Fuji Finepix s9500 Advanced Digital Camera *

Overview The Fuji Finepix S9500 is an advanced digital camera. It has many features that you would expect to find on a Digital SLR camera. With nine megapixels and a 10.7x optical zoom lens the Finepix S9500 is a very powerful digital camera. It is a large camera and this coupled with its features means that it is a camera for the enthusiast rather than someone who is looking for a camera that is easy to use and wants to take snap shots. To get the most out of the camera you will need to either know a fair amount about photography already or be prepared to spend time getting to know the features of the camera and how and when to use them. It has been very interesting for me to review and test the Finepix S9500. It is certainly more advanced than the cameras I normally review and it has been intriguing to compare my sample images with those taken with more basic point and shoot digital cameras. The 10.7x optical zoom lens has a focal length equivalent to 28 - 300mm in 35mm format. This makes the Finepix S9500 one of the few digital cameras to offer an ultra wide angle lens. Zooming is controlled by a zoom ring on the lens. This is the only digital camera I have tested with this feature and personally I find it comes in really handy. There is also a 2x digital zoom feature. For focusing you can choose between automatic focusing, continuous AF and manual. When using auto focus you can choose between centre, multi point and area focusing. Just like the zoom manual focusing is controlled through a ring on the lens. In my eyes this is another useful feature. Close up photography is catered for by two macro modes. These are standard macro where the camera can focus from 10cms away from the subject and digital macro where the camera can get in as close as 1cm. For composing images there is a viewfinder or a 1.8