Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000 35mm Camera
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: FujifilmModel: 4024325
Product features:
- 35mm compact point-and-shoot
- 28-100mm 3.6x zoom lens with autofocus
- Multi-mode flash features red-eye reduction
- Automatic film loading, advance, and rewind
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000 35mm Camera
Customer Review: Convenient but Problematic Lens
Summary: 3 Stars
So I am one of the holdouts still using film, preferring it to my digital cameras. My #1 reason is because I have an Olympus Stylus Epic with a non-zooming lens. It easily fits in a pocket, and the pictures it takes are good enough to blow up to poster size, whereas digital P&S cameras aren't good enough for that.
However I prefer shooting wider than the Epic's 35mm, and having a zoom seemed fun, so I tried out this camera. First impressions were good - it's not tiny, but it's smallish, and fits in a pants pocket without too much difficulty. Operation is quick and easy, metering is good, and I have no complaints there.
However the lens is problematic. Used on the wide end in good light, results are quite good, if not great - I haven't blown any of the pictures up poster-sized, but they looked fine.
Zooming the lens in gives ridiculously bad results. Particularly if you zoom all the way, it's ridiculously low resolution and everything just becomes a blobby mess. Furthermore, the max aperture at 100mm is like F10, so unless it's a bright sunny day, there'll be camera shake anyway. So I consider this more of a 28-50mm lens.
Also, if it's in less-than bright conditions where the camera has to shoot at max. aperture, the vignetting and blurring in the corners is very, very strong. It reminds me of using a toy camera. Sometimes I seem to get a bit of edge blurring even in good light.
So my final verdict is that while it's not a terrible camera, it's not a compelling one, either.
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