Customer Reviews
Fuji F20 
2008-04-29
I'll skip to the chase - this is the best low light point and shoot camera you can buy. At any price - including 2008 model cameras. I hardly use the flash - even indoors and even at night. Just hold the camera steady and go. Natural lighting in photo's always looks better than stark bluish flash. If I do use the flash its just for fill.
The video feature is a nice touch - DVD quality in sharpness, but I use it sparingly as its mostly a novelty even though it makes buying a full fledged camcorder irrelevant.
The only downside to the camera is the xD card which has slowish PC transfers, compared to SD anyway, although writing to the card itself when taking pictures is plenty fast. I use a 1gb card and its tricky to fill with images, but video eats up room fast.
Still, if the purpose of this camera is quick shots in anything other than bright light, you simply can't buy a better one - yet.
Very Nice For The Price 
2008-03-31
I have had this camera for about a year and it is my 'Carry With Me All The TIme' camera when I don't want to take one of my 2 dSLRs.
The camera is a good value for the original price ($150 I think it was) and would be a steal at a used price under $100.
The ISO performance is really good up to 400, decent at 800 and useable at 1600. The default colors are a little drab out of the camera but with a little tweaking to white balance settings or using the FujiChrome setting in some cases (or in post processing, of course) they can be made better.
This is a basic point and shoot, though, don't expect manual control or a bunch of options to fiddle with.
It is metal and feels pretty solid. Nice size and operation. If you are a real photo buff, it probably wouldn't satisfy as your only camera but would make a nice compact...especially for dSLR users who are used to being able to stray from ISO 100 or 200 and not experience a lot of noise.
digital camera 2008-03-13
Fugifilm Finepix F20... This camera is easy to use. It comes with a "quickie" learning directional tool. It takes GREAT pictures. For the money. size, and weight the quality is excellent.
Exceptional Value and Quality 2008-02-26
The only regret I have is for Fuji who stopped carrying the Super-CCDs in those award-winning cameras, namely the F10 through F30.
Fuji F20 2008-02-15
Received a Fuji F20 refurbished in like new condition. Camera works flawlessly. Pictures at high ISO are outstanding. I also have the F30 and the picture quality is identical.. Can't go wrong for the price.
Lenny
Excellent Low Light AND All-Around Compact Digcam 2008-01-20
I got this Fujifilm F20 primarily for its' low light capabilites, which are excellent (probably better than the newer F series cameras in this regard, since they have too many megapixels), but I've also found it to be an excellent all-around point-and-shoot compact digcam with a good lens and reasonably fast performance, good battery life, and very convenient. I especially like the Flash/Natural Mode which takes two consecutive photos, one with flash, one without, for instant comparison. Also the Manual capability, though limited, is handy for limiting or unlimiting the ISO range. This handy camera can take some very high quality images!
Not bad, but not great 
2008-01-20
I've had this camera for 10 months before the lens finally got stuck in the "out" position. I'll see soon enough if they'll honor their warranty.
In the meantime, it's taken tons of wonderful pictures and videos. It was a great price and considering all the pictures and mini-vids that I've taken, it was somewhat worth it. Our family has taken so many pictures with this camera and they came out fine. It would have cost me more money to get a regular camera and to develop pictures that might not come out right than for all the pictures I've gotten out of this camera.
If I had gotten 4 years out of this camera before it broke down, it would have received 5 stars. The fact that I only got 10 months, it'll receive 3 stars for very nice pictures while it lasted.
Great low-light performance 2008-01-18
I bought this camera as I was looking for a FujiFilm F30 or F31 - looking for a solid performing low-light compact camera. Noise is minimal even at ISO400 and pics are usable at ISO800, which coupled with the very short focal length of compact digital cameras makes for very good available ligh shooting. This is what I expected after reading the F30 dpreview where it performed comparable to a Nikon DSLR at high ISO values (800, 1600) - as the F20 shares the sensor of the 30 and 31.
Manual control is minimal, there is no image stabilization (just a 'anti-blur button' or something - which is really a joke, it just throws the camera into a high speed automated mode with ISO2000, flash etc) but as we all know good high ISO performance is far more useful than stabilization.
A nice little camera, with amazing low-light performance for a compact.
problems with refurbished f20 
2008-01-16
the f20 has very good image quality but a poor AF system. in Auto mode, the aperture and shutter seems to be selected at random. that's not good for low-light, which is what you buy this for. so you get ISO 2000 shots with a shutter speed under 1/10 of a second and like f 5, which is too slow. if you want to shoot in low light with no flash, you have to go into menu and select natural light mode.
the low-light performance on this is great. its fairly compact, but the buttons, which seemed small at first, were easy and intuitive to operate after just a few hours of practice. the compact size does induce camera shake, however, which the picture stabilization function doesnt correct, since it's not optical stabilization but digital. i would strongly recommend getting a small tripod for night shots and long exposures.
there are some limited manual controls here, but it's really a basic point and shooter with a good sensor chip and great low-light performance.
i would have been happy with it, but my refurbished unit suffered from battery drain, which could be quite inconvenient, especially since the camera doesnt take AA's. i charged a battery for 12 hours -- 2 hours is what the manual says -- and the red charge light didnt go off like it was supposed to. the battery indicator read full, and the f20 appeared to work fine, but after a night of about 20-30 shots and a day of not using it, it wouldn't power up. this appears to be a camera problem, not a battery problem.
this is unacceptable, something that should have been fixed before the camera was okayed for resale. also the internal motor sounds like its dying everytime it autofocuses or zooms. i have no idea if this is normal.
really wanted to have this just for jacket pocket low-light stuff when the dslr is a bit much, but looks like i'll be sending it back.
F20 great little camera. Get it while they last! 2007-12-31
Recommended. Nice sharp outdoor pics. Indoor at hi ISO much less noisy than my other p&s cameras.
