Fujifilm FinePix F401

The FinePix F401 is a little, even tiny camera from Fuji with a 4 megapixel effective output. Image quality is not great but with hardly any focusing or shutter lag it is well suited for party snaps etc. It also has a good macro mode and quite a number of manual controls available.

Pros

• Comes with dock
• Good battery life
• Small, compact and sturdy: you can throw it in the bottom of your bag and not worry
• An appropriate amount of manual functions though not too many as to bewilder a new user
• Hardly any shutter lag
• Hardly any focusing time
• An ideal first digital camera

Cons

• High ISO noise even at ISO 200; 800 is unusable (owing to small sensor size)
• No control over aperture or shutter speed
• Can be a little too small to hold steady at its slowest shutter speed (1/4s)
• Rather noisy images