| Fujifilm FinePix XP10 12 MP Waterproof Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Green) | 
| Brand: Fuji
Category: Photography
List Price: $179.95
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 63
Color: Green
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 5
Display Size: 2.7
Battery: 1 Rechargeable Li-ion
Maximum Focal Length: 32
Minimum Focal Length: 6.4
Maximum Resolution: 12
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.5 x 2.8
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MPN: XP10 Green
Model: XP10 Green
UPC: 074101003628
EAN: 0074101003628
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| Features:
| • | 12-megapixel resolution for large, photo-quality prints | | • | Four-Way protection: waterproof, freezeproof, shockproof and dustproof | | • | Fujinon 5x periscopic optical zoom lens with reinforced protective lens barrier | | • | Capture movies in 720p with sound | | • | Movie Editing Mode and Blog mode; Facebook/YouTube Automatic Web Upload function for photos |
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Product Description
FUJI 16010784 12.0 MEGAPIXEL FINEPIX® XP10 DIGITAL CAMERA (GREEN)
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 93
 Stylish little digicam that screams "take me outdoors!" June 1, 2010
Gadgester (Mother Earth)
76 out of 77 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RBALABS3LFOWQ The Fujifilm Finepix XP10, newly available in April 2010, is a stylish little ultra-compact camera that invites you to have fun outdoors while taking pictures. It:
- is waterproof to 10 ft. under water, perfect for swimming pools, beach, snorkeling (note: do not use in hot water!)
- is shockproof up to 3 ft., great for jogging, cycling, or even letting your baby learn to take pictures
- is freezeproof down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 Celsius)
- is dustproof
- has 12.2 effective megapixels
- has 5x optical zoom and features a Fujinon lens for great clarity; lens focal length is 36-180mm in 35mm film camera terms
- takes 720p widescreen, VGA or QVGA video
- can zoom optically in video mode (but see note on audio recording below)
- is really small and weighs just a little over 5 oz. with battery and SDHC card
- uses SDHC memory card, no more xD that was championed by Fuji and Olympus
I bought a green XP10 because I love spending time in the water. I find that, outdoors during the day, the XP10 takes pictures with excellent clarity and excellent color saturation and contrast. Using fill-in flash in daylight truly enhances the picture. Indoors, because the XP10 lacks Fuji's legendary SuperCCD technology, picture quality is average for a compact or super-compact camera. It does have two natural-scene modes where it boosts the ISO (light sensitivity of the image sensor) at the expense of increased noise. I bought my XP10 to be used outdoors, in the pool and at the beach, so I haven't taken many indoor pics.
Video shooting at 720p yields smooth, clear HD video clips. BTW, video size is limited only by the 2GB FAT32 file size limit -- this means even if you pop in a 16GB SDHC card, the longest video clip can only go up to 2GB in file size, due to the limit imposed by the FAT32 file system. Video is recorded as motion JPEG in an AVI container, so it can be played on many, many devices, at the expense of slightly larger file sizes than a more compact format like MPEG-2 or MPEG-4.
While you can zoom optically -- a feature that every digital camera should have -- audio recording's volume level is lowered during zooming. Instead, the camera picks up some noise from the lens mechanism and that noise overwhelms the ambient sounds you want to record, which can be annoying when played back on a large TV. My advise is to use zooming sparingly during video mode. If you want great video recording on a compact digital camera, you should get a Sony or Canon or Panasonic camera (be prepared to pay a lot more for the waterproof feature, though).
Anyway, my sample video clip shows how the camera works under water. The video resolution was set to QVGA (320x240) for easy upload to Amazon, but you should be able to see the amazing clarity both in and out of water.
In summary, the XP10 is a great waterproof, shockproof camera that every water enthusiast should bring along to record fun memories.
Good (at least for my life) June 10, 2010
JT (San Jose, CA United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The reality of my life is that the other members of my family unit consist of two hyper little kids and a clumsy wife. I learned many cameras ago that my cameras MUST be water/drool-proof, shock-proof, nag-proof, and any other proofs they can come up with. Yes, I might sacrifice some picture quality or credit card slim size for my requirements but what good are those other cameras (like a few of my old ones) if they are "accidentally" broken within one month?
My other digital camera is an Olympus Stylus Weather/Shock that is a few years old. I must say that so far after a month's usage I prefer the Fuji XP10 over my other camera.
What I like about the Fuji:
-Good size and form factor. Thumbs up to the large display screen.
-I like that it takes a standard memory card (which was included). My Olympus takes strange size memory card (=expensive, hard to find).
-Easy to use (point and shoot). Picture quality seems decent enough though not as good as some of the high end cameras
-Did I mention it is weatherproof and shockproof? Hasn't broken yet. I do give my other Olympus camera a thumbs up for surviving several years.
-Value for the price.
What could be better:
-Battery life hasn't seemed that great to me as of yet, but does come with a charger. Battery life still better than my Olympus though.
-Battery hatch hard to open. I consider myself fairly good with gadgets but I actually had to read the instructions to figure out how to open the battery hatch = there will be questions/complaints/nags about this from my wife & kids.
In summary, this camera fulfills my mandatory requirement of weatherproof/shockproof. Second most important to me is size/wearability and this camera is good in that area. Decent pictures are expected as a given and delivered by this camera. Price for what you get is a good value. = 5 stars by me (so far). Will it survive the perils of life with my family?...only time will tell...if it breaks within one year I will add an update to this review.
Great camera May 28, 2010
Mikehn (Mount Airy, MD USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I took this camera to Orlando for a week and had it in my swim trunk pocket on just about every water ride at Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, and Aquatica. Dynamite little camera! To top it off, I charged the battery before I left home and it lasted the entire week without a recharge. I did not take any pictures underwater, so I cant comment on the quality of underwater photos. However, this camera was perfect for snapping pictures of my little one while chasing him around Orlando's finest water parks.
Love, love this camera! June 21, 2010
Melissa Kissell (Fort Worth, TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R138L884QYLZKS Seems like several people aren't happy with this camera. I was showing my husband the reviews on here and we were really surprised by how many are disappointed with their camera. Maybe I don't expect enough however, I did drop it and it didn't break; it took great pictures in and out of the water and the video works nicely as well.
I bought this for $139 at a local warehouse club and I think it's worth every penny for the underwater pictures and video alone. We've had a blast using it!
BTW, the video image isn't grainy. Their are water sprinklers that shoot over the pool, so what you are seeing is sprinkles and not a bad video. I uploaded this video to FB and for whatever reason the FB looks clear while the same video on Amazon looks pixelated. Go figure.
Great little camera! June 6, 2010
Jeff Pittman (Durham, NC USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This replaces a Canon pocket camera that I liked a lot, and an early model Flip video camera that was also a lot of fun and ridiculously easy to use. The Canon would capture digital video, but not without my having to find and dig through the manual before trying. This Fuji is as easy to use for video as it is for stills. More on that later.
I was a little disconcerted that there was no automatic lens cap, but what appears to be the lens is a thick glass (maybe acrylic?) cover that you can smudge to your heart's content, then grab your t-shirt and clean it as you would your spectacles. Lens movement (zooming) happens inside the protective glass cocoon. The large and bright display on the back has a durable, sturdy feel like the lens cover. You get the feeling you would have to really try to scratch or damage them.
Shooting still photos: the camera starts up in "Scene Recognition" mode which works amazingly well at figuring out what you're shooting and setting the camera accordingly. There are lots of other modes (presets, really) that are easy to select, like Beach, Snow, Landscapes, Night, Sport, Underwater and others that you see on a lot of cameras. There are also some interesting oddballs like the setting that takes two pictures back to back, one with flash and one without, so you can choose the one you like best. A terrific feature for me is Image Stabilization, which reduces the effect of shaky hands on photo quality. I inherited something called "essential tremor" from my Mom's side of the family and my hands shake - sometimes not at all, sometimes a little, sometimes a little more. The last set of photos I took with my old Canon was at a classic car auction and I had to discard more than half of them because of this. In my experimenting with the Fuji (even at much higher resolution), photos are very, very sharp.
Shooting video: I think I mentioned it's very easy compared to a still camera where video seems to be implemented as an add-on, not a primary feature. You can choose from three quality levels, the higher quality consuming more SD card space than lower quality as you'd imagine. Videos are saved as .AVI files. One of the problems I discovered a while back was that videos easily become huge and may be difficult to upload to a website like YouTube, which has both size and duration (play length) limits. The Flip video camera excels at making small, ready-to-upload videos and the Fuji doesn't do that (I don't think any still camera does that). However, Google around for "HandBrake" for an open-source converter that will convert videos from one format to another and even allow you to specify how big the resulting video file will be. Finally, I'm not sure, but it looks to me like the Image Stablization feature also works in video mode. I just shot a "before" video of my kitchen prior to a major remodel, and what I saw in the camera display was shaky. What I saw in the finished video file looked just fine.
Cons that I probably wouldn't have noticed except for reviews on other sites:
- no viewfinder. Some like to hold the camera to their eyes to stabilize it. The digital image stabilization features keeps this from being a problem for me.
- can't zoom in/out while making a video. You have to adjust the zoom where you want it before you start shooting.
- took me a while to figure out how to open the battery + SD card cover. You have to move the latch and slide the cover away from the camera body in one motion.
Pros:
- very easy to use for stills AND video. This is a camera you can give Mom or Dad and they'll have success with it just using the defaults.
- image stabilization. This is my first camera with this capability and it is awesome.
- lots of options for camera buffs who like to tweak settings; for those of us who don't care they are not in the way
- 4GB SD card included (a surprise)
- smaller than I expected
I'm looking forward to a long relationship with this thing. Very nice piece of work!
Update 6/11/2010: watch your battery level (I'm not sure exactly how to do that; it's on my list to find out) before downloading to the included desktop software (MyFinePix Studio). I was copying a video from the camera to MyFinePix Studio and I'm thinking the battery reached critical level, and MyFinePixStudio stopped responding. I thought I had lost the video (it had disappeared from the camera) but after recharging the battery and doing another sync, there it was.
When the battery went, it went immediately. An amber light had been blinking on the front of the camera just beforehand, which I thought just meant "busy," but now I'm thinking I was wrong. Another reviewer criticized the battery life and I've had no problem with it lasting for a typical day, but now I think you do need to get a spare if you plan to be away from the charger for a few days.
Still liking this camera and wouldn't change the 5-star opinion. This is personality learning-curve stuff from my POV.
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