Finepix S2 Pro reliability question

I'm shopping around for a budget digi slr (ideally with Nikon-fit lenses/flash) for my employer, so had listed the Fuji as a contender.

A colleague had bought one recently so he brought it into the office today for us to play with, and it went belly up! :roll: Everything seems normal, but once the shutter is released it just shows an "err" message and won't hold on to the image.

A change of batteries is the cause, according to info since gleaned from the Fuji website. This is supposed to be a known fault with a limited number of batches (both US and UK fuji give a list of serial numbers that are affected) but his model was not supposed to be one of those.

Has anyone else experienced this fault with their S2? I guess I'm really asking if this is a fluke, or is the camera just not terribly robust?

Ta

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I have had my S2 pro for 13 months now and 8000+ images later, still no problems and everything works great.