Operations

Both digital cameras aim to be the everyman’s camera with modes for beginners, intermediate users, and advanced hobbyists. Both of them have ample amounts of scene modes, a movie mode, and a range of manual modes. The Fuji S2000 has manual, shutter speed priority, program, and custom modes. The Kodak Z1015 nixes the custom mode and keeps a more traditional aperture-priority mode.

The Fujifilm FinePix S2000 HD’s auto focus system seems to heavily favor the center of the image; all five of its auto focus points are bunched so tightly into the center that they may as well be one. The Kodak’s multi-zone auto focus setting is similarly ineffective. The Kodak does, however, have a mode that lets you select the auto focus point from 16 areas around the frame. That’s time-consuming though. In terms of the auto focus system’s speed in good lighting, they’re nearly identical. In low light, both cameras send out an orange auto focus assist beam. The Kodak was a little quicker to focus in low light, but not by much. It’s a toss-up between the two cameras’ auto focus systems; unfortunately, neither of them is very impressive.