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Mike  (Thanks to Albano Garcia)

By Ctein

In Part 1 of this review, I reportable that there was nearly no disagreement in ikon calibre between the Fujinoyama Finepix S100FS and the Nikon D200 at ISO 100, despite a 2.5X disagreement in device dimensions. Low-light racket was a assorted matter. I necessary to modify the S100FS downbound to ISO 800 to correct the dominate racket qualities of the Nikon at ISO 1600. Based purely on the 6X disagreement in element area, that’s nowhere nearby as bounteous a disagreement as digit would move if every things were equal. But as I saucer discover ofttimes (even obsessively) things are never technologically every coequal between cameras and generations.

What most my Fujinoyama S6000fd? RAW images looked most same digit would expect; the small pixels in the S100FS outlay most half a kibosh in speed, qualifying to the S6000, above ISO 800. You crapper wager this in illustrations 1 finished 4, scrutiny ISO 1600 and 3200 action of the S6000fd and the S100FS. Below 800, the crack imagery and racket characteristics of the S100FS won out.

1. This RAW picture was prefabricated with the S6000fd at ISO 1600. Click on the ikon for 100% scale. Compare it to illustrations 2, 3 and 4.

2. This RAW picture was prefabricated with the S6000fd at ISO 3200. Click on the ikon for 100% scale.

3. This RAW picture was prefabricated with the S100FS at ISO 1600. The S100FS has more pixels, so this opens at 75% scale, to attain the S6000fd and S100FS illustrations equal to same-size prints. It’s midway in calibre between the S6000fd’s ISO 1600 and 3200 RAW images.

4. This RAW picture was prefabricated with the S100FS at ISO 3200. The S100FS has more pixels, so this opens at 75% scale, to attain the S6000fd and S100FS illustrations equal to same-size prints.

But, when I photographed JPEGs (illustrations numbered 5 finished 8), the senior changed! The JPEGs from the S100FS had over a flooded kibosh pace nonnegative on the S6000. Vastly meliorate communication processing in the S100 does a such more worldly employ of retentive discourse and dustlike ikon structure. Yes, the S100FS JPEGs are noisier, but they’re a aggregation more unexceptionable than the S6000’s compounding of mushed discover detail, smeary grain, and briny and flavoring effort noise.

5. A highest-quality JPEG prefabricated with the S6000fd at ISO 1600. Click on the ikon for 100% scale. Compare it to illustrations 6, 7 and 8.

6. A highest-quality JPEG prefabricated with the S100FS at ISO 1600. The demo (opened) is at 75% scale, to equal to same-size prints from both cameras. It’s vastly meliorate than the S6000fd’s JPEG.

7. A highest-quality JPEG prefabricated with the S100FS at ISO 3200. The demo opens at 75% scale. Still beatniks discover an ISO 1600 JPEG from the S6000fd.

8. A highest-quality JPEG prefabricated with the S100FS at ISO 6400. The unsealed demo is at 100% scale, because the S100FS is binning pixels downbound to 6 MP. Better discourse but more racket than an ISO 1600 JPEG from the S6000fd.

I acknowledged the ISO 6400 (6 MP low resolution) and ISO 10,000 (3 MP low resolution) JPEG modes would be a joke. While I ease study ISO 10,000 to be an behave of desperation, the ISO 6400 environment actually served me substantially when I was photographing a assemblage of performer friends performing for apiece other. A bounteous conception of the think was the camera’s separate mode.

The S100FS crapper pilot heptad highest-quality JPEGs or threesome RAW images. The S100FS accepts xD and SD(HC) hardware cards. Avoid xDs, though; they’re a aggregation more pricey and slower. Writing a RAW enter to an xD-H bill took 7.5 seconds vs. 2.5 dry for a 60X SDHC card. In connatural use, camera rotate instance was a lowercase low digit second. With a 60X SDHC card, that meant I could attain fivesome RAW exposures as alacritous as the camera would rotate before I had to move patch it unwooded the buffer. In JPEG mode, I never had to wait.

In separate fashion the S100FS photographs threesome RAW or heptad JPEG images in digit second. Then the camera needs to verify a respite patch it writes the accumulation discover (around heptad seconds on the SDHC card). I utilised this in compounding with the ISO 6400 JPEG environment to getting my performer friends’ short expressions with goodish success.

JPEG separate fashion crapper getting 7 frames in a second. It’s enthusiastic for photographing performers, pets, and another fast-moving critters. This separate was prefabricated at ISO 6400 with –1 kibosh danger compensation.

There’s also a free-running separate mode, where the camera meet keeps shoving exposures into the pilot until you promulgation the shutter. Then it saves the terminal second’s worth of photos.

Auto-bracketing separate fashion was my favorite. Set the redact quantity in 1/3 stops up to +/– 1 stop, advise the shutter fix and in digit ordinal it captures threesome exposures on setting, nonnegative the interval, and harmful the interval. Faced with really extremity luminance ranges, I institute it inferior distracting to meet clutch a separate and squander whatever hardware expanse than manipulate with the exposure. I desire auto-bracketing went to +/–2 stops. That would be enthusiastic for HDR.

Camera controls and another issues
Many (not all) of the controls are well-located. Just behindhand the shutter promulgation are digit buttons that alter up the ISO and the danger aggregation displays. Just behindhand them, conveniently positioned for one’s thumb, is a curb rotate that changes the ISO or the danger compensation.

If neither fix is pressed, moving the rotate changes danger settings. In Program mode, it trades soured aperture for shutter speed. Using that in compounding with danger compensation, I harm up doing nearly every my picturing in Program mode, scarce needing to ingest either Shutter or Aperture priority.

Image standardisation entireness as advertised. Dynamic Range Expansion works, but at a price. Going from DR100 (the connatural choice setting) to DR200 forces the ISO up to 200 and feat to DR400 forces that up to 400. DR400 module add most digit stops to the arrange of a JPEG and somewhere between digit and digit stops to the arrange of a RAW ikon but with substantially accumulated noise. With 11 RAW stops at ISO 100 I uncertainty I’ll tending most DRE.

The LCD concealment on the backwards of the camera has decorous sufficiency ikon calibre that digit crapper actually ingest it for operation and previewing photographs. Pull it discover at a 45-degree seek for easy watch of the concealment patch the camera sits on the plateau in face of you.

Still to come…
All in all, I enjoyed using the camera, and I idolized the innate ikon quality. The different danger and separate modes prefabricated it easier to attain some of my photographs and got me a higher proportionality of successes. So, ground did I ready flipping between doting and hating this camera? Tune in incoming instance for the elating closing of this three-part review. Here there be dragons!

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Ctein