- 10MP
- 3x Optical Zoom
- 2.7-Inch LCD
- SR Auto – Face Detection with Red Eye Removal
- NP-45 Rechargeable Battery
Product Description
Fujifilm FinePix J28 – 10MP, 3x Optical Zoom, Face Detection with Red Eye Removal, SR Auto, Panorama, Li-Ion Battery… More >>
Fujifilm FinePix J28 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
I was curious about this camera and I am guessing it is probably a nice unit. Fuji is a respected name in photography. The problem I have is with the 7 reviews, all 5’s. Each one sounds like it was scripted to accentuate how wonderful the camera is, including a detailed list of its great features, much like a professional advertisement. One or two like this I can accept, but not all seven. I’ll wait until some more less biased sounding reviews hit before I take too much stock in these current reviews.
Rating: 5 / 5
Well this is a great little digital camera. First the size is just right for us we took it on our last ride and took alot of pics and then took the card and put it in our printer and the shots turned out just great. It was easy to use it fit in my case I keep on my belt and when we needed it it worked great eveytime The battery life was good we charged it at night and took pics all day long.(maybe 40 or 50 pics in a day). the manuel was easy to read and eveything worked fine the self timer was very easy to use we used it alot it give you plenty of time to get set to take the picture. So over all I would say this was a GREAT little camera to take on our trip whan you go on a bike size does matter and this worked just fine!!! WORTH EVERY PENNY!! thank you!
Rating: 5 / 5
This little camera is great for a beginner camera or for one to carry with you, easy to use point and shoot. It is very light weight, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and takes great pictures. The battery is rechargeable and recharges inside the camera when plugged in, the batteries seem to last a long time too. The LCD screen is large and pleasant to use. It has face detection and scene recognition all helpful in taking a good quality picture, just hold the shutter half way until it focuses then take the pic. This would be a good camera for anyone even electronically challenged people. Even the buttons are intuitive enough to not get confused. The camera seems to be durable and when shut off the lens detracts and closes, protecting the lens with a plastic shield automatically. The pictures are clear and vivid. Win XP and Vista both will recognize the camera without even installing the software, I can use adobe to get the pictures and sort them. This is well worth the price.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fujifilm FinePix J28 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
This camera is a joy to use. I love that it’s so small, I bought a belt pouch for it and can easily take it with me. It certainly can fit in almost any pocketbook. At a price around $100 (as of this writing) it’s a bargain. It takes very good pictures and with 10 Megapixels of resolution you can edit and crop and still have an excellent result. The big rear screen is bright and clear in all but the brightest outside areas. The menu structure is easy and relatively powerful for a “consumer” camera. I personally miss a parallax viewfinder but the future of these cameras is LCD.
I might pick a nit over the lack of a started SD card but they’re so cheap now I won’t just remember to get at least a 2GB one to use. There is internal memory but just get a card. My Windows 7 PC recognized it without issue and imports the pictures into my pictures folder. The charger and data cable are included and work as expected. It uses a battery pack instead of standard batteries. It’s a bit restricting but holds a long charge and should be just fine.
Maybe it’s me, I just can’t get over the fact that this many quality and fun features is in a below $100 camera. This will make a great Holiday gift that won’t break the bank. Enjoy!
Rating: 5 / 5
Confessions of a point and shooter; I grew up with photography as a big hobby and was committed to SLR photography and developing my own photos. Over the years I kind of slipped away and when digital photography started to blossom I started getting point and shoot cameras. I now also have a DSLR which I love. I love the quality, the control, the options, the creativity. But here is my confession, I still probably use the point and shoot cameras in our house more. They are just so easy to use, easy to manage (fit in a pocket), and produce good results. They can also capture video something my particular DSLR can not do. If you absolutely had to give me a choice of one digital camera I would stay with my DSLR. But as I said I use my point and shoot cameras more frequently as the way things seem to work out; short road trips, camping, day at the ballpark, etc. they are just easier to use a lot of the time. So there is a definite place for a point and shoot camera for almost everyone.
The J28 is a solid performer with a lot of great features that are very useful to the consumer that happens to be at a good price. That is important, a good price doesn’t mean anything if the camera can not perform. First it captures colors well with good saturation in most situations. For me after a few weeks of use, I got consistently good results indoors and good to ok results outdoors. In tricky outdoor lighting situations on automatic scene recognition (which most people will use most of the time) you are not going to get perfect exposure. But the colors outdoors were well represented and I appreciated the detail, it has a good quality lens.
Cool features: the J28 has a number of really neat features especially at its price point. First is a rechargeable battery that can be re-charged inside the camera. A charge lasts a long time. The camera is also small and lightweight although it has a more plastic feel to it than digital ELPH cameras from Canon that I have used and still use. The menu system is easy to use and you have some cool options I have not seen on other point and shoot cameras. You can actually crop a picture during view picture mode. It was pretty easy to do. It also has a panorama feature that lets you `stitch’ 3 pictures together (I have had this on other point and shoot and I like it). The J28 takes decent video but like many point and shoots you can not zoom once you start taking the video. The scene recognition mode works well and I have taken some decent close-ups using the macro mode.
The primary draw back is as mentioned before it has real trouble in tough exposure situations. Also the included software literally did not work for me. It installed correctly, the drivers installed correctly, but the software would not download pictures from the camera. I have had well over a dozen point and shoot cameras over the years and this has never happened to me. On windows it was no big deal, the computer did recognize it as a storage device and I got the pictures out easily enough. It was definitely odd though.
Bottom line is a well-thought out consumer point and shoot. Are there better point and shoot cameras out there that produce better shots? Yes. Are there many cameras out there that produce the well reproduced colors of shots this camera does and include so many useful and neat features in a very small and lightweight package at this price point? No. This will definitely be in my pocket for a long time, very easy to take, and be there when I need it and I most likely would not have brought my DSLR along.
Rating: 4 / 5
I love this camera, I tried SAMSUNG PL50, Panasonic LUMIX FS42 and SONY W180. Samsung and Sony have a rubbish picture quality while Panasonic LUMIX is good but had a problem regarding playing a Movie. I returned all this camera and ended with Fujifilm Finepix J28 Splashpack. I’m very happy with the picture quality of this camera and all the reviews that I’ve read in the internet are correct that this camera is worth to buy for. Easy to use and excellent picture quality. Recommended to the camera enthusiast like me.