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Review summary: See how the Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd fared in our 18x superzoom shootout, with certified test results from the PopPhoto Lab and image quality shots.

Review summary: Joining Fujifilm's ever-popular 'big zoom' range is the FinePix S8000fd. Like predecessors the camera features a stylish lightweight, compact yet sturdy body, but with a significantly boosted fea...

Award: Recommended!

Review summary: Having recently taken its long zoom cameras into ever more DSLR-like territory, Fuji's S8000fd is something of a departure. The S8000fd places a smaller sensor behind a much longer-range zoom lens in a less SLR-like body. Going head to head with the ...

Pros: Phenomenal zoom range that includes real wide-angle to long telephoto capability, Versatile, fun and easy to use package, Good range of features, Bright, punchy 'consumer friendly' output, Good detail and color at lower ISO settings, Generally ...

Cons: Strong purple fringing and chromatic aberration and at long end of zoom, Slight corner softness at shorter focal lengths, JPEGs a little soft and slightly over-sharpened, can look a little 'over-processed', Shortest focus distance (without using macro ...

Verdict: Like the other 18x zoom / 8MP cameras on the market the FinePix S8000fd is a camera that tries to be all things to all men, and in some respects it succeeds, in others it shows the limitations of current compact camera technology in a very stark manner.

Pros: Long 18x optical zoom lens with 27mm-equivalent wide angle ; nice manual exposure controls ; sensor-shift image stabilization

Cons: Sluggish performance ; mediocre image quality ; no hotshoe ; no RAW capture

Verdict: Fuji's S8000fd 18x megazoom has a nice body design and offers a commendable level of control, but its mediocre image quality and sluggish performance acts blights what could otherwise be an excellent camera.

Review summary: One of the best reasons to consider a megazoom is the fact that you get a big zoom range in a small package, so you don't have to carry around huge SLR lenses and, more importantly, you don't have to pay the huge prices for those SLR lenses. Fujifilm ...

Verdict: Fuji's S8000fd 18x megazoom has a nice body design and offers a commendable level of control, but its mediocre image quality and sluggish performance blights what could otherwise be an excellent camera.