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It's not very often where I really become fond of a camera that I review. Usually this happens with expensive digital SLRs that I can only dream about. This time around, I fell in love with a compact camera - the Fuji FinePix F30. While it's not quite perfect, the F30 won me over with its great high ISO performance, battery life, LCD, and manual controls. It's a camera that I can recommend without hesitation."

It's your basic contemporary boxy rectangle 3x retracting-lens digicam. There's a nice 2.5 inch LCD on the back that gains up and down well enough on its own, along with a button to crank it up in sunlight. It's got a couple of buttons and knobs here and there in the typical places to control modes and settings. In short, it's very similar in design to so many other digicams on the market right now. But what's inside this camera differentiates it from all the other 3x rectangular boxes on the market - an ISO range all the way up to 3200(!).

The world is not made entirely of perfectly lit bright sunny days calling for ISO 100 - and Fujifilm deserves praise for pushing camera performance technology towards much more usable high ISOs in the compact market."

Here the F30 excels, offering very natural flash performance or even the option to shoot without the flash altogether thanks to unusually high ISO modes. Boasting a 3200 ISO option, the F30 offers higher sensitivity than any other compact and indeed many DSLRs too. It also inherits the Aperture and Shutter Priority modes of the European-only F11.

...while the F30 may not be the slimmest or sexiest compact, nor offer anything as glamorous as a touch-sensitive or flip-out screen, it does deliver great-looking photos under the kind of conditions most rivals would struggle. Its low light capabilities still lead the market whether you're shooting with or without the flash, and there's sufficient quality and creative control to keep most enthusiasts happy. We can confidently recommend it to anyone."

The Fujifim F30 is an impressive compact 6 megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom lens and a large 2.5" display. The camera is one of very few to include ISO 1600 and ISO 3200 modes. It has excellent responsiveness and is designed to be able to take great photos in almost every situation."

The main two downsides of the Fuji Finepix F30 is the strong presence of chromatic aberrations at all focal-lengths and the lack of an optical viewfinder. However, the LCD is still bright enough to make it the subject's shape in direct sunlight and the brightened mode does help. In the end, there are not enough reasons to choose any other ultra-compact digital camera over this one. For a little less money, the less friendly but slightly better built Fuji Finepix F10 is an excellent alternative which is just a bit noisier and surprisingly does not suffer as much from chromatic aberrations."

The Finepix F30 is a stylish, efficient and easy-to-use compact camera with excellent picture quality, a useful range of features and outstanding performance, but even these qualities are overshadowed by its amazing low-light performance. It has easily the best high-ISO picture quality of any compact camera on the market, and is perfect for shooting pictures at any social occasion. While not exactly cheap, it does offer unique abilities that you won’t find anywhere else."

The Fujifilm Finepix F30 builds on the strengths of what was already a great camera, the Finepix F11, and delivers a compact camera that has no rivals in terms of low-light performance. If you want a digital camera that can easily cope with indoor and low-light shooting, then the F30 is the one for you - currently no other compact digicam comes close at ISO 400 and above, and the F30 also delivers perfectly usable photos at ISO 800 and 1600."

To sum up, the F30 is far and away the best low light compact camera on the market today, bar none. It's the perfect 'social' camera for the DSLR owner who doesn't want to lug all his or her gear to parties, and it is - in expert hands - capable of superb results in any light. I would even go as far as to suggest - funds permitting - getting one for low light work even if you already own a camera you use for daylight shooting..."