Tracking Auto Focus

Ideal when photographing subjects that won't keep still or for fast moving subjects and action shots. Tracking AF will ‘lock on’ to moving subjects and keep them in focus. Simply half press the shutter button and Tracking AF tracks your subject, then as soon as you fully press the shutter button you will capture a photo with the subject in the centre of the image and perfectly in focus. No more spoilt shots!

See Tracking AF at work

Panoramic Shooting Mode

Perfect for capturing sweeping landscapes or large group shots. Simply take three consecutive photos of your chosen scene and the camera will seamlessly stitch them together to create one impressive panoramic image and save it straight to the memory card, ready for you to print and frame for your front room wall!

                                             Create your own panoramas

Instant Zoom

A selectable frame on the LCD lets you bracket and track moving subjects in standard wide view and will then save it as a cropped image.

Easily track and photograph moving subjects

Zoom Bracketing Mode

Enables three shots to be taken at the single press of a button, each at varying degrees of magnification (original, 1.4x and 2.0x). This useful tool enables instant editing on the camera to choose the ideal shot, rather than having to go back to a PC to facilitate a digital crop.

Crop and choose your ideal shots

Automatic Scene Recognition Technology

Intelligently, the FinePix S1700 can detect the scene type you are taking a picture of and optimises focus, exposure and white balance to guarantee a perfectly balanced shot. SR Auto knows if you are shooting in low-light or bright sunlight and automatically adjusts the settings accordingly to avoid spoilt shots and ensure you get the best out of your camera.

Portrait

Detects the faces quickly in the frame and optimises focus, brightness and white balance.

Landscape

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

Night

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

              Conventional camera                                                 FinePix S1700

Macro

When your subject is very close to the camera, it adjusts the settings automatically to produce high-resolution, blue-free shots.

              Conventional camera                                                 FinePix S1700

Night Portrait

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

              Conventional camera                                                 FinePix S1700

Backlit Portrait

When shooting into the sun this optimises the exposure and flash to ensure clear, evenly lit facial features.

              Conventional camera                                                 FinePix S1700

Smile Everyone!

Employ new Smile mode and the in-built "Smile Detection" will not take the photo until a smile is detected. All your pictures will be happy ones from now on!

                                             Get beautiful smiles every time

Blink Detection

This fun new feature alerts the user of people blinking in a picture so you have the chance to retake the photo with everyone's eyes open and looking at the camera.

                                             Make spoilt shots a thing of the past

Perfect Portraits

Intelligent Face Detection technology can identify up to ten faces in the shot and optimises focus and exposure to ensure perfectly exposed faces. Combine this with automatic "red-eye" removal and your photos of your friends and family will be flawless from now on.

                                        Combined technology for perfect pictures

Mode Wheel & Scene Position

All the camera's different shooting modes are located on a convienient scroll wheel on the back of the camera so you can quickly and easily select your ideal mode. Within the Scene Position mode (SP) you can access 15 pre-programmed scene modes which allow you to really get creative with your photography!

              Zoom dial                            Mode wheel                            Menu options

	SR AUTO Frame your shot and SR AUTO intelligently recognises the scene and selects the ideal settings.		AUTO The easiest mode for taking pictures. Use this for ordinary photography.
	Scene Position Ensures the ideal camera settings to match the shooting scenes.		Panorama Captures and combines max 3 consecutive shots, which are saved to the memory card as a panoramic picture.
	Manual This mode provides more detailed settings that are impossible to set in Auto mode.		Aperture Priority Auto An automatic mode to set the aperture.
	Shutter Priority Auto An automatic mode to set the shutter speed.		Program Auto Automatic mode to specify the settings except for the shutter speed and aperture setting.
	Natural Light Produces beautiful images that retain the natural ambience when shots are taken in low-light conditions.		Natural Light & with Flash Shoots 2 images continuously, without flash and with flash. Comes in great handy during marginal shooting situations.
	Zoom Bracketing This mode records three consecutive images with zoom ratio setting of 1x, 1.4x and 2x at a single release of the shutter.		Smile Automatically triggers the shutter button and takes a photo only when smile is detected.
	Portrait Set for shooting portraits. Skin tones are softened as it enhances the overall natural look.		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 colour.		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 colour.		Text Clear shots of letters on a document or white board.

Play back your images in style!

Customise how your images are played back to you, with a slideshow view that shows you close ups of each of the faces in your pictures.

                                        Try out the various slideshow views