HS50EXR the XS-1 replacement?

Kim Letkeman wrote:

Unproven. There are no proper tests and your anecdotal posts of bad examples are no substitute at all, in fact they are ridiculous.

So you think that the aperture at 600mm will only have increased from 2.8 to 3.5?

What sort of hallucination does one need to have to make that kind of assumption?

Manual, electronic ... yawn.

We shall see.

We shall see.

Bigger does not mean better. Again, we shall see.

How does that help? With an EVF of the quality that Fuji typically includes, there is no way that MF is going to compete in accuracy with CDAF.

Only useful when manually focusing ... and if you check out some of the writings on the net, it is not considered useful for critical focus. So how does it help with a 1000mm zoom? Answer ... it doesn't.

Focus peaking on the X20 would be a whole 'nother story ...

Useful when shooting architecture. Not much of a call for that at 1000mm ... but it might be useful around the ocean.

Yeah ... truly innovative.

Mostly in your mind. While I am pulling for Fuji here and I expect to get one to review in spring, it is premature to declare a winner on a camera that is 3 months away from shipping ... in fact it is ludicrous.

If he wants a camera now, then he has to choose the HS30 or the FZ200. Or a mirrorless cam with 2 lens kit or all in one lens, but he seems uninterested in that path.

So there may very well be a reason to buy the FZ200 right now. A 2 stop aperture advantage is nothing to sneeze at. And there is no way that the HS50 is going to be "almost constant" as you seem to be hallucinatingpredicting ...

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