I’ve never wanted a Fujifilm camera quite so badly as this S8000fd, the successor to the S6500fd, one of the original face recognition cams. First off, its been bumped from 6 to 8MP, still lower than the competition, but for the sake of better light sensitivity.Running in 4MP mode, more than enough for most shots, it can capture an astounding 6400 ISO (at full res it hits 1600). Then there’s the gorgeous 18x zoom, which is the equivalent of a 27mm to 486mm lens.
Of course, to shoot at nearly 500mm, you’ll find the dual image stabilization handy, which utilizes mechanical sensor shift, and image processing. Face recognition works to focus and expose up to 10 faces, as always, but now it does red eye reduction, on the fly. There’s a 2.5 inch LCD or an LCD-viewfinder, which refreshes at 60fps. The camera itself can shoot at 15FPS at 2MP, so its questionable whether or not it’ll be even half that fast at decent res. As far as video modes go, this one shoots at 640 x 480 at 30FPS.
What seals the deal is that this camera drops monogamous relations with the shitty xD format cards, picking up SD and SD-HC compatibility, too. The whole rig operates on 4 AA batteries. Doe in September at $400.
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