I'm an unusual and especially demanding camera user, but not because I'm an expert in photography. I take thousands of photographs a day to record historical documents for my job as a professional historian. Otherwise I'm a typical camera user with a typical knowledge about how digital cameras work - the exact kind of person who would be purchasing a high-quality point-and-shoot camera like this one. It's difficult to avoid superlatives when describing this camera. I really am very impressed with its quality and features.

The good:

1. This camera produces the best-quality photographs of any small(ish) point-and-shoot camera I have ever used. It's almost impossible to take a bad photograph.

2. I believe the reason the photos are so good (per my comment above) is that the auto mode, called EXR on the Fujifilm, is simply amazing. It's way better at doing its job than comparable auto features on other digital cameras. You don't have to be an... Read more

I love this camera so far. I bought it for a photography class I am taking next semester and have already used it more than I thought I would

Pros:
Comes with a free 4 Gb SD card

Has a GREAT picture, which is really the only important thing! The picture is better than my grandmas fujifilm that she paid $400 and I only paid $160

Has lots of different settings. When you put it on advanced it has a seamless panoramic setting. most panoramic settings you have to take three pictures and try to line them up just right and you always end up with two lines down the middle of your picture but this one you just pan the camera and try to stay level and then it calibrates the rest of it and blends it together and it looks seamless.

The EXR setting is amazing! the first day I got it my grandma had me take a whole bunch of pictures of a house she is selling and she needed inside and out. Different areas of the house were lighted different and it... Read more

I shoot with Sony DSLRs and have great glass, but when I got this for review, I decided to hang my Sonys up for a month and shoot with nothing but this. I'm not a pro, but I am a very serious amateur. Wherever I go, I carry a camera. I take pictures everyday. It's an obsession and I'm obsessed with good quality gear.

And this is good quality gear which fits in my pocket. The camera is responsive, has the shooting modes you'd expect, though I've been leaving in on full auto, because for once I've found a camera that really might be smarter than me. The camera is dead easy to use, but most of all, it takes great photos. It is pricy, but you get what you pay for. Actually, in my opinion, you're getting a lot more than you're paying for with this camera.