Fujifilm FinePix S1000fd

I purchased this camera to replace my Finepix S5100. Mind you, there was nothing wrong with my 5 year old S5100. I just felt the need for something newer. The S5100 was a 4MP camera - the S1000FD is 10MP. I loved my S5100 and it did right by me for years, so I stuck with Fuji. It's still in the family...I gave it to my daughter and she's using it now. (Still ticking after 5 years!) I am not a professional photographer, I just like to take pictures and I don't know a lot about manual settings and such. All I know is, I keep the camera on AUTO and 99% of my pictures come out perfect. The camera does have face finder technology and for the most part, I don't have to fix red eye manually anymore. The large LCD screen is great. Battery usage is normal. (Invest in rechargeables! Save a fortune in batteries!) The zoom is decent, but the real test will be from my seats at Yankee Stadium! I'll update on this one later on. The S1000FD also accepts both SD and XD cards. I am able to use the 1Gb and 2Gb cards from my S5100. I purchased 4Gb SD cards for my Creative Zen and can use them with the S1000FD as well. I don't have issues with close-ups coming out blurry as some have complained about. The camera is a step up from the typical point and shoot cameras and a step (or two) below the expensive SLR's. It's much lighter than the S5100 and smaller. Check out the pics I posted which were taken with the camera. I don't think you'll be disappointed in this camera if you get it.

I love the feel and the size of the camera. The ability to choose the settings most used and save them is nice also. Low light pictures are very good. The quality of the pictures so far is great.Can't beat this ZOOM either.
The larger size Lcd is also nice and the fact that you can turn it off and use the viewfinder, or lower the brightness is very much a help at conserving battery life.
Speaking of batteries the best part about them is they are available Everywhere.
So if your rechargeable AA goes dead you can pop in a store bought AA battery in a pinch.
Bottom line very very happy with my purchase.
5-30-08
After using now for a while here is an update..The camera is light weight has a powerful zoom and flash.Tripod may be needed if zoomed all the way out.
I have owned a fuji camera prior to this one and it had manual focus this does not . Poor judgement in my opinion camera would be much better with it.
The pictures I have taken for the most part were fantastic but there are ones that I could not get to focus and these were missed opportunities of some great wild life pictures.

I recently bought a Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd, and I have to say, I'm somewhat disappointed. First of all, the 12x zoom doesn't live up to my expectations. It doesn't have a stabilizer, and the pictures ALWAYS turn out blurry (when zoomed). The night shots didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, either.

On the plus side, however, most of the other settings are nice. I used the "flower" setting to take some pretty amazing, vivid shots. And the flash seems very powerful.

However, I don't like it as much as my Nikon Coolpix S500 that I bought recently. The Nikon is more user-friendly, and the pictures actually turn out brighter and more crisp on the Nikon (which was a surprise to me as well). I'd recommend the Fuji for the all the settings and the Macro, but its zoom feature and indoor shots leave something to be desired.

I love this camera. It is light weight and takes stunning pictures.I bought it to replace a sony cybershot and I couldn't be more pleased. Great zoom and takes wonderful low light photos too. You can't go wrong with it.

My Fuji was supposed to arrive 3 days from now, got it this morning nice job
Amazon,was amazed when I took it out of the box, its small, very well made, small, I was so excited to get it going, never read the manual, there is so much on this camera, I was forced to read the manual, after that started shooting with an 2 gig sd card, results were fantastic, gorgeous color and razor sharp photos.
I have had several digital cameras, all were reasonably good,,this Fuji is without a doubt a winner, great buy dollar wise and great buy quality wise.
A very happy customer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!