Fujifilm FinePix J28 10.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

5 comments

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   Alex Fielding on November 28, 2009 at 4:59 pm

   I was curious about this camera and I am guessing it is probably a nice unit. Fuji is a respected name in photography. The problem I have is with the 7 reviews, all 5’s. Each one sounds like it was scripted to accentuate how wonderful the camera is, including a detailed list of its great features, much like a professional advertisement. One or two like this I can accept, but not all seven. I’ll wait until some more less biased sounding reviews hit before I take too much stock in these current reviews. Footnote: I got a little lazy when I wrote this review and when I went back later to look at the other reviews I could see that only a few actually looked a little too stylistic. Sorry. Since then, a lot more people have left varying reviews and all in all it looks like a nice unit. I appreciate the feedback from the reviewers who hadn’t actually purchased the camera- now I know that this kind of reviewing can be unbiased.

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   Luis A. Sandoval on November 28, 2009 at 5:47 pm

   the camera is nice, small, good to the touch, the pictures are good. the only thing i didn’t like was that it doesn’t have a lot of features, for example the red light( lacier )on the front of the camera. that helps when you want to take pictures at a club or some where dark. the other thing i didn’t like was the shipping, i pick the free 5-9 days but it took about 17 days for it to deliver. so if you want it for a special occasion try to pick the one or two day. after all the camera is good, for the money, but i would like it to have more features.

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   D on November 28, 2009 at 8:26 pm

   This little camera is great for a beginner camera or for one to carry with you, easy to use point and shoot. It is very light weight, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and takes great pictures. The battery is rechargeable and recharges inside the camera when plugged in, the batteries seem to last a long time too. The LCD screen is large and pleasant to use. It has face detection and scene recognition all helpful in taking a good quality picture, just hold the shutter half way until it focuses then take the pic. This would be a good camera for anyone even electronically challenged people. Even the buttons are intuitive enough to not get confused. The camera seems to be durable and when shut off the lens detracts and closes, protecting the lens with a plastic shield automatically. The pictures are clear and vivid. Win XP and Vista both will recognize the camera without even installing the software, I can use adobe to get the pictures and sort them. This is well worth the price.

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   E. David Swan on November 28, 2009 at 9:19 pm

   This is the fourth digital camera I’ve owned and so far my favorite has been the Olympus FE-340 8.0 m with 5x optical zoom. I had written an entire review comparing the two camera’s with the point being that my venerable Olympus took better photos then the much newer Fujifilm FinePix. This was the plan until I discovered that my Olympus was selling on Amazon for $343.98 compared to the $99.95 listed price of the FinePix. I can assure you I paid nothing close to the $340 when I bought the Olympus at Circuit City last year but it wouldn’t be fair to compare the two since the FinePix is clearly a budget priced camera. Just holding the two in my hands I can feel the much higher quality of craftsmanship in the Olympus and the only thing the FinePix seemed to be superior in was in the crispness of detail in blown up pictures which is exactly what I would expect given its higher pixel count.

   The FinePix is a budget camera with budget quality. It’s worthless on night shots and unlike my Olympus doesn’t keep the shutter open long enough to allow in any light (not that the Olympus takes great night shot). I had a real tough time with close up shots in flower (macro) mode and continually got the red reticule of doom. When I tried to take a picture of a pepper growing in my garden the FinePix stubbornly refused to focus on the pepper no matter how I adjusted and always focused on the ground (which did look stunningly clear). I took some close up photos of my herb garden and I have to say that in this case the FinePix was both clearer and more natural looking than the Olympus. If you’re looking to take crisp close up shots I would definitely recommend a camera with a 5x optical zoom.

   On tough shots the FinePix fails but if you’re looking to get some easy shots in normal light it works fine. Sometimes I got some graininess on my indoor shots and other times it looked fine. I took a walk around my office shooting pictures of stairwells and hallways and a copier and for a budget prices camera is seemed to do just fine. In fact the indoor close-up shots looked pretty good, you just can’t get as close as you can with a 5x optical zoom. Any closer than say 6 to 7 inches and the camera cannot get focus. I took some outdoor shots on a cloudy day and they looked very nice and well detailed. One feature that is unique among all the digital camera’s I’ve owned is that the port for linking the camera to a PC is the same port for charging the lithium battery. I like that but I felt like copying from the camera to the PC took longer than normal. Also, cameras I’ve had in the past would turn on automatically when I linked it to a PC but I had to turn the FinePix on myself.

   To summarize this is a budget camera for people who want to take photos under optimal conditions. The daytime landscape shots looked very good but you can feel the cheapness of the camera the moment you take it out of the box. I’ll give it four stars because by and large you get what you pay for.

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   Jack W. Wolfe on November 29, 2009 at 12:03 am

   Well this is a great little digital camera. First the size is just right for us we took it on our last ride and took alot of pics and then took the card and put it in our printer and the shots turned out just great. It was easy to use it fit in my case I keep on my belt and when we needed it it worked great eveytime The battery life was good we charged it at night and took pics all day long.(maybe 40 or 50 pics in a day). the manuel was easy to read and eveything worked fine the self timer was very easy to use we used it alot it give you plenty of time to get set to take the picture. So over all I would say this was a GREAT little camera to take on our trip whan you go on a bike size does matter and this worked just fine!!! WORTH EVERY PENNY!! thank you!