Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai. In this video I'm gonna go over the Fujifilm
Finepix XP120. Thanks to Camera Craft in Rockford Illinois for let me try this
out at their shop. So this is obviously a waterproof camera. It's a specific market
that still exists, which is good. Because it is very unique. You get that
waterproof type of camera that you can use in almost any situation. This
specific one is rated to 20 meters or 65 foot down in the water for 120 minutes.
Also is shockproof to 1.75 meters, which is 5.8 foot. And it also is freeze proof
to -10 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a lower-cost
option new, so about 150 to 200 dollars depending on where you pick it up. Build
wise, it's highly pocket-able. Very compact. Feels pretty solid in the hands. It's got
a little bit of weight to it when the batteries is inside. Materials.. there is
some metal finish but a lot of it is plastic, of course. Nice thing about this
camera is there's no lens jutting out for the most part. When you turn it on, it
doesn't extend which a lot of digicams do that are not waterproof. So you get a
little bit of benefit in start-up time because of that. This camera has a very
easy to use door with all of the ports inside. You've got the battery. The SD
card slot. You push the button down and you rotate it. Opens up to access
everything and simple enough. You get a nice click when you lock it back in. Does
have a tripod socket. It is off axis, which isn't ideal, but a little better
than some of the other waterproof cameras that I've seen. Considering it is
a waterproof camera the buttons feel pretty decent. Got a little bit of push
to them they go down slightly. It's not too bad. The playback button is a little
bit tiny. It's hard to press, but I can see the logic behind making that button
smaller. Because you don't want to accidentally press that when you don't
need to. The shutter button is nice and large. It has a distinct grated texture to
it, which should help in situations when you're underwater or it's dark.
Features wise, it does have interval shooting, which is pretty nice. You can do
some time lapse with the camera and it's good because it's a type of camera you
can take almost anywhere. So that feature works out well
with the type of camera that it is. Does have Wi-Fi capability. Also a good
feature to have any camera like this where you don't necessarily want to open
it up a lot. That way you can easily access some photos from the camera
without having to open the main door. Some digicams oddly have a little bit
of internal storage in them. In this case it has 96 megabytes.
You can take a few pictures in that case if you happen to forget an SD card.
It does have a built-in flash. Pretty standard for this type of camera. Nothing
too exciting there. 3 inch LCD screen of course it's not a touchscreen and it is
not articulating. Image quality wise, 16.4 megapixels 1/2.3 inch
backlit sensor. Very standard in these type of cameras. ISO range 100 to 3200,
but... if you go at a smaller picture size you can get up to 6400. But you probably
won't want to do that regardless for image quality reasons. It does have a 5x
optical zoom. That's about 28 millimeters to 140 millimeters full-frame equivalent
with a F/3.9 to F/4.9 aperture. Also has optical image stabilization, which is
probably one of the better features of this camera. So considering the apertures
it's not ideal of course. But in this type of camera it's hard to find a
apertures larger than that. Video wise is 1080p 60 frames a second maximum. Do have
some high frames per second modes, but they start at 640x480 and go downward
from there. Does have a NP-45s battery for around 210 photos. That is not ideal.
You'll definitely want to pick up additional batteries for this camera. All
that said, this is not a terrible option. It's relatively inexpensive. Especially
new. You can definitely find much more expensive waterproof cameras, so this is
a good option just based on the price itself. Small.. compact.. and it's easy to
take anywhere. That said, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please
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Again, thanks the Camera Craft in Rockford Illinois for let me try this
out at their shop. Thanks again!