FujiFilm 6MP FinePix F650 Digital Camera w/5x Optical Zoom review

Overall, we were pleased with the image quality of the FinePix F650. Images contained nice amounts of fine detail, and although they weren't as sharp as we've seen from some cameras, they were far from the worst. Colors appeared accurate and well saturated, and fringing and artifacts were few, and barely noticeable. The camera's automatic white balance produced warm yet almost orange images with our lab's tungsten lights, though the tungsten preset yielded very neutral colors. The auto setting did a great job of providing neutral images in actual daylight. We saw almost no noise at the camera's lowest sensitivity settings of ISO 64 and ISO 100. At ISO 200 noise was minimal, but noticeable on our monitors. It wasn't really noticeable in prints however. At ISO 400 noise was noticeably worse, though images were still usable for prints and little fine detail was lost to the noise.

The FinePix F650's limited low-light shooting is a bit of a burden, and makes it a tough sell against similarly priced competitors, such as Canon's PowerShot SD600, which is also slightly smaller.

Shooting speed
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)

Typical shot-to-shot time

Time to first shot

Shutter lag (typical)

Canon PowerShot A630

1.7 

1.5 

0.5 

Casio Exilim EX-Z850

2.7 

2.1 

0.5 

Canon PowerShot SD600

1.5 

1.5 

0.6 

Samsung Digimax L85

2.2 

2.2 

0.6 

Fujifilm Finepix F650

1.7 

1.9 

0.7