Fuji FinePix S4000 Digital Camera

The NEW S4000 is a top digital camera which boasts high resolution 14 megapixel CCDs, award winning Fujinon optics, 24mm wide-angle lenses, is intuitive and easy to operate and are packed full of useful features and technologies.  With its mega 24mm wide-angle to extreme telephoto lense, the S4000 can capture anything from stunning landscapes to long-zoom shots of boats on the ocean, and you can take these two very different shots within seconds of each other. Fujifilm's bridge cameras are flexible, and in comparison to someone carrying a D-SLR, you're able to react quicker and have to carry much less weight.

The Fujifilm FinePix S4000 features a body designed to look similar to that of an SLR, although it's actually a fixed-lens camera.  This top digital camera's lens offers actual focal lengths from 4.3 to 129.0mm, which equates to 35mm-equivalent focal lengths ranging from a generous 24mm wide angle to a huge 720mm telephoto. Maximum aperture varies from f/3.1 at wide angle to f/5.9 at telephoto. The image sensor allows capture of not only high-resolution still images, but also of high-definition 720p video at a rate of 30 frames per second. With the extreme telephoto reach, mechanical image stabilization is obviously a necessity to fight blur from camera shake, and the Fuji FinePix S4000 includes sensor shift stabilization.  There's no true optical viewfinder on this model, with images and movies being framed and reviewed either on an electronic viewfinder of unspecified resolution, or on a 3.0-inch LCD display with 460,000 dots of resolution.

Taking it a a step further, it can also be programmed to recognize the faces of eight specific individuals, who can then be prioritized automatically when recognized in a scene. It also provides both smile and blink detection capability, i-Flash intelligent flash metering, automatic upload of images and videos tagged on camera to Facebook and YouTube via the provided Windows-only MyFinePix Studio software, automatic red-eye removal, and a motion panorama mode that stitches up to three separate shots into a single image. Power comes from an unspecified number of AA batteries, and information on battery life wasn't available at press time. Connectivity includes a mini-HDMI high definition video output.

Fujifilm have improved on the standard panoramic mode that's found on most cameras these days. Normally, three photos are taken using a portion of the previous picture at half opacity to frame and align the next shot with. On this top digital camera the S4000 there's a much easier way of taking panoramic shots. After taking the first picture, a small yellow cross appears at the right side of the frame with a white circle that has a cross cut out in the centre. Aligning the two means the picture is framed perfectly for the next shot and to make sure it's done as soon as the cross fits into the cross shaped hole perfectly, the camera will automatically take the picture.

photographyblog.com writes:
‘Picture quality is good when viewed at a normal distance or seen on a standard size photograph but when they’re zoomed into, it has an effect we can only describe as painted. If you can put up with this then the colours are recorded very nicely and there’s a decent amount of detail too. We’re unsure why the sensor performs like this and it makes us wish that they could put the EXR sensor in all their cameras. Style and features wise, the Fujifilm FinePix S4000 is suitable for photographers who have experience of a DSLR or those who want to experience everything a DSLR can do for them without the cost or weight. Image wise, take a look at the sample pictures in the review and decide for yourself whether you like what the Fujifilm can do for you. We don’t really like it but things like this can be subjective.’