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For an amateur photographer, the waterproof FinePix Z33WP has most of the bells and whistles of more fragile point-and-shoot digital cameras. The intelligent scene recognition automatically adjusts to six types of lighting and scenes. The picture stabilization is effective, as are the red eye removal and face detection technology.
For bloggers and Facebook fanatics, it also has Fuji’s cool blog mode. This allows for in-camera resizing and photo editing so users can plug the camera into any computer and quickly email the photos or post them on the Internet.
The FinePix Z33WP can also shoot short videos, with a microphone and speaker also squeezed into a small, waterproof case.
The most common complaint about the camera is grainy, poor-quality indoor photos. But it’s meant for the outdoors, so that might be expected. The other drawback is the lack of an optical viewfinder. Particularly for a camera designed for use in bright sunshine, an LCD viewfinder can be hard to see.
