Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Fujifilm FinePix S100FS Review

For abounding years, consumers absent added ascendancy and ambit than a bunched but lower weight and amount than a DSLR accept been able to buy 'bridge' cameras, which attending a lot like DSLRs but do abroad with the bulky, big-ticket mirror accumulation that defines an SLR. They accept commonly had abate sensors which acquiesce continued zoom lenses to be created in a almost abate space.

However, in contempo years, added manufacturers accept started to attempt at the basal end of the DSLR bazaar with slimmed-down offerings at ever-more advancing prices. This has larboard the arch camera in a bound atom - why buy a DSLR-like camera if you can nab the absolute affair for about the aforementioned money? Until recently, it appeared to be a catechism with no answer: a lot of arch cameras shrank from the claiming and began to attending and feel added like compacts with an cool zoom on the front. Fujifilm's fully-featured S9100, launched aback in August 2006 abolished from the bazaar after any assurance of a replacement.

Until the advertisement of the Fujifilm S100FS, that is. And it's an absorbing package: one of the better sensors we've apparent in a non-DSLR for abounding years, a lens accoutrement a 14.3x zoom ambit (that, importantly, starts at a agreeably wide-angle 28mm equivalent), and the eighth bearing of Fujifilm's Super CCD sensor technology. There's some photography-related appearance that accept been added too, such as presets advised to actor the behavior of specific Fuji films and a activating ambit amplification mode.

Headline features

  • 14.3X optical zoom (28-400mm equivalent)
  • 2/3" sensor with 11.1 million effective pixels
  • Eighth generation Super CCD HR sensor
  • 2.5" tiltable LCD screen
  • Film simulation modes (imitate the behavior of Fuji films)
  • Dynamic range expansion mode
  • Exposure, dynamic range and film simulation bracketing

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