Photos: Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix F100fd

By Rich Trenholm on 23 June 2008, 12:02pm

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We've been waiting with bated breath for the Fujifilm FinePix F100fd. It has, as Gene Hunt might say, 'previous'. This top-end 12-megapixel camera in the FinePix range has a number of quality snappers in its lineage.

We first encountered the camera Fujifilm describes as 'the ultimate F series' compact in the glamorous environs of Birmingham at this year's Focus On Imaging. The F series has kept plenty of customers snapping away on the F31, F40 and F50, and judging by our forums the F100 has been one of the most anticipated compact cameras for a while. You can imagine our excitement when it finally arrived at Crave for us to have a really good play with -- er, we mean, exhaustively and scientifically test for an in-depth review.

The big jump in nomenclature from F31, F40 and F50 to F100 suggests that Fujifilm has made a sizeable leap with this camera. This seems to be mostly incremental improvements to established -- but still welcome -- features such as optical image stabilisation and face detection. In fact, the phizzog-finding technology is on to version 3.0, which claims to pick out faces even in profile or partially obscured. Like the F40 onwards, the F100 supports both xD and SD format memory cards.

The Fujifilm FinePix F100fd is available now, with an online price of around £160. Take a look through our photos to see more of this snapper, and find out how Fujifilm has cut out the clutter. -Richard Trenholm

Update: Read our full Fujifilm FinePix F100fd review.