This camera was exactly what I was looking for. I have a bigger Fuji camera that I have been very happy with, but wanted a "pocket" camera that I could have with me all the time. This is perfect. I can take it to the restaurant when I have dinner with friends, or to little league practice, and it doesn't take up too much space, or too much of my time worrying about it. It takes great photos, and I am completely satisfied, and will purchase Fuji products again.This is a great point & shoot, take it and go camera
Pros:
I prefer the AA batteries over a rechargeable battery. I'm often out in the middle of nowhere taking photos for work. So, if I run out of batteries, I can always stop in any convenience store and get more AAs.
The battery life is excellent compared to my old A310. The A310 would shut down when the batteries were only half used up. I put the 'spent' batteries from the A310 in the AX300 and got over 100 flash photos out of them.
I like the automatic switching from automatic mode to macro mode. I do a lot of alternating between wide shots and macro shots, and the automatic switching is easier than switching manually.
Cons:
I may just need to shut one of the settings off, but on a few shots the face recognition software kicked in when there were no faces in the shot. This messed the photo up.
The camera has locked up on me once. Opening and closing the battery compartment re-set it, but this will be annoying if it happens frequently. The range finder also seemed to stop working once, but worked again after re-setting.
Update: I haven't had any issues with the camera locking up since the initial use. I have also bought a second camera of the same model (one for home, one for work) and have had no issues with it.
Doesn't include any memory, so make sure you purchase a SD card for it. They used to at least give you a minimum sized memory card when you bought a new camera, but not anymore I guess.
It doesn't have a viewfinder, which is handy on days with very bright sunlight.
When you connect this to a computer via the USB cable it doesn't show up as a disk drive. You have to use the camera wizard to get the photos off of it. This may be a software issue and I'll see if I can find a work around.This is a decently priced point-and-shoot camera that takes good pictures with decent lighting (where you can get above 1/60th shutter speed on auto). The 14MP is a bit of an overkill for most users, but it is certainly nice to have that resolution. As others have stated, it does feel a bit "cheap" because of the plastic casing, but functionality-wise, it works well. The only con about the about the camera so far is it doesn't perform too well in low lighting situations compared to other cameras for both photos and video. Images come out a bit more muddy than other cameras in low light which is a bit noticeable when you compare it side by side with a picture from another camera. The image stabilizer doesn't really add much to those photos either so don't expect anything amazing with that functionality. The 720p video is decent and good for use if you want to take a last minute video of something. If you're going to be recording video for an extended amount of time, be sure to grab a larger SD card as with a 4 GB card you can get around 10 minutes of video. The interface is about 95% digital menus so expect to refer to the manual for specific functions, but it's not difficult to navigate for simple shoot modes.
Overall, I found this camera OK. It won't knock your socks off or anything (that's why I only gave it 4 stars), but it certainly works well and will get the job done.I recently bought a Fuji AX300 digital camera here. The camera has a 5X optical zoom which is decent for a small camera. This is my 2nd one of these small Fuji cameras and overall, it's a pretty decent digital camera when it comes to a basic point & shoot type.
It's easy to use once you figure it out, has a decent 5X optical zoom, macro zoom that works pretty good and fairly good picture quality. Videos on this camera is not as good as the voices gets "choppy" and garbled, even at lower volume levels. So, I would not use this for a video uses, unless you're outside at a sporting event where sound is not too critical, then it's fine for that. Video quality is good however.
Picture quality is fine in sunny weather, tho the pictures can get all sun-washed and in darker low-light weather, the pictures are poor quality. If you take indoor pics with the flash, the pictures will turn out okay. Outdoor pics under partly cloudy conditions produces good photos with this camera. There are some manual settings on this camera also.
Not too much I hate about this camera, except for the garbled voices I periodically get on the video mode, but that's no biggie for me. It uses 2 AA batteries and battery life with this camera is not as good as other cameras I have had, but luckily it uses easy to find AA batteries.
So to sum it up in a few words....yes, I would recommend the Fuji Finepix AX-300 digital camera for general photography, scenic photography and family indoor or outdoor photos.at first i was worried at how light camera felt out of the box almost like toy as another reviewer mentioned. However the pictures that this camera takes is great, straight forward, I am particularly happy with the fact that it has an option to take black and white pictures which I personally like for those vintage type shots i like to take. My only disappointment is that the camera does not contain a rechargeable battery other than that I am contented with my purchase.
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