Fujifilm was among the first camera manufacturers to unveil a ‘bridge’ camera. Such cameras are smaller than SLRs have large zooms and take replaceable AA batteries. With four AA batteries inside, the FinePix HS20 is heavy. But it’s still not near the weight of a ‘proper’ digital SLR camera and, at £325 is a lot cheaper than the Canon EOS 550D it’s pitched against.
While technical wizardry is in greater evidence on complex SLR cameras, here Fujifilm squeezes a 720mm zoom into a frame sub-18cm deep when fully extended. We didn’t get great results using this 30x optical super-zoom at its maximum – a magnification of hand judder applies, for a start. But we’ve seen worse from big-zoom cameras.

















