So I do have a new camera now, it may not be as nice as the one stolen from me, however it does the job that I need it to. I now have a FujiFilm FinePix J38. While I can’t say I have done a lot with the camera yet, it does work well in what I have asked it to do.

Fujifilm Finepix J38 12MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD

I have sometimes missed the higher optical zoom from my previous camera, but this is usable.

I previously had found and tried a FujiFilm S1500 from WalMart, however the item was obviously previously used, and locked up a couple of times during use. I was disappointed having to return it, for my purposes it was close enough to the S2000HD that I had previously lost. The only item they had left was the display unit, which obviously did not want.

So yesterday I decided to purchase a Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD 10MP Digital Camera with 15x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom. This will be my first in what will hopefully be an on going set of reviews. I do have a link here to where you can buy it Amazon, however because a local store was offering a package deal on this camera with some other stuff, I did decide to buy it locally.

I’d actually been looking at this camera for a while, and decided it wasn’t going to get any better than it is currently priced (at least not till it becomes outdated by something newer).

First off, this is my first ever “prosumer” camera, its a bridge between the camera’s that look like an old 110 film camera and the DSLR cameras. So while this does have a lot of point and shoot functionality, getting used to where every thing is on the menu does take a little getting used to.

I would recommend that anyone who has bought this camera certainly at least glance at the 148 page PDF that is included on one of the CD-ROMs, it goes into a lot more depth than the dead tree manual that it comes with.

Of course, you want to see examples of what the camera can do right?

This is the camera using natural lighting.

This is a sample of the camera in Text Mode.

As I get more familiar with the camera, I’ll post better pictures.