Best Fuji Digital Cameras - 0.48 to 1 lb. Weight, 4 to 6 x Digital Zoom

'A related issue for all the camera can be a little frustrating to use for even close-in shots.'

'Prints only from Fujifilm.'

'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'

'when the light's not so good, capture lag jumps to an unacceptably high 2.2 seconds'

'However, it takes quite a bit of effort to adapt to the S700's design, which ranges from simply odd in places--you increase shutter speed and aperture with the down arrow and decrease them via the up arrow--to downright frustrating in others.'

'Bad manual focus'

'pictures at the maximum ISO 1,600 look very grainy, almost as if you had applied an impressionist art filter in an image-editing program'

'Some softness due to noise.'

'Images shot at ISO 1600 looked noisy.'

'In aiming for an innovative design, however, Fuji may have made an attractive camera awkward to use.'