Fujifilm Finepix T190/T200 Camera Review

Video and Extra Features

The Fujifilm T190 has four additional features: HD video, face recognition, photobook assist, and motion panorama.
Video is taken at 720p at 30 frames per second in a 16:9 format (1,280 x 720 pixels). The video is smooth and detailed. The microphone is adequate, although the sound is monorail. While Fuji suggests using at least a class 4 card for video, we found that a class 10 card gave much superior results. We appreciated the ability to zoom in and out while taking video, a feature that is not available on all cameras.
The Face Recognition in this camera is quite sophisticated. It goes further than the usual face detection that can focus on a face. The Fujifilm face recognition allows you to store (or register) the faces of up to eight people whom you photograph often. Then when taking a picture of a group of people, it will recognize your “friends” and will prioritize them in the frame. If you store the name of people in an image you can use the camera’s image search function to quickly find all other shots of that individual on the memory card. In actual use, however, this function is a bit complicated and doesn’t always work. The registration fails often for no obvious reason. So it is something that you have to spend a lot of time to actually get to work.
We were impressed by Fujifilms Motion Panorama System. It allows you to take three pictures for the camera to stitch together into a panorama. After you take the first picture, a yellow cross appears at the right side of the picture and a white circle with a cross appears on the left, as shown in Figure 10. When you move the camera to the right, the yellow cross moves to the left. When the yellow cross is positioned inside the white circle, the second picture is taken automatically. You do the same with the third picture. The camera then stitches the three photos together, and they are perfectly aligned. We were quite impressed with the simple sophistication of this system.

Figure 10: The panorama indicators

The Photobook Assist feature allows you to tag the pictures that you want to include in a photobook. You can even choose the photo to use for the front cover. After you’ve made your selections, the camera will create a simulation of a photobook that you view on the screen. In a similar manner, you can also tag the images that you would like to upload to Facebook and/or YouTube.