Having seen enough of glamorous, high profile shots of celebrities, I was musing as to what cameras the celebrites themselves were using in their leisure pursuits. A little bit of research on the Web as well as raising queries at a couple forums, and I landed with a small list of about ten cameras that were truly celebrity class.

What surprised me was the consinstency in the preferences for brand, size, colors, and megapixels. Strangely, the trend was into professional SLRs or the ones with a hundred settings. The one that topped the list was the Fujifilm Z5fd, what one forum member quoted as “elegant enough for a stroll down the red carpet.”

Though that might sound like tall talk, Fujifilm have indeed created a minature marvel with this award winner–TIPA 2007 ”Best Ultra Compact Digital Camera’. Apparently, a 6.3 megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, ISO 1600 sensitivity for low light working, Intelligent flash’,'Blog mode” for easy dowloading for web use, Face Detection Technology (of course!), optimizing both exposure and focus settings were the features that caught the celebs’ attention.

I also saw that it wasn’t the top-of-the-line digital camera, and hence not insanely expensive. I looked around for deals, as well as services that offered free searches for the best deals and I stumbled upon SaveBuckets.co.uk. The service has thousands of products in a kaleidoscope of categories, and the digital camera department lists about 2000 models from various manufacturers.

Needless to say, I did find the Fujifilm Z5fd, but was it at a price I was willing to pay? Well, let’s not get into that, but SaveBuckets does have a feature that will alert me if the price ever drops down to what I’m willing to pay. I have submitted my email, and am keeping my fingers crossed.