I'm trying to decide between Nikon digital cameras (700 or 950) or Fuji camera (2700 or 700). There's plenty of information and opinions about the Nikon cameras, does anyone have any comments on Fuji cameras, especially the new one MX 2700?

-- Susan Schoenian (sschoen@shore.intercom.net), May 03, 1999

Answers

A person who bought a Fuji 2300 in Asia posted some pics and they were terrific. Would love to see some others.

The Fuji has more resolution than the Nikon - 2.3 vs 2.1 and I can see it when I enlarge them both. However, the Fuji has no manual controls and no uncompressed TIFF storage.

The 950 images that I have downloaded and studied at an enlarged size have a whole range of problems that I did not see in the Fuji or the Olympus.

When I printed the Nikon images on my Epson at 8 x 10 or less, they look great but at a larger size they seem to break up very quickly. The Olympus 2000 images hold together much better at larger sizes and, of course, the few Fuji ones did as well.

Another camera to consider is the Ricoh RDC-5000 which also has 2.3 megapixal resolution and a macro mode missing on the Fuji.

Edward Woods

-- Edward Woods (woods@clarityrec.com), May 03, 1999.

The big difference is the fuji doesn't have optical zoom. When you use digital zoom, quality goes down the tubes. The fuji is selling well in Japan though. You might also look at Oly 2000.

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), May 04, 1999.

We're scheduled to get a Fuji MX-2700 as soon as they have English- language versions in this country. This should be pretty soon now, although we don't have a definite date for them yet. We'll slot it into the review pipeline as soon as it arrives, try to get the results up quickly...

-- Dave Etchells (detchells@imaging-resource.com), May 10, 1999.

They're (somewhat) of two different animals; the 2700 is COOL (no pun intended!), the highest resolution in its class, truly POCKETABLE, etc. If you're really driven by more professional features and optical zoom you may want to hold for the recently announced Fujifilm MX-2900 which should be shipping in late summer.

Good luck!

-- (jhbgo@att.net), May 26, 1999.