Fujifilm FinePix Z800EXR Digital Camera Review

The Fujifilm FinePix Z800EXR is a digital camera featuring a 3.5" touch screen, 5x optical zoom, hybrid auto focus and more to make taking photographs even easier than ever. Morgan Webb and Clark Duke review the $145 digital camera for its official Gadget Pr0n rating!

What You Need To Know

• The FinePix Z800EXR digital camera is a little thicker than other pocket sized point-and-shoot cameras.
• The design features a lens cover that slides down and has a nice solid feel.
• The camera powers on in about 3 seconds and the Z briefly lights up in the front.
• The most obvious design feature is the 3.5" touch screen, which means there are hardly any buttons on it.
• The touch screen is extremely responsive and accurate.
• The interface instantly rotates with the camera, which most point and shoots don't do very well.
• The extra screen real estate is nice for reviewing your pictures, swiping through photos and diving through menus.
• The Z800 has interesting features like face and pet recognition, which we tested with mixed results.
• We're going to give it the benefit of the doubt and say yes, this feature works.
• The Z800 also has a 360 degree panorama mode, which on other cameras you have to visually stitch together one by one.
• With this FinePix camera, you can press the shutter and spin around for the panorama picture, which we really liked.
• The camera can simultaneously auto focus and snap a picture, and we discovered that our pictures were mostly in focus.
• The photo quality was not bad: low light pictures were grainy and washed out and we still had some focus issues.
• The flash made photos evenly exposed but still grainy.
• Outdoor pictures were better and in some cases, sunny photos were a little over exposed but not enough to make the issue a deal breaker.
• We had good results after taking the time to understand the four different automatic shooting modes.

Price

• $145

Rating

• 3 Seals of Approval out of 5. (How do we rate gadgets?)
• The picture quality is sub-par compared to other cameras in this price range, but this camera is worth checking out if you want a touch screen and extra features.

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