Customer Reviews

Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000 35mm Camera

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My husband picked this up so we could take good shots of our new baby. Grandparents, parents and everyone else is amazed at the studio-quality shots. Hey, the baby is gorgeous, but it takes a good camera to bring out the best! We found it especially good in flourescent lighting, where many cameras leave a lot to be desired. Also, our baby has blue eyes and the red-eye reduction feature really eliminates red eyes. A definite buy!

It's a great idiot-proof camera to take pictures when you're rushed or in crowded venues on vacation. Dealer told me it was the best value for the dollar and I believe he is correct.

Did not last long....second roll of film, the film would not catch because small plastic point broke off which pulls the film on the roll...I threw it away.

So I am one of the holdouts still using film, preferring it to my digital cameras. My #1 reason is because I have an Olympus Stylus Epic with a non-zooming lens. It easily fits in a pocket, and the pictures it takes are good enough to blow up to poster size, whereas digital P&S cameras aren't good enough for that.

However I prefer shooting wider than the Epic's 35mm, and having a zoom seemed fun, so I tried out this camera. First impressions were good - it's not tiny, but it's smallish, and fits in a pants pocket without too much difficulty. Operation is quick and easy, metering is good, and I have no complaints there.

However the lens is problematic. Used on the wide end in good light, results are quite good, if not great - I haven't blown any of the pictures up poster-sized, but they looked fine.

Zooming the lens in gives ridiculously bad results. Particularly if you zoom all the way, it's ridiculously low resolution and everything just becomes a blobby mess. Furthermore, the max aperture at 100mm is like F10, so unless it's a bright sunny day, there'll be camera shake anyway. So I consider this more of a 28-50mm lens.

Also, if it's in less-than bright conditions where the camera has to shoot at max. aperture, the vignetting and blurring in the corners is very, very strong. It reminds me of using a toy camera. Sometimes I seem to get a bit of edge blurring even in good light.

So my final verdict is that while it's not a terrible camera, it's not a compelling one, either.

It's a great idiot-proof camera to take pictures when you're rushed or in crowded venues on vacation. Dealer told me it was the best value for the dollar and I believe he is correct.