With chests puffed out, Fujifilm have proudly announced themselves to be the creators of the world’s smallest 18x zoom camera in the shape of FinePix S2800HD.
Lunar snaps
It’s a bit of a niche category for sure, but their new FinePix 14 megapixel CCD S2800HD camera slams down a massive zoom range, with their Fujinon optical zoom lens running from a medium wide-angle 28mm right up to a Moon-browsing 504mm high.
Stabilisers on
Naturally, with that kind of beefy zoom on tap, Fujifilm have fitted out their wee zooming snapping thing with a mechanically stabilised 1/2 3” sensor backed by high ISO sensitivity settings.
Fujifilm claim that this Dual Image Stabilisation combo should reduce blurring caused by hand-shake and freeze subject movement to provide top notch shots.
HD-tastic
As the name suggests, the FinePix S2800HD is HD enabled and able to playback both stills (1080p) and movies (720p) in HD quality, with a built-in mini HDMI port letting you share your photographic talents via the medium of a HD ready TV.
Conveniently powered by 4 x AA batteries and offering a modest 23 MB Internal memory, the FinePix S2800HD measures up at 110 × 74 × 82 mm and weighs around 341g sans le batteries.
The S2800HD will become available in early September 2010 at a retail price of $259.95.
Fujifilm FinePix S2800HD specifications
Sensor • 1/2.3″ CCD – • 14.0 million pixels
Image sizes
• (4:3) 4288 x 3216
• (4:3) 3072 x 2304
• (4:3) 2048 x 1536
• (3:2) 4288 x 2864
• (3:2) 3072 x 2048
• (3:2) 2048 x 1360
• (16:9) 4288 x 2416
• (16:9) 3072 x 1728
• (16:9) 1920 x 1080
Movie clips • 1280 x 720 pixels (HD), 24fps
• 640 x 480 pixels
• 320 x 240 pixels
• With monaural sound
File formats
• Still image : JPEG (Exif Ver. 2.3)
• Movie: AVI (Motion JPEG) with sound
Lens
• Fujinon 18x Optical zoom lens
• F 3.1- F5.6
• f= 5.0mm – 90.0mm
• 28-504mm equiv.
Image stabilization Yes, Sensor-shift
Digital zoom Approx. 6.7x
Focus
Mode
• Single AF
• Continuous AF
Type
• TTL contrast AF
AF area modes • Multi
• Centre
• Tracking
Focus distance
• Normal: Approx. 40cm/1.3ft to infinity / Tele: Approx. 205m /8.2ft to infinity
• Macro: Approx. 5cm-3.0m / 2.0in-9.ft / Tele: Approx. 1.8cm-3.0m / 5.9in- 9.8ft.
• Approx. 2cm – 100cm /0.8in.- 3.3ft.
Metering TTL 256-zones metering
ISO sensitivity
• Auto
• Auto 400
• Auto 800
• ISO 64
• ISO 100
• ISO 200
• ISO 400
• ISO 800
• ISO 1600
• ISO 3200*
• ISO 6400*
* image size [S] only
Shutter speed
• Auto : 1/4 sec. to 1/2000 sec
• 8 sec. to 1/2000 sec
Aperture F3.1 / F6.4(Wide), F5.6 / F11(Telephoto)
Exposure Modes
• Programmed AE
• Aperture Priority
• Shutter-Priority
• Manual
Scene modes • Natural Light
• Natural Light & with Flash
• Zoom Bracketing
• Smile
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Sport
• Night
• Night(Tripod)
• Fireworks
• Sunset
• Snow
• Beach
• Party
• Flower
• Text
White balance
• Auto
• Preset (Fine, Shade, Fluorescent light (Daylight), Fluorescent light (Warm White),Fluorescent light (Cool White), Incandescent light, Underwater, Custom )
Self timer Approx. 10 sec.2 sec. delay
Continuous shooting
• Top-5 (max 3.3 frames/sec.)
• Top-20, High speed (max 8 frames/sec, “S” images only)
• Last-3 (max 1.2 frames/sec.)
• Long Period, High speed (max 1.2 maximum number of frames varies with image size and available memory)
Flash • Auto flash (Pop-up)
• Effective range: (ISO 800): Wide: Approx. 40cm-8m / 1.3ft.-2.6.2ft. / Telephoto: Approx. 2.5cm-4.4m / 8.2ft.-14.4ft.
Flash modes 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
• 3.0-inch
• approx. 230,0000 pixels
• approx. 100% coverage
Digital input/output • USB 2.0 High Speed
Video output • HDMI (Type D)
• NTSC / PAL selectable
Storage • 23 MB Internal memory
• SD / SDHC memory card
Power 4 x AA batteries
Weight (no batt) Approx. 341g (12.0oz)
Weight (with batt) Approx. 437g (14.4 oz)
Dimensions 110 (W) × 74(H) × 82 (D) mm (4.3 x 2.9 x 3.2 (in))
