- Very universal formats (AA batteries, CF and SmartMedia cards!) so excellent for travel - hot shoe - Multi-exposure - Fast AF (for a digital) - good quality lens and CCD so very good quality pics.. so sharp. - good battery life - good movie mode if you use it - very wide dioptre correction (+-5), so good if like me you need eyeglasses - sturdy, and good build quality - SLR like, with lots of buttons (instead of menus) to change settings. This makes it very fast to switch settings. - Fully manual right through to fully automatic - tripod thread well-placed - very useful overlay screens, especially the grid - 45 AF points! - 1/10000 of a second shutter speed!! Very few consumer / prosumer cameras even come close to this. - and many other things. There are a few quibbles but they are not enough to put me off the camera.

- Barrel distortion at wide end - Wide angle not that wide without accesories - Possible to delete all photos when trying to delete jsut one (I've not done this yet, but got very worried when working with 400 shots on one card, and with just one wrong key press to delte everything) - A bit light - No AF assist, and using manual focus at night or in low light is tricky. - 6MP is really 4MP - no rear-curtain sync (OK maybe I'm asking a bit much here!) - b/w mode very limited - a real pity as it has excellent control in colour - You need to buy an accessory to attach filters. It is just a metal tube with a thread, but is about £25! Why didn't Fuji put the thread on the inner barrel and eliminate the need for this? The lens is good and it's a shame it is not easier to protect it with a skylight filter.

Brilliant value for money, and better and better value as it gets cheaper. Very nice to handle. I bought this while waiting for digital SLRs to get to a realistic price - it's great. Had a Maxxum 7 before and this replaces it almost completely. Love it!

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Never used it.

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Tried Dimage 5, Dimage 7, Nikon Coolpix something or other, and a few others, plus assorted film SLRs.

Image Quality, Camera Build, Great Grip, Nice Styling, Excellent Movie Mode, Various Manual Options (4 different modes), East Operation (auto and SP -special scene modes), PROFESSIONAL_at least I think so...

No AF assist lamp, it really needs one. Manual focus does relieve some of the pain though.

When purchasing my digital camera it came down to an issue of professional qualities. I knew that I wanted a camera with superior performance, especially in imaging, of course, but I was also looking for a camera that was SLR-like. You know, something that would provide me with a more professional look. So, after a couple months of research at imaging-resource.com, dpreview.com, steve's digicam review, DCRP review, this site, and even a few foreign language review sites, my decision came down to the Nikon 5700, Minolta 7HI, and, yes, this camera. The decision wasn't easy. I was looking at two 5 megapixel cameras against this 3, but there were advantages to this camera that I could see myself using. First of all, the image quality, even though interpolated, didn't bother me much (unless I was looking at images from the Sigma SD9 or something... that's a peice of equipment there :D). I also thought that the movie mode could be a very important feature. I actually make my school's website (www.stratfordhigh.com - please check back around 8/11 to see the new design) and I could see myself using it (I haven't been able to use it at school as I've just bought it), especially during competitions. I'll be able to compress the movies into streaming files so they can enjoy the same moment in superior quality. You really can't beat 640x480 30fps movies. Also, you have you love the styling. While online, I was a bit turned off by the two-toned look, but I'm very happy with it now. It does have a very professional feel, which I know a few people were disliking about the Minolta. Also, when it came down to it, I couldn't see myself needing a 5 megapixel over the interpolated 6. I haven't tried to print any 8x10s yet, but I'm sure they will turn out alright. http://www.stratfordhigh.com/test/original.JPG Really the only test image I have right now. Note: this was taken with the wide lens that came with the camera (made by fugi), which seems to have a red tint; hint the red lens flare.

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1 Megapixel HP, 2 Megapixel Olympus (C-211 w/Polaroid Printer ... sort of cool), Nikon 35mm :shrug:

Very fast, responsive, almost SLR-like quality to the shooting experience. Good lens and sharp detailed 3 megapixel images.

Electronic viewfinder might be disconcerting to some. Lens show slight distortion at extreme wide angle and extreme telephoto. Written manual can be difficult to decipher. Camera controls and ergonomics are very good.

I bought the 602 primarily for sports photography. I photograph cross-country running and indoor track events for a local newspaper. I wanted a fast, responsive SLR-like digital camera. I was not so interested in a high resolution, high megapixel, high price tag camera because photos submitted to the paper do not require any more resolution than a two or three megapixel camera can provide. The 602 is fairly responsive in terms of shutter lag, autofocus, and shot to shot times. Maybe not as quick as a modern SLR film camera, but nearly so. The five frame per second continuous mode is excellent for fast action sports photography. Outdoor pictures can be slightly over or underexposed, depending on the lighting, however can be easily corrected by computer software. The lens shows some slight distortion (curving straight lines) at maximum telephoto and minimum wide angle zoom, however not too disconcerting. The lens is fairly sharp and 3 megapixel images have good to excellent detail. The 6x optical zoom gives me the close-up capability needed. The 602 has loads of features such as different scene positions (portrait, sports landscape, night, monochrome) and modes (programmed, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual) and a host of other advanced settings. A serious amateur could spend weeks if not months creatively exploring the controls of the 602. I use an IBM microdrive which allows 842 shots at 3 meg/fine resolution. Needless to say, thats the equivalent of over 30 rolls of 35mm film, so I don't have to worry about running out of media on any given day. With the microdrive I can also shoot 15 minutes of video at 30 frames per second, which makes it a reasonable video camera in a pinch. All in all, this is a very good camera for the serious amateur. If one forgoes "megapixel mania" of the higher resolution cameras, the 602 really appeals to the sports photography or serious amateur.

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B&H has very good customer service. Everything arrives on time well packaged. Be wary of the cut rate shops advertising in the photo mags, they will often mislead or stiff you.

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HP 612 megapixel camera. Minolta Maxxum 5 SLR (this is an excellent serious amateur 35MM SLR camera - highly recommended). Collection of 10 or more antique cameras at any one time.

Build. Handling. Results.

Viewfinder. No remote release.

Fantastic results on landscape shots. Macro is totally superb (I am used to using extension rings etc)- focusses down to 1cm!!!! Didn't buy it for the movie mode but this has proved to be great fun. Set it to 6M pixels and normal compression and you get 100+ pics on a 128 meg card. Batteries seem to last better than my old Fuji DX-10.

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Great film speeds up to 1600, full screen movies at vga setting, quick flash synch(esp in a manual mode for a touch of fill) 6x zoom is usually enough, good feel, and of course, most importantly: EXCEPTIONAL PRINTS!!!

If I had to pick anything it would be that the 602 has an Electronic View Finder, which is nice for seeing info in the viewfinder, but can be tricky to get used to and does use a bit more battery than a regular optical viewfinder.

I must admit I was a bit skeptical as to wht this camera could do compared to my Nikon D1, but I saw some prints from a friend and really liked the size and zoom, so I decided to give it a try. I just had a baby girl and she quickly became my test subject. The results: Flawless! I could not be more pleased. It is easy to carry, synchs great with 3rd party flashes, will shoot up to an ISO of 1600, takes both CF and SM, and the pictures are excellent. I even played with the macro and super macro to test the lens and see if the pixels would "break down" again, excellent results. I can say that besides my "pro" shoots where changing lenses more necessary, I will pull this camera from my bag much more than any others.

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Fuji themselves is ok for service, owever I haven't needed them for this product.

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I have shoot professionally both film and digital for years, you name it, I have played with it at one point or another