An excellent new Toy by Fuji!
Pros:
I paid for $349.00, about $150 cheaper than the others
Cons:
Cheap plastic look. small memory included. Noise at High digital zoom.
The Bottom Line:
For about $150.00 cheaper than other competitors of 10x optical and 5MP. I think it worth every penny.
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Author's Review
I got mine the first week of October, this is my second Fuji with 10X optical zoom, I love my old S5000, but this S5200 has a lot more fun features. I have compared with the other two high zoom 5 MP cameras; the Canon S2IS and Sony DSC H1. The H1 may be delivers the best picture quality. But I love the Fuji color better. If you own a Fuji, you know what I meant.
The Fuji S5200 does not have Image Stabilization; instead, there is a new mode of Anti-Blur. It looks like better than Image Stabilization to me. I caught a flying butterfly with 10X zoom and the detail looked amazing! The super fast shutter lag time really helped a lot. And the camera only takes about 1 second to start up!
Another surprise is the camera works pretty good in very low light condition, much better than Canon and Sony. For a night view, it makes great pictures which only can be seen from my old SLR film camera with the setting of ISO 400. This S5200 goes up to 1600 ISO! And there is a green light Auto Focus Assistant Lamp, it also helps a lot for focusing at low light condition. But the light position is too close to the shutter, and can be blocked easily. I do not like the auto pop-up flash. Even auto flash can be turning off by the thumb; still I prefer the old type manual control flash. You push it when you need it.
Pict-Bridge is another fun to have, It woks great with my portable Canon i80 printer. But it would not communicate with my i70 printer. The Canon S2IS works on both printers. I wish all new DC have this Direct Print function. Who wants to wait until a PC is found?
Not forget the famous Fuji video for 640 x 320 VGA quality with 30fps. Fuji always gets the best video in the still camera field. Canon S2IS can be zoomed in and out when taking a video. But Fuji video is much more colorful and brighter too. Thanks to the Supper CCD and 1600 ISO, S5200 makes better video in high zoom and low light condition.
Still a cheap look plastic body, occasionally it will be out of focus. I am not sure if my finger blocked the AF lamp? Mode Dial is too big and too loose, the mode can be changed by a soft touch without notice. The included small 16MB XD card is a big joke for a 5.1 MP camera. The 5.7X digital zoom makes more noise at high end, but it looks okay up to 3.0X digital zoom.
