Got a Fuji S8000fd, initial observations.
Tiny, good screen, good controls, locks focus much better than other mini-digitals I've owned.
Image stabilization is excellent, electronic view finder has a weird tunnel vision look but works OK and has good dioptre control.
Auto white balance is very 'blue' or high temperature - selecting 'cloudy' warms the picture up.
Shooting speed is quite good, post processing speed is (as usual) slow....with the good focus lock and shooting speed you think you'll be able to take another pic immediately but you can't as the camera grinds away storing the image, you can use a lower rez high speed mode.
The mode wheel and shooting menus combine to give you fairly good quick access to all manner of shooting modes - the mode wheel doesn't seem to be recognized all the time - I have to tap the top of mine - maybe this is in the manual which I haven't fully read yet.
Initially I'd say noise is a bit higher than my Fuji F30 which is excellent.
Video mode looks the same as the F30, no zoom while shooting - I use video mode far more than I imagined I ever would.
Lens range is pretty amazing, useful wide angle & terrific zoom (made useable by the stabilizer).
Mode wheel has two 'sort of' user memory program positions.
It has a histogram display.
It's got things I'll never use
I'm one one hand impressed, the other disappointed - a 'do everything camera' - but it does it slowly (not that bad)
Best hyperzoom I've tried so far and will largely replace my Nikon DSLR plus huge lens collection when I'm out on foot with a scope etc.
PS - it comes with the lens cap from hell - it only fits one way and falls off.