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Fuji FinePix 1400 A sleek design, great 1.3 megapixel picture quality, a 3x zoom lens, and a great price! Select a topic Reference: Datasheet FinePix 1400 Sample Images --------------------------------- 1. Intro and Highlights 2. Executive Overview 3. Design 4. Viewfinder 5. Optics 6. Exposure & Flash 7. Shutter Lag & Cycle Time Tests 8. Operation & User Interface 9. Camera Modes & Menus 10. Image Storage & Interface 11. Video, Power, Software 12. Test Results & Conclusion --------------------------------- Print-Friendly Review Version Additional Resources and Other Links Reader Comments on FinePix 1400 Review --------------------------------- Digital Camera Comparometer (TM) --------------------------------- <-- Digital Cameras (Home) <-- Digital Camera Reviews Index <<Camera Modes & Menus :(Previous) | (Next): Video, Power, Software>> Page 10:Image Storage & Interface Review First Posted: 6/6/2000

Storage

The F1400 Zoom utilizes the tiny, removable SmartMedia cards for image storage and comes packaged with a 4MB card. Extra cards are available in capacities up to 64MB, and we strongly recommend purchasing one or two higher capacity cards. (The included 4 megabyte card holds only 6 images at the highest resolution/quality setting of the camera.) The SmartMedia card itself can be write protected by placing a small sticker in the designated spot on the card. This prevents anyone from writing to or deleting images from the card. Because each sticker must be clean to be effective, write protection stickers can only be used once.

Individual images can be protected from accidental erasure through the Playback menu. This does not protect images from being deleted through card formatting, however. The F1400 Zoom is setup to comply with the DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) printing standards, and images can be set up for printing through the Playback menu.

Through the setup option of the Record menu, you can choose between 1280 x 960 and 640 x 480 image sizes. Image quality choices include Fine, Normal and Economy compression levels and all files are saved as Exif Ver.2.1 JPEGs. Included in the Playback menu is a Resize option, which allows you to shrink 1280 x 960 images down to 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 resolution sizes, helpful when trying to conserve SmartMedia space.

Following are the approximate number of images and their compression ratios for a 4MB SmartMedia card:

Resolution/Quality Vs Image Capacity	High Resolution		Standard Resolution
	Images	Approx. Compression	Images	Approx. Compression
Fine Quality	6	5:1	23	5:1
Normal Quality	12	11:1	44	10:1
Basic Quality	23	20:1	69	16:1

In our transfer time tests, the FinePix 1400 Zoom's USB interface once again showed why USB connections are so great on digital cameras: We clocked a transfer of 2,101 KBytes of files in just 4.77 seconds, a rate of 440 Kbytes per second. (That's fast: A full 4 megabyte memory card would empty to the computer in just about 9 seconds!)