Fujifilm FinePix S9200 16 MP Digital Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)

I just bought this and have only begun to play around with it but so far I think it rocks. There are so many options available which is what I wanted because I want to go back and do what I did with my 35mm SLR when I would take it off of Automatic. I want to be comfortable with using the manual settings as well as the auto settings for versatility. I am hoping I get as good or better video and sound quality out of this camera as I do with my Droid Mini cell phone because it really has surprised me with what it is capable of. I have another small digital camera that takes pretty good video but the audio is easily distorted and that has always been a drawback but that camera was given to me so I cant complain. That camera design though is what drew me to purchasing this one because of the style and the hand grip. This camera is bigger and weighs more and I like that feel as well as the soft grip on the lens. This one feels more like my 35mm SLR did which will help with holding it nice and steady. Again I have been reading a lot about what this camera will do from the manual and I read the reviews on it as well as some others and I am convinced I bought the right one for me. I have purchased good quality rechargeable batteries as well as the AC adapter and a smart charger to be used with it so now I am ready to put it through the paces. The menus are not difficult to follow and once I get used to where everything is I think it will be a very useful and versatile camera. Just like anything else that is new or different it will take a little practice and getting used to just like when going from my Blackberry to my Droid Mini. LOL One of the other things I did before buying this camera was to go on line and get the PDF version of the manual and look through it to see if it would be too complicated. Also there are some great YouTube videos on it that go into a fair amount of the features and that helped with my decision as well.Hope this helps you in some way.

I wanted a digital camera with a viewfinder. I have a small Panasonic Lumix digital camera, but every time I take pictures in the sun, all I can see in the LCD display is a reflection of my face. I saw this Fujifilm FinePix S9200 in Sam's Club, and liked the way it looked and felt. When I got home, I checked it out on Amazon, as well as a few other cameras. I liked the price and the features. And even though there were no reviews for it, I took a chance and bought it. It was very easy to set up, especially for someone who doesn't know a lot about cameras. I like being able to use the viewfinder, and it's very easy to switch between the viewfinder and the 3" LCD. I like that there are 2 places where you can adjust for telephoto zoom or wide angle pictures. It's very easy to review the pictures you've taken and to delete the ones you don't want. And I'm very happy with the picture quality. For an amateur, it was a good buy.

Just returned from 3 weeks in Greece and used this camera, although it was fairly new to me. I purchased it from Amazon in June for $169. I shot mostly in apeture priority at ISO 200 but switched to auto mode after noticing that it was washing out the blue sky, although, to be fair, the horizon was frequently hazy, during the day. Most of the dusk and dawn pictures came out very nicely.A few pictures just flat out did not come out in low light situations, either washed out with the flash or some strange vignetting. In low light situations, using the LCD live view screen was preferable to composing and focussing with the view finder.It has a tremendous zoom, but a tripod would be necessary when it is zoomed to the outer range, beyond 800 mm. Another reason for thepurchase was that it has a viewfinder as well as the LCD live view screen. However, hand held using the viewfinder worked out fine to about the 800 mm zoom length.I admit that part of the problem may be that I did not spend enough time with it before I left on my trip. However, bringing this camera was preferable to hauling around my DSLR with all the ancillary equipment.In low light situations there can also be a significant time lag between when the shutter is depressed and the picture is written to the memory card.Battery life is superb.At under $200, I think that the camera is reasonably priced. Now that it is priced close to $300 I would consider another camera that offers at least a remote shutter release and a threaded lens barrel that will accept a haze filter to protect the lens.

The camera itself is very good. It met my expectations, as I wanted a camera with an electronic view finder. Manual is very poorly done. The manual included in the package was something like a "quick start" manual, and this was not divulged in the product description. The entire manual was on a DVD, and I paid money to have the PDF copied and bound. Manual is poorly written. This is a bridge camera, with two "point and shoot" options for camera settings. One would think that the two sections would be next to one another, but they were separated by six or eight pages. The presence of an electronic view finder was a "must have" for me. There were NO INSTRUCTIONS in the manual about how to adjust the EVF. This was critical because "out of the box" the image in the EVF was blurry. I had to call a camera store to learn how to adjust the EVF. That's unacceptable for a product which costs 200+ dollars.