Fujifilm FinePix F40fd - Test Shots

Fujifilm FinePix F40fd - Test Shots - Exposure Evaluation

A range of test shots are shown over the next two pages. Here, the full size image has been reduced for bandwidth purposes, and in some case a crop taken from the original full resolution image has been placed below it in order for you to gain an appreciation of the overall quality.

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Shooting without a flash in low light at 1600 ISO produces a nice image with good colour balance and almost zero noise. There aren't many compact cameras that could have taken this shot, and all of them are by Fuji.

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Using the flash in the same situation shows the quality of the metering, perfectly balancing the flash with the ambient light.

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The wide-angle end of the zoom range is equivalent to 36mm, slightly wider than most compacts.

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The telephoto end of the 3x zoom is equivalent to 108mm. This shot was taken from the same position as the one above.

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Paul Tasker

1:33 AM on 19 July, 2008

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Not impressed. I bought one in new york as I figured I could get great deal over there, half the pictures were taken with the fuji, the other half with my old budget samsung L700 and the samsungs turned out better!

The images contain high levels of chromatic aberation, noticable barel distortion and the colours are cold and unatural. Sharpness is not that impressive either. It was hard not to under expose images in many situations too.

It does take stunning pictures in low light thanks to impressive results at high sensitivities but the daytime shots were much less good.

Overall I'd only give it 4/10 and put it straight onto ebay.

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Dee

10:21 AM on 24 July, 2008

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I just bought this camera and it's very good indoors and in low light but I have to say outdoors colours do look very cold on a CRT monitor although they look fine on a Standard CRT TV or LCD screen.

The quality of the photos at 100 ISO are not as good as many other cameras, but what it can do at the high ISO's is amazing. it's 800 ISO is as good as many camera's 200 ISO. I'd say this camera was made more for taking photos of people then landscapes. And most people will have their pictures taken indoors.

One great feature not mentioned is this camera has a white LED light built in. Not only can it come on to provide a bit of extra light for the camera to focus at night, but in video mode you can also have the light on to provide more light when filming.

I also love the mode that takes two shots, one without a flash and one with - before I've had to do all that manually and tell people not to move whilst I adjust my old camera settings.

The continuous shooting mode is by far the worse I've ever seen in any camera, it is so slow between shots - which I don't understand why because it has a two shot mode which works really well, but anything more then 2 shots and you're left waiting ages between each frame. Even reducing the size of the pixels to the lowest and using a very fast SD card doesn't seem to make any difference. It would seem there is software in the camera stopping it taking photos any quicker more then any physical limitation.

It's also a shame there's no auto bracketing feature.

I have fairly small and nibble fingers but even I struggle to turn the selector wheel - there's virtually nothing on there to grip on to.

I would say this is a good nightclubbing / indoor party camera. It would also be nice if the camera could shoot in 16:9 format for the new generation that only want to display photos on a TV.

What's interesting about this camera is most of it's short comings could easily be improved in software, i.e. Lack of auto bracketing, 16:9 photos, slow continuous shooting.

I hope Fuji listen to their customers and perhaps introduce a new firmware update that would add these features

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