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Fujifilm FinePix S1800
Overview
by Mike Pasini, Stephanie Drunk, Shawn Barnett and Zig Weidelich
Review Posted: 12/21/2010
The Fujifilm FinePix S1800 is based around a 12.2-megapixel sensor, with a Fujinon-branded 18x optical zoom lens. Maximum image resolution is 4,000 x 3,000 pixels in the camera's native four:3 aspect ratio, and both 3:ii and 16:ix attribute ratio modes are also available. The Fujifilm S1800's lens offers actual focal lengths ranging from 5.0 to 90.0mm, equivalent to 28 to 504mm on a 35mm photographic camera -- a useful wide-bending to a powerful telephoto. The Fuji S1800 has a ii-step aperture, offering either f/iii.one or f/half-dozen.4 at wide-angle, and either f/5.6 or f/11 at telephoto, using an ND filter. Minimum focusing altitude is ordinarily sixteen inches, merely drops to as little as 0.eight inches in Super Macro mode. At that place's no true optical viewfinder on this model, but as yous'd expect on a long-zoom digicam similar this, there's a 0.two-inch, 200,000 dot LCD electronic viewfinder which takes its place. There's also a 3.0-inch high-contrast LCD monitor with 230,000 dot resolution.
The FinePix S1800 offers ISO-equivalent sensitivity ranging from 64 to one,600 ordinarily, but can heighten the maximum to half dozen,400 equivalent at a reduced resolution of three megapixels or below. Exposures are adamant using 256-zone Multi, Average or Spot metering, and shooting modes include Auto, Program, Shutter-priority, Discontinuity-priority, Manual, and a generous sixteen scene modes that let a modicum of command over the look of images. Importantly given the reach of its lens, the Fuji S1800 includes true mechanical (CCD shift-type) prototype stabilization to combat blur from camera shake. Shutter speeds range from ane/ii,000 to viii seconds. Burst shooting is possible at full resolution with a rate of upward to 1.iii frames per second, albeit with a burst depth of only three shots.
The Fujifilm S1800's contrast detection autofocusing system offers a choice of single-point, multi-point or area focus focusing, and includes both a tracking function and AF assist illuminator. Eight white balance modes are bachelor, including automatic, half dozen presets, and transmission. The Fuji S1800's built-in seven-mode flash has a range of 1.3 to 26.2 feet at broad-angle, or eight.2 to 14.4 feet at telephoto (using Machine ISO), which can exist reduced to a range of one to 9.eight feet in macro mode at wide-angle, or to 5.9 feet at telephoto. A two- or 10-second self timer is available to allow the photographer to get into the photograph, or to reduce blur when shooting on a tripod.
Also as JPEG-format still images, the Fujifilm S1800 tin capture Move JPEG-compressed AVI video with monaural audio. Movie resolutions include loftier-definition 720p (one,280 10 720 pixels), VGA (640 ten 480 pixels) and QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) with a rate of 30 frames per 2d. The Fuji FinePix S1800 stores its data on Secure Digital cards, including the newer SDHC types, or in 23MB of born memory. Connectivity options include USB 2.0 Loftier Speed data and NTSC / PAL standard definition video output. Power comes from iv AA batteries, with alkaline disposables included in the product bundle.
The Fuji FinePix S1800 began aircraft in the USA from February 2010, priced at around US$230.
Fujifilm FinePix S1800
User Written report
by Mike Pasini, with Shawn Barnett and Zig Weidelich
Annotation: The Fujifilm S1800 is identical to the Fujifilm S2550HD (besides known equally S2500HD in some markets), except it doesn't have an HDMI port, then this review and the examination results were actually from an S2550HD.
Fujifilm makes some interesting cameras -- if you beloved photography. One example for photography lovers on the Fujifilm S1800 that leaped out at me: Program style on most digicams is nothing but Car with a few card options enabled. Simply on a Fujifilm photographic camera, Program really lets y'all select the aperture/f-stop combination, usually called Program Shift. Yous know, exactly how Program is supposed to work.
We found the Fujifilm S1800 enjoyable to use, and were impressed at the super low price, but information technology'due south not quite the photographer's camera that nosotros'd take liked, with but two aperture settings. That's a disappointment, because many photographers like to shoot in Aperture priority mode.
Another Fujifilm benefit that we found in the FinePix S18000 are the shooting modes and aspect ratios that emulate film ("picture" is however a part of their name, afterward all). And the Photo Way carte du jour is notwithstanding unique to Fujifilm.
The Fujifilm S1800 is an 18x superzoom that inherits that love of photography. That love is reflected in the modest 18x lens just when competitors take cleaved the 20x barrier. Every bit with sensors, more isn't always meliorate. In the instance of lenses, it means more baloney and more chromatic aberration. Fujifilm didn't shoot for the highest number with the relatively cheap S1800, because it normally brings more distortion.
Look and Feel. First, let's betoken out that the Fujifilm S1800 is well congenital. The recent trend has been toward cheaper and cheaper builds in long and superzooms. And so outright prolonged adulation for building a solid photographic camera body with a substantial rubberized textured surface instead of the lightweight plastic body panels used on then many superzooms.
Like any superzoom, though, the Fujifilm S1800 is a contradiction. It's compact compared to a dSLR, and yet much too large for a pocket. Appearing much like a mini-SLR format, the superzoom is really a big lens with a large grip and a big LCD tucked into the smallest shape possible.
That shape is nigh square, though, and so a superzoom like the Fujifilm S1800 doesn't much similar to be tucked away in a camera pocketbook. They all transport with shoulder straps rather than wrist straps, although I yet prefer to utilise a wrist strap, dropping the camera in a dSLR holster. It swims effectually in there, but it's convenient.
The big lens requires a popular-off lens cap, which itself requires a tether of some sort. The Fujifilm S1800 comes with both.
The Fujifilm S1800 big grip houses four AA batteries, which are themselves becoming rare in digital cameras. We had to dig effectually the bunker a while to discover four lithium AAs to use.
And the big LCD is a full 3.0-inch model. Information technology was my least favorite feature, though, because its resolution is just 230K pixels and it tin be hard to see in sunlight (although you tin bump up the brightness).
And then with all these contradictions, I institute myself wondering if the Fujifilm S1800 is a big small photographic camera or a small large camera?
Controls. The Fujifilm S1800 controls are arrayed along the top of the grip and to the right of the LCD on the back panel. There are non a lot of them, but there are a few unusual ones.
The Fujifilm S1800'due south Power switch on the height panel is a bit unusual. It's a leap-loaded switch you lot move to the right to plow the camera on or off. It has a slightly raised correct end to help you pull, only I found it a nuisance. I was never certain I'd pulled far enough correct, and the raised end was a little too hard to observe. I like switches but I prefer Panasonic's approach, using a switch that powers on to the correct and off to the left.
Forrad of that switch are ii pocket-sized buttons. The 1 on the left is the Intelligent Confront Detection/Red-Eye Removal button, helped optionally past the Card selection for Blink Detection, which warns yous if the photographic camera thinks someone whose face was detected blinked. The 1 on the right is the Burst mode button. Those are two options you might dabble with from shot to shot, so it makes sense they're right behind the Fujifilm S1800's Shutter button.
The large chrome Shutter push is surrounded by the Zoom lever.
The Zoom lever has an uncommonly large knob. It may look a picayune funny merely I liked it. And the Fujifilm S1800 zoomed smoothly and slowly enough to aid rather than thwart limerick. Something, again, a photographer would appreciate.
The Mode dial is on the peak panel, as well, but left of the grip merely reachable with your thumb. Unfortunately the Photo push button is likewise reachable with your thumb. Mine rested on it often, bringing up the menu unintentionally.
Photograph Menu. The essentials.
In a higher place left of this is the EVF/LCD toggle button. Long zooms require an electronic viewfinder. Done well they tin exist an asset but they are oft done poorly. The Fujifilm S1800's EVF has a flake as well depression resolution for my taste and the diopter was non adjustable (although it looked sharp to me with or without glasses). Information technology takes a picayune of the fun out of using the camera and can fool you into thinking the shots you're capturing aren't equally good as they are.
Below that are the Playback push and the Photograph manner push button to ready things like image size, image quality, and color mode. The Playback push button offers the nuisance of simply putting you into Playback fashion, only not allowing you to become back into Record way with a second press on the push. Instead, pressing that Playback button while in Playback mode will only bring up the message, in all caps, "PRESS THE SHUTTER BUTTON TO Become BACK TO THE SHOOTING Manner SLIDE THE ON/OFF SWITCH TO Turn OFF THE Camera." Wouldn't it be more productive to instead merely take the user back to Tape mode?
The Fujifilm S1800'south four-way navigator is under those two buttons. Information technology surrounds a Menu/OK button. The Upwards arrow doubles as the Monitor Brightness push button and Delete button. The Correct arrow cycles through the Flash options. The Down pointer is the Instant Zoom push, which shows more than of the scene that the sensor will capture so yous can rail fast-moving subjects, though capture is at a lower quality. And the Left push cycles through the Macro and Super Macro options.
Below the navigator are ii more buttons. To the left is the Display/Back button and to the right is the EV/Info button. EV buttons are fast disappearing into the Bill of fare system on many digicams so it's nice to come across the Fujifilm S1800 buck that tendency as well. Photographers tend to love EV buttons because they let united states override the meter reading to expose dark or lite subjects appropriately.
That's it for the buttons, but there'due south an USB/AV port built into the side of the grip and a speaker on the contrary side of the camera (where your mitt won't muffle it).
There'due south also an AF-assistance lamp on the front of the Fujifilm S1800 betwixt the grip and the lens. And there's a button to pop up the flash on the outside edge of the flash housing. Just below that in the sculpted rim effectually the lens is the microphone, shielded a scrap at least from the wind.
On the bottom of the camera is the tripod mount and the bombardment/carte du jour compartment. The tripod mount is centered on the bottom panel but not aligned to the lens.
Lens. The lens is a Fujinon 18x optical zoom lens with apertures of f/iii.i or f/6.4 at wide-angle and f/v.6 or f/11.0 at telephoto, using a neutral density filter. Focal lengths range from 28mm to 504mm in 35mm equivalents with digital zoom of 6.3x, upward to 113.4x with optical zoom.
Wide-angle focuses from 1.3 foot to infinity and telephoto from 8.2 feet to infinity. Macro focuses from 0.ii foot to 9.8 feet at wide-angle and from v.9 anxiety to nine.8 feet at telephoto. Super Macro focuses from 0.1 pes to iii.three anxiety at wide-angle simply.
Image stabilization is sensor-shift, meaning that the Fujifilm S1800'due south sensor is mounted on a moving platen that is moved to recoup for camera motility during exposure.
I couldn't find a manual focus style on the Fujifilm S1800 because there just isn't one. But yous can exist pretty specific about where the camera should autofocus. Autofocus modes include Center, Multi (for off-center high-contrast subjects), Area (which allows yous to move the focus target using the navigator arrows), and Tracking (which follows a moving subject when you one-half-printing the Shutter button).
Modes. Modes are the personality of your photographic camera. And the Fujifilm S1800'southward modes reveal a traditional photographic personality focused on exposure options rather than mail service-processing tricks-and-gimmicks.
Real PASM . The first indication of this is that the Fujifilm S1800 includes the full gear up of PASM options: Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and Manual. Just press the EV button to manipulate the relevant selection with the Up and Downwardly arrows. And in Manual, utilise the Left and Right button to select shutter speed or aperture.
Program Mode. Select the f-stop / aperture combination.
Fujifilm expects the FinePix S1800 owner to want to gear up just the shutter or the aperture, or both, to handle a particular situation (fast action, lighting and subject that would fool a meter, etc). And so the company made it convenient to do.
Pressing the EV push, located in an odd position on the lower right, allows you lot to adjust the aperture and shutter speed combinations. It's not exactly a range, though, since in that location are only two available apertures.
Custom . If the photographic camera can be configured by the photographer, information technology makes sense to be able to store the configuration and the Fujifilm S1800 provides a Custom mode to do only that. You can record the Photograph menu options, Shooting carte options, Setup menu options and a few other items.
Photo bill of fare options include settings for ISO, Image Size, Paradigm Quality and FinePix Color.
ISO Bill of fare. Auto can be capped at 800 or 400.
Shooting menu options include settings for Photometry, White Balance, Loftier-Speed Shooting, Focusing, AF Fashion, Sharpness, Flash, and Bracketing.
The Fujifilm S1800'southward Setup card options include settings for Image Display, Dual IS Mode, AF Illuminator, Digital Zoom, and EVF/LCD mode.
Other options including settings for PASM, Continuous release mode, Intelligent Face up Detection, Instant Zoom, Macro mode, EV, Flash style, Shutter speed, Aperture, EVF/LCD, and Indicators/Best Framing.
Motorcar . There is an Auto mode, don't worry, which turns the Fujifilm S1800 into a competent point-and-shoot camera with an 18x lens. The bombardment status and focus point are displayed (optionally) on the LCD or EVF and you tin can likewise shift the Display mode into Silent mode to turn off the speaker and the AF-help calorie-free.
Motorcar Scene Recognition . Auto Scene Recognition style tin optimize the Fujifilm S1800's settings for several kinds of scenes automatically, a big assistance to the newcomer. The mode selected is displayed with an icon when the Shutter button is displayed half way.
Scene recognition includes Portrait, Landscape, Night Landscape, Macro, Dark Portrait, and Backlit Portrait. If the Fujifilm S1800 can't decide, information technology only uses Auto.
Being able to distinguish between Portrait and Landscape is very helpful all by itself, but being able to slip into Macro fashion when necessary is an increasingly common and very welcome addition. Probably virtually welcome, however, is Backlit mode. It's one of the well-nigh mutual exposure problems you'll see.
Auto Scene mode does enable face recognition, using the battery more than apace as focus is continually adapted, but that's a adept trade-off.
SP Scene Recognition . You can besides manually select the scene setup you lot desire, which includes a few more options harder to notice automatically. These are worth a little explanation.
- Natural Light turns off the wink, bumps up ISO and relies on the available natural light to capture the prototype. That'south my favorite setting and is almost never seen on a digicam. Sure, you can go out information technology in Car and plow of the flash in many cameras, but having a dedicated mode saves some piffling with the controls.
- Natural & Flash requires you to pop up the Flash to take both a natural light shot and a flash shot. So that's two shots for every shutter press. This is very handy for backlit subjects where you can't decide it you want to help the lite with the flash or not.
- Zoom Bracketing takes three shots for every shutter printing, using dissimilar zoom settings. The current zoom setting is used for the commencement shot, which is taken at the Large image size. The second shot is zoomed in 1.4x and cropped to Medium prototype size. The tertiary is zoomed in 2x and cropped to Minor image size. And then the lens position never changes merely the image processor crops the captured epitome. Ii frames are shown in this fashion to indicate what the crops volition be. You can switch between landscape and portrait orientation by pressing the Down cardinal. You can't apply digital zoom in this mode.
- Smile holds the shutter until Intelligent Confront Detection detects a smile. It'south a self-timer for happiness.
- Portrait softens detail and emphasized natural skin tones.
- Landscape optimizes the camera for daylight shots of subjects at infinity.
- Sport gives priority to fast shutter speeds using High Speed shooting, reducing focusing fourth dimension, and sets the EVF/LCD way to sixty fps.
- Nighttime raises ISO sensitivity for twilight or night scenes.
- Nighttime (Tripod) goes further than Dark by using slow shutter speeds, assuming the camera is stabilized.
- Fireworks uses ho-hum shutter speeds to capture the move of fireworks through the night sky. The EV push lets you select a specific shutter speed.
- Sunset records the vivid colors of either dusk or sunrise.
- Snowfall adjusts exposure for bright snowfall scenes.
- Beach adjusts exposure for bright beach scenes.
- Party optimizes camera settings for low-light political party weather condition.
- Blossom sets the camera to Macro mode and bright color.
- Text sets the photographic camera to Macro mode and adjusts exposure for high-key subjects like paper.
Panorama . The Fujifilm S1800 will stitch a multi-exposure panorama together in the camera. You can take up to three shots. Successive shots show a ghosted alignment image on part of the frame. You can select which direction to pan by using the Up arrow.
Exposure and White Residue are set with the beginning shot. Line up each shot with the ghosted paradigm and use the OK button to proceed to the side by side or the Back push button to reshoot i of the images in the sequence. Press the OK push to finish shooting and outset processing the images.
A few seconds later, you'll take a stitched panorama, fabricated right within the Fujifilm S1800.
With such a wide range of focal lengths, stitching tin can't always be seamless. At wide-angle and shut to our subject area, it wasn't very successful. But landscapes were well spliced.
Movie . There aren't many digicams I have enjoyed taking movies with. Commonly the zoom is just impossible to control. Often autofocus is inebriated. Sound makes you blench, especially if in that location'due south even the hint of cakewalk.
But the Fujifilm S1800, while non solving all those problems, didn't do badly with whatever of them. It did, unfortunately, introduce a high-pitched whine whose source was undiscoverable. The fact that it appears in all audio, regardless of relative ambient racket, tells us that the source is the camera itself.
Hd movie. [email protected] 34.8MB file lasting 10 seconds. (Click to download AVI file.)
The Fujifilm S1800's zoom speed, while constant, is slow enough that it'due south pleasant to utilise. Autofocus didn't always quite keep up with the zoom but did finally catch up. And the microphone, tucked under the flash housing, is protected from some of the wind noise at least. The zoom motor is quite loud, only at least the zoom works, which cannot be said for many digital cameras. When zooming from telephoto to wide, the Fujifilm S1800's image goes blurry, though, until the zooming stops and the camera is able to focus again.
Options on the Photo menu in Movie mode include just Frame Size: 1,280 x 720, 640 10 480, or 320 x 240, all at 30 frames per 2nd. From the Fujifilm S1800's Bill of fare arrangement you can also set the Zoom Type (Optical, which may pick up the zoom motor in the audio, or 3x Digital).
Movie clips tin can't exceed either 2GB in size or 15 minutes in length.
There is no defended Movie push. Yous simply switch the Style punch to Picture and use the Shutter push button to commencement and stop recording.
Menu System. Fujifilm's card system is a piffling different from other manufacturer's carte du jour systems. It breaks off the ISO, Paradigm Size, Image Quality and Color options from the Fujifilm S1800's primary carte system into a Photo carte accessed past pressing the "f" button.
Colour Carte du jour. Await in the Photo menu if you tin't detect something.
This can drive you mad if you're looking for the card item to switch from 4:three to 16:ix or 3:2 aspect ratio. Or you tin't find the choice to shoot Black and White. Just once you remember it's on the Photo carte, you'll be fine.
The main menu system handles options for Shooting, Playback and Setup, like any other digicam. Shooting and Playback both have two screens of options. Setup, which has three tabs, is the last option on the Shooting and Playback menus. Options are grayed out if the detail camera setup doesn't back up them.
Type is very large (if the font is a bit cheesy) and color is subdued. The menus overlay either the scene in Shooting mode or an image in Playback. That makes it a little decorated simply information technology works.
The Fujifilm S1800'south card system is displayed in the EVF if you've toggled to that display.
Storage & Battery. The Fujifilm S1800 has near 23MB of internal memory for use in a pinch. It supports SD/SDHC cards for normal storage, with Class 4 or faster SDHC cards preferred for video capture.
A 2GB SD card will hold well-nigh 320 Fine Quality 4:iii images or 7 minutes of 720p Hard disk drive video.
The company sells an HDP-L1 SD carte reader that plugs into your HDTV's HDMI port and uses a remote control to run slide shows or play movies.
The Fujifilm S1800 is powered by 4 AA batteries. A gear up of alkalines are included as a sort of worst example benchmark, I suppose. You'll want four Ni-MH rechargeable batteries or, in a pinch, four lithium batteries.
Using CIPA standards, Fujifilm specifies alkaline battery capacity at 300 shots, Ni-MH at 500, and lithium at 700, which is pretty adept.
A DC coupler (CP-04) with Air-conditioning power adapter (Air-conditioning-5VX is) available every bit an selection.
Epitome Quality. Pixel-peeping a superzoom is a recipe for disappointment. You lot'll find the unavoidable distortion and chromatic aberration all long zooms endure. My hunch is that the issues are slight enough -- especially if you go to impress -- that few will carp trying to correct it in a program like Photoshop. Corners are soft, but information technology's not too noticeable when press at 8x10. Noise suppression is also pretty active pretty quickly, but our printed results bear witness that the camera'south even so capable of making a decent 11x14 at the lower settings (see beneath for epitome quality).
Zoom Range. 28mm to 504mm to 6.3x digital zoom.
Shooting. If the Fujifilm S1800 wasn't the first digicam I grabbed on my style out the door, information technology was only considering a superzoom requires some attention when information technology comes to carrying it. But if I took the try to bring forth a photographic camera bag, I never regretted shooting with the S1800. It handled any situation I put it in and brought back shots as good as annihilation else.
My kickoff trip was upwardly Twin Peaks. At the same time I took along the Sony Cyber-shot WX5, which makes for an interesting comparison. Many of the shots were exactly the aforementioned, if handheld.
The weathered Portola Substation sign shot is a good example. Sony has rich color, but perhaps a bit too rich for the subject area. Particular on both is excellent but when combined with the less saturated color of the Fujifilm S1800, the S1800 shot looked more natural, more sun-bathed.
The row of logs is some other instructive comparing. Both cameras did an excellent task belongings onto highlight detail and giving the sky some colour in this s-facing shot. The WX5 held shadow detail better (expect at the end of the log closest to the camera) only highlight detail was bleached compared to the S1800's rendering. The Fujifilm S1800 shows a flake more than contrast in the field, too. Much equally I liked the WX5 shot, I preferred the S1800 capture.
Of grade, all of those shots were taken without tweaking the camera. Just point and shoot. And also obvious should exist that neither camera's LCD lets you brand very intelligent exposure decisions in the field.
When I got to the top of the loma, I was impressed with the Fujifilm S1800'south digital zoom. The shot west of the ocean with the hills and (in the very far altitude) the California coast shows more detail than the full optical zoom shot of the same scene but before it. In the digital zoom image, you tin actually brand out a light-green hammock in the trees below one of the houses that yous can't see in the optical zoom shot.
We frequently disregard digital zoom, but when it tin can deliver more detail, it earns some consideration.
The same thing happened with my shot of the Golden Gate Bridge. The horizontal support cables are very clear and sharp from i cease of the bridge to the other. That's unusual. The weather helped this time, no doubt, simply I expect digital zoom to obscure not heighten item similar that.
Detail, Color. Detail is abrupt and color is not oversaturated.
Next I spent some fourth dimension at the beach with the Fujifilm S1800. Most of the shots were at the full optical zoom or digital zoom (expect in the Blended section of the Exif header for the 35mm equivalent; values over 504mm are zoomed digitally).
The shot of the windmill is very well captured with good color and item. Shots of the ocean were less abrupt (and usually digitally zoomed) only quite acceptable. I did find it hard to frame and focus the photographic camera by hand at long focal lengths, merely I was on my cycle and quite a distance from the surf.
With closer subjects, the Fujifilm S1800 was much easier to handle.
Ane exposure puzzle that eluded me was how the S1800 picked ISO. It seems information technology only goes to ISO 64 when in that location is a vivid highlight that would commonly be blown out. It likes ISO 100 and sometimes shoots ISO 250 in brilliant sun.
The two images of the world's largest sundial (or so I've been told) are a good example. The shot that frames more of the scene (including copse) is taken at ISO 125 while the shot that crops the sundial tightly is at ISO 250. I would have thought the 2nd shot would accept been at ISO 64.
At full screen resolution, neither shot looks particularly precipitous and detailed, as if racket suppression had smoothed over the detail. Only back away a fleck and the color and contrast makes the shots.
In many of these shots, if you await very closely, you'll come across some evidence of chromatic aberration in the corners but I found information technology quite mild and acceptable in full general and particularly well controlled for a superzoom.
Dahlias. No thwarting here.
My concluding ready of shots were of the dahlia garden in Gilded Gate Park. Dahlias make good subjects. Brilliant color, lots of detail, even more diversity. Hard to have a bad picture of dahlias.
And the Fujifilm S1800 took some very nice ones.
If highlight detail was diddled out on some of the white flowers, it seemed sacrificed for overall contrast. Those are the kind of images I would spend some time on in a photograph editor to repossess just a tiny bit of particular for the petals. The images are worth it.
Only for more mid-range flowers, the results were very dainty. To the point, actually, that using Super Macro or even just Macro permit me compose shots that had a rhythm to them across straight portraiture. The petals seemed to swing.
Just you expect that kind of shooting experience from a real camera.
Fujifilm FinePix S1800 Lens Quality
Note that the Fuji S1800's full telephoto focal length (90mm or 504mm eq.) is as well long for our standard lab lens quality test shots, and so most telephoto lab shots below were taken at approximately 75mm (422mm eq. or about 15x).
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| Wide: Abrupt at middle | Wide: Very soft at upper left | Tele: Sharper at centre | Tele: Some blurring, upper left corner |
Sharpness: The wide-angle terminate of the Fujifilm FinePix S1800's zoom shows potent blurring in the corners of the frame compared to what we see at eye, and blurring extends quite far in toward the main epitome area. At 15x telephoto, operation is a niggling better, though softening in the corners is distinct.
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| Wide: Less than average barrel distortion; noticeable |
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| Tele: College than average pincushion distortion, noticeable |
Geometric Distortion: There is less butt distortion than average at wide-angle (0.4%), though pincushion baloney at 15x telephoto is a footling stronger than normal (0.iii%). While baloney is noticeable at both zoom settings, the effect isn't overly strong.
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| Wide: Moderate | Tele: Bright |
Chromatic Abnormality: Chromatic aberration at broad-angle is moderate in terms of pixel count, though pixels are a little bright. The effect is as well a fiddling distorted, thank you to stiff blurring in the corners here. At 15x telephoto, magenta and greenish fringing is also quite bright.
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| Macro | Macro with Wink |
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| Super Macro |
Macro: The Fujifilm FinePix S1800's normal Macro mode captures a fairly abrupt paradigm with adept item, and manages to do so with merely slight blurring in the corners of the frame (a common limitation amongst consumer digital cameras in macro mode). Minimum coverage expanse is 2.fourteen ten one.60 inches (55 x 41mm), which is off-white. In Super Macro fashion, the minimum expanse measures 1.51 ten 1.14 inches (39 ten 29mm), which is pretty good, though blurring and chromatic abnormality are very strong. The exposure is also quite uneven. The photographic camera focuses so closely that the flash is blocked by the lens in the lower right portion of the frame.
Fujifilm FinePix S1800 Viewfinder Accurateness
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| Wide: EVF | Tele: EVF |
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| Broad: LCD Monitor | Tele: LCD Monitor |
Viewfinder Accuracy: The Fujifilm FinePix S1800'south EVF and LCD monitor showed about the aforementioned frame accurateness, capturing about 103% of the image area at broad angle, and about 98% at 15x telephoto. This is below average for an EVF and LCD. Note that the framing at wide angle cuts off some of the lower portion of the target, likely due to heavy distortion correction.
Fujifilm FinePix S1800 Image Quality
Color: Overall colour is fairly proficient, with pretty good saturation levels fifty-fifty in the brighter colors. Strong reds are pumped a piddling, but non profoundly, while cyans and aquas are a little muted. Hue is as well pretty good, though orange is noticeably shifted toward yellow, and yellow toward green. White is besides shifted toward yellow/green, indicating transmission white residue isn't terribly accurate. Night skin tones are pushed toward yellow and orange, while lighter skin tones are just well-nigh right. Fair results overall.
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| Automobile WB: | Incandescent WB: |
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| Transmission WB: |
I ncandescent: Manual white residuum handled our incandescent lighting all-time overall, though it does accept a slightly cool, magenta tint. Motorcar was much likewise warm, and Incandescent very pink.
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| Horizontal: 1,700 lines | Vertical: 1,700 lines |
Resolution: Our laboratory resolution chart revealed sharp, distinct line patterns downward to almost 1,700 lines per moving picture height in both directions. Extinction of the pattern occurred at around two,300 lines per film height.
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| Wide: Inconclusive | Tele: Fairly bright |
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| Auto Flash |
Wink: Our manufacturer-specified testing (shown at right) doesn't work well at wide angle when the reported distance goes beyond 16 feet, considering that takes the camera out of the main lab, and so the wide-bending result is inconclusive. The telephoto test came out fairly bright at 14.four anxiety, but required a hefty ISO increase to 800.
Car wink produced slightly dim results in our indoor portrait scene, retaining simply a hint of the ambient light at 1/sixty 2d, and raising ISO to 400. Because the shutter speed is fairly quick, you should be able to avoid subject move blur for virtually indoor portraits. The Fuji S1800's CCD-shift epitome stabilization will also help avoid blur due to camera milk shake.
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| 64 | 100 | 200 | 400 |
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| 800 | 1,600 | 3,200 | vi,400 |
ISO: Noise and Detail: Detail is relatively good upwards to about ISO 100, though with a certain smoothing feature of noise suppression. Visible softening begins at ISO 200. Chroma (color) racket is controlled up to ISO 800, where information technology becomes more than noticeable. At ISOs 800 and 1,600, nevertheless, blurring is quite strong. ISOs 3,200 and 6,400 limit resolution in an effort to control the visible distortion, which actually works fairly well at three,200. At half dozen,400, results are again very cloudy and soft. See Printed results beneath for more on how this affects prints.
ISO 100 shots are a little soft at 13x19 inches, just get crisper at 11x14.
ISO 200 shots are also good at 11x14, with some soft areas. High-contrast red areas are a little soft, and fine detail is too absent on very close inspection, simply information technology'south not equally bad as information technology looks onscreen.
ISO 400 images are improve at 8x10, with expert detail.
ISO 800 images are usable just soft at 8x10; depression light scenes would expect expert, but brighter scenes give away the noise suppression mistiness. 5x7-inch prints are a good bargain better, though some dissonance still shows in darker blues and purples.
ISO ane,600 shots are noisy and soft at 5x7, quite similar to how the ISO 800 images looked. They look a picayune better at 4x6, only not much. The color seems a bit off and the softness is still apparent. Nosotros'd telephone call information technology usable, though.
ISO 3,200 images are made from smaller files created past "pixel-binning," taking a group of pixels to represent one in a smaller paradigm. It really looks pretty good at 4x6 inches, simply not any larger.
ISO 6,400 images, also made from a reduced-size file, have a watercolor effect and a blur that seems to glow as well. It'southward not a good thing unless that'southward the effect you seek.
Overall, considering the price, the Fujifilm S1800 does a good job. Compared to other 12-megapixel cameras, information technology'due south a bit behind the curve, but since most of its likely users won't enlarge above 8x10, I think most users will be satisfied.
Fujifilm Finepix S1800 Performance
Shutter Lag: Full autofocus shutter lag is about average for a long zoom, though slower than some recent competitors, at 0.64 second at wide-angle and 0.77 2nd at telephoto. Prefocused shutter lag was slower than most, at 0.12 second, but notwithstanding reasonably fast.
Cycle Fourth dimension: Bicycle time is also a bit slow, capturing a frame every 2.fourscore seconds or then in single-shot way. Cycle time varied a lot during our testing, ranging from i.seven to 5.three seconds. The Fuji S1800's full resolution outburst mode is rated at one.3 frames per second which is slower than average, though there are faster modes available at lower resolutions (upward to 8 fps at iii megapixels).
Flash Recycle: The Fujifilm S1800's flash recycles in about 11 seconds after a full-power belch, which is quite irksome.
Depression Light AF: The Fuji S1800'south AF system was able to focus down to almost the 1/xvi pes-candle lite level without AF help enabled, and the camera was able to focus in complete darkness with the AF assist lamp enabled. Adept performance here.
USB Transfer Speed: Continued to a computer or printer with USB 2.0, the Fujifilm S1800's download speeds are fairly slow compared to others on the market. We measured ii,813 KBytes/sec.
In the Box
- Fujifilm FinePix S1800 camera
- iv Alkaline AA batteries
- AV/USB cable
- Strap
- Lens cap
- FinePix software CD
- Basic manual
Recommended Accessories
- Rechargeable Ni-MH batteries and a expert charger
- Large capacity, Speed Grade 4+ SDHC memory bill of fare. 4 to 8GB is a expert tradeoff between toll and chapters.
Fujifilm S1800 Conclusion
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I didn't look at the toll of the Fujifilm S1800 until I'd finished this review and I was just shocked. The price, if not the photographic camera, would brand it a skilful deal. (The Fuji S2550HD is the aforementioned camera with the add-on of an HDMI port, for about ~$twenty more than.)
But the photographic camera is also worthy.
It'due south got a solid build for 1 affair. That'southward not just a pleasance but it counts for ruggedness when backpacking or hiking and looking for wildlife. You don't have to infant the Fujifilm S1800.
Sometimes I retrieve shooting modes are packed into digicams to make them look more competent than they are. Merely in the Fujifilm S1800 they actually highlight the photographic camera's capabilities. They all piece of work well, that is. Information technology's wonderful to see PASM merely it's also nifty to run across Natural Light in the Scene modes. And an Auto Scene mode that can sideslip into Macro mode really makes u.s.a. grinning.
Smiling shutter is not the gimmick it may first appear. And Glimmer Detection helps reveal a problem with a grouping photo. At that place really wasn't much in the Fujifilm S1800 we didn't notice useful.
Image quality was reasonably good. Bravo to Fujifilm for working with less zoom range to maintain better quality. There'southward a little problem with corner softening and chromatic abnormality, but it's not too bad at 8x10 and smaller. Racket suppression is a bit overactive too, though it is effective. Those with a discerning heart will notice, but nigh casual shooters volition not. Nosotros started out proverb how much the Fujifilm S1800 is made for photographers, so nosotros'd be remiss if we didn't mention it as a cistron. Photographers will also want a few more than discontinuity choices than the Fujifilm S1800 offers, equally having Aperture Priority is squeamish, simply having more than than two settings at any given focal length is a little more than versatile.
The Fujifilm S1800 is a good, affordable superzoom in a small, tight parcel. All superzooms are a compromise in the same areas that the S1800 has trouble, but Fujifilm manages to make the FinePix S1800 a pleasure to use, whether you're experienced or not.
Buy the Fujifilm S1800
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Source: https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/S1800/S1800A.HTM
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