Best Fuji Digital Cameras - Atleast 500 images, 8 to 25 x Optical Zoom

'low quality LCD'

'Performance was quite slow with slow focusing, particularly at the telephoto end, and the switch on time was noticeably slow at 4.1 seconds.'

'Shutter-lag is a bit disappointing at about 0.1 second when pre-focused and 0.5 seconds including focusing time.'

'Image quality not up to par with competition; Weak flash; Poor HD video results; Excessive noise above ISO 400 makes the higher options almost useless; Tiny EVF eye piece; LCD is reflective; Sporadic white balance results when using Auto setting; Lack of Aperture value control in the specified A position on the mode dial makes it difficult to control DOF (either wide open or closed down, nothing in between). '

'merely OK photos and shooting performance'

'Small traces of chromatic aberrations (aka CA or purple fringing) were present in most of our outdoor samples.'

'At ISO 1,600 detail completely falls apart, with heavy chroma noise, very bright noise pixels and other visible noise reduction artifacts.'

'I left out the ISO 3200 and 6400 samples from this comparison since they're so utterly bad.'

'when the light's not so good, capture lag jumps to an unacceptably high 2.2 seconds; typical shot-to-shot time is a seriously sluggish 3.3 seconds, which jumps to a snailish 4 seconds with flash.'

'The placement of this jack on the bottom of the camera is unfortunate because users will have to rest the S700 on its front or back in order to plug it into a television, printer, or computer.'

'Unlike most ultra zooms, the S700 is hardly expandable at all.'

'awkward electronic viewfinder'