Fujifilm’s new digital camera, FinePix SI500 is perfect for advanced amateur photographers as it offers great range and flexibility, however you need to ignore its bulky, conventional looks. Equipped with features like a super – zoom compact with a wide-angel versatile Fujinon 12x optical zoom (33mm- 396mm equivalent), face detection technology with automatic red-eye removal, dual image  stabilisation and a new tracking auto focus function, the product is designed for relatively low power consumption.

While the dual image stabilisation of the camera facilitates long distance and fast action shots by ensuring that the blur is minimised, the new tracking auto ficus function will help you track a moving subject even when using the full eye-watering 12x zoom – the camera locks on to the subject, ready for you to take the perfect shot!

For low light conditions, of the camera help you get a picture with increased clarity and sharpness. Not only this, the camera can fire about 7.5   frames per second up to 15 frames (at 2MP) or 3.3 frames per second up to 6 frames (at 5MP). In addition to the long zoom range, the FinePix SI500 also features a combined CCD-shift and image stabilisation to avoid effects of camera shake at longer shutter speeds.

With these novel characteristics the camera is bound to be a hit with users. However, the pricing could have been a little bit more reasonable – in keeping with cameras in the same genre.