Low Priced SLR-style Camera: Pay £115.99 for Fujifilm Finepix S1500

Were doing that thing again, where we hunt down best buy, best priced digital cameras for you. We went to Amazon UK and guess what we found, a digital SLR-style that’s only worth £115.99. You save £84.00 from its original price of £199.99

The Fujifilm Finepix S1500 is a great budget zoom camera that can get you started with your photography hobby without shocking your bank account (or if you’re married, your spouse).

Is the picture quality though, as good as its price?

The Fujifilm FinePix is a 12x zoom digital with a SLR-style body. It has full manual, semi-manual and full auto control settings. The quality of the FinePix S1500 photos is not too sharp and it adapts noise when shot above 200 ISO. The speed for the FinePix S1500 also experiences lag. It is however, a handy camera to get additional zoom power for daylight shooting. For the reduced price of the FinePix S1500.

The giant grip of the Fujifilm Finepix S1500 houses four AA-size batteries and a SDHC card.

The best feature for this camera is that it has a bevy of programmed scene mode while still allowing you to control the camera manually.

Buy this camera if you’re looking for a bargain camera with a good zoom and a way to practice shooting photos in a manual setting.

Product Features

+10 Megapixels, 12x Superzoom Lens and Large 2.7 inch LCD screen

+Dual Image Stabilisation to Combat Image Blur and Camera Shake

+Scene Recognition AUTO & Panoramic Shooting Mode

+Full Manual Control (Aperture and Shutter Priority) and 14 scene modes

+Face Detection Technology with Automatic Red-Eye Removal

Technical Details

Number of Effective Pixels 10.0 million pixels
CCD Sensor 1/ 2.3-inch CCD
Storage Media Internal memory (approx. 24MB) /xD-Picture Card TM (16MB – 2 GB), SD memory card /SDHC memory card
File Format Still image: JPEG (Exif Ver 2.2 ), Movie: AVI (Motion JPEG ) Audio: WAVE format, Monaural sound (Design rule for Camera File system compliant / DPOF-compatible)
Number of Recorded Pixels Still image: 3,648 × 2,736 / 3,648x 2,432 (3:2 format) / 2,592×1,944 / 2,048×1,536 / 1,600 x 1,200 / 640 X 480 pixels
Movie: 640 x 480 pixels (30 frames/sec.), 320 x 240 pixels (30 frames/sec.) with monaural sound
Lens Fujinon 12 X Optical zoom lens , F2.8 (Wide) – F5.0 (Telephoto)
Lens Focal Length f=5.9mm – 70.8mm, Equivalent to 33-396mm on a 35mm camera
Digital Zoom Approx. 5.7x (max.)
Aperture F2.8 – F6.4 (Wide) / F 5.0 – F 8.0 (Telephoto) max 5 steps in 1/3 EV increment
Focus Distance Normal: Wide angle: Approx. 40cm / 1.3 ft to infinity, Telephoto: Approx. 1.5m / 4.9 ft to infinity, Macro: Wide Angle: Approx. 5cm / 2.0 in to 3m / 9.8 ft, Telephoto: Approx. 80cm/2.6 ft. To 3m/9.8 ft, Super Macro: Approx. 2cm / 0.8 in. to 1m / 3.3 ft
Sensitivity Auto / Auto(800) / Auto(400) / Equivalent to 64/100/200/400/800/1600/3200 (Standard Output Sensitivity) *ISO 3200: 3M pixels (Number of recorded pixels) (Standard Output Sensitivity)
Exposure Control TTL 256-zones metering
Exposure Modes Programmed AE, Aperture Priority AE, Shutter Priority AE, Manual
Shooting Modes Mode dial: Auto, Natural Light, SP1, SP2, P, A, S, M, Panorama, Movie, SP1/SP2: Portrait, Landscape, Sport, Night, Fireworks, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Museum, Party, Flower, Text, PS(Anti-Blur)
Shutter Speed AUTO mode: 1/4 sec to 1/2000 sec., All other mode): 8 sec. to 1/2000 sec. (depends on shooting mode), Continuous Shooting Top-3 ( max 1.4 frames/sec), Last-3 ( max 1.4 frames/sec), Long-period ( max.1.4 frames/sec), Top-6, High speed (max 3.3 frames/sec, 5M pixels), Top-15, Ultra High speed (max 7.5 frames/sec, 2M pixels)
Focus Auto focus (Area, Multi, Centre)/Continuous AF
White Balance Automatic scene recognition
Preset (Fine, Shade, Fluorescent light (Daylight), Fluorescent light (Warm White), Fluorescent light (Cool White), Incandescent light), Custom, Self-timer Approx. 10 sec./ 2 sec. delay
Flash Auto flash
Effective range: (ISO AUTO): Normal: Wide Approx. 40cm / 1.3ft to 8.7m / 28.5ft, Telephoto Approx. 1.5m / 4.9ft to 4.8m / 15.7ft, Macro: Wide Approx. 30cm / 1.0 ft to 3.0m / 9.8ft, Telephoto Approx. 80cm / 2.6ft to 3.0m / 9.8ft
Flash mode: Red-eye removal OFF: Auto, Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Slow Synchro. Red-eye removal ON: Red-eye Reduction Auto, Red-eye Reduction & Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Red-eye Reduction & Slow Synchro
LCD Monitor 2.7-inch, approx. 230,000 pixels, Amorphous Silicon TFT colour LCD monitor, approx. 100% coverage
Electronic Viewfinder 0.2-inch, approx.230,000 dots FLCD monitor (R/G/B colours are displayed in a single dot) approx. 97% coverage
Movie Recording 640 x 480 pixels, 30 frames/sec, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames/sec, with monaural sound.

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