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The FinePix S5000 looks and feels like an expensive camera, with a rubberized black body you might find on a single-lens reflex model, and a pronounced grip that makes it especially comfortable to hold right-handed. Its 10X zoom lens is still relatively uncommon; only four or five digital cameras offer a lens of that length.
However, its 3.1-megapixel resolution is low for a $400 camera, and we saw the effect in our image-quality judging. With an overall score of Fair--the weakest score in this round of testing, the S5000 earned the lowest scores for sharpness, exposure, and color accuracy. Image noise dragged down its...