Fujifilm Finepix Z10fd 7.2MP is a slim 7.2-megapixel digital camera, wrapped in the stylish curves and rounded edges of a slim 20.5mm body with a choice of five vivid colors: Midnight Black, Hot Pink, Sunset Orange, Wasabi Green, and Wave Blue. In addition to its sleek and compact body, the Z10fd is packed with stunning technologies designed to offer beautiful images and fun playback functions.
The ergonomic design of the FinePix Z10fd fits comfortably in your hand, enabling users to carry it around anytime. It features the traditional Z-series lens cover, and has a 2.5-inch LCD and simple button layout on the back side of the camera. These features make the camera easy and fun to operate.
Offering high-resolution 7.2-megapixel photos, the FinePix Z10fd also boasts the acclaimed Fujifilm’s high sensitivity up to ISO 1600 at full resolution and enables users to take bright and blur-free photos. In addition, Z10fd is equipped with the hardware-based Face Detection Technology. Point at the subject, and the camera will immediately find up to 10 human faces in the frame and automatically optimize AE and AF on the detected faces. Additionally, the FinePix Z10fd features the newly developed Auto Red Eye Removal, which leverages Face Detection’s strengths to do its job. This system finds red-eye on the human faces, and corrects it automatically within a few seconds as the shot is taken. There are additional features of the Face Detection in the playback mode, such as cropping, zooming in, and slide show.
Helpful consumer’s review
I’ve been a Fujifilm faithful ever since my first digicam, the FP1300, seven digital cameras ago in 2001. With the Z10fd, it’s easy to see why; tiny, sleek eye catching design (curvy and retro looking), intuitive, easy to use interface, and great image quality.
The Z10 is a 7 megapixel camera with 25MB internal memory. I made sure I got a large memory card, a 1GB XD card (the camera also takes SD and SDHC memory cards) which stores 294 images at the highest resolution, and 18.7 minute movie clips (640×480 at 30fps).
Having owned two cameras in the Z series; the Z1 and Z3, comparisons are inevitable. The first thing of note is that you no longer require the cradle to charge the camera, or download photos/movies/sound clips. It was quite a pain having to lug that around everywhere.
As with those two, the camera powers on by sliding back the lens cover. One gripe I have though is that there isn’t a dedicated button for movie mode anymore. You must now go into the menu to access it, but I can live with that. There’s only one button on top of the camera, the shutter button, everything else in located on the back, beside the LCD.
The 2.5 inch LCD display is toughened and scratch/break resistant. The resolution is excellent. The camera has 3x optical zoom which it does without extending out of the camera body, like most other cameras.
