Fujifilm FinePix S3100 4-megapixel digital camera

Features
Supplied Software

Features

LCD Monitor: The Fujifilm FinePix S3100 has a 1.5" amorphous silicon TFT LCD monitor featuring approximately 60,000 pixels and a 10-level brightness adjustment. The monitor provides approximately 87% coverage in the shooting mode when in the NTSC mode, and 85% coverage in the PAL mode.

Electronic Viewfinder (EVF): In addition to the LCD monitor, the camera has an a 0.33" electronic viewfinder with approximately 88% coverage in the NTSC shooting mode and 87% coverage in the PAL shooting mode. The EVF also has a 10-level brightness adjustment.

Optics: The FinePix S3100 is equipped with a Fujinon lens with a 6x optical zoom.

Lens Adapter Ring: This unit is equipped with a lens adapter ring which not only protects the lens and blocks unwanted external light, but is threaded to allow optional conversion lenses to be attached. Dimensions: Diameter=2.36", Height=1.167", Filter Diameter with adapter ring: 55mm.

Zoom: The digital zoom becomes active as the zoom value exceeds 3.4x, the value of the optical zoom. The maximum zoom scale varies as the image quality setting changes. When the image quality is set to 4M (2272 x 1704), the digital zoom cannot be used and the maximum zoom value is 6x. The remaining maximum digital zoom settings are:

Image Quality: The FinePix S3100 records still images in JPEG format (compressed) and movies in AVI format (Motion JPEG) without audio. You have a choice of 4 still image size options and 2 movie size options. The standard number of frames/recording time per xD-Picture Card, is as follows:

Shooting Modes: In the menu, you can set the camera to suit your level and style of photography. The shooting mode choices include:

• Auto Mode: The Auto Mode is a simple point-and-shoot mode in which the exposure value and white balance are controlled by the camera. This mode is recommended for first-time users of digital cameras.
• Manual Mode: The Manual Mode lets you adjust the exposure compensation, white balance, flash brightness, aperture priority and sharpness settings.
• Scene Position: The following modes are preset to match the selected photo setting:
  • Portrait: For shooting portraits--skin tones are shown beautifully and the overall tone is soft.
  • Landscape: For shooting scenery in daylight--provides crisp, clear shots of scenery such as buildings and mountains. No flash is available in this mode.
  • Sport: For shooting sporting events--gives priority to faster shutter speeds.
  • Night: For evening and night scenes--allows you to take shots where priority is given to slow shutter speeds of up to 2 seconds. To prevent camera shake, a tripod is recommended.
• Movie Mode: You can make movies at a rate of 10 frames per second without sound. The images are recorded at 320 x 240 pixels or 160 x 120 pixels. The maximum set recording times are 60 seconds for 320 x 240 and 180 seconds for 160 x 120. You must zoom before you begin to record. The maximum zoom scale is 6x. Focal range is 2 feet to infinity.

Photometry (Metering): The Finepix S3100 uses through the lens (TTL) metering to assess the scene, using 64 different zones within the frame, to choose the optimum exposure.

Focusing: The camera uses through the lens (TTL) automatic focusing (AF), focusing on the subject within the AF frame when the shutter button is pressed halfway.

AF/AE Lock: When the subject of your photo does not appear within the AF frame, it is difficult for the camera to focus properly. You can use the AF/AE (auto focus/auto exposure) feature to focus the picture correctly. You can place your subject within the AF frame, lock the focus and exposure by pressing the shutter button halfway, then recompose and take the picture in focus.

White Balance: White balance is used to preserve natural colors under different types of lighting. The White Balance is automatically set in the Auto or Scene Positions.  The White Balance can be set by the user when in the Programmed Auto, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, or Manual shooting modes only. You can select Auto, Outdoors, Shade, "Daylight" fluorescent lamps, "Warm White" fluorescent lamps, "Cool White" fluorescent lamps, and Incandescent light.

Exposure Compensation: You can alter the exposure from the value suggested by the camera, making pictures brighter or darker. You can adjust the exposure a total of 13 steps from -2.1 to +1.5 EV in 13 steps in 0.3 EV increments.

ISO Sensitivity: Normally, the ISO Sensitivity is set to the equivalent of ISO100. Depending upon the shooting mode, the sensitivity is automatically set to a value between ISO 64 and ISO 250.

Macro: For close-up photography, the FinePix S3100 offers a Macro mode mode. The Macro mode allows you to focus on subjects between 3.5 inches and 2.6 feet in Wide-angle, and 1.3 feet and 2.6 feet in telephoto. The effective flash range in the Macro mode is 1 to 2.6 feet.

Flash Modes: The FinePix S3100 has a built-in pop-up flash with an effective range of 2' to 14.8' (Wide) and 2' to 7.2' (Tele). You can choose from the following flash modes:

• Auto: flash fires automatically as required by the shooting conditions

• Red-eye reduction: flash fires a pre-flash just before the picture is taken and fires again to take the actual picture.

• Forced Flash: flash will fire whenever a picture is taken

• Red-eye reduction + Slow Synchro: pre-flash for reducing red-eye effect, plus auto flash with slow shutter speeds

• Slow Synchro: auto flash combined with slow shutter speeds (tripod recommended) for taking pictures at night when you want to show a nighttime backdrop.

• Suppressed Flash: Pressing the flash down turns off the flash so it will not fire, even when lighting is poor. The selected white balance function operates so natural colors are captured.

Flash Brightness Adjustment: In the Manual shooting mode, you can adjust the amount of light emitted by the flash to suit the conditions or to achieve a desired effect. The flash brightness levels can be set between -0.6 EV to +0.6 EV in 5 levels in 0.3 EV increments.

Viewing Images: Images can be manually played back one-at-a-time, or multi-frame (9 "thumbnail" images). With Auto Play, the images are played one-by-one at a selectable interval with different types of image transitions to choose from.

Playback Zoom: You can enlarge a still image according to the image quality (size). Images shot in 4M (2304 x 1728) can be enlarged up to a maximum of approximately 14x, 2M (1600 x 1200) enlarged to approximately 10x, 1M (1280 x 960) enlarged to approximately 8x, and 0.3M (640 x 480) enlarged to approximately 4x. This function is useful for checking the focus of shots you have taken.

Trimming: You can save a cropped image as a new file. After selecting an image, you can zoom in or out and pan left or right to frame the new image. The new file can be saved as a 2M, 1M, or 0.3M image.

Erase/Protect: In the camera's playback menu, you can choose to erase images or protect images from accidental erasure. If you wish to erase unwanted images, you can choose to erase them one at a time or erase all unprotected images. To prevent images from being accidentally erased, you can choose to protect a single image, protect all images, or reset all images to remove protection from all of the files.

PictBridge Compatible: The FinePix S3100 allows you to print directly to a PictBridge-compatible printer of any brand via USB cable. You do not have to download pictures to a computer before printing.

Printing Pictures: Using DPOF (Digital Print Order Form), you can designate which images to print, and whether to print them with or without date. Pictures can be printed as followed:

• Printer or Photo Lab: insert the memory card into a compatible printer, or take the memory card to a digital photo lab.
• Direct Print: connect a PictBridge-compatible printer via USB cable and print images directly.
• Transferring to Computer: transfer the images to a computer before printing them

Power Requirements: The FinePix S3100 is equipped with 4 "AA" alkaline batteries. The supplied batteries provide power for recording approximately 300 frames to an xD-Picture Card with the LCD monitor on. Optional Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) rechargeable "AA"-sized batteries can also be used.

AC Adapter: The optional AC-5V AC power adapter allows you to operate the camera on household current.

Power Save Function: When the camera is operated on battery power, the Power Save function will cause the camera to enter a "sleep" mode if it is not used for approximately 60 seconds. While in the sleep mode, the camera can be quickly brought back to full operational power by pressing the shutter button halfway. Once in the sleep mode, if the camera is left unused for a further 2 minutes or 5 minutes (as set in the menu), the camera is automatically turned off.

Supplied Software

System Requirements: The FinePix S3100 is equipped with Software for FinePix AX Version 4.2b for Windows and Macintosh. In order to use this software, your computer must have the following minimum requirements:

Included Applications: The supplied software includes the following applications:

• FinePix Viewer: This application allows you to display thumbnail lists of the images stored on your PC or in the camera, print the images individually or as an index, display the images at full size and perform some basic image processing. Applications for Windows (Ver. 4.2) and Mac (Ver. 3.3) included.
• USB Mass Storage Driver: This application allows a digital camera to be used as a USB Mass Storage (removable disk drive, card reader).
• USB Video Class Driver: This application allows a digital camera to be used as a PC Camera.
• RAW FILE CONVERTER LE Ver 1.1: This application converts CCD-RAW files to Exif-TIFF format. Note: The FinePix S3100 does not support RAW image recording.
• ImageMixer VCD2 for FinePix: This application creates a FinePix CD Album.