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Good camera for beginners!
Date of Review: Feb 16, 2009
The Fuji Finepix Z20fd Digital Camera gives aspiring photo artists a 10 megapixel canvas with which to work. An internally housed 3x Fujinon zoom lens – which, at 35-105mm, offers slightly more wide-angle coverage than the Z10fd's 38-114mm optics – covers the usual amount of ground for a small, budget-priced camera. A "one touch" film button on the top of the camera makes shooting video a snap. And automatic red-eye removal works in tandem with Fuji's face detection technology.
The menu is divided into two sections in shooting mode: shooting options and menu options. In menu options the user can switch between Auto, Manual, Natural Light, and Natural Light with flash modes. In the shooting menu, the user can access shooting modes, high-speed shooting, image quality, movie quality, ISO, FinePix color, and setup options. This split arrangement is typical of Fuji and a bit awkward at first.
The Z20fd should be evaluated in light of the standards for a budget camera, and so in many areas where it came up short, it's not a shock. While it would have been nice to see Fuji improve on some of the areas where the Z10fd fell short, it simply wasn't meant to be this time around.
