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| Brand: FujiFilm
Category: CE
List Price: £309.65
Buy New: £134.99
You Save: £174.66 (56%)
New (8) Refurbished (1) from £117.15
Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 483
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Optical Zoom: 18
Display Size: 2.5
Maximum Focal Length: 84.2
Minimum Focal Length: 4.7
Maximum Resolution: 8
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
MPN: S8000fd
Model: S8000fd
UPC: 689076862479
EAN: 0689076862479
ASIN: B000UUHL2K
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 31
 Excellence from Fuji July 29, 2008
Mark Regan (Cumbria)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I only got this on saturday as a replacement for my brilliant but ageing Konica Minolta Z2 (4Mp 10X Optical zoom). The camera is fantastic, it feels weighty, solid and balanced, the grip is ideal and everything is within easy reach. On saturday night I took over 350 photos with this and over 500 in total at a Blues festival, in comparison to the Z2 this is a different class, the sheer ability of that huge 18x lens is wonderful, the image stabilisation works like a charm. I found that the photos taken on 'auto' were perfectly acceptable and, after talking to a professional photographer, manual setting were easy to set and produced outstanding results. The photos I took were taken in a dark tent, pointing into the stage lighting and most of them came of far better than expected. I love this camera for is solid easy to use style and that monster of a lens (yes size does matter) if you don't want to pay over the odds for a lower spec SLR buy this, in fact buy this anyway! To those who marked down as they recieved a faulty one, grow up! it happens. And to the persone who complained of excessive noise at full zoom I haven't noticed any but I didn't use the digital zoom on top which will cause a degradation of picture quality. Great camera, my first from Fuji and I think I will be sticking with them.
so veratile, so pleased July 16, 2008
Diane Gray (Edinburgh UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought one of these on semi impulse before a UK holiday and am so pleased I did. I have taken over 600 photos with it and very few disapoint - it coped with just about everything !! I have mainly done point and shoot - why mess with something that works so well ? I was an SLR user till about 5 years ago and this is my 3rd digital camera - all have been fuji so i am pretty conversant with the menu format,and have not actually looked in the booklet at all. br /Overall it is the best camera I have had - I particularly love the steadyness of images at long distance br / I enjoyed taking phots with ths more that I have for years - and that is just as well as the weather we had was awful, which just meant I could test the S8000 in a range of light situations.
 a non anorak view July 11, 2008
Anp Slevin
37 out of 38 found this review helpful
I rarely write reviews but having read some of the ones hear I felt I had to. If you buy equipment and its faulty then send it back, if it continues to be faulty then send it back, get a refund and buy something else, dont slag it off straight away. Also dont compare sparkling wine to champagne as this is unfair to those who relay on reviews to make their judgement. If you are that good at photography or that serious why the hell are you buying a camera that costs 150.00. For those of you who want an honest review - this is worth every penny. The zoom is very good, the menu like all new toys is fine once you have used it a few time, the functions such as stability work well. One point here, who uses an 18 x zoom to take serious photos without a tripod or stable base - mmmm. Even your best SLRs would quiver at that thought. Grainy pictures means the settings are wrong or the camera is faulty, or they are called mobile phones, 8mp cameras with good lens systems are not grainy and none of the pics I have taken indoors, outdoors and on full zoom have been so. br /In short if you want a camera that, as some have said, is the next step up from a compact then you cant go too far wrong with this one. If you want to take videos buy a video camera, if you want to choose between lens composition, raw and jpeg files and want full picture editing then buy an SLR. br /
finepix s8000fd June 16, 2008
R. Franklin (uk)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I've been using this camera since Christmas and have now clocked up around 3000 images, so I feel ready to give it a fair review. br / br /My previous camara was a 35mm Minolta SLR, for which i had 3 lenses and various filters. The s8000 would therefore have to provide clear and detailed images across the entire zoom range to keep me happy and, more importantly, keep my old 35mm back in the cupboard. br / br /Overall I am impressed by the quality of images i have taken - the majority are clear with detail that matches my old minolta. Photographs have good dynamic range and little picture noise. I do miss a few things about my old SLR - zooming using buttons just isn't the same as twisting the lens manually and it doesn't give the same level of control. However, you have to remember that this is a sub - 200 camera that is compact enough to fit in a shoulder bag and weighs less than just the lens alone of my old SLR (and has over twice the zoom range). br / br /I have taken plenty of sharp pictures at full zoom - many at low light but for serious photographs I use a tripod. Some reviewers have complained that they can't get sharp shots on full zoom. Well, at close to 500mm, you would have to spend many hundreds of pounds (think at least 500 for a lens) to get a top-quality result without a tripod. Image stabilisation can only go so far but it certainly helps and should always be kept on. br / br /My only gripes with this camera are 1) A maximum shutter speed of 4 seconds which is restrictively short, 2)no filter thread so you can't use filters, and 3) the quality of results in Auto mode is sub-standard - you need to take a little time and adjust the white balance (it doesn't take long, just make some simple adjustments in program mode). On 'auto' mode I found that most of my photos come out with a faint blue tinge to them - this can be removed in Photoshop, but switching to program mode is a far quicker remedy. br / br /I do miss the creativity and feel of an SLR, and I will eventually replace the S8000 with something like a Nikon D80. For now though, the S8000 is a more than satisfactory stop-gap and at this price I am really pleased with it and would definitely recommend it.
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