Thread: Fujifilm FinePix S100fs digital camera

FinePix S100fs has a substantial piece of kit from the manufacturer that produces about the kit and an ace on paper; S100fs, certainly looks the business. DSLR-style compact bridge is actually not very compatible at all weighing nearly kilogram and actually physically larger than most of the budgetary system DSLR cameras on the market. Camera Sports eighth iteration of Fujifilm SuperCCD HR technology and provides increased dynamic range of opportunities that allow 100, 200 and 400% settings, to help capture the detail of shadows and highlights.

"Fs" in camera film title indicates Modeling regimes that are a key element of the camera components, mimicking professional company Velvia and Provia slide films, along with "Soft" and "Portrait" settings. They all work well with Provia establishment of a neutral and detailed picture, Velvia punchy rich color images; Portrait provides a more muted softer look while Soft especially in soft colors sharpness and contrast.

Handling is actually very good and if you handled DSLR virtually any type, you immediately at home here. Large differences, of course, the massive complex zoom lens that reaches from 28 mm wide end of the remarkable good 400mm end. The optical image stabilization and sensitivity settings that reach the ISO 6400 (ISO 10000 and reduced from 3-megapixel resolution) to help control given the blur, as well.

There are relatively few buttons scattered around the body, but not all is well placed. Thus, for example, ISO and exposure buttons used in conjunction with the control of the rear wheel on the edge of the upper plate (or four-way jog buttons ago). But they are so close to recruit you need to use two hands to change the settings as the release button removes the menu to control that option from the screen and fingers to do gymnastics needed to use the other fingers on one hand uncomfortable - though not impossible.

Measuring control regime on the back of the small knurled uses dial that make it so difficult to quickly make a bid or fingers can break your fingernails - to follow this, ladies. Drive regimes and the stabilization of images, you can quickly get two buttons on the left side of the body while the camera otherwise build tough issues down the flimsy memory card port. Here, incidentally, you can use or xD-Picture Cards or SD / SDHC storage.

Face AF quickly, using buttons on the back panel, sitting next to the 2,5-230000-inch LCD point, which can flip, and activities like 90% of the average waist searching format camera or downward, and 45% for the shooting in an awkward , For example overhead angles. Screen Color rely on the new electronic viewfinder (EVF), which is one of them better than I've encountered, but that's nothing, however well as "appropriate" optical finder. EVF has good size dioptre adjustment, but regardless of what I did, I could not get a satisfactory opinion in EVF sharp. It was a great disappointment, as it helps maintain the level of battery, as well as a bit waste of all jobs created in Fuji, to make new field consistent Drive EVF system success.

Benefit Bridge camera (so they called a bridge between traditional pocketable compact cameras to large DSLR system) is twofold: You get an integrated lens means that there is never any chance of external dust or dirt to a sensor and you do not need to spend more hard-earned cash on other optics; well, in theory. But the disadvantages are physically smaller (here 2/3rd-inch) sensor (compared with DSLRs), which means more densely packed pixels and therefore can contribute to the image problems and excessive noise, the lack of expandability in terms of additional choice of lens.

Fuji has been done fairly well on both here, though, the lens is sufficiently fast F/2.8 to F/5.3 maximum aperture range, so get a lot of light on the sensor and its Real Photo technology and a good noise data-processing systems, as well as optical image stabilization, combine to maintain the image of promising clean and clear. Regarding the choice of lens, most users can find S100fs "lenses more than capable, especially in that it is impressive 1cm macro mode - not even close work, a city in. But sheer size of the lens means that it can shade your questions depressingly shading light from the subject, in particular the issue, as the lens can almost touch the topic in macro mode.

But most of my concerns about S100fs revolve around performance and image dynamic range. Auto dynamic range simply would not be able to withdraw shadow detail images which I took it with the outlook, as dark and shut down. Play in bits, or use as bright objects and things improve, but I was not given in a field experience, I would. It took quite fiddling things to get right and even then I was not sufficiently dynamic range whelmed as simply not as well as I would even hope, making it 400%. I think part of the problem is the measuring system, which seems to usually underexpose course, and will not help.

Nonetheless, excellent detail and noise too well controlled and once you are accustomed to the slight underexposure and admits it and then optimal dynamic range settings, things start to get much better. The shooting modes are comprehensive and include full P, A, S and M array plus 13 - scenes of ways, which include increasing the portrait and landscape modes, each of which could be further order. You also get two custom positions that large, knurled mode of recruitment, which allow the camera to create two very different ways of shooting in two frequently used styles of shooting without a full reinstall each time you want to change things around.

Because you can adjust other things such as sensitivity range of ISO, which may be limited in Auto stop at ISO 400, 800 or 1600, you can fine-tune behaviour, the image noise and the like. ISO impressive full range of ISO 100 to ISO 10000, but to reach the ISO 6400 resolution is limited to 6 - megapixels and ISO 10000 is limited to 3 - megapixels or less. Shooting RAW allows many to dig deeper into your pictures on the computer and then retrieve an impressive amount of detail, but too RAW shooting is slow and can only be obtained through the menu, so is slow to move from "normal" JPEG snapping. Other low productivity raises questions about continuous shooting rate, which is about seven 3fps in JPEG format only three or RAWs, and then the camera shellfish, as she shuttles detail shot of the buffer memory.



In addition, the Air Force is not as fast as I played some and while Face Detection AF very clever, choose from a stand, even if they are in a very small frame, there are too many hunting occurs, and that, coupled with the overall slowness of the system As he tries to get sharp things, means that he does not like, how to respond, as the same prices DSLR. As mentioned earlier, color and reflects a good film simulation modes well. However, as a living Velvia and Provia users of old, I'm not sure, digital equivalents can compete, but it is certainly a wise way to attract movie "feel" in the world of digital images.

White balance control (WB) is very good and you get more custom settings for fine tuning the WB, if necessary, and although the detail is good in general, there are some questions around the chromatic aberration seen around the high contrast areas where purple fringing becomes particularly evident. And now, Fujifilm FinePix S100fs is a bit of mixed bag: it is more than budget DSLRs this price, and will certainly compete with. Despite the excellent zoom lens, it is small compared with the sensor DSLRs and she has some exposure and dynamic range of issues that force you to really get whip, and tame, before you get that anything like Fuji blurb Claims you be able to achieve. However, with patience rewarded at the end.