Fujiflm has joined the ‘big zoom’ brigade with a camera designed to go head-to-head with the Olympus SP-550UZ and the new Pansaonic FZ18. Sporting an 18x (27-486mm equiv.) zoom, 8MP sensor and - for the first time in a Fujifilm ‘bridge’ camera - image stabilization (CCD-shift), the new FinePix

S8000fd is Fujifilm’s most ambitious S series to date. Other features of note include face detection, 15fps shooting (at reduced resolution) and sensitivity settings of up to ISO 6400 (again, at reduced sensitivity). Like most recent FinePix digital cameras the new S8000fd accepts both xD and SD/SDHC media.

Original post by Andrew Barrow