I was offered a replacement which should be arriving within the next few days.

Strengths:

Small and compact
Good image quality

Weaknesses:

Reliability????

Customer Service:

Good

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Reviewed by:

earthwaterwindfire
( Beginner)

Review Date
July 22, 2005

Overall Rating
5 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Review 2 of 5

Price Paid: $350.00 from PhotoGal -Haifa

Summary:

A great camera for this price. Can be used as Point and Shut or Beginner (A, M, S, P Modes) with a lot of features

Strengths:

- Zoom - Very user friedly camera (very easy to chage between modes and settings - Rigth weight - Tele (1.5x) and Wide (0.29) extensions

Weaknesses:

Small CRT Focus in Macro

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Reviewed by:

jlpryan
( Intermediate)

Review Date
March 15, 2005

Overall Rating
5 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
2 votes

Review 3 of 5

Price Paid: $399.00 from Ritz Photo

Summary:

Great camera for sporting events, fast focus and great zoom.

Strengths:

Lots of features, easy to use.

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Reviewed by:

jar_e
( Casual)

Review Date
February 2, 2005

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
5 votes

Review 4 of 5

Price Paid: $540.00 from Audiotronic

Summary:

Great little camera for a relatively great price. I was stuck between the S5100 and the Canon S1 IS, but I chose this and I'm glad I did. With such a great zoom and awesome manual settings, it's quite the camera.

Strengths:

-Very crisp, 10X lens with options to put screw on lens ons -Great 4MP with CCD -Excellent Movie mode (30 fps)

Weaknesses:

-Very limited, hard to adjust Macro -RAW is limited -Lack of lenses available

Similar Products Used:

Nothing similar used, but I have tried a Canon S1 IS, and I greatly choose the S5100 over the Canon.

Customer Service:

None needed.

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Reviewed by:

drz01
( Intermediate)

Review Date
November 23, 2004

Overall Rating
5 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
3.83 of 5,
23 votes

Review 5 of 5

Price Paid: $455.00 from Canada Computers

Summary:

Great Zoom with fast focousing.

Strengths:

This little baby has a 10x zoom to get you close to the action. It focouses very quickly. It can be used as a point and shoot for the amature or in full manual mode for the more advanced user. The pictures are colour perfect without much noise. comes with a lense extender for ad-on lenses. Its movie mode is above average. It uses AA batteries so if your rechargables (NiMH) run out you can pick up alkaline batteries in a pinch.

Weaknesses:

The memory cards only come up to 512k. Raw converter limited

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