Review by Ralph C. Browne:
If you are one of those digital camera users who want some of the high end features of an SLR without the big price tag this might be right for you. It is so new hardly anyone knows it is slowly coming out on the market. Got mine at a special launch on HSN. Though there have been mixed reviews as to how good it is I don't have any complaints. Like zoom capability? The Fuji S-18 has as much as anyone practically needs. My only knock is you have use a tripod when using full zoom power unless you have a steady hand. The super Macro feature is great too if you like getting things really close up. Amazing resolution overall. The 3 inch LCD is nice but like all LCDs is hampered in bright light conditions, super sunny days. Thats where the good old Standard View finder comes in handy. It is better than most and works great in all conditions, even if you have wear glasses like me. Indoors or on less sunny days the LCD is just fine. There are a lot of really great features that are easy to use and figure out even if you don't ever read the operation manual you can upload on to your computer. Good all around product if you are looking for an upgrade or even a first time buyer. At the price point it sells for you get a lot of camera for a very good price. Though it uses AA batteries, alchaline or rechargables, and they seem to last a long time. Got a great little battery from Amazon that brings your batteries back to life in almost no time at home or on the road. You don't have to worry about fidling around with your camera settings and killing your batteries befor you take a picture....like me. Check it out. Nice camera based on Fugi's S-15 with a couple of extras thrown in. Recommended!

Review by TRFB:
I am an amatuer photographer. This is my second camera I own. I own the Sony Cybershot DSC-P5 which was a great camera back in the days. But the FujiFilm S1800 is far beyond the Sony Cybershot. This camera is a 12 Megapixel camera capable of shooting panorama pictures right from the camera. There are a lot of features besides this. I'm not a fan of Optical Zoom, but this camera handles it well. There are many custom settings based on the situation. Scenic, Portrait, Nightime, Sports. It also allows you to shoot continues frames as well. There are a few different options within the continuous frame mode itself. 

It also shoots 640p movies. Depending on the amount of SDHC memory you can shoot up to 30 minutes worth of video. At the largest files and resolution.

The camera has a great feature for face recognition and also blink detection. Which alerts you when the camera thinks that the person blinked. You have the option to re-shoot.

I like the fact that you can do a panormaic shot up to three panels and the camera will "stitch" the picture for you right from the camera. Many other cameras rely on you to do this with the software, but you can do it right from the camera.

The best thing is that this camera runs on regular AA alkaline batteries, or other types that size and not these batteries that are hard to find or need to be recharged. You can use AA rechargeable batteries, but if not, the good old AA Alkaline will work. My mother has a camera that she can't find batteries for because they no longer make them. I'm so happy that this camera is not like that.

The things that I thought would've been nice is a better lens cap. It comes off very easily. The other thing I wish it would do is automatically pop the "Flash" hood up for you if the lighting is not enough and the mode is set where you need light. One of the Canon pictures I use at work, actually opens the hood for the flash when it detects that there needs a flash. With the Fuji S1800 you need to press the button to open the hood.

The other issue I have is that I wish it would include at least a 2 MB SD memory card. You're very limited with the amout of pictures you can take with the Internal memory.

The software was easy to install and you can download the pictures/videos right to your computer and edit them with your favorite software.

This is a pretty good camera and I'm pretty satisified with.