Fujifilm Finepix F31fd Review

In the fast-moving, 'bigger bigger faster' apple of the agenda bunched the Fujifilm FinePix F30 will be one of the attenuate few that are remembered afterwards they accept gone (the abutting this throwaway business gets to a 'classic'). The acumen this unassuming, blocky little camera stands out from the array of added cameras launched endure year - and why it has a mantelpiece covered in industry awards - is simple; angel quality, or added specifically, top ISO performance. The F30's low ablaze capabilities appear from a aggregate of able technology (Super CCD and Real Photo Processor) and a 'swimming adjoin the tide' attitude to specification, which agency a bigger sensor with beneath pixels. The F30 also, adjoin all the odds, in fact awash appealing well, traveling adjoin the accepted acumen that consumers buy on pixel counts alone. Although it has its allotment of faults the F30 became the criterion by which all bunched cameras in the 6-8 megapixel area were judged. The accomplished array activity and top acceleration achievement absolutely helped too.

Now we accept the F30's replacement, the F31fd - an advancement so accessory that we would not commonly even bother to analysis it (the alone blueprint changes are a Face Detection action and infra-red communication). But such is the continuing akin of absorption in the F30 that it would be behindhand not to amend the analysis for the new model, and that is what we accept done - the majority of this analysis is taken exact from the F30 review, but the angel samples are all new, and all the tests accept been re-done.

In 2007 the bazaar has, inevitably, confused on again, with 8,10 and even 12 megapixels accepted in even adequately bargain compacts, so the F31fd will accept an even tougher job aggressive for attention, and we were absorbed to see how it endless up adjoin the latest bearing of top resolution compacts; all boasting 'high ISO' capabilities - on cardboard at least. We were aswell absorbed to see if the centralized changes (the sensor is the aforementioned but the F31fd has a new adaptation of the Real Photo Processor) had agitated the accomplished antithesis of accouterments and processing that fabricated the F30 what it was. We'll start, as ever, with the banderole specification:

• Face Detection Technology built-in to the camera’s processor
• Real Photo Processor II and new Super CCD HR VI
• ISO 3200 sensitivity at full resolution
• 6.3 million pixels
• 3.0x optical zoom
• Long-life battery (up to 580 shots)
• IR Communication (IR simple™)
• VGA movie capture of 30 frames per second with sound
• PictBridge™ compatible for direct printing without a PC
• Quick response times (0.01 second shutter lag and 1.5 second start-up)
• Aperture and shutter priority modes