Fujifilm has came up with a new contraption being packaged as a digital camera that is blessed with advanced simplicity. Advance and simplicity may be contradictory to you but for some reason, Fujifilm might be able to pull it off. The FinePix S6000fd joins the growing family of FujiFilm Finepix.

The camera is blessed with 6.3MP with 6th generation Super CCD-HR Technology, 10.7x optical zoom with manual control, dual shot mode, movie recording with sound at 30 fps, 2.5 inch LCD, and 10MB internal memory.

If you think that the digicam is pretty simple to be an advanced contraption, well, the features do not end there. The S6000fd has a feature called the Face Detection Technology which is a new technology designed to significantly improve your picture taking by identifying human subjects' faces in the frame (up to 10 faces) and in real time, determining the optimal focus and exposure settings for the absolute best results possible in any shooting conditions.

Also, the digicam's picture stabilization technology is something to talk about. Perfect for taking pictures of moving objects. This easy to access feature (selectable on the mode dial) lets the FinePix S6000fd choose the correct light sensitivity and best-matching shutter speed automatically, for the highest quality digital pictures. It goes with well with its i-Flash Intelligent Flash. It recognizes scene conditions and determines the optimum flash output to ensure superb results.

If you ain't so sure if you want to use the cam's flash or not, then let the S6000fd decide for you with its dual shot mode. Dual shot mode will take two pictures with one press of the S6000fd's shutter button; one with flash to capture a bright, vivid image; and the other without flash, to capture the natural ambiance of the shot's environment.

It will be available this coming September, and the price tag will be divulged in the coming weeks.

When it comes to having my sister's photo taken, she only has one look. We call it the passport photo look. You know, the one - her eyes are like the eyes of a dead fish staring at you from a bed of ice cubes. Her facial expression is more at home in a mug shot. By the way, the image shown here is not my sister but Nick Nolte but the resemblance is uncanny! Unfortunately, the passport photo look runs in our family. So her photo problem is also ours.

Is being photogenic genetic? While looking great on cam comes naturally to some people, we were told it's something of a skill. And if it's a skill, even a monkey can pick it up, right? So if you're tired of looking like crap in every pic you're in, these tips may help transform you from ugly duckling to something less ugly.

• Wear the right clothes. Certain colors complement certain skin tones, others tend to bring out the worst. If you have no idea what colors look good on you, do some research or perform a trial-and-error using a digital camera.
• Hide your blemishes. Photographs can easily hide certain features you don’t like. If one side of your face looks unappealing, try the other side. If either side registers poorly, try the back of your head. Just joking!
• Determine your best angle. Jennifer Aniston said everybody has a good and bad side. But she's freaking Aniston. What the hell does she know about bad sides anyway? But beyond hiding your blemishes, finding the right angle for your face can be tricky. Again, experiment and look for your most flattering angle. Then stick to that angle if that means threathening the photographer with physical assault for not accommodating your request. The classic pose is to place your body 3⁄4 toward the camera with one foot in front of the other and one shoulder closer to the camera than the other. This won't work for everyone and every photo op, though.

More tips on being photogenic after the jump!