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High on specifications and low on cost, the latest addition to the J-Range: FinePix J20

Thursday 19. February 2009 - Fujifilm today announces a new entry-level compact cameras, succeeding the hugely popular FinePix J10 and J15. The FinePix J20 is the latest in the line-up and offers consumers an affordable, but highly-stylish compact camera with point-and-shoot appeal.

With a core specification of 10 Megapixels, a quality Fujinon 3x zoom, Scene Recognition AUTO (SR AUTO), Face Detection and Picture Stabilisation, the FinePix J20 and J25 will deliver great images time after time. The FinePix J20 has a 2.7″ LCD, both with 230k dots.

Previously only featured on Fujifilm’s award-winning FinePix F60fd, the FinePix J20 features SR AUTO technology, allowing users to get the best possible results from their camera. All users have to do is frame the shot and SR AUTO intelligently recognises the scene – Landscape, Night, Macro, Night Portrait, Portrait, Backlit Portrait – and selects the ideal setting. There’s also software-based Face Detection technology with auto red-eye removal which identifies faces and optimises focus and exposure to reveal perfect people pictures.

In addition, Picture Stabilisation increases the camera’s ISO setting and associated shutter speed, so that the shutter can open and close much more quickly, thereby freezing moving action without blur – perfect for school sports fields and action shots.

All this technology is packed in to a super-slim and super-stylish 17.4mm body. Its tiny size means you can easily slip it in to your pocket or bag so you’ll always have your camera with you wherever you go.

Features at a glance:
• Small and stylish
• 10 Megapixels
• Fujinon 3x zoom lens
• Scene Recognition AUTO
• Picture Stabilisation
• Face Detection technology – software based
• 15 pre-programmed scene modes
• ISO up to 1600
• 2.7″ LCD screen

Availability & pricing

The FinePix J20 will be available from April 2009. Pricing will be announced nearer to the date of the launch.


Specifications

Model
FinePix J20

Number of effective pixels*1
10.0 million pixels

CCD sensor
1/2.3-inch CCD

Storage media
Internal memory (Approx. 20MB)
SD memory card
SDHC memory card*2
File format
Still image: JPEG (Exif Ver. 2.2*3)
Movie: AVI (Motion JPEG) with sound
(Design rule for Camera File system compliant / DPOF-compatible)
Number of recorded pixels
Still image: 3,648 x 2,736 (10M) / 3,648 x 2,432 (3:2 format) / 2,592 x 1,944 / 2,048 x 1,536 / 1,600 x 1,200 / 640 x 480

Lens
Fujinon 3x optical zoom lens, F3.1 (Wide) – F5.6 (Telephoto)

Lens focal length
f=6.3 – 18.9mm, equivalent to 35.5 – 106.5mm on a 35mm camera

Digital zoom
Approx. 5.7x

Aperture
Wide: F3.1 / F7.8, Telephoto: F5.6 / F14.1

Focus distance (from lens surface)
Normal
Wide Angle: Approx. 40cm / 1.3ft. to infinity
Telephoto: Approx. 40cm / 1.3ft. to infinity
Macro:
Wide Angle: Approx. 10cm – 80cm / 3.9in. – 2.6ft.
Telephoto-Angle: Approx. 40cm – 80cm / 1.3ft. – 2.6ft.
Sensitivity
Auto / Equivalent to ISO 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / (Standard Output Sensitivity)

Exposure control
TTL 256-zones metering

Exposure mode
Programmed AE

Shooting modes
Portrait, Landscape, Sport, Night, Fireworks, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Museum, Party, Flower, Text, Baby, PS (Anti-blur), Natural light, Night (tripod), Movie

Shutter speed
(Auto mode) 1/4 sec. to 1/2000 sec., (All other modes) 8 sec. to 1/2000 sec.

Continuous shooting
Top-3 (max. 1.4 frames/sec.)

Focus
Auto focus (Center)

White balance
Automatic scene recognition

Preset: Fine, Shade, Fluorescent light (Daylight), Fluorescent light (Warm white), Fluorescent light (Cool white), Incandescent light

Self-timer
Approx. 10sec. / 2sec. delay

Flash
Auto flash

Effective range : (ISO AUTO):

Normal:
Wide: Approx. 50 cm – 3.2 m / 1.6 ft. – 10.5 ft.
Telephoto: Approx. 50 cm – 1.8 m / 1.6 ft. – 5.9 ft.
Macro:
Approx. 30 cm – 80 cm / 1.0 ft. – 2.6 ft.
Flash modes

Red-eye removal OFF: Auto, Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Slow Synchro.
Red-eye removal ON: Red-eye Reduction Auto, Red-eye Reduction & Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Red-eye Reduction & Slow Synchro.
LCD monitor
2.7-inch, Approx. 230,000 dots, TFT color LCD monitor, Approx. 97% coverage

Movie recording
640 x 480 pixels, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames/sec. With monaural sound

Photography functions
SR Auto (Scene recognition Auto), Face Detection (with Auto red-eye removal), Framing guideline, Frame No. memory

Playback functions
Slideshow, Face Detection (with Red-eye removal), Trimming, Single frame and Multi-frame playback (with Micro Thumbnail), Sorting by date, Image rotate

Video output
NTSC / PAL selectable

Digital interface
USB 2.0 High-speed

Power supply
NP-45 Li-ion battery (included), CP-45 with AC adapter AC-5VX (sold separately)

Dimensions
91.0 (W) x 56.0 (H) x 17.4 (D) mm / 3.6 (W) x 2.2 (H) x 0.7 (D) in. (excluding accessories and attachments)

Weight
Approx. 96.5 g / 3.4 oz. (excluding accessories, battery and memory card)

*1 Number of effective pixels: The number of pixels on the image sensor which receive input light through the optical lens, and which are effectively reflected in the final output data of the still image.
*2 Please see the Fujifilm website to check memory card compatibility.
*3 Exif 2.2 is a digital camera file format that contains a variety of shooting information for optimal printing.
Memory Card Capacity and Image Quality / Size

Number of images / recording time
Modes Still Image Movie
Number of recorded pixels 3,648 x 2,736 3,648 x 2,432 (3:2) 2,592 x 1,944 2,048 x 1,536 1,600 x 1,200 640 x 480 Movie recording time
Quality JPEG FINE JPEG NORMAL JPEG JPEG JPEG JPEG JPEG VGA (30fps) QVGA (30fps)
Internal Memory (approx. 20MB) 3 7 8 13 19 26 90 13sec. 31sec.
SD memory card 512MB 95 190 210 350 480 640 2,220 6min. 12min.
1GB 190 380 420 700 960 1,280 4,420 12min. 28min.
2GB 390 760 860 1,400 1,930 2,580 8,850 25min. 57min.
SDHC memory card 4GB 790 1,520 1,720 2,810 3,870 5,160 17,720 50min.* 116min.*
8GB 1,590 3,060 3,450 5,650 7,780 10,370 35,560 100min.* 229min.*
Actual number of frames and recording time varies depending on the type of memory card or shooting conditions.
* A movie recording will stop automatically when the movie file size becomes approx. 2GB.