Fujifilm has replaced the FinePix S4000 with the S4200.
 | Fujifilm FinePix S4200 announced January 2012 |
Fujifilm FinePix S4000
30x, f/3.1, 24 mm
Summary Fujifilm S4000
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As I live in Cuba and we don't have tech support in here... I'm totally screwed! And you might be saying: what a vocabulary!? Sorry, but I feel so bad today.
I can categorically say that I had not damaged it, having owned 2 Fuji digital cameras previously i know how to put cards in and take them out!
After hearing nothing for a month we contacted Fuji who then tell us that it has been damaged and was not covered by their manufacturers warranty and was therefore a chargeable repair! I insisted that I had not damaged the SD card slot. It would actually be impossible to do so unless something was forced into it! Fuji stuck to their guns and refused to repair it.
Eventually Fuji came to an arrangement with the retailer who has been invoiced for £70.83 plus VAT. Having been a long time user of their cameras I am very disappointed at their action in this case. I now wish I hadn't actually bought it and would think twice now about purchasing another Fuji camera!
the price. My biggest complaints are no override on the autofocus and the
verrrrrrry slow response time from when you press the shutter till when it
captures the image. I've had a few times where the camera just wouldn't focus on
the right thing - e.g it focussed on a tree branch between me and the object and
just would not focus on the object. If it's a fleeting opportunity for that
special shot, it is extremely frustrating. And forget about trying to capture
tricky action shots. By the time the image is captured, the action is long past.
I even upgraded to an extremely fast (i.e. expensive) SDHC card because the
sales clerk convinced me it was the slow write time to the other card but it
barely made any difference. Apparently that was not the real problem. I
do really like the ability to adjust shutter and/or aperture, and the
super-macro function allows extremely close shots (a couple of cm), and the zoom
and wide angle are pretty darn good. However, the panorama is just a gimmick -
it works in super wide angle mode only, so your shots look distorted, and you
can only capture a max of 3 images, so not a full circle.
Now however, after 6 months of fairly gentle use, the icons on the control dial are all wearing off - some are no longer visible. When I sent this away to Fuji for warranty repair, they told me it was cosmetic only and not covered under warranty. If it was just the Finepix logo, I would have said OK, but the dial is pretty important in the use of the camera. To me this is poor materials in the construction and should be covered. My old Panasonic pocket camera has rattled around with coins and keys and in knapsacks and fallen down mountainsides and been trampled into the mud and its dial is as clear as the day I bought it. I am exptremely disappointed with the lack of service from Fuji on this camera. Would I buy it again? Definitely not - I'd spend a bit more and get something that was faster and probably anything but a Fuji.