User Reviews & Ratings

speaklightly - (August 21, 2004) As a professional digital camera lecturer, I must admit that the Fuji E-550 was a very pleasant surprise for me. Priced at about $340, this digital camera produced digital photos that were much sharper, more detailed, and more excellent than I, frankly expected. I found the digital camera very easy to use right out of the box. While this digital camera does have a 12mp interpolated image size available, I found the 6mp native image size to have more contrast, detail and resolution. As you might expect in a consumer digital camera, the digital camera's flash is not very powerful. At 200 ISO it will produce excellent exposures out to 13 feet. By adding a supplementary slave flash such as

snufalufagus1 - (September 24, 2004) I spent a LOT of time investigating digital cameras online -one would think I was buying a car or something. Anyway I am a novice camera user and remain very impressed with this little guy. I would certainly recommend it. The movie mode is great for 'vignettes' or small movie snapshots. I also use the black and white a lot. I also didn't think the LCD would matter very much, but it does: I never use the viewfinder. I appreciate the large size of the LCD when passing the camera around to friends to view pictures and movies. Hint #1: Immediately jack up the megapixel resolution to 5 so that you can capture moments in the best resolution possible. Then, bypass Sony's ridiculous profit margin

joysmahal - (October 27, 2004) This camera is awesome. I upgraded from a Canon A70 and it was well worth the money. The Canon A95 uses 4 AA bateries, but it eats through normal alkalines way too fast. I highly recommend getting rechargeable NiMH AA batteries and a quick charger. The swivel screen is a major plus, it's 1.8" compared to 1.5" from the Canon A70. The screen is also higher resolution than the A70. I have used the camera for 3 weeks and printed about 50 pics so far. The pics look great and I even cropped to zoom in on some pictures and you couldn't see any sign of pixelation. I love the manual flexibility with this camera, plus the automatic modes make it easy for anyone to use. The camera

denniswebster2 - (11/30/2009) Cheap-must be Palm rejects. They short-out and crackle when in use. And it is not the phone - I have two Palms and they do the same thing on both. Appreciate the opportunity to review.

dtcostelloe - (11/29/2009) I purchased this unit (the first one) about 16 - 17 months ago. I bought it because it was on clearance at BestBuy, and the price was about $130. I didn't have any speakers for it at the time, so I read the manual, which recommended 8-ohm speakers. So, I got on BestBuy's ebay site, and found a nice 6.1 speaker set, also made by Insignia. The set includes 6 8-ohm main speakers, and 1 powered sub-woofer. I hooked everything up, and everything worked great ... for about 2 months. My wife turned it on one day, and there wasn't any sound. The unit powered up, all the remote functions worked, but there was absolutely no sound from the unit - no sound from the main speakers, the sub, or even through head phones. It wasn't a connection issue, because even the built-in radio tuner didn't make any noise at all. I took it back and exchanged it under warranty. It has been just over a year now (just out of warranty, in other words) and the second unit is now doing the EXACT SAME THING. You couldn't tell from looking at it that anything was wrong - but no sound from sub, speakers, or head phones. The video inputs even change and the video pass-through works. Video flips my TV to the Wii, Coax1 flips my TV to DVD Player, DVD / OPT flips to my satellite receiver, and I get picture from all sources - but no sound. So, two out of two units = 100% failure rate. I haven't decided whether I'm going to have my electronic repair guy fix this, or just throw it out and buy something else. It had great sound, and I'm very happy with it - except it quits after a short time. I never really push the unit, over 60% of the whole time it is used is with head phones, so the amps shouldn't have to work too hard. Most interesting of all, if I put a DVD in, and select COAX1 (where my DVD is plugged in) the unit even detects and starts decoding the audio stream. (EX: DTS, Dolby Digital, etc.) but there is no sound. So, it's working on some level. If I decide to get it fixed, I'll post back here on what was the matter with it.

ten999 - (11/29/2009) Picture went out after three years. No storms, electrical problems in house, etc. Clear night and "pop" the picture is out for good. Sound still works though! Hitachi is no help. Did not want to speak to me or recommend anyone.