Fuji S5600 questions

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Luke Siemaszko - 21 May 2006 21:43 GMT

I almost love my Fuji S602 but it has three major failings

- noise in 1600ASA mode makes it almost unusable
- low light focus is abysmal, lots of wasted shots
- very poor battery life due (I think) to having to drive the lens in
and out

The S5600 looks like a good alternative
- it specifically says the lens is fixed, so I would hope the battery
life is better

As it is a newer model I would hope the noise and flow light focus
performance would be better. But it would be sily to buy without
checking these out.

So if someone out there has one of these and could advise how they find
it on the above points, I would be very grateful.

Ta

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Jeff - 22 May 2006 21:47 GMT

> I almost love my Fuji S602 but it has three major failings
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> Ta

Hi Luke,

I don't have this camera (got the S7000) but you can find a good review
of the S5600 here:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05072802fuji_s5200zs5600z.asp

Cheers,

Jeff

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Steve - 23 May 2006 21:10 GMT

> I almost love my Fuji S602 but it has three major failings
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> Ta

I have the 5600 and find the battery life to be excellent. I'm using
NiMh 2500 batteries. Low light focus is spot on as it has a Auto Focus
illuminator. Noise is vey high at 1600 as with alot of camera's but 800
is possibly usable for snaps.

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Luke Siemaszko - 23 May 2006 23:43 GMT

>> I almost love my Fuji S602 but it has three major failings
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> illuminator. Noise is vey high at 1600 as with alot of camera's but 800
> is possibly usable for snaps.

Brilinat, thank you both for your posts.

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