Fuji Finepix A101

I bought this as a Birthday present to my girl-friend and she has been pleased with it despite it's multi menu which required her referring to the comprehensive manual. Taking just x2 AA batteries, it is very light weight but compared with my MX1200 which lacks the cine feature (not missed) & USB connection, edges the technology forward at a budget price. They can be obtained on eBay at under £20 and with a decent case will serve a novice well.

Stopped functioning completely within 3 months. Won't turn on. New batteries, still nothing. 4 weeks later, picked it up and tried again, it worked. Lasted a week then dead again. No damage. No drop. just stop functioning.

Overall, I recommend the camera for it's money. But if you like to tweak with compensations and got nobody to take your pictures, go get something else.

For the pixels it has incredibly great photo quality. The camera is adjustable to just about anything you require of it for any amount of light or distance. The memory is adjustable as well as the type of shot you take, snap shot or movie shot. The software is easily enuff to deal with.

I was reading these reviews and was surprised no-one was mentioning the fact that the A101's view finder is not straight. It's grand if one uses the lcd but the normal viewfinder is way off.

Also the switch on the front for close up/ far away seems to be the wrong way round. If I select close up the camera never flashes and anything close up is out of focus. If I select far away then the camera will flash and everything is in focus.

Apart from that the camera is great.

I got a 64 Mb card as 8 Mb fills up too easy.

The videos are only for fun. Quality is very bad.

You can see what is going to be lit in the LCD and by moving the camera you can make sure the person is lit properly and not the sunshine in the window behind them.

The fuji Finepix A101 digital camera offers great pictures and low light optimization. Great value if you can get it for aronud $150 US (as of June 2002). I took a hundred pictures in all sorts of lighting conditions and they are very good. This is not a camera for detailed and very high quality picture taking. I use it for travel.

I use it with WindowsXP (don't even need to load ANY software). I did load Finepix viewer on my laptop (windows2000) and it works great.

I have just bought the Fuji finepix a101 digital camera and it's the best thing i have bought in a long time! I bought it for £128 and the delivery was superb. It is very easy to use after a quick flick through the instruction manual. For 1.3 mega pixels, i was AMAZED at the quality of the pics, the sharpest i have ever seen even beating 2.0 mega pixels. If you are a beginner and wanting a VERY good camera with a little bit of zoom then don't hesitate to buy it, you will not be unhappy.

The Fuji Finepix A101 digital camera replaces my AGFA E-Photo 780 which, despite its now very outdated technology, was a thousand times easier to use. The biggest drawback with the FinePix A101 is the absolutely awful software that comes with it. It names your pictures ridiculous jumbles of numbers and letters, it saves them in places that you cant specify and if you have a zip drive (removeable disk as it appears in Windows) the program has a hard time telling between the Zip and the camera since the software is configured to recognize the camera as removeable disk "F". If you can manage to get the pictures into a folder where you want them, just go ahead and try to make any changes to individual shots.....it is impossible and tends to simply save the revised photo as another separate file in some far away mysterious place. I have gone back to using my AGFA Photowise software to manipulate pics taken with this camera. Its much more functional and MUCH easier to use.

the Fuji Finepix A101 is my first digital camera, so I did not know what to expect. The quality of the photos is amazing, they are so sharp. I took photos in fine format and I printed out a 7 by 6 photo and you would not know the difference,

It is a fantastic little camera

You can take pictures or videos with the Fujifilm Finepix A101 digital camera. It also has expandable memory(32MB,64MB or 128MB.) The flash is great for taking pictures at night. Can zoom in x2 and x4 while veiwing the picture on your camera.