1. 2.1 megapixel CCD
2. Captures images at a resolution of 1,600 x 1,200
3. 1.6-inch LCD monitor
4. 3x optical zoom
5. Uses SmartMedia storage

Editorial Review :

The Fuji FinePix 2400 is a 2.1 megapixel point and shoot digital camera capable of capturing images at a resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 for photo-quality prints at sizes up to 8 by 10 inches. A 3x optical zoom brings you closer to the action, while a macro mode lets you get up to four inches from your subject while keeping it in focus. The 1.6 inch LCD monitor on the back lets you view your pictures right away and discard those you don't want. The included 8 MB SmartMedia card holds up to 10 pictures at the highest quality setting or 39 at the lowest quality. The built-in flash has several modes to aid in picture taking, including red-eye reduction and slow synch. The FinePix 3400 uses USB connections to shuttle image data to your computer, connecting simply to either a PC or Mac with a USB port.

Customer Review :

Good all-purpose digital camera

We've had this camera for almost three years now and take it everywhere. The features are easy to understand and use and the photo quality (at top resolution) is jim-dandy for taking pics of scenery and people.

For the price, this is an absolutely great camera.

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Fuji FinePix 2400 Zoom

I found on receiving my camera that I could not download the software on my computer. The model was not one of the choices to choose from that I bought. Therefore, I did'nt use my camera for quit sometime. When the portable printers came out for digital I bought one and started to use my camera. Unfortunately, the color is not what I expected and it seems to have to much red in it. Sometimes I also get red eye even when the eye reduction is on. I haven't used it outdoors yet. Maybe I will get better picture quality then. I would like to try to reach a customer service department so that maybe I could find out what I'm doing wrong, but I haven't had any luck in doing that either. I suggest if you get a digital camera don't wait a long time to use it

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Excellent and cheap beginners camera

Pros:
Great outdoor image quality
Battery life is pretty good (can fill 128mb smartdisk)
Image Transfer to PCs is extremely easy, no need for any software

Cons:
LCD is not high quality(this is a problem with all fuji cameras)
LCD practically shows nothing under low-light conditions
Red Eye is occasionally a problem

This camera was my first camera, and I still love it. It is comparable to new cameras in image quality.
My only problem with this camere is night shots, otherwise it is exellent.

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I will be trading mine in for another....

I have had mine for about a year now and was originally impressed, but over time have become increasingly irritated. I agree with the other two posters about their complaints, which have become my biggest issues. The lens cover if moved ever so slightly will shut the camera down and by the time you move it back and take the shot, you've lost your picture. My second issue is also the time it takes between hitting the button and it actually snapping the shot. It seems forever and with toddlers they've done moved on and the picture is actually of them moving away. It seems that once you hit the button, it would snap that instance, but that is not the case. Also, by the time you turn the camera on, open the lens cover, wait for the lens to come out and snap, the subjects (in my case toddlers) are done. lol~

I have lost many, many good shots over the past year and the time issue is my biggest. I need more of a one shot camera that just snaps, no delays etc.

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Good entry level camera

I was a little leary of buying one of these because I was spoiled by having a 5Meg camera for 2 years, but I was pleasantly surprised. First of all, the battery life is much better than I had expected for an optical zoom camera. That alone made me very happy. The pictures are acceptable at 2 Megs and as long as you aren't looking for perfection, they are good enough for most applications. Finally, it is relatively small and light and easy to carry around.
Drawbacks, the software included isn't intuitive at all. I wasn't even sure if I had installed the correct program. The camera menus are also a little hard to understand unless you read the manual a couple of times.

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Affordable and reliable

Late coming to the review, I still want to share my 10 years of experience using the Fujifilm MX-1200. I purchased this blister pack camera on December 31, 1999 as a New Millennium present for myself and for taking my first plunge into digital photography after shooting 35 MM film for almost 30 years prior. Call it skepticism or a leap of faith with high expectations at that time, I started down the road of digital photography.

From the very first time I picked up this camera, I loved the benefits of digital photography. The MX-1200 changed my thinking and recaptured the excitement of photography for me once again:
* The benefit of viewing the picture at the time it was taken on the 1.6" rear screen viewer.
* The first real higher resolution (1.3 MP, sounds funny now) pictures at a reasonable price.
* Continuous or resettable picture naming/numbering when saving to disk.
* The ability to swap media cards for virtually unlimited picture taking.
* Adjustable flash settings, White Balance control, EV settings to manually adjust different exposures.
* Two image saving sizes and three different compression levels.
* Using AA batteries instead of a proprietary battery as a power source.
* Manual and automatic picture viewing prior to saving to the card.
* Excellent tonal/contrast qualities, especially with interior flash pictures.
* Light metering works great, giving a good overall exposure, considering the hardware available at that time.
* Tough housing and durable internal workings -- after a number of drops, this camera still works fine.

This camera is not without short comings either (many of these points were resolved with the advancements in digital photography technologies) . Retrospectively, the MX-1200 shortcomings included:
* Right off the bat, the Fujifilm picture shuttle software was horrible.
* Transferring pictures from the camera to the computer via serial cable was nothing short of pure torture!
* Oh, yea -- flash memory was outrageously priced per megabyte -- in early 2000, an 8 MB SM card cost $50.00!
* Low light shooting -- a real Fujifilm let down, even today.
* The best pictures were obtained only when shooting at 1280 x 960 using minimum compression -- memory used was high.
* It was not until USB card readers became available and SmartMedia cards dropped in price did the real joy of this camera grip me.
* Fixed lens focusing is preset at 38 MM (35 MM film equivalent). There is NO optical zoom.
* 2 X digital zoom is a complete joke -- it shrank the picture down to 640 * 480 and was grainer with little enlargement benefit.
* Macro mode worked, but it took multiple attempts to capture the shot.
* NO internal storage flash memory.
* NO multi-shot capabilities.
* NO movie mode.
* Settings must be reset when the batteries die or are removed from the camera (same issue today with my S100FS also).
* The "White Dust" phenomenon is horrible when using the flash with this camera.
* SmartMedia cards -- an Olympus/Fujifilm creation that didn't last beyond 2004 -- when they dropped it completely.

Despite all of the shortcomings listed above, the age of the technologies involved and the lower quality image from a very simple 1.3 MP Point & Shoot camera, I'm still amazed at how the picture quality holds up after all of these years. I continue to use this camera today as a backup to my Fujifilm S100FS in situations that I don't want to expose the newer Fuji to for the concern of loss or damage. In terms of photographic quality between these two cameras -- there is no comparison for very obvious reasons. But, owning and using the MX-1200, the Great, Great Grandfather of Fujifilm digital cameras has been a pleasureful experience for me as I watched and used succeeding generations of digital cameras mature into the quality cameras we now have today.

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High bang/buck ratio in a small package

I have had my Fuji MX-1200 for 2 years now. I have taken it to Scotland, Hungary, Austria and Germany and have been totally amazed at how good a picture it provides in a small package for a small amount of money.

I am not a newcomer to photography. I have owned several 35 mm. SLR's of various brands. I still have a Canon that I can use if I want to, but I havent't taken it out of the case since I got the Fuji.

My recommendations are similar to those of other reviewers, with one exception. Forget about the USB reader. Get a "Flash Card" floppy disk adapter. It costs more, but it will download to any PC.

Naturally, you should purchase as many addtional smart cards as you can afford. They are getting cheaper now, so a couple of 32 meg cards would be in order. I carry a half dozen of them when I travel and download my pictures to my notebook computer every evening at the end of my day.

Nowadays, most of my pictures end up on the internet, so the Fuji was a step up for me rather than a step down. If you think you might want to blow a picture up, shoot Hi-res and do the work on the computer. It's easy. It's cheap! It's fun!

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Inexpensive model that delivers the goods

This camera is inexpensive (and a bit outdated at this point) but still manages to take great pictures. Sure, you could spend a lot more for a camera that is a lot more high-tech, but if you just want a camera to learn on and experiment with or just take fun family snaps, then this camera would be great.

My husband actually won a photo contest with a 5x7 photo taken on this camera (printed on an HP printer).

Pros: low cost, easy to use, easy to figure out how to take good photos, takes good enough quality photos to replace your film camera (if you're ready for that... I'm not quite there).

Cons: memory card pretty small if you want to take high quality pics (We got a 64MB memory card--available on costco.com--so we could take many pictures at high quality settings: about 100 pictures on the highest quality settings.), slow upload to your computer using serial cable (we got a SmartMedia drive that hooks up to our USB port and is lightning quick), lower picture quality capability than many (more expensive) cameras on the market.

These days, most digital cameras really aren't that horrible , and this camera is lightyears better than the ($) cameras that were out 4 years ago. This camera would be great for someone who wants a camera for casual use, or for pictures for their website, or even regular pictures that won't be blown up much larger than 5x7.

We take pictures with abandon now, not worrying about how much film we have left, not worrying if a shot is going to be a throw-away (you can delete it right on the camera, anyway), and we have gotten some truly beautiful and priceless shots just using this camera.

If you're not a professional photographer, why spend thousands when you can get this camera at a great price?

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Great deal!!

... I use it for all sorts of photos and have had great success with it. Only complaint is that the viewfinder and the lense don't line up on close shots and the fixed lense cover is easily scratched because it has no protection. Mine is scratched now and I need to send it for repairs. Thats how I ended up here....anyway....happy shooting!

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I've had problems

Besides the lag problem mentioned in another review, I've had an issue with the camera not staying on when switched. I miss about 80% of the shots I'm trying to take because I have to keep turning it back on, taking out the memory card and/or batteries and replacing them etc. Bad frame errors are haunting. Once it starts working, I can usually take many pictures in a row, but in the beginning it's horrible. This is all probably my fault for trying to snap a picture when the dial was turned to the viewing mode. But that shouldn't have harmed the electronics! One can't always remember to get the dial in the right position.

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1. Large 2.7-inch LCD screen allows you to find favorite image at a glance displayed in 10 x 10 array.

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Introduce a high-performance tracking auto focus and panorama shooting mode in the FinePix S1500. Equipped with the evolved SR Auto (Scene Recognition Auto) and Face Detection, scenes and faces can be captured and optimized even more with the detection functions.Large 2.7-inch LCD screen allows you to find favorite image at a glance displayed in 10 x 10 array. In addition to a wide range of shooting modes, the FinePix S1500 offers a selection of versatile scene positions that ensure optimum results no matter what the scene.

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1. 2.3-megapixel CCD for prints at sizes up to 8 by 10
2. Fujinon 3x optical zoom lens
3. Included 8 MB SmartMedia card holds 17 images at default resolution
4. Connects with Macintoshes and PCs via serial port
5. Includes rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack and AC adapter for in-camera charging

Customer Review :

My fantastic Fuji MX2900 Digital Camera

Dear Fuji !

First I would like to say , that the MX2900 has been a great camera at a great price for me . I purchased one... for myself and my job. I am currently the Internet Manager for Mancari's Chrysler Plymouh Jeep in Oak Lawn IL . I have used the camera for taking auto photos and many other different projects.

The Fuji MX2900 Digital Camera is extremely easy to setup and use altogether . It has a very nice "Chrome metal" look and is also very lightweight. The pictures it takes are excellent !...

Even though I know there may be better cameras out there , I still rate this one a 10 in my book of Best Cameras. I have looked at the Fuji 4900 model , and this one is "smokin"!

Thanks Tammy Mandlke / Danbury, WI.

T_Mandlke@msn.com

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Takes a lickin & keeps on clickin

This camera was knocked out of my son's hand by a ceiling fan onto our basement floor, fell out of my shirt pocket onto a concrete sidewalk outside the National Cathedral in DC, and has otherwise been bumped, dropped, and generally mistreated for going on two years, and it still takes pictures -- that with the right printer, paper, and software -- I can blow up all the way to 11X14 inches with true photo quality. There isn't enough good I can say about this camera. Of course, it's no longer a current model, but at the prices available today -- and assuming you use a card reader of some kind to download pictures from the smart media cards -- it's still a great camera for the money.

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fuji MX2900

I can not find a bad thing to say about this camera! If I was to look for an area for improvement I think it would have to be: Better ability to take wide angle pictures. Other than that I love it.

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mx2900 digital camera

I purchased this camera almost two years ago, and I am well satisfied with it. I use a hp1000 printer with it and only hp premium plus glossy or matte paper. The pictures are magnificent, I have printed some of my pictures for comparison on much more expensive printers none so far have been better than mine.

The only thing I have against it,is that it didn't come with a leather carrying case. If one is made specially for the mx2900 I am not aware of it. If there is one made how do I get one?

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Excellent Hardware, less than excellent software

I love the camera. The zoom works easily and the optical viewfinder means I never have the battery run down during a day of shooting. But...Fuji uses an odd TIFF file system when taking umcompressed photos and regular software won't read the file. You have to use the Fuji software and convert the file to JPEG. Their software is not user-friendly. Fortunately, I rarely take TIFF images. The JPEG images at the 1 megabyte level are fine for anything but portrait work. Excellent construciton and excellent color rendition. I've used the camera for a year and will soon upgrade to a 5 megapixel unit, keeping this as a second camera. One really irritating thing: The "close-up" setting does not go back to default when the camera is turned off, which can ruin a lot of pictures if you're not careful to turn the "close-up" off when done taking close-ups.

With that exception, the controls are easy to operate and the camera has served me well.

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1. 1,024 x 768 maximum resolution
2. 3x digital zoom
3. Special digital effects
4. 1/3-inch, 850,000-square-pixel CCD
5. Mac and Windows compatible

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A Fine Little Camera

This is a fine little camera, at a surprisingly good price.

My interest is in photographing things for online auctions and taking pictures of our new kittens, and the camera does a great job at that. It will focus as close as 3.9 inches and give you clear, sharp photos of jewelry, etc.

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Beginner's Delight

I wanted a fair (~$200) introduction to digital photography and the Fuji DX-10 was it. Great pictures and a reasonable amount of control for a beginner. Just enough to make me literate. I'll be able to use this camera for several years before I move upscale. At the time of my purchase there wasn't a USB option for connecting to my computer. This was a minor annoyance as was the scarcity of AC adaptors (available at ritzy camera stores but typically out-of-stock in my area). All-in-all, with reasonable expectations, I found the camera to be excellent.

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I wish they still made them like this.

I bought this as a Christmas present for my wife two years ago (1999) and I think she took maybe a dozen pictures with it. The rest of the time I must have put it through about 2,000 pictures, and built several personal websites with it.

Originally it was the price that did it ... from Amazon, and back then, it was the only ... digital camera with an LCD screen. It's also small enough to fit in your pocket easily.

You can never go wrong with AA batteries, they're always available in a pinch. ALL digicams suck up batteries, my advice is invest in some rechargeables.

The LCD updates extremely fast, although the photo itself is on about a 2-second lag from the moment you actually press the shutter button. But at least the photo stays on the LCD until you decide whether to save it or erase it. (which the Toshiba I own doesn't.)

The menu is completely intuitive, the controls are simple and iconic, the only thing you can really do wrong is leave the Macro switch on by mistake, and you only discover that when you view them fullsize and discover they're out of focus.

Recycle time between pictures is comparatively slow (several long painful seconds) to what's currently out there as well. (end of 2001) Don't get this camera for action shots, because you'll miss them.

a 16M SmartMedia card will get you about 50 images in the highest resolution.
For webpages, once you shrink the images to fit on a webpage, they're all the same. The difference is negligible.
But if you're going to blow them up to print them, it might be a problem in anything bigger than 8x10.

1.6x digital zoom, no focus, but at least those are two things less to worry about. The photos are always in focus anyway.

Color-correction modes are a little off color-wise, but that's always been fixable with basic imaging software. (even that's always dependable on your platform, for instance, dark greens seem to register as black on PCs, and vivid green on MACs.)

After awhile, dust started to accumulate under the protective plastic lens cover, and the photos became blurry. There was no way to reach it by disassembling the camera to clean it, so I broke the cover off completely. Problem solved. Even though the resolution is under 1M-pixel, photos consistently come out sharp and high quality.

This model comes with a video-out jack. Subsequent models such as the MX-1200 don't have it. If you like watching the photos back on your TV or other video source, then get this model.

The serial cord to upload them to your computer is horribly slow. (I'm talking about 20+ minutes to load. Seriously.)
Get either a USB card reader, ...or a floppy adapter instead and save yourself about 19 minutes of finger-tapping.

I just upgraded to a Toshiba PDR-M70, because I need more flexibility, things such as a flash-sync port for my studio flash equipment, and the ability to attach filters.

But I wish it had the simplicity menu-wise of the DX-10.

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Great camera for the money

Man what can i say about this camera? its been one heck of a camera and its been like an energizer bunny for me. Its been threw hell and back and still going string. Despite the rather small amount of mega pixels this camera will hold its own and will still take great pictures for e-bay.

I got this camera back in the late 90s, i got it to sell things online and boy did it ever do that. Its been so much fun to own, its made me money that i could of never expected.

For years i used this thing in auto mode never really did much with it other then macro and normal auto mode. Recently i decided it was time to bump up in mega pixels i then descovered this camera has some neat manual features i could of been using years ago to get better pictures.

When i first got it i thought it was a battery hog but after owning a camera with a motorized lense and autofocus the DX10 is great with batteries. If i had only used rechargables i would of saved a ton of money.

This camera is built like a tank, there really isnt one thing on it that can break. Ie dropped it more times then i can cout and its still taking pictures. I finaly gave it to my nephew who is using it as i speak.

If you need a cheap camera that takes great pictures for e-bay get this one you wont be disapointed.

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Camera no longer being sold

I recently bought this camera and found it to be very easy to use. It also takes great pictures. However, I have since found out that this model has been discontinued. How did I find that out? My dog chewed the camera to PC cord in half. Now I can't download my pictures to my computer to save or send them. I can't find the cord anywhere including on the internet. So now it is a very nice but useless digital camera. Thanks, Fuji, for thinking of the consumer. I won't buy another Fuji product.

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