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Fuji SD memory cards : Fujifilm USA introduced four new Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, extending its trusted brand of flash memory. Meeting the higher consumer demand for high resolution picture-taking and video capabilities, the Fujifilm SD memory cards will provide faster speeds and flexibility for customers. The Fujifilm SD cards will also come in brightly colored, customer-friendly packaging, specially designed with easy to understand graphics ensuring that customers choose the cards best suited for their needs and devices. Features include prominently displayed capacity numbers (both on the packaging and the card), and color-coded formats: SD (Blue), SDHC (Red), Micro SD (Magenta), and Micro SDHC (Orange).
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The Fujifilm SD memory cards will be available in the following high quality formats, in compliance with SD Card Association standards:
• Secure Digital – 1 GB SD, 2 GB SD
• Secure Digital High Capacity – 4 GB SDHC, 8 GB SDHC, 16 GB SDHC
• Micro Secure Digital – 1 GB, 2 GB
• Micro Secure Digital High Capacity – 4 GB, 8 GB

Fujifilm SDHC memory cards
“We’ve found that there is a growing customer demand in the marketplace for higher capacity cards, as more users take video as well as higher-resolution photos with their digital cameras,” said James Avato, vice president, Electronic Imaging Division, Fujifilm U.S.A., Inc. “And our new compact packaging design makes it even easier for customers to obtain the best possible flash media for their digital cameras.” The Fujifilm Secure Digital flash memory cards will be available in December 2008.

PhotographyBLOG reviews the Fujifilm Finepix Z100fd and writes – ‘The Fujifilm Finepix Z100fd is a surprisingly good point-and-shoot digital camera. It’s stylish enough to appeal to the fashion-conscious, built well enough to survive a few bumps and scrapes, and offers enough features to appeal to both beginners and more experienced photographers alike. The 5x zoom lens in particular sets the Z100fd apart from the vast majority of affordable compacts, which usually offer a bog-standard 3x zoom. Admittedly the Z100fd’s lens isn’t particularly wide at 36mm, but you’ll really appreciate the longer telephoto range on offer. Fujifilm have sensibly added an effective mechanical image stabilisation system to ensure that the majority of your pictures will be sharp, and the new Face Detection system works very well too.’

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Megapixel has a review of the Fujifilm FinePix S700/S5700 and writes, “The Fujifilm FinePix S700/S5700 is a very good camera that easily produces excellent images. If its flash is no better than most compacts, its image quality outdoors is one of the best we have seen recently. This said, could the FinePix S700 be even better? Yes, it would be even better if it also offered an effective optical stabilizer. But even as is, this camera should garner a wide following.”

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Fujifilm’s latest entry level digital camera is the A920, it features a nine megapixel SuperCCD sensor, up to ISO 800 sensitivity, a four times optical zoom lens and 2.7" LCD monitor. In addition it doubles up on storage (as we have seen from most recent Fujifilm announcements) by providing a dual xD / SD card slot. The A920 should be available in September at around $200.

FUJIFILM CONTINUES TO OFFER ADVANCED FEATURES
ON ENTRY-LEVEL

New A920 Model Wows with 9-MP, Super CCD, 4x Optical Zoom and 2.7″ LCD

Valhalla, N.Y., July 26, 2007 – FUJIFILM U.S.A. Inc. today announced the launch of the nine-MegaPixel FinePix A920.  Designed specifically for the first-time digital camera buyer and consumers seeking an affordable, easy-to-operate upgrade to their current digital camera, Fujifilm’s FinePix A920 is loaded with features usually reserved for more advanced models.  The camera incorporates Fujifilm’s signature Super CCD sensor technology, a 4.0x optical zoom lens and features a 2.7″ LCD.

Following in the footsteps of Fujifilm’s more advanced digital cameras, the FinePix A920 features a 4.0x optical zoom lens that was developed specifically for the A-Series by Fujinon, a Fujifilm sister company and leading provider of broadcast-grade television lenses and other high quality optical products across many consumer and industrial applications.

To make it easy for consumers to achieve blur-free results, the FinePix A920 features a “Picture Stabilization” mode in the dial setting. This easy-to-identify setting automatically chooses the correct light sensitivity and best-matching shutter speed, producing the highest quality digital pictures without blur and the noise often associated with high sensitivity photographs.  In addition, the FinePix A920 shoots with light sensitivities of up to ISO 800 at full resolution. These higher light sensitivities enable the user to shoot with faster shutter speeds, which lessen the likelihood of blurry pictures caused by a moving subject or the shake of an unsteady hand. 

The FinePix A920 also features an intuitive icon-based Graphic User Interface (GUI).  When users switch shooting modes, scene positions or control settings, a brief explanation of the setting is momentarily displayed on the LCD screen, taking much of the guess work out of digital camera operation.  Additionally, the camera sports a conveniently placed mode dial that provides easy access to the most commonly used shooting modes, including Auto, Picture Stabilization and Movie mode and allows one-touch access to other pre-programmed scene modes.

The FinePix A920 also utilizes an “xD / SD / SDHC Media Compatible slot”; a single media slot that accepts not only Fujifilm’s traditional xD-Picture Cards™, but also SecureDigital (SD) and SDHC media cards.  In offering these media options, Fujifilm is providing greater choice and flexibility to consumers who purchase Fujifilm digital cameras.

Fujifilm’s new A920 model also offers the following attractive features:

• Large LCD:  2.7-inch LCD display with anti-glare properties.
• Scene Modes:  A wide range of 15 pre-programmed scene modes provides top-quality photos in a range of shooting conditions.
• Movie Mode:  Capture live action movies in QVGA quality 640×480 resolution at 30 frames per second with sound.
• Internal Memory:  When the xD-picture card or SD memory card (sold separately) is filled with images, users have extra internal storage space on each camera to capture additional pictures.
• IrSimple™ Technology:  Demonstrating Fujifilm’s commitment to innovation, ‘IrSimple™’ enables mobile devices &nadash; like the FinePix A920 – to instantly and wirelessly connect and transmit digital images to other IrSimple™ enabled devices such as other digital cameras, PDAs and photo kiosks.  It provides a faster, more secure means to share pictures with family and friends. 

The FinePix A920 will debut in September 2007 with a retail price of $199.95.

Fujifilm Finepix A920 specifications

Click photo for more images of the Fujifilm Finepix Z10fd.

Fujifilm has introduced an ultracompact 7.2-megapixel snapshot camera. The FinePix Z10fd is being marketed to 13- to 26-year-olds with a combination of stylish design and photo-sharing features. It features an f/3.7-4.2, 38mm-110mm (35mm camera equivalent), 3x non-extending zoom lens and a 150,000-pixel, 2.5-inch LCD with antiglare coating.

With 14 scene modes and few manual adjustments, the Z10fd is built for automatic operation. It has a shutter speed range of 1/1000 and 3 seconds, and a top light sensitivity setting of ISO 1600.

Among this camera’s notable automatic features are face-detection, IrSimple connectivity for transferring images wirelessly to compatible devices, and a Dual Shot Mode that takes two images in quick succession, one with and one without the flash, then allows the photographer to save the best one.

Fuji has also implemented its new automatic redeye removal feature in this model. It works with the camera’s face-detection mode by evaluating every face detected in a shot and automatically removing redeye when it’s found. The Z10fd also offers Fuji’s i-Flash flash metering system to adjust flash intensity and reduce blown-out areas in flash photos.