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New Fuji F200 EXR - I just bought one....
RedRobin:
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To replace my Fuji F11 which is a great camera but the latest F200 has evolved the whole art of compact digital snap taking a whole lot further!
I especially like how fast it focusses and how quickly and easily it zooms from wide angle to telephoto. Everything is just much faster to use and register and the few results so far are extremely impressive in their natural lighting and balance even with flash. EXR promises to be stunning for a pocket digital camera of this type.
One of the first things I'll be testing is how well it captures Tornado Red with a blue sky - A recipe for pinkness on my F11 until I set it to default with +1 exposure compensation as a workaround.
My daughter inherits my F11 as a very good upgrade from what she has.
The last pic I took on my F11 of my daughter when buying her a MacBook Pro yesterday. She'll be well set up for her Art & Design foundation course in Cardiff in September. She's got the tools, the rest is up to her : -
stealthwolf:
I think fairly shortly after I posted about Fuji cameras I had a look and saw it was out.
It's had fantastic reviews over at dpreview.com clicky
I've even considering chucking my current Fuji F50 camera and buying this one instead. The thing that held me back is that the manual functions aren't that great (shutter priority and aperture priority) which is something I was hoping would be closer to the F31 standard rather than more automated.
Look forward to more pics RR!
Greeners:
Sky's best tool for doing well in her chosen subject is surely you Mr Red! :happy2:
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: Greenouse on May 30, 2009, 09:17:23 am ---
Sky's best tool for doing well in her chosen subject is surely you Mr Red! :happy2:
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....Are you calling me a tool ?!!!!! :grin:
No, that's a beautiful thing to say, Nathan :love: :evilgrin:
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: stealthwolf on May 30, 2009, 12:57:07 am ---
I think fairly shortly after I posted about Fuji cameras I had a look and saw it was out.
It's had fantastic reviews over at dpreview.com clicky
I've even considering chucking my current Fuji F50 camera and buying this one instead. The thing that held me back is that the manual functions aren't that great (shutter priority and aperture priority) which is something I was hoping would be closer to the F31 standard rather than more automated.
Look forward to more pics RR!
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....I bought it on impulse! Having been to the Apple Store with Sky I left her and her friend to browse the girlie shops and I went off on my own browsing. I was looking for a magnetic-catch bag for my F11 (zips are never fast enough and velcro deteriorates) and went into a camera shop not a big chain store and so was curious if they had the Fuji you had been recommending. They didn't but had the F200EXR and I had a feel and a play. I read more about it overnight and decided that Sky could do with a much better camera than she had for her work (she was often wanting to borrow my F11) and that provided the perfect excuse for me to give in to my desires.
The Intelligent Face Detection feature is fantastic (I wonder if it also detects unintelligent faces) and so is continuous autofocussing. I'll be shooting on Fine 12 zillion px as what's the point of having such res if you don't use it.
The wide-angle - telephoto (optical) zoom is extremely practical too. I notice that in EXR-Auto that it usually (on my pics type so far) only sets f3.3 or thereabouts. In other words, an aperture which in old conventional SLR terms delivers only a shallow focus field - Is such a wide aperture setting different on a digital compact camera?
My preference would be to usually shoot with a fixed speed of about 1/125th and let the aperture find its best (highest value, smallest opening).
Doubtless it'll get plenty of use at the SC forum dyno day [Nathan better watch out!] :evilgrin:
Stealth - I'll let you have a go with it at SC :happy2:
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