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THIS CAMERA WAS ONLY USED ABOUT 5 TIMES.
The FinePix S4000, a chunky DSLR-style compact digitalcamera aimed at the type of user that is venturing timidly into superzoomterritory but still likes the familiarity of a standard compact. Featuring a 14megapixel CCD sensor, 720p HD video, what the company calls Full HD photo, a 3inch LCD screen and an eye popping 30x optical zoom, the S4000 certainly looksthe part and, with a relatively low price point of $279.95 / £299.99 (R 4599 R 5299) should attract admiring glances from a wider crowd.
All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 14 megapixe Finel JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 6Mb.
We can only describe the image quality on the S4000 as a bit weird. From a normal viewing distance, the pictures look great. The look sharp and rich in colour. However, cropping into them and the pictures look overly sharpened to the degree that they look painted. At ISO64, the pictures show no digital noise at all. In fact we're really impressed with the low end ISO settings. Being overly critical, the ISO200 setting does show extremely minor signs of noise poking through. Image quality is still very good, though and it's not until ISO800 that quality takes a nosedive.
For the main night test we used a manual control to get settings that we wanted to use. In aperture priority, we chose a low ISO rating to reduce noise and f/8 to close down the aperture and use a longer shutter speed. We found that the noise performance was very good on the camera because long exposures can sometimes cause noise.
