Within this Underwater Photography Tutorial, we have a great exclusive review for the Fuji FinePix XP30 Water-proof Camera...
I just bought a Fuji Waterproof XP30 camera as a small-scale and lightweight camera for everyday use. I do have a couple of semi-professional digital cameras, however this one looked small enough to carry it around with me on a regular basis. And given that I actually travel a lot I thought that Fuji XP30 digital cameras' GPS Geo-tagging feature would certainly make my pictures tagging faster and easier. This helped bring me to my first disappointment with Fuji XP30:
I still haven't figured it out yet the way to tag the images using authentic place names, and I'm not really a novice with regards to water-proof digital cameras. All I got was a list together with the geographical locations (latitudes and longitudes). On the positive side, the high quality of the photos captured when using the Fuji XP30 Camera is really good, even if used as an idiot digital camera using automatic settings.
If the GPS location dilemma was in fact the only one I'd state that this Fuji camera is really worth the cash I acquired it for ( about 150$), there is however an even greater problem: the battery of the XP30 camera runs really quickly, in the matter of hours. You can make it carry on a little longer should you switch off your GPS location browsing, but you will still require an additional battery if you want to use it for more than 4-5 hours. To make the trouble even worse, the Fuji XP30 camera started up accidentally inside my pocket a couple of times and the battery was already empty even before I got down to snap my first picture.
The good thing about Fuji XP30, while used for out-of-doors activities, is that this digital camera is very sturdy and it in all probability won't break the very first time it accidentally slips out of your hand and strikes the ground. In fact, I had a number of episodes and I can't spot a single scratch on it. Regarding the water-proof part, I primarily tested the Fuji XP30 camera while in the sea to a maximum of two meters and also underneath the shower (to clean the sea salt off) and seemed to be perfect. The size and style of Liquid crystal display is 2.7", which is adequate, but their guarantee of anti-reflective display which may be used even in the bright sunlight proved not to be true.
The Auto-focus function and image stabilization of Fuji XP30 camera to take the picture of moving items worked effectively. I tested it when taking the photos of my kids riding their cycles and every time the picture was nicely focused and well-defined.
Taking the videos with Fuji XP30 camera is straightforward and the standard of the video is really good. But I had significant problems with the audio while taking the video clips. To begin with, I could not transfer the audio. Then, after investing a lot of time playing with the different features on the Fuji XP30 and on the provided computer software the audio did show up, but it became totally out of synchronization. Making it even more frustrating, whilst zooming in or out while recording a video clip you can hear the zoom motion in the video afterward.
To conclude, if you want to make use of the Fuji XP30 camera with regard to daily use or you're having the problem with accidentally damaging your digital cameras it really is almost certainly worth the money you'll pay for it. However, if you don't get the chance to continually charge the batteries you best find something different.
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