While digital SLRs are now a lot more affordable and boast a big leap in photo quality and shooting options, everyone still needs an ultracompact camera for those occasions when you just don’t need, or can be bothered, lugging around an SLR. There was a time when ultracompacts sacrificed quality for size but not anymore and, the new Fujifilm F60fd is a perfect example. As the successor to the critically accalimed F50 it has a lot to live up to and, while it lacks all the bells and whistles you might expect from a new model, it’s a very competent performer that keeps the best bits from the old one, adds a few new tricks and tweaks the rest. First off, the camera looks a lot like its predecessor, from shape and styling to the layout of controls. The latter is not a bad thing since it’s an easy camera to work out without the manual. At least most of the main features. The matt black and brushed chrome finish are pleasing to the eye and the camera has a well-made, robust feel. The screen has had a small bump to a generous 3in, which takes up most of the back, leaving all the buttons - which are wee little things - huddled nervously to one side. The upside is that the display is bright, with sharp images showing balanced colours and good contrast. Among the new additions to the camera is automatic Scene Recognition or, SR Auto mode. Depending on your location, lighting and subject, SR Auto will select the best preset for you. In testing we moved indoors and outside and focused on things far off and up close, while SR Auto whirred away a little before choosing the best preset. Those presets are Portrait, Portrait Enhancer, Landscape, Sport, Night, Fireworks, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Underwater, Museum, Party, Flower, Text. It takes some of the pain out of selecting the right mode yourself but really comes into its own if the camera is being handled by a complete novice - like your Gran - by making it very user-friendly indeed. Other modes include Auto, Manual [more like Auto but with some overrides], Natural Light, Natural Light with Flash, Movie, Aperture Priority and Portrait. I do like the Natural Light With Flash option because it takes two shots of the same thing, just one with the aforementioned natural light and the other with flash, displaying both side by side so that you can choose which one you like best. The camera is capable of decent fast shooting, allowing for 3 continuous 12MP shots in under 2 seconds. These take an age to save to your memory card though which means you better have gotten the ones you really wanted as you′re out of action for a little bit. Better still though is the ability to take 12 shots at 5fps in around 2 seconds which is pretty damn impressive. When it comes to zooming, the F60 features 3x optical which these days, to be honest, is a little bit low. It’s the same as what you got on the old F50 and it’s certainly one thing that could have been increased. It works fine though. The image stabilisation and red eye removal features - which sport a dedicated button - also work well, with the F60 able to pick out faces fairly quickly and take most of the pain out re-editing shots of your relatives looking like Satan’s little helpers. You can shoot VGA movies too at 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 at 25fps but this is by far a camera first and a camcorder-in-a-pinch second. There’s only 25MB of memory onboard, which is not that unusual, so storage is via SDHC or xD-Picture Cards. Battery life is rated at 230 shots which is good and the battery can be fully recharged in a couple of hours. Verdict: At around £200 the F60 is not the cheapest, high-end ultracompact around but it’s not the most expensive either. Is it a massive leap over the great F50? No. Is it better than the great F50? Yes it is, so that alone is reason enough to buy it. This is a well made, good-looking camera that performs very well under most conditions and is a snap to get to grips with.-Martin Lynch camera photo photography
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