Fujifilm S1800

A good buy, and on a budget too, in case you are looking for a prosumer camera with a great zoom.

Though this is a prosumer camera, like all other cameras, it too features smile detection and blink detection. So, if your subject blinks, the camera tells you to click again. To be sure, with 12 megapixels, 18x wide angle optical zoom and dual image stabilisation, it is a prosumer. It has a functional panorama mode, but not as good as in Sony cameras, where you can just click and pan the camera 270º. In the S1800, you have to click the pictures and then stitch them.

The one great feature it has is called Instant Zoom. The lens can go to maximum zoom with just one touch. So if you want to click a guy gliding off a hot air balloon, you can do it with just two clicks. This camera runs on four AA batteries, so you don’t have to lug a charger. Fuji claims that you can get up to 400 shots using alkaline batteries and 700 using lithium ion. I would put this figure at about 300 on batteries. The camera takes both SD and SDHC memory cards, and has USB output for linking with a computer. And while it shoots HD movies, it has no HDMI output. You will have to buy an additional HDTV kit for that.

Its built-in picture search tool lets you find photos quickly and you can sort them by the scene mode or creation date. Overall, at an attractive price of under Rs 15,000, this is a great camera in case you need a prosumer camera which also has a great zoom.

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