Nice Camera
Monday, January 28th, 2008Triumphantly 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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