Fujifilm Finepix S8600 Camera Digital with 16MP Optical 36x LCD 3 inch ISO 6400



FeatureCompact model with 36x zoom

Great for people that want the features and flexibility of a DSLR outfit but without the weight and hassle.

FUJINON 36x Optical Zoom (25mm-900mm)* & Super Macro

FUJINON zoom lenses with fast apertures of f/2.9 to f/6.9 With 14 elements in 10 groups, the lens combines aspherical and ED elements to good effect for reduced aberration and superior image quality. With Super-Macro Mode capturing subjects as close as 1cm from the lens, the FinePix S8600 seamlessly covers an enormous focal range with no need to ever change lenses.

  • Wide
  • Zoom
  • Macro

Powerful Optical Image Stabilization

Lens shift image stabilization ensures that even hand-held shots are free from blur.

  • Conventional Digital Camera
  • FinePix S8600

Compact body with a 36x zoom.

Fujifilm's newly developed 3-step collapsible lens has enabled the compact storage of a huge 36x zoom lens in this small body.
This is a particularly portable camera , ensuring long-zoom magnification photography can be instantly accessible at all times.

6 Scene SR AUTO (Scene Recognition Auto)

Framed scenes are automatically detected and selected into appropriate camera settings: Portrait, Landscape, Night, Macro, Night Portrait, and Backlit Portrait.

Portrait

Recognizes portraits by detecting the faces quickly in the frame and optimizing focus, brightness and white balance.

Landscape

Scenic shots such as mountains and buildings are automatically recognized. Colors of the sky, forests, and flower fields are captured in vivid colors and depth.

Night

For low-light and night-time scenarios, shutter speed and sensitivity are automatically adjusted, producing blur-free pictures with minimal noise.

Macro

Macro mode sets the focusing position of the details of small flowers or tiny subjects accurately.

Night Portrait

When photographing people at night or in low light, SR AUTO optimizes flash range, shutter speed, and exposure of the portraits, while capturing smooth and luminous background.

Backlit Portrait

Optimizes brightness of the faces that usually end up in shadow and underexposure caused by the light behind.

HD Movie (720p / 30 fps)

Movie scene recognition ensures that settings are optimized according to your subject.
HD Movie shares your memories with family on the big screen, using the mini HDMI connector.

One Touch Movie Recording Button

A one-touch Movie Recording Button enables you to capture all the action in HD.

Easy-to-hold grip

While compact, the cameras are designed to reduce camera shake at high magnifications with easy-to-hold grip with non-slip surfaces.

Versatile Shooting Modes & Mode dials

In addition to a wide range of shooting modes, the FinePix S8600 offers a selection of versatile scene positions that ensure optimum results no matter what the scene.

SR AUTO
Frame your shot and SR AUTO intelligently recognizes the scene and selects the ideal settings.
Advanced Mode
  • Advanced Filter
  • Natural Light & with Flash
  • Zoom Bracketing
AUTO
The easiest mode for taking pictures. Use this for ordinary photography.
Scene Position
Ensures the ideal camera settings to match the shooting scenes.
Continuos Shooting
The camera takes photographs while the shutter button is pressed.
Motion Panorama
Sweep the camera right or left to create panoramic image.
Manual
This mode provides more detailed settings that are impossible to set in Auto mode.
Shutter Priority AE
An automatic mode to set the shutter speed.
Program AE
Automatic mode to specify the settings except for the shutter speed and aperture setting.

A Host of Scene Position

Portrait
Set for shooting portraits. Skintones are softened as it enhances the overall natural look.
Baby Mode
Function most suitable for taking pictures of young children.
Landscape
Best for shooting scenery in daylight capturing clear and sharp shots of buildings and mountains effectively.
Sport
A quick recognition of persons in motion or objects for a faster shutter speed to help you catch the perfect moment.
Night
Mode for shooting evening and night scenes. A picture is taken with a slow shutter.
Night (Tripod)
Clear shots of twilight scenes using tripod.
Fireworks
Effective for taking shots of fireworks with a slow shutter speed.
Sunset
Capture sunset scenes vivid in color.
Snow
Most adaptable to snow scenes without unnatural darkened images or where the whole screen appears white.
Beach
Clear shots of people without darkened images under strong sunlight.
Party
Best for shooting indoor weddings or parties. Retains the natural ambience in low-light conditions.
Flower
Capture a clear close-up shots of blooming flowers rich in color.
Text
Clear shots of letters on a document or white board.

Advanced Filter

A selection of 10 special filters lets you create distinctive photo effects. Filter effects can be verified on the LCD monitor to ensure you get exactly the results you're shooting for.

Toy Camera

Miniature

Pop Color

Soft Focus**

Cross Screen**

Partial Color (Red/Orange/Yellow/Green/Blue/Purple)

High-Key

Low-Key

Dynamic Tone**

Fish-Eye

Motion Panorama

Lets you take panorama photos as simply as 1, 2, 3! The camera automatically stitches together three consecutive shots, with simple in-frame guidance to ensure the images are aligned. The resulting image is saved to the memory card as an impressive panorama.

AA Battery

AA Battery compatible which is available anywhere.

Instant Zoom

A function to follow moving subjects in standard wide view for easy framing at high zoom settings. With a single press of a button, the subject tracked within the selected frame on the LCD, will be captured and saved at a high zoom ratio (1.4x or 2.0x digital zoom).

Face Tracking Auto Focus

Face Detection couples with Tracking Auto Focus for new ways of capturing great people pictures, even when those people won't stop moving. Face Detection optimizes focus and exposure to ensure bright, clear faces, while Tracking Auto Focus maintains sharp focus on moving subjects. The result is attractively exposed, well-focused photos.

Face Detection

Face Detection optimizes people pictures by detecting faces and adjusting focus and exposure to ensure bright, clear results.

Red-eye Removal in Detected Faces

Red-eye removal automatically detects and corrects flash reflection for a perfect end result.

Instantly Detect up to 10 Faces!

The Face Detection can simultaneously recognizes up to 10 faces in a photo. Share your group portraits using the zoom up function in playbacks, checking each detected face. Each priceless expression can be cropped and saved in clear high resolution results.

Date Stamp Function

Shooting date and time can be embedded in the lower right-hand corner of the image files.

Playback Functions

Micro Thumbnail View

Up to 100 pictures can be viewed at a time in a 10x10 array of micro thumbnails. Convenient for smooth and comfortable playback.

Share your images with built in social networking

Don't wait until you get home to start choosing which pictures to upload to Facebook. Start the process in camera by tagging the pictures you want to share. The next time you connect to your home computer your images will upload automatically. The same goes for movie clips too, which can also be uploaded to YouTube™.

Easy Web Uploading to YouTube™ and Facebook via MyFinePix Studio

It's as easy as one, two, three. Shoot pictures and tag them for upload to your Facebook profile page or YouTube™ account.



Model name FinePix S8600
Number of effective pixels 16.0 million pixels
Image sensor 1/2.3-inch CCD with primary color filter
Total number of pixels: 16.44 million pixels
Storage media SD / SDHC / SDXC memory card*1
File format
still image
JPEG (Exif Ver 2.3)*2 /
(Design rule for Camera File system compliant / DPOF-compatible)
movie
Movie File Format : AVI
Movie Video Compression : Motion JPEG
Audio : Linear PCM Monaural
Number of recorded pixels L : (4:3) 4608 x 3456 / (3:2) 4608 x 3072 / (16:9) 4608 x 2592 / (1:1) 3456 x 3456
M : (4:3) 3264 x 2448 / (3:2) 3264 x 2176 / (16:9) 3264 x 1840 / (1:1) 2432 x 2432
S : (4:3) 2304 x 1728 / (3:2) 2304 x 1536 / (16:9) 1920 x 1080 / (1:1) 1728 x 1728
Lens
name
Fujinon 36 x optical zoom lens
focal length
f=4.5mm - 162mm, equivalent to 25 - 900mm on a 35mm format
full-aperture
F2.9(Wide) - F6.9(Telephoto)
constitution
14 elements in 10 groups
(includes 2 aspherical and 4 extra low dispersion elements)
Digital zoom Intelligent digital zoom approx. 2.0x (up to approx. 72x, with 36x optical zoom)
Aperture F2.9 / F8.4 (Wide)
F6.5 / F7.8 / F19.0 (Telephoto) with ND filter
Focus distance
(from lens surface)
Normal
  • Wide : approx. 40cm to infinity / 1.3 ft. to infinity
  • Telephoto : approx. 3.5m to infinity / 11.4 ft. to infinity
Macro
  • Wide : approx. 7cm - 3.0m / 2.7 in. - 9.8 ft.
  • Telephoto : approx. 3.5m - 5m / 11.4 ft. - 16.4 ft.
Super Macro
  • Wide : approx. 1cm - 1.0m / 0.3 in. - 3.2 ft.
Sensitivity AUTO / AUTO (400) / AUTO (800) / AUTO (1600)
ISO100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200* / 6400* (Standard Output Sensitivity)
  • * ISO3200 / 6400 is effective in image size S
Exposure control TTL 256-zone metering; Multi, Spot, Average
Exposure mode Programmed AE, Shutter priority AE, Manual exposure
Shooting modes
SP
Portrait, Baby, Landscape, Sport, Night, Night (Tripod), Fireworks, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Party, Flower, Text
MODE DIAL
SR AUTO, AUTO, continuous shooting, Adv., SP1, SP2, P, S, M, Panorama
Image Stabilizer Lens shift type
Face detection Yes
Exposure compensation -2.0EV - +2.0EV 1/3EV step
Shutter speed (Auto mode) 1/4 sec. to 1/1500 sec., (All other modes) 8 sec. to 1/2000 sec. with mechanical shutter
Continuous shooting
TOP
H : approx. 8.0 fps (max. 40 frames)
M : approx. 3.3 fps (max. 20 frames)
L : approx. 1.2 fps (max. 5 frames)
LAST
approx. 1.2 fps (max. 5 frames)
Others
Long period
max. 1.2 fps
  • * Use a card with SD Speed Class with class 4 or higher.
  • * The frame rate and the recorded number of frames varies with shooting conditions.
Auto bracketing AE Bracketing (±1/3EV, ±2/3EV, ±1EV)
Focus
mode
Single AF / Continuous AF
type
TTL contrast AF, AF assist illuminator available
AF frame selection
Center, Multi, Area, Tracking
White balance Automatic scene recognition
Preset
Fine, Shade, Fluorescent light (Daylight), Fluorescent light (Warm White), Fluorescent light (Cool White), Incandescent light, Custom
Self-timer 10 sec. / 2 sec. Delay
Flash Manual pop-up flash (i-Flash)
Effective range : (ISO AUTO)
Normal
  • Wide : approx. 50cm - 6.0m / 1.6 ft. - 19.7 ft.
  • Telephoto : approx. 1.5m - 3.6m / 4.9 ft. - 11.8 ft.
Macro
  • Wide : approx. 30cm - 3.0m / 0.9 ft. - 9.8 ft.
  • Telephoto : approx. 2.0m - 3.0m / 6.5 ft. - 9.8 ft.
Flash modes
Red-eye removal OFF
Auto, Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Slow Synchro.
Red-eye removal ON
Red-eye Reduction Auto, Red-eye Reduction & Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Red-eye Reduction & Slow Synchro.
LCD monitor 3.0-inch, approx. 460K-dot, TFT color LCD monitor, approx. 97% coverage for shooting, 100% for playing back
Movie recording HD 1280 x 720 30p
640 x 480 30p
320 x 240 30p
with monaural sound. Wind filter
Optical or digital zoom function can be used.
  • * Use a card with SD Speed Class with class 4 or higher.
Photography functions SR AUTO, Adv. Mode (Advanced Filter for still image : Toy camera / Miniature / Pop color / High-key / Low-key / Dynamic tone / Soft Focus / Cross Screen / Fish-eye / Partial color, Natural Light & with Flash, Zoom Bracketing), Framing guideline, Frame No. memory, Date stamp
Playback functions Multi-frame playback (with micro thumbnail), Protect, Crop, Resize, Slide show, Image rotate, Histogram display, Exposure warning, Photobook assist, Image search, Favorites, Mark for upload, Erase selected frames
Other functions PictBridge, Exif Print, 35 Languages, Time difference, Silent mode, Discharge function
Terminal
Video output
-
Digital interface
USB2.0(High-Speed), mini-B USB terminal
HDMI output
HDMI Mini connector (Type C)
Audio input
-
Power supply 3xAA type alkaline batteries (included)
3xAA type Ni-MH rechargeable batteries (sold separately)
3xAA type lithium batteries (sold separately)
Dimensions 121.3 (W) x 80.8 (H) x 64.6 (D) mm / 4.8 (W) x 3.2 (H) x 2.7 (D) in.
Weight Approx. 450g / 15.9 oz. (including batteries and memory card)
Approx. 380g / 13.4 oz. (excluding batteries and memory card)
Operating Temperature 0°C - +40°C (+32°F - +104°F)
Operating Humidity 10% - 80% (no condensation)
Guide to the number of available frames for battery operation Alkaline batteries : approx. 250 frames (AUTO mode)
Ni-MH rechargeable batteries : approx. 410 frames (AUTO mode)
Lithium batteries : approx. 590 frames (AUTO mode)
Accessories included 3xAA type alkaline batteries
Shoulder strap
Lens cap and Lens cap cord
Owner's manual