Fujifilm FinePix S5700 Digital Camera

Fujifilm FinePix S5700 Digital Camera

FinePix S5700

Manufacturer
Fujifilm
SKU
NC00030A
28-03-2007
Fujifilm is pleased to announce the new FinePix S5700, a refinement of its predecessor, the FinePix S5600. The modifications to the FinePix S5700 mean it is easier to use than anything that has gone before.

It's a faithful companion for every event, from nights out, the kids' school play or sports day, right through to countryside walks and family holidays. It's the ultimate camera for every occasion and perfect for users who always want a camera to hand, but prefer to get creative, not technical, with their photography.

The S5700 is an upgrade to last year’s best-selling long zoom camera, the S5600, which was voted by the EISA* as the 'European Zoom camera of 2006-07'. The S5700 is improved in many respects, and is likely to take the long zoom ‘crown’ once again this year.

First up is the lens, which, unsurprisingly, makes or breaks a camera in this category.

This specially-designed Fujinon optic gives you a zoom range of 38 mm to 380 mm, or 10 times magnification, meaning its perfect for candid shots of friends at distance, or shots of the kids playing football.

The lens is tuned to give great macro results with a closest focussing range of 1 cm. It's ideal for close-up shots of flowers, insects, coins, jewellery, or anything that needs that extra bit of magnification.

One of problems of long zoom cameras is blur because of the poor sensitivity of the sensor and lack of light down the lens tube. The S5700 solves this with Fuji's Picture Stabilisation mode, which increases the ISO automatically up to 1600, giving crisp, sharp results every time by automatically increasing the shutter speed when light is scarce.

Last year's star camera was 5 million pixels. The S5700 delivers even higher resolution with a 7.1m pixel sensor, giving you files of 3072 x 2304 pixels that can be printed at A4 or much larger.

Fuji is one of the few camera manufacturers to make sensors, and is designed to get the very best of all the essential components working in tandem. The S5700 is fitted with Fuji's Real Photo Processor to deliver first-rate colour reproduction, image sharpness, low noise and excellent tonal response.

One of Fuji's great strengths is high quality images in low light. The S5700's sensor can shoot up to 1600 ISO with minimal noise, excellent colour, and crisp sharpness, even at maximum telephoto range.

The S5700 is an enthusiasts' camera, which means it’s packed with a number of shooting of versatile program modes and scene positions choices to ensure optimum results whatever the challenge. One of the most popular, unique to Fuji, is 'Natural Light with Flash', where the camera takes one shot with flash and another with natural ambient light, and leaves you to choose the favourite.

Most cameras have a very basic flash mode. Either it’s 'off', making the picture dark and blurry, or 'on' at full strength, giving pictures that bright, washed out, 'black-and-white' look. What you really want are photos which convey the warmth and feeling of the scene, with subtle lighting and gentle tones.

The S5700, which has been fitted with Fuji's latest Intelligent Flash Technology, has solved this problem. The camera reads a scene in milliseconds and cleverly balances foreground and background light to give beautifully exposed, balanced shots. Pictures of people in low light work particularly well, with faces that look natural, not ghoulish!!

Probably the biggest improvement of the S5700 on previous models is the LCD, which is a sizeable 2.5" and an excellent resolution of 230,000 pixels, meaning you can playback your images to your friends in gloriously detailed Fujicolor.

It's also fitted with the unique wide-view filter, meaning the LCD can be viewed from side-on, rather than just front-on.

The S5700 offers an excellent recording resolution of 640 x 480 at 30 frames per second, meaning it can act as a first-class camcorder as well as a camera.

Refinements of the S5700 on previous models mean that it can zoom, expose and focus as you shoot, giving you up to 35 minutes movie on a 2 GB card - at almost indistinguishable quality from expensive digital camcorders.

The S5700 is also fitted with an Electronic Image Stabiliser, which gives stable movie clips even at long zoom telephoto.

The S5700 features an xD/SD compatible slot, allowing the use of either xD or SD cards.

This will give you the flexibility to buy the card you want, use cards from previous cameras, or choose the media that fits with your other desktop devices like laptops, PDAs or card readers.

A 2 GB card will give you 568 shots at the highest quality setting and lowest compression.

Although the camera comes with built-in 27 MB of memory, you'll need to purchase an xD or SD card (ideally 512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB) to get the most out of your photography.

Memory

Maximum memory card size 
2 GB

Video

Maximum video resolution 
640 x 480 pixels
Video formats supported 
AVI
Motion JPEG frame rate
30 fps

Technical details

Interface 
USB
Colour of product 
Black, Silver
Weight 
306g
Aperture range (F-F) 
3.5 - 13.6
Focal length range (f-f) 
6.33 - 63.3 mm
Auto Focus (AF) assist beam
Y
Auto focusing (AF) modes 
continuous auto focus
Camera shutter speed 
4 - 1/1000s
Compatible memory cards 
sd, xd
Display 
LCD
Flash modes 
auto, Red-eye reduction, Slow synchronization
Internal memory 
27 MB
Megapixel 
7.1 MP
Optical zoom 
10x
Scene modes 
beach, Fireworks, Landscape, Museum, Night, party (indoor), Portrait, Sports, Sunset
Sensor type 
CCD
Video capability 
Y
White balance 
auto, custom modes, daylight, Fluorescent, Incandescent, Shade

Power

Battery type 
AA
Number of batteries supported 
4

Display

Display resolution (numeric) 
230000 pixels

Technical details

Display diagonal 
6.35 cm (2.5")

Lens system

Digital zoom 
4.8x
Focal length (35mm film equivalent)
38 - 380 mm

Camera

Camera playback
single image, slide show
Image editing
trimming

Focusing

Auto Mode focusing range (tele)
0.6 - 3m
Macro focusing range (tele)
1 - ∞
Macro focusing range (wide)
0.04 - 3m
Normal focusing range
0.3 - ∞
Super Macro focusing range
0.01 - 1m

Light exposure

Light exposure modes 
aperture priority AE, manual, shutter priority AE

Battery

Battery capacity 
2700 mAh

Packaging content

Battery technology 
Alkaline

Picture quality

Image sensor size
25.4/63.5 mm (1/2.5")

Weight & dimensions

Filter size 
3.5 mm
Width 
10.61 cm
Depth 
7.57 cm
Height 
8.07 cm

Other features

Digital SLR 
Y
Frame
Y

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