Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD 10MP Digital Camera with 15x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom

by Fuji

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6.9 x 4.7 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001D0G56E
• Item model number: S2000HD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,949 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 12, 2008

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Manufacturer's Description

The FinePix S2000HD is a compact and lightweight 10-megapixel camera with an incredible 15x optical zoom lens and HD movie recording/output. The FinePix S2000HD is the first Fujifilm model to offer full compatibility with HDTV systems for both stills and movies. In addition to true HD movies (at 1280 x 720 pixels) and widescreen stills (at 1920 x 1080), the FinePix S2000HD's HD output allows the camera to display ultra-clear high-definition photographs and movies on an HDTV. An optional remote control makes viewing easier than ever. The S2000HD also features Fujifilm's unique Face Detection technology that automatically recognizes up to 10 faces in a frame and adjusts focus and exposure, while also removing red-eye in camera. Other key S2000HD features include continuous shooting up to 13.5 frames per second at 3MP, Dual Image Stabilization for blur-free images, and extensive photographic control including 13 scene position settings.

FujiFilm FinePix S2000HD Highlights

Wide-angle to zoom, hassle-free
The high-quality Fujinon lens is engineered to perform at focal lengths from expansive wide-angle 27.6mm to dynamic 414mm zoom. That means the palm-sized FinePix S2000HD is always ready to shoot any scenario, with no need to stop and exchange bulky lenses.

10-megapixel resolution
The 10-megapixel CCD sensor produces crisp, clear, vivid pictures, perfect for big-screen display or enlarged printing.

Dual Image Stabilization in action

Dual IS(Image Stabilization)Mode
Dual IS (Image Stabilization) Mode combines CCD shift image stabilization and high sensitivity to minimize the effects of camera shake and subject blur, for crisp stop-action photos with great background detail, even when shooting at the maximum range of the zoom.

High Sensitivity
Offering maximum sensitivity of ISO 6400*, the FinePix S2000HD gives you the option of shooting without flash, even in limited lighting.
_{*At ISO 3200/6400 resolution is limited to 5 megapixels. Full resolution (10.0 megapixels) is available up to and including ISO 1600.}

Intelligent Flash
Intelligent Flash automatically calculates subject position, distance, and brightness of the scene, instantly adjusting ISO sensitivity and flash output to ensure optimum exposure of the subject and clear background detail.

Natural Light & with Flash
opt for Natural Light & with Flash mode, which takes the same photo in rapid succession with flash and without, at a single press of the shutter. Afterward, the two shots can be displayed side-by-side for selection.

15x optical zoom
The high-quality Fujinon lens incorporates 15x optical zoom capabilities, producing extremely crisp and sharp zoom photos that capture all the subtle expressions and details of those important scenes.

Super Macro
Super Macro mode lets you focus as close as 1cm (0.4 inches), for startlingly crisp and clear full-frame close-ups of flowers, insects and other small subjects.

Instant Zoom
This function was conceived to help capture moving subjects at high zoom settings. A selectable frame within the LCD screen makes it easy to track your subject within a standard viewfinder scene, while capturing and saving only the enlarged framed area of the image.

Face Detection helps deliver dynamic portraits

Face Detection & Automatic Red-Eye Removal
Face Detection instantly identifies faces and optimizes focus and exposure, ensuring attractive people pictures every time. Selectable red-eye removal automatically detects and corrects red-eye reflections, ensuring beautiful flash portraits and party pictures.

Zoom Bracketing
A single press of the shutter takes three shots at sequential rates of high zoom magnification. The original image, a 1.4x zoom image, and a 2x zoom image are all recorded to the memory card for later viewing and selection.

Continuous shooting at high-speed 13.5fps, up to 33 Frames
A high-speed continuous shooting mode is great for tracking moving subjects, and capturing split-second thrills of sports and other active scenes.

Continuous shots preview
This handy playback function saves you having to play back each frame individually by showing a high-speed preview of images captured in continuous shooting mode. The frame-in-frame playback functions like a flip-book animation view to mimic a video sequence.

High-Speed Playback
The High-Speed Preview function expedites image retrieval by allowing you to scroll through the entire contents of your memory card at a speed of approx. 10 frames per second.

Big, bright 2.7-inch LCD display
The big, high-resolution LCD is coated with Wide View film, offering an expanded viewing angle for effortless selecting and viewing of results.

Micro Thumbnail View
Up to 100 photos are displayed simultaneously on the high-resolution LCD in 10 x 10 array, for instant selection of photos to view or print.

Versatile shooting modes
In addition to a selection of re-programmed shooting modes, the FinePix S2000HD offers a range of versatile scene position settings to ensure optimum results in any photo situation.

HD-compatible Functions

HDTV-compatible photos & video
Discover the impact of full-screen high-definition TV display of photos and movies. The FinePix S2000HD lets you view high-definition images on your wide-screen HDTV. Able to capture both photos and movies in high-definition 16:9 format, it gives you images suitable for full, wide-screen display. You'll be surprised at how great those high-quality FinePix photos and movies look on TV.

HD Framing Guide
A convenient HD Framing Guide is displayed on the LCD screen/EVF, to help you ensure that all the image elements are also contained in the HD-compatible 16:9 image. This Guide lets you shoot standard-size images for photo printing, while keeping all the important elements within the HDTV image ratio too.

Convenient playback
New selectable playback features let you sort still photos, continuous sequences, and movies, according to how they were shot, making it easier than ever to search for a specific sequence or image. Ten frames-per-second full-screen high-speed playback and 100 frames-at-a-glance micro thumbnail display also help you find your favorite image quickly and effortlessly.

Optional HDTV connection kit
Optional HD-S2 HDTV connection kit contains a cable and a remote control, making it easy to select and view high-quality FinePix images on your TV screen.

Product Description

Ps3) Fuji Finepix S2000Hd Digital

Customer Reviews

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69 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very cute, but maddening to use at times, October 6, 2008

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J.K. (self-confessed mac & pc geek) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD 10MP Digital Camera with 15x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom (Electronics)

Finepix S2000HD review:

After two weeks of hands-on work with this camera, I've concluded it's very cute and does many things well but it can be frustrating to use.

What it does well:

* In good light, it takes photos and high definition video which are sharp and have good color saturation.

* The tiny flash is surprisingly powerful, even when lighting a fairly large room.

* It offers a wide range of image sizes and formats (ie., 16:9, 3:2, etc.)

* It takes excellent close-up photos of flowers, insects, etc.

* It has some interesting and useful features including high speed (33 fps) photography at 3MP, red-eye reduction, etc.

* It's extremly cute (like a baby dSLR) and easy to carry around.

Why it's maddening:

* The electronic viewfinder (EVF) functions like a traditional optical viewfinder. When using the EVF, however, you must continue looking through it to see the image you just shot as the latter doesn't appear on the camera's main viewscreen after you take it. The logic is you only use the EVF when it's too bright to see the main viewscreen, however, I'd like to be able to use the EVF to save on batteries and use the main viewscreen to confirm my photos after each shot.

* The camera menus are frustratingly inconsistent between different camera modes. For example, some modes allow you to change the ISO while other modes allow only "auto" ISO. The auto-only option should ONLY be on the auto mode.

* Setting the shutter speed and aperature isn't entirely intuitive. To increase the shutter speed, for example, you have to push the down arrow button. I know, push down to admit less light, but I don't think that way when shooting. If I want a faster shutter speed, I should be pushing the up arrow button.

* When setting aperature, you're only given a choice of two aperature settings (f3.5 and f7 when on wide angle, for example). If I'm adjusting the aperature, I'd like to set it to any setting I desire, not just two.

* The macro and super-macro modes require separate button clicks to activate and deactivate. In the field, this quickly gets annoying, especially when similar video closeups don't require the same adjustments. If closeups work when shooting video, they should also work with still photos.

* No threads for lens filters. I have a skylight 1A filter on all of my SLRs and dSLRs. With a little camera like this one, I'd like it to have the same protection for its lens.

* No battery level indicator until the batteries are almost entirely drained.

* The full camera manual is a PDF on CD. For a camera that definitely requires you to read the manual to get reasonably comfortable (or at least minimally frustrated) with it, a printed full manual is a must-have.

What's unacceptable:

* When shooting toward the sun (not necessarily directly at it, but with the sun at your face), the viewfinder image takes on a strong bluish tinge which is distracting. The photos themselves are fine, but forget trying to judge color accuracy when looking through what looks like a clear, blue shower curtain.

* The "blue shower curtain" effect IS a problem on your final result when shooting lower resolution video (620x480 or 320x240). Face toward a major light source such as the open sky and your low-rez videos will have a noticeable blue curtain "falling" down the screen at those bright spots.

* Ridiculously short battery life. I like using AA batteries and have two Pentax dSLRs in which battery life isn't an issue. Why this little camera goes through AAs like popcorn is an engineering problem IMHO.

* Zooming while shooting video sounds like a zipper zipping and unzipping on the audio. When shooting, plan on editing out any zoom-transitions you have in your video later.

Bottom line: I *want* to like this camera, but it's annoying enough that I haven't fallen in love with it. Hopefully many of the issues above can be addressed with a software update. The hardware issues, however, make the camera feel like it's still not ready for prime-time.

76 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice high resolution prosumer digicam with 720p HD video, optical zoom, and AA batteries, September 21, 2008

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DarthRad (United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD 10MP Digital Camera with 15x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom (Electronics)

I was looking for a "prosumer" priced and sized camera with the following features:

1. Uses non-proprietary batteries (this one uses 4 AA batteries)
2. Capable of optical zoom during video recording (this camera does that, but see below)
3. Capable of digital zoom during video recording (this camera does 5.7x digital zoom - if you turn on the digital zoom feature, you can optically zoom before starting the video record, and then zoom digitally another 5.7x from that point forward - optical zoom does not work during the video if digital zoom is turned on)
4. Long zoom (15x - lens range is equivalent to 27.6mm - 414mm on a 35mm camera)
5. HD video mode (1280 x 720 videos, also does regular 640 x 480 and 320 x 240 videos).

Although this camera does do optical zooming during video recording, there are some downsides to this feature. You can hear the little gear motors running during the zoom (I've posted a YouTube video so you can hear the sound - it's audible but not super loud). The focusing in room lighting at maximum zoom is not very accurate. There is no macro mode during video zooming.

The digital image stabilization works well at low zoom, but not as well at high zoom during video recording as it does for still photos (the digital image stabilization works better in stronger light than room lighting, and so this is probably related to the low light focusing problems at high zoom).

At 1280 x 720 resolution, each continuous video recording can only last for about 15 minutes (takes up 848MB-884MB with the MP4 compression).

As for the rest of the camera:

The digital image stabilization works very well for still photos.

The mono audio is pretty good, much better than what has been posted about an equivalent series of Panasonic cameras.

Like all digicams, this one drains alkaline AA batteries quickly (it comes with a set of four alkaline AAs) - use NimH batteries!

The lens comes with a lens cap which is a bit loose. Fortunately there is a strap to attach the cap to the camera. The lens itself does not allow for any lens filter attachments.

Manual mode allows for two aperture settings (f3.5-5.4 to f7-10.8 depending on zoom setting) and speeds from 1/1000 sec to 4s. There is a nice histogram and exposure meter that lets you know how the exposure will turn out (although in my camera, the middle of the meter setting was a bit too light).

The black plastic body feels a bit cheap and flimsy. Would have liked a sturdier aluminum body.

The camera comes from the factory with all the clicks and noises turned on, but you can turn them all off.

There is a good macro and super macro mode (focuses down to 1cm from the lens) for still photos. However, macro mode doesn't seem to work during video recording.

The flash has to be manually popped open - if it isn't, it won't pop itself open and you won't get any flash. However, it is reasonably powerful, and can light up an entire backyard at night from 15-25 feet away.

There's an HDMI plug which I haven't tested yet. The camera body also has a micro USB plug to hook to a standard USB plug to download photos and videos from the camera. This micro USB plug is one step smaller than the mini-USB plug. The cover to these two plugs is rather flimsy.

Lots of other features, which I haven't tested yet. I'm sure others will post in more about this camera

All in all, a nice camera with lots of features.

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I second that emotion, September 26, 2008

By 

Dr. Cyber - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD 10MP Digital Camera with 15x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom (Electronics)

After reading the details on the Fuji website, I decided to wait for the release date and order this new product rather than get the S1000. I was mainly attracted by the High Definition video and the zoom capability with video. I've only had it for a few days, so this is a preliminary review which I will probably update after I've had a little more time to put it through its paces.

I generally agree with everything the first reviewer said about the camera, although it doesn't feel cheap or flimsy to me. Certainly not at this ($275.00) price point.

If you don't already have two or three sets of rechargeable batteries, prepare to make the investment. At least while you are learning to use all of the features, you are going to be draining AA's four at a time with breathtaking speed. Nevertheless, the fact that a camera with this many bells & whistles uses a common battery size you can purchase anywhere was one of the dealmakers for me. Once I am more familiar with the operation and options settings I expect I will not be using up the batteries quite so fast. Fuji says 400 shots with rechargables, 300 with Alkalines, and 600+ with Lithiums.

The little rubber cover for the USB/HD connectors makes me wonder about its durability. It's a little hard to pull open all the way (maybe that will loosen up a bit with more use), and I worry that one overly energetic yank will either break the tiny cord that attaches it to the camera or pull it out completely. Be careful with this.

The optical 15x zoom with video does work well (except for the motor noise which does get faithfully recorded on the soundtrack). It is selectable for optical or digital zoom, so if you can't live with the noise, you can work around it. The digital zoom with video is quite limited, though: only 2x at VGA or lower and only 3x in HD.

For still pictures the 15x zoom is extremely impressive, and when combined with the digital zoom you can get over 85x total magnification. With the dual image stabilization switched on, I have taken handheld pictures in bright sunlight at the maximum zoom and gotten useable -if not razor sharp- images. I think Fuji have done a really good job with this. You'll see things in your photos that you can't make out with the naked eye. You have optical zoom capability in macro mode, and digital zoom only in "super" macro.

The HD video looks really good, but one caveat. If you're planning on watching the videos on your computer, you're going to need a relatively powerful system. I think Fuji says at least a Core2Duo @ 2GHz or higher & 1 Gig of RAM minimum. I have a first generation MacBook with a 2GHz CoreDuo and 2GB of RAM, and the HD will play soothly in Quicktime, but only if the "high quality video" option is disabled in the program preferences. Otherwise it's choppy. Whether it's activated or not I am unable to see any difference in the "quality" of the images, the only difference is the smoothness of the playback.

If I have anything I consider a negative, it's this: Fuji seems to be eliminating the included AC power adapters and sockets on their cameras. I have a FinePix 6800Zoom and it has a socket that you can directly plug into, but for this far more power hungry camera you have to buy a separate AC adapter and a separate adapter to connect THAT to the camera. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Combined cost for these gizmos is over $60.00 currently, and seems a bit steep to me. Especially since they imply that you should use an AC adapter when connecting the camera to a computer. If you need it for proper operation, it ought to be included, seems to me. How much would it have cost them to just put a socket connector right on the camera? With volume manufacturing I can't imagine that it would have been more than a few pennies. Then you would only be out the $25 or so for the AC unit.

That point aside, I like it very much, so far. Recommended.

This is an update on October 17, 2008:

I have now taken over 3000 photos with this camera, and I like it more now than I did when I first reviewed it.

Additional specifics: The flash is quite powerful when needed outside at night...it lights up my whole backyard.

The auto white balance handles most fluorescent lighting very well, no need to preset it.

Edit December 2008: As of the end of December, this camera has dropped over $50 in price since I got mine, making it an even better deal.