Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd 10MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 6.7 x 2.8 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001D0G57S
• Item model number: Z200fd Black
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,700 in Camera & Photo (See Bestsellers in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 31, 2008

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Despite being only 20.0mm thick, the 10-megapixel FinePix Z200fd touts cutting-edge technology and advanced features including a Fujinon 5x optical zoom lens, a high-resolution, scratch-resistant 2.7-inch LCD and sensitivity settings of up to ISO 1600 that enable partygoers to take beautiful, natural-looking images without flash, retaining the atmosphere of twilight and late-night events.

Featuring Fujifilm’s acclaimed Face Detection Technology, now working in tandem with automatic red-eye removal, the FinePix Z200fd makes it easy to capture your friends’ good sides. At the press of a button, this mode identifies up to 10 human faces in a scene, and sets the correct focus and exposure, regardless of where subjects are located within the frame. The FinePix Z200fd then instantly checks each detected face for red eye and, if found, corrects it automatically in the camera, avoiding the process of editing later.

Timing Is Everything The FinePix Z200fd debuts Fujifilm’s new Couple Timer Mode and Group Timer Mode, ensuring you can appear in every shot you take, even when there’s no one else around to take the picture! Working in conjunction with Face Detection Technology, these self-timer modes automatically capture the image when the camera has detected faces in a frame.

• Couple Timer Mode detects two faces in a frame and will automatically take the picture as the two faces come closer together. This mode has three settings so users can set the timer to detect faces at specific distances, depending on how close you really are!
• Group Timer Mode automatically sets the timer to take the shot when up to four faces have been detected in the frame. Users can simply select the number of faces in the frame, and then jumps in front of the camera to pose with the group -- ensuring that you appear in the stunning shots you take with the Z200fd.

FinePix Z200fd Highlights

The Beauty of a 20mm Super Flat Body

2.7-inch, 230,000-pixel LCD
The spacious 2.7-inch LCD with a 230,000-pixel canvas displays a superb clarity of photo details, slideshows, micro thumbnail view, and a user-friendly graphical interface menu.

Micro thumbnail view
Navigate, view and select from up to 100 photos, displayed in a 10 x 10 array. The bright, high-resolution LCD makes it easy to identify images, even at micro-size.

Reinforced glass coating
Reinforced glass coating protects the large LCD display making it void of any scratches.

Ultimate Slim, Compact Design

• 20mm super-flat body
• "Z" illumination lamp
• Sliding lens shield
• Wheel dial

10 Megapixels & 5x Optical Zoom

With a high resolution of 10 megapixels, equipped with a 5x optical zoom, the ultra-slim body reveals its brilliant technology.

5x optical zoom in action

10.0 megapixels
The sharp, sophisticated body veils a full 10-megapixels resolution, providing the ability to crop or enlarge pictures while maintaining image quality.

5x optical zoom
The advanced full 5x optical zoom enables wide angle view or close-ups, always maintaining precision.

Dual IS (Image Stabilization)

Dual Image Stabilization gets rid of blurs caused by camera shake or moving subjects.

Capture crisp, clear pics with Dual Image Stabilization

High Sensitivity plus CCD Shift Image Stabilization
CCD Shift Image Stabilization automatically readjusts, calculating camera shakes, while high sensitivity boosts shutter speed to freeze movement and preserve bright, crisp detail.

CCD Shift Image Stabilization

• Gyro-Sensor: The Gyro-Sensor detects the amount of blur.
• Image Stabilization Chip: The Image Stabilization Chip calculates how much correction is needed.
• CCD: Based on the result, the CCD is shifted to compensate for camera shake.

High Sensitivity (ISO 1600)
Indoors, at night, or in the midst of fast-moving action; high sensitivity (ISO 1600) makes it easy to take bright, clear photos regardless of the conditions.

Intelligent Flash keeps lighting even

Intelligent Flash
Intelligent Flash captures both the subject and the background with natural brightness, setting the ideal balance of flash output and sensitivity.

Natural Light mode & with flash
This mode automatically captures the same scene twice, once at high sensitivity and natural light and once with Intelligent Flash, ensuring great photos, even in marginal shooting situations.

Face Detection with New Features

Face detection in action

Face Detection automatically adjusts focus and optimizes brightness exposures to ensure high quality. The new self-timer functions provide flexibility in your photo shooting experiences with an extra spice of fun.

Face detection
Face Detection optimizes people pictures by identifying faces and adjusting focus and exposure to ensure bright, clear results.

Red-eye correction in detected faces
Automatically removes red-eye effects often spoiled by flash reflections.

Instantly detect up to 10 faces
The advanced Face Detection can simultaneously recognizes up to 10 faces in a photo. Share your group portraits using the "Zoom Up" function in playbacks, checking each detected face. Each priceless expression can be cropped and saved in clear high resolution results.

New Self-Timer functions
Face Detection adds a new element of flexibility and fun to the familiar self-timer function. The Face Detection Self-Timer automatically sets off after the number and position of faces in a scene are detected, snapping the photo at the right moment, with all the faces in focus and properly exposed.

Choose from three "Couple Timer" options

Couple Timer
Just the two of you? Couple Timer waits until two faces are close together in the frame. Select "Near," "Close-up" or "Super-Close" depending on the level of intimacy you’re aiming for!

Group Timer
Out and about with your friends? Group Timer mode gives you time to get into position as it waits until the number of faces are detected in the frame. You can select up to 4 faces and enjoy the moment ready to be captured!

Playback Functions

Slideshow
Bring photos to life with entertaining slideshows of close-ups of detected faces.

Zoom up
Zooms in on detected faces in the photo one by one during playback.

Cropping
Zooms in on a detected faces, then crops and saves a "portrait" shot in the camera.

Entertaining & Versatile Functions

Enjoy your photo experience with various functions: Blog and Auction modes, Wireless Communication, Folder Management, and Slideshow with Music.

Post your pictures online with Blog Mode

Blog Mode
Blog Mode automatically resizes and edits your photo for easy posting, eliminating the need to use a PC to optimize images for the web.

Auction Mode
Auction Mode combines multiple photos into a single image ready for easy uploading to auction sites.

IrSimple for wireless communication
Share photos with other IrSimple-compatible cameras with no need for cables or connections. It’s instant, effortless, and wireless!

Folder management
Preset folders lets you save and organize your photos for quick retrieval or instant slide shows. Personal photos can be stored in a password-protected folder labeled "Private."

Slide show
Bring your photos to life using slideshows of face detected close-ups. Versatile in-camera slide show options let you add music and view slides with powerful Face Detection functions, or bring a stylish twist with multiple images entered in a slideshow displayed in a scrapbook montage.

Wheel dial
Easy control and selections are right at the tip of your thumb. Swiftly turn and select Scene Positions and thumbnails of your choice.

A host of scene positions
Select the Scene Position to match the situation and the camera does the rest, ensuring the ideal settings for everything from shutter speed and exposure to white balance.

xD/SD-compatible slot
The versatile card slot is compatible with ultracompact xD-Picture Cards and both standard and high-capacity Secure Digital (SD) memory cards.

Product Description

Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd Black, 10MP, 5x Non-Extending Optical Zoom, 2.7" LCD, Dual Image Stabilization, Face Detection w/Auto Red Eye Removal, New Blog Mode 2.0 and IR-Simple for sharing photos with friends, File Security System, xD/SD/SD-HC Compatible Media Slot.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super duper!, December 2, 2008

By	Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I'm amazed there hasn't yet been a customer review on this amazing gadget. The Z200fd is the latest in the Z series from Fujifilm. I've owned the Z1, Z3, and Z10, and first thing I noticed on holding this is that it's heavier. This is due to the more expensive looking and feeling finish; shiny black enamel-like finish to the front, and stainless steel back, which makes me realize now just how cheap the plastic Z10 felt. As ever, the design is eye catching, and the camera is incredibly miniscule for the hefty punch it packs, smaller than a 160gb iPod (though a bit thicker). The Kate Moss of digicams. :-)

Powering on is still by sliding back the front panel, though this time it is done diagonally. Now while this may look fancy (which it is), I find it also makes it more difficult to accidentally turn the camera on while putting it in ones pocket or bag, something I found out rather painfully with the Z10 when I whipped it out at a dinner party to find the battery was totally drained as the cover panel had slid open when I put it in my pocket. The "Z" symbol in front lights up (nice and Star Trekky) for a few seconds and also serves as a countdown timer (for self timed photos) by flashing until the photo is taken.

The major attractions for me were the larger pixels; 10 megapixels (my 1gb XD card takes 207 shots at full resolution or 18 minute movie clips at 30 frames per second at a resolution of 640x480. You can get more images in, or longer movie times by lowering the resolution), the larger, very crisp toughened scratch resistant 2.7" LCD (on which you can preview 4, 9 or up to a hundred images in a 10x10 arrangement, or images as a slideshow), and the larger optical zoom reach of 5x (as with all others in the Z series, the zoom lens is non-extending) which is also wide angle (No more stepping away from the subject and landing in the pond behind :-)).

The rear (made up almost entirely of the 2.7" LCD) reverts to just one wheel (the 2 wheels on the Z10 confused me from time to time) which scrolls, as well as clicks up, down, left or right, through easy to follow menus or images, as well as zoom button, and the menu/playback button.

The camera takes XD and SDHC memory cards, and additionally has 52mb internal memory (good for 10 images at full resolution). Images can be stored in folders; My pictures, Family, Travel, Events, Favorites, as well as a folder that can be password protected, keeping safe those your torrid shots. Battery life is excellent (about 200 shots per charge), I almost always forget I need to re-charge the battery.

Now, onto image quality, what it was built to do. Incredible! Especially in low light conditions; dinners, outdoors at night, etc. There are various photo modes (I noticed there's a new one for underwater shots, hmm!) flash and ISO settings to twiddle with, though not enough for you if one is a pro. Good enough for me, especially the face detection/automatic red eye removal (this now gets a separate button atop, beside the shutter button) which basically takes the photo for you. I still wish there was a separate button though enabling one to switch from still to movie mode. As it is, one has to go through the menu to access that.

You can edit photos too; clip, rotate, reduce to blog size (convenient for emails as file sizes at maximum resolution is close to 5mb) and even send or receive images with other IR enabled cameras by infra red. I tried it with my PC (which is IR enabled) and it didn't work though, shame!

There's an AV cable to connect to your TV to view images or movie clips (it uses the same port as the USB and has a nice little cover for the port on the side), and as ever, the Finepix software is first class. Photos up to A3 size can be printed in crystal clear resolution.

This camera will not please those who are used to extensive manual settings and loads of tinkering with ISO levels, white balance, and other photographic jargon, but if you're like me, and just want to be able to whip out your camera, and without much fuss, capture the moment, this camera is for you. Super!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this camera, December 29, 2008

By	Matt (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews

This is my fourth Fuju digital camera and my third "Z" camera. I love this camera. I purchased this to take photos I can enlarge and have printed several 16" by 20" prints that look great. I like available light indoor pictures for a more natural look and this camera's dual anti-shake feature makes it possible to take clear pictures indoors without a flash. I have made several videos that look great also. The camera is a great size and a beautiful deisgn. My favorite camera ever, by far. I recommend this camera 110%.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Camera!, March 6, 2009

By	TLH (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

I am what you call a "technology idiot" so if I can use this camera and figure out the features, anyone can. I am so pleased with this camera. I love the sleak look. It's light and easy to pull out and turn on for fast pictures. I love the features and how easy it is to use. I only have a few complaints... the black smudges easily and gets fingerprints on it rather quickly, so I'm forever wiping it clean. The other complaint/problem I've been having (but maybe because I'm a techno idiot, I can't figure it out) but everytime I upload pics, I only want to upload the new pics, but for some reason, (I checked the settings over and over again) ALL the pics upload... and I don't like that because at 10m, it takes a while... But overall, I'm pleased. I did my research, and was skeptical because it's a new product, but I would recommend this camera to anyone...