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Reminds me of an S7000 in a So-knee V1 body.... looking at it from the back while in my hand. Not as deep as a V1.

Grip has a texture to it and makes it very easy to grip. Overall is very light, but feels solid. Focusing is very fast. Really does shoot a frame a second. Buffer fills at about 4 frames, then slows to just over a second for additional frames. LCD is very nice, and big too. Viewfinder is small, but easy enough to see through with glasses (no diopter adjustment). Top4/final4 saves in 5-8 seconds in 12M depending on scene and resolution. Macro mode has no zooming available. Have no idea why they did that. No enlargement for manual focusing to aid in getting it right, but seems pretty easy to see within the lcd to get it focused. First attempt was in focus, so it must be easy. Flash charges fairly quick, depending on the intensity of discharge it could be anywhere from a second to a few seconds.

Didn't have a lot of time to play with it lastnight, so looking forward to getting more time over the weekend.
 
When you get a chance to play with the camera, could you comment on the following questions? Thanks for any comments you may be able to offer.

1. How does the E550 ISO 80 and 100 images compare with the S7000's ISO 200 images, in term of noise, resolution, dynamic range, and color? (I think I read that you have (had?) the S7000.)

2. What do you think about the jpg compression at 12F, 12N, and 6? The specified file sizes appear quite small to me. Do you think the compression is too aggressive?

3. How is the lens? Is it good enough for 6 megapixel resolution?

4. How is the lens sharpness at the corners? at wide angle? at max aperture?
Bradly said:
Reminds me of an S7000 in a So-knee V1 body.... looking at it from
the back while in my hand. Not as deep as a V1.

Grip has a texture to it and makes it very easy to grip. Overall is
very light, but feels solid. Focusing is very fast. Really does
shoot a frame a second. Buffer fills at about 4 frames, then slows
to just over a second for additional frames. LCD is very nice, and
big too. Viewfinder is small, but easy enough to see through with
glasses (no diopter adjustment). Top4/final4 saves in 5-8 seconds
in 12M depending on scene and resolution. Macro mode has no zooming
available. Have no idea why they did that. No enlargement for
manual focusing to aid in getting it right, but seems pretty easy
to see within the lcd to get it focused. First attempt was in
focus, so it must be easy. Flash charges fairly quick, depending on
the intensity of discharge it could be anywhere from a second to a
few seconds.

Didn't have a lot of time to play with it lastnight, so looking
forward to getting more time over the weekend.
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Philly said:
When you get a chance to play with the camera, could you comment on
the following questions? Thanks for any comments you may be able
to offer.

1. How does the E550 ISO 80 and 100 images compare with the S7000's
ISO 200 images, in term of noise, resolution, dynamic range, and
color? (I think I read that you have (had?) the S7000.)
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I'll try and get a comparison from each done. Also a 200 ISO from the e550 to compare to the 7000. Full size unaltered images will be posted for you to decide on things. I'll also post some normal sharpening and soft sharpening from each.
Philly said:
2. What do you think about the jpg compression at 12F, 12N, and 6?
The specified file sizes appear quite small to me. Do you think
the compression is too aggressive?
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I use 12N on my 7000 most of the time. Have to see how the e550 compares.
Philly said:
3. How is the lens? Is it good enough for 6 megapixel resolution?

4. How is the lens sharpness at the corners? at wide angle? at
max aperture?
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I'll get as much as I can done, as soon as I can. I should be able to get most/all of it done this weekend weather permitting.

On another note.... tripod mount is plastic. Hand strap has a nice feature with a slider to tighten it to your wrist for added protection. Lens ring cover has a few notches on it(three little dots in the picture to the left of the lens viewing from front) making it easy to take it off and secure it back on. Comes with a second I/O port cover, just in case your lose the original.
 
Judging by Fuji's pictures, that other Japanese review site, the E550 has much nicier photos than the S7000 (read less noise, more resolution).

=- Raist
 
Bradly said:
I'll try and get a comparison from each done. Also a 200 ISO from
the e550 to compare to the 7000. Full size unaltered images will be
posted for you to decide on things. I'll also post some normal
sharpening and soft sharpening from each.
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Bradly said:
I'll get as much as I can done, as soon as I can. I should be able
to get most/all of it done this weekend weather permitting.
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Most considerate!

Also some higher ISO pics would be nice.

Thanks in advance!

--
cheers!

Gunn
CF data base:
http://www.propassion.nl/finepix/
 
Looking forward to your guys' comments. Looks like there are a few people in this forum who have this camera already and seem to be positive on the camera operation and picture quality.

Reckon the e550 is what the Sony W1 should have been , but they produced a dumb-down camera instead..same as they're wasting a 7 mp ccd in a p100 chasis.
Good on you Fuji for making a serious compact camera!
 
Bradly said:
Reminds me of an S7000 in a So-knee V1 body.... looking at it from
the back while in my hand. Not as deep as a V1.
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Two issues that concern me are the slow lens speed at full zoom (f/5.6 isn't so good) and the fact that long exposures are limited to a maximum of 3 seconds - unless I'm missing something. Can longer exposures be made in a "manual mode?"

--
John McCormack - pbase supporter
http://www.pbase.com/jpmccormac/s1
 
John McCormack said:
Bradly said:
Reminds me of an S7000 in a So-knee V1 body.... looking at it from
the back while in my hand. Not as deep as a V1.
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Two issues that concern me are the slow lens speed at full zoom
(f/5.6 isn't so good) and the fact that long exposures are limited
to a maximum of 3 seconds - unless I'm missing something. Can
longer exposures be made in a "manual mode?"

--
John McCormack - pbase supporter
http://www.pbase.com/jpmccormac/s1
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My understanding is that the 3 sec maximum exposure is fixed. There is no manual override. This is the Achilles' heel of compact Fujifilms.
 
John McCormack said:
Two issues that concern me are the slow lens speed at full zoom
(f/5.6 isn't so good) and the fact that long exposures are limited
to a maximum of 3 seconds - unless I'm missing something. Can
longer exposures be made in a "manual mode?"
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According to PDF version of "Owner's manual" E550 shutter speed setting in manual mode is "3 sec. to 1/2000 sec. in 1/3 EV increments".

The only possibility for long exposure night shots is to take multiple 3 sec exposures and then combine them later with special software. This requires some effort, but the positive side is that the combined image has very little noise. Well, I have tried this only once. But check the link below.

http://www.tawbaware.com/is_help/imgstack_help.htm

Arto
 
John McCormack said:
Bradly said:
Reminds me of an S7000 in a So-knee V1 body.... looking at it from
the back while in my hand. Not as deep as a V1.
Click to expand...
Two issues that concern me are the slow lens speed at full zoom
(f/5.6 isn't so good) and the fact that long exposures are limited
to a maximum of 3 seconds - unless I'm missing something. Can
longer exposures be made in a "manual mode?"

--
John McCormack - pbase supporter
http://www.pbase.com/jpmccormac/s1
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I don't see the big deal with this. You can't take long exposure shots without a tripod and this is a consumer camera, for taking snapshots etc. It's not a pro camera. You need a Fuji SLR for the fancy stuff.
 
I ended up working the whole weekend, with 14 hours on Saturday alone. So I didn't have time to do any comparison's. Sorry.

Hopefully other new owners will post some images too, and then I'll get some up as soon as I can. Trying to get some outdoor shots tonight as the weather for the rest of the week is rain......
 
Thanks for the update. Sounds like a tough weekend. Just post whenever you can get around to it. At least a couple of other people have posted hands on comments, so I think other owners may be posting images soon.
Bradly said:
I ended up working the whole weekend, with 14 hours on Saturday
alone. So I didn't have time to do any comparison's. Sorry.

Hopefully other new owners will post some images too, and then I'll
get some up as soon as I can. Trying to get some outdoor shots
tonight as the weather for the rest of the week is rain......
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At first, I thought it was noisy. Then I realized that I misread and it was not ISO 64, but ISO 640. How did you get ISO 640? Was ISO set to "Auto"? I don't believe ISO 640 is selectable for 12MP mode, right?

Was this in 12F or 12N? So camera was set to Program mode, and 1/60sec was selected by the camera for full zoom? If ISO was set to "Auto", it is rather surprising that the camera would allow ISO to go up to 640--a sign of some confidence by the Fuji engineers perhaps.

The printing on the boxes in the lower right hand corner looks pretty sharp to me. Although not exactly at the far corner, it seems to be a good indication of the lens sharpness at corner. Good job on holding the camera steady at full zoom at 1/60 sec, or did you have the camera resting on a solid surface?

Exposure looks pretty good--the histogram looks nice.

Thanks for the sample.
Bradly said:
Here's a ISO640 image taken at full zoom in auto mode. 9ft away to
lifesaver container with light coming from behind.

figured I'd atleast get something up for now......

http://www.imagestation.com/mypictures/inbox/view.html?id=4150587905&url=http%3A//www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid135/p8d649409cdd0cfccb10e7b7210e3006c/f764f201.jpg&caption=Full%20zoom,%20in%20auto%20mode.%20ISO%20640%201/60th&album_id=4285887053&from_album=1
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Camera was set to Auto mode. ISO was then set to Auto which gives from ISO 80-640. Auto ISO is only available in Auto mode. ISO forced settings are 80,100,200,400 for 12M images. After seeing this shot, I wish they would have allowed it to be a choice for ISO640. The shot was taken 12M fine.

Another thing to remember is that this was with normal sharpening(since you can't change the sharpening in Auto mode).

This was just a shot I took sitting at the computer in the basement. I had brought the extra container down to put away and set it there while I was turning things on. Then decided to just shoot a picture of it at full zoom and see if I could get the ISO 640 to work and see how well it performed.

It was handheld, but I take clean shots at 1/80th and 380mm on my C770..... so this was a lot easier. :)
 
No, it's not bad at all. Cleans up very nicely. I was surprised. With this, I'll have no problems with taking a lot of shots indoors in auto mode.
 
Nope. No trouble at all! The camera has been excellent at focusing so far. Even fast in low light. No hunting around forever and sorts. Only had a problem with extreme low/no contrast shots, which would be expected. Took a picture in near total darkness(was barely getting any light from the light at the other side of the basement) and was surprised to get a focus lock and a good picture to boot!

I'll get more indoor shots up tonight. And hopefully some outdoor(if it's not raining), though they'll be gloomy by the looks of the weather.
 
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