FujiFilm's A920 and A480 compact shooters

FujiFilm has been busy this morning. After the torrent of new cameras we just saw, we figured it was time for a little breather -- clearly we were wrong. The company just announced another set of FinePix models, the A920 and the F480 (pictured). The former is a 9 megapixel compact, with a 4x optical zoom, 2.7-inch LCD screen, xD / SD / SDHC card support, Picture Stabilization, and "movie mode" up to 640 x 480. The latter is a follow-up to the company's F470, a compact of the 8 megapixel variety with specs so similar to the aforementioned A920 we would say they are identical except for the F480's 4x "wide zoom". Both the A920 and the A480 will be available in September for $199.95 and $179.95, respectively.

Read -- FujiFilm A920
Read -- FujiFilm A480

[Jason @ Jul 26th 2007 11:19AM]

Dear Fuji,

Thanks for the wide-angle compact camera. Too bad it doesn't have your *good* sensor.

Regards,
Us

[Mike @ Jul 26th 2007 11:31AM]

This would be awesome for a daily shooter.

Love the SD card support now too.

Nice big LCD as well. Maybe I'll pick up the A920 come September, possible b-day present!

[CowboyGA @ Jul 26th 2007 11:46AM]

These are great prices for 8-9 megapixel camera with image stabilization, but compacts sometimes have built in rechargable batteries, rather than "disposable" batteries that can be swapped out while taking pictures. So... what does these have?

This holiday season, I'll be in the market for a shooter in the $200 range, and this will at least be in the comparisons.

[strider_mt2k @ Jul 26th 2007 11:51AM]

Can we just get rid of XD cards completely, please?

XD is one of the most worthless flash memory card formats EVER.

[CowboyGA @ Jul 26th 2007 11:57AM]

Rechargeable.

[Jason @ Jul 26th 2007 12:12PM]

Once again we gotta cover for a company's deceptive marketing speak: This camera does not have IS.

[contrabandkarma @ Jul 27th 2007 8:14AM]

Man, why couldn't they combine these two cameras or something? The A920 has Fuji's great SuperCCD sensor, but a lens that only begins at 39mm... Not quite wide enough. The F480, on the other hand, has a focal range that starts from 28mm but uses a regular CCD that crams 8 megapixels onto a smaller 1/2.5" sensor compared to the much larger 1/1.6" one on the A920.

They should've just given the wide angle lens to the A920 to further differentiate these two!