For beginners still okay for ambitious users, the potential but unfortunately playful

30x optical zoom (24 - 720mm compared to the small picture) - let and the ability to fire the device with 4 AA batteries or even in manual mode to operate the 16 MP resolution, a low price (MSRP 179) Fuji FinePix S4800 (almost) like a bargain to appear - at least on paper.

First, my S4800 was the first test attempt again and again the error message that I should turn the camera back and remove the cover from the lens, although I had not even unpacked the cover (unlike other cameras, the FinePix namely with lens cap in separate sachet delivered and not directly attached). After x-times will switch on and off, it had the electronics but then finally understood that really was not an obstacle in the way, and so the camera was finally booted and I realized why the electronics had refused: the camera simply wanted the hide sad truth of the display.

The 3 "LCD display with a mere 230,000 pixels is one of the worst I've ever had at a digital camera (ok, the Sony DSC-R1 then had a 2" TFT-LCD monitor with 134,000 pixels, but there were at least a viewfinder with which the S4800 unfortunately can not come up) and even the elderly Nikon P100 had years ago already double the amount of pixels. Honestly, so Fuji lagging clearly behind the market because the durchhangeln through the menu items like the still sufficient for targeted image control is not, however, really useless.

It's a shame, because it is precisely with the manual mode would man / woman already quite can have fun with the FinePix, especially as the camera properly is per se in hand and - unlike the competition of compact cameras - almost DSLR-feel for a small price , providing better control over the recording situation. The number of built-in controls housing is very clear, so that the (ambitious) user is often forced to click through selections instead of direct access to have. But just the photographer with ambitions which should be addressed using the manual mode, quickly reach the limits of the S4800: only JPEG, slow autofocus, long storage time between 2 recordings and especially significant chromatic aberrations. Thus, the S4800 is not created for all those situations that require speed and sonic detail.

And thus, the Fujifilm FinePix S4800 is unfortunately only a camera for the beginner who rely not only on the camera's electronics, but sometimes creative play with aperture and shutter speed, to share the results on social media platforms and rarely time to print vacation photos in postcard size would , Our children makes the handling of the S4800 much fun, especially since it is also great in the small children's hands and the zoom range simply challenging to discover the nature and details. The long duration of the batteries does the rest and it supplies to the AA cells you get almost anywhere, in an emergency sometimes on weekends at the gas station.

If it had been just about the fun factor in relation to price, the FinePix S4800 had significantly better in my review. However, as per I can not jump over my own shadow of claim to the results easy, so that the shortcomings aberrations and miserable resolution of the LCD display for me personally simply unacceptable and I can forgive no more than 2 stars in total here.