by Fujifilm’s FinePix S1 boasts a whopping image-stabilized 50x optical zoom, thanks to a huge zoom lens. This enables a focal range that’s the 35mm equivalent of a wide angle 24mm to 1200mm—excellent for shooting landscapes and group portraits, but also for capturing candid close-ups from afar. Since the lens specification is all encompassing, it doesn’t matter that you can’t swap it like you would on the DSLR camera.
There are a lot of DSLR-type features packed into this “bridge” camera—so called because it provides a bridge between a point and shoot camera and a DSLR. The FinePix S1 includes an eye-level viewfinder (of the electronic variety), plus a hot shoe for attaching accessories. Fujifilm also found room atop the viewfinder for a pop up flash that is manually activated by a button sitting just below it on the left.
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