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The FinePix A500 point and shoot camera incorporates Fujifilm’s innovative Super CCD sensor, direct print, date/time stamp, DPOF support, PictBridge support, NTSC/PAL Video out, resizing an image. Many people are disappointed because on sale it does not include a memory card. The controls on the camera have been designed for simple, one-handed operation and it does have an optical viewfinder (Field Coverage: 75%). As far as I see, the movie mode is poor, limited and with no sound. For a 5MP camera, it only provides 4 scene modes and I find that quite strange at least: look at some Canon, at the same resolution it comes with much more. These limitations may become frustrating and you will want to upgrade.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night Scene, Macro, Movie
• Movie Mode: AVI (Motion JPEG), 320 x 240 at 10 fps up to 94 sec, 160 x 120 at 10 fps up to 240 sec, no sound recording
• Flash Modes: Auto, Red-eye Reduction, Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Slow Synchro, Red-eye Reduction + Slow Synchro
• White Balance: Auto, Fine, Shade, Fluorescent light (Daylight), Fluorescent light (Warm White), Fluorescent light (Cool White), Incandescent light

Technical Data:
• 1.8 inch LCD
• 5.1 megapixels
• 3x optical zoom + 5x digital zoom
• 38-114 mm (35mm equivalent) lens
• Aperture: F3.3-F5.5
• Focus Range: 60 cm to infinity, macro 10-80cm
• ISO Range: 100, 200, 400
• Shutter Speed: 2 - 1/1500 sec
• Self Timer: 2 / 10 sec
• Exposure Compensation: ±2 EV range, in 1/3 EV steps
• File Format: JPEG (Exif Ver 2.2)
• xD Picture Card + 12MB internal memory
• 2 x alkaline or NiMH AA Batteries (up to 350 pics)

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