FUJIFILM FINEPIX AX550

GETS YOU GREAT IMAGES WHEN GETTING IS GOOD

Its main selling points include

Lens Elements

Lens elements of this camera consist of 8 lenses in 8 groups, and feature Fujinon 5x optical zoom having f=5.9 – 29.5 mm and full aperture setting of F3.3 (W) – F5.9 (T), and excellent 1x wide angle view. It also offers 6.7 digital zoom.

Auto Flash

It’s i-flash, offering 60 cm – 3.0 m (W) and 60 cm – 2.0 m (T). In Macro mode, it covers 30 cm – 80 cm (W) and 60 cm – 1.0 m (T). It also features Red-eye Reduction and Slow Synchro.

Display

The 2.7 inch 230k-dot TFT color monitor offers as good as 96% coverage and will feast your eyes on what you’d desire to see.

Sensor

It’s 1/2.3 inch CCD with primary color filter. Assisted by 14.0 million pixels and digital image stabilizer, it’s capable of grasping the overall mood of the shooting situation and understands the demands of the subject. The result is that you get both clarity and tones which won’t fail to draw emotional response from you.

Autofocus

It’s TTL contrast AF featuring Single AF / Continuous AF (SR AUTO, Movie) and AF frame selection options including Center / Tracking.

Aperture, ISO & Shutter

Aperture comes with ND filter and offers F3.3 / F8.0 (W) and F5.9 / F14.4 (T). And the Standard Output Sensitivity it offers 100 to 3200. ISO 3200 is effective in S modes. Its shutter offers TBD in Auto and 8 sec to 1/1400 sec in all the other modes. This three-some functionality of this camera will do awesome job to lend quality to your images.    

Shooting & Capture Modes

Shooting modes are meant for special requirements of the given shooting situation in order for you to get desired results out of your photographic endeavors. The options include SR Auto, Auto, P, Movie, Natural Light & with Flash, Natural Light, Portrait, Baby, Smile & Shoot, Landscape, Motion Panorama, Sport, Night, Night (Tripod), Fireworks, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Party, Flower and Text.

If you’re in for recording movies, you can shoot 1289 x 720 pixels, 640 x 480 pixels, 320 x 240 pixels at 30 fps with monaural sound. You can use the zoom function while shooting but sound will not be recorded when optical zoom is in operation. This camera allows you to shoot maximum 1.2 frames per second.

And if you want to shoot stills, the photographic function you have at your disposal are SR AUTO, Face Detection, Auto red-eye removal, Blink detection, Framing guideline and Automatic LCD brightness adjustment.

Playback

Options include Face Detection, Photobook assist, Image search, Erase selected frames, Slide show, Auto red-eye removal, Protect, Crop, Resize, Image rotate, Mark for upload, Multi-frame playback, Panorama and Favorite.

Others

These functions include PictBridge, Exif Print, 35 languages selection, Time difference, Discharge option for rechargeable Ni-MH batteries and Silent mode.

Indeed, Fujifilm Finepix AX 550 is equipped with all the features that make casual photography real fun.