Nice Camera
Triumphantly roaring down the runway and heading off to the Photo Marketing Association’s annual beano in Las Vegas this week is Fujifilm’s upmarket FinePix S100FS dSLR-like consumer digicam.Described as its ‘most advanced consumer digital camera to date,’ the FinePix S100FS is scrambling to grab a fat slice from the lucrative budget dSLR market, shoe-horning a promising feast o’features into a relatively bijou frame.
Housed in a very attractive dSLR-like body with a 2.5? tiltable LCD, the camera sports a 14.3x Fujinon manual zoom lens covering a useful 28-400mm (35mm equiv., F2.8- F5.3) range, backed by ‘Dual Image Stabilisation’ which combines an optical image stabilisation system and Fujifilm’s Picture Stabilisation software.
Lurking inside the camera’s gubbins is a large 2/3 inch 11 megapixel Super CCD sensor utilising Fuji’s third generation RP III processor, serving up skyhigh ISO sensitivities right up to an astonishing ISO 6400 (at 6 MP) and a positively eye-popping ISO 10,000 at 3 Megapixels.
As is the trend with modern consumer snappers, Fujifilm have included their proprietary Face Detection 2.0 technology, which claims to detect up to 10 gurning mugs in a scene, swiftly correcting focus, exposure and white balance.
Once the picture is taken, an automatic red-eye correction process removes any ‘Devil eyes’, saving both the original image and the corrected file.
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