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Fuji FinePix 2800 Zoom Two megapixels, a 6x zoom lens, great pictures, and a bargain price: Another great "value leader" from Fuji! Select a topic Reference: Datasheet FinePix 2800 Sample Images --------------------------------- 1. Intro and Highlights 2. Executive Overview 3. Design 4. Viewfinder 5. Optics 6. Exposure & Flash 7. Shutter Lag & Cycle Time Tests 8. Operation & User Interface 9. Camera Modes & Menus 10. Image Storage & Interface 11. Video, Power, Software 12. Test Results & Conclusion --------------------------------- Print-Friendly Review Version Additional Resources and Other Links Reader Comments on FinePix 2800 Review --------------------------------- Digital Camera Comparometer (TM) --------------------------------- <-- Digital Cameras (Home) <-- Digital Camera Reviews Index <<Camera Modes & Menus :(Previous) | (Next): Video, Power, Software>> Page 10:Image Storage & Interface Review First Posted: 02/06/2002

Image Storage and Interface
The 2800 Zoom stores images to a SmartMedia card, and a 16-megabyte card is included with the camera. Additional SmartMedia cards are available as optional accessories, with capacities as large as 128 megabytes. SmartMedia cards can be individually write-protected by placing a small sticker over the designated area on the card. A set of stickers comes with the card, and stickers can only be used once (they must be clean to be effective). Write-protecting the entire SmartMedia card prevents anything from being written to or deleted from the card. Interestingly, the 2800 Zoom does not provide an option to write-protect individual images through the Playback menu. This is a feature that has become standard on most digicams, but that doesn't appear here. The only downside of this is that you can only write-protect the entire card instead of just one image.

The 2800 Zoom offers three image sizes, 1,600 x 1,200; 1,280 x 960; and 640 x 480 pixels for still images. Three JPEG compression levels are also available, Fine, Normal, and Economy, though the 1,600 x 1,200-pixel size is the only size option to offer all three quality settings. Movie files are captured at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.

Following are the approximate number of recordable images and the compression ratios used, for the included 16-megabyte SmartMedia card:

Image Capacity vs. Resolution/Quality		Fine	Normal	Economy
High Resolution 1600x1200	Images	20	39	75
	Approx. Compression	7:1	14:1	27:1
Standard Resolution 1280x960	Images	25	49	-
	Approx. Compression	6:1	11:1	-
Low Resolution 640x480	Images	-	122	-
	Approx. Compression	-	7:1	-

The 2800 Zoom is accompanied by a USB cable and interface software for connecting to a PC or Macintosh. (Macs running OS 8.6 or later, and PCs with Windows 2000, Me or XP should need no additional driver software to connect to the camera.) Here again, the FinePix 2800 Zoom proved itself to be quite fast, downloading files to my G4 Mac host computer at a speed of 487 KB/second. This isn't the very fastest USB-connected camera I've tested, but it's faster than many. (No need for a card reader with this camera!)