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- Reviewed on: 12/13/2004
- Released on: 04/01/2004
Accented by a charcoal, silver, and blue sliding lens cover, the FinePix A330's mostly plastic body is simply designed and weighs 7.1 ounces with batteries and media installed. In keeping with its straightforward personality, the camera has few external controls. Macro and Flash buttons sit on either side of the toggle that controls the 3X zoom, and there are three buttons adjacent to the 1.5-inch LCD. Unfortunately, those last three buttons require a little extra effort to activate the menu system, Playback mode, and the display settings. The small LCD is further limited in that it previews only 90 percent of your image in Shooting mode, and the tiny viewfinder, with its distorted 80 percent view, doesn't offer a better alternative.
Shooting modes include Auto, Portrait, Sports, Scene (for photographing landscapes), Night, and a low-quality video mode without sound. Manual mode provides exposure compensation and white-balance adjustments. Fujifilm makes it inconvenient to use, however, by requiring too much menu navigation. But it's worth the trouble of selecting a white-balance preset indoors to avoid capturing overly warm (yellow/orange) images. The 3X zoom lens provides a range of 38mm to 114mm (35mm-camera equivalent), which doesn't give you the wide angle you need to shoot groups of people in tight spaces but offers a little more telephoto reach than some other snapshot cameras.
In Playback, you can magnify your view to make sure you've captured a sharp image. There's also a trimming function to crop and downsize image files, as well as slide-show options that include a selection of transitions and intervals for a little viewing variety.
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