PAUL TILL
Veteran Member
These F series cameras are designed and priced for kids to take pictures of there mates, or parents shooting there kids.
It's a point and shoot camera and 95% of the people who purchase one would not even know what a histogram is or what to do if it had one.
Fuji are making the camera for the market out there, it would not cost anything to add a histogram as it would only be part of the firmware, but why bother when 95% of people would not even use it!
If anything a serious point and shoot camera should have an EVF as you can't hold a camera steady at arms length anyway and composing a picture through the LCD is not very practical either. The LCD is only 230,000 dot my old TZ5 had 460,000.
Now if they made the camera with an EVF, hot shoe, histogram and a decent LCD and a 6MP CCD you would all be happy but the price would be closer to £500.
Then you would all be moaning it's to expensive and saying I can get a DSLR for that money.
If you want a serious point and shoot buy an LX3, you can even add an EVF. I had one for a week and it took some lovely pictures with it I just did not like the lens sticking out it made it difficult getting in and out of your pocket and then there was the lens cap, either dangling on it's chord or having to put that in your pocket.
It does not matter what the camera manufacturers do some of you will always find something to moan about.
In this economic climate I don't think you are going to see any specialized cameras coming out for at least a year or two.
Buy the F200EXR, if you don't like it sell it on. I am pretty sure in most situations it will blow the pants off the old F30/31FD, and it will probably produce better pictures than the LX3 too.
If anything I would like it to have the ability to add a screw on adapter tube so you could use filters and maybe a telephoto lens.
It's a point and shoot camera and 95% of the people who purchase one would not even know what a histogram is or what to do if it had one.
Fuji are making the camera for the market out there, it would not cost anything to add a histogram as it would only be part of the firmware, but why bother when 95% of people would not even use it!
If anything a serious point and shoot camera should have an EVF as you can't hold a camera steady at arms length anyway and composing a picture through the LCD is not very practical either. The LCD is only 230,000 dot my old TZ5 had 460,000.
Now if they made the camera with an EVF, hot shoe, histogram and a decent LCD and a 6MP CCD you would all be happy but the price would be closer to £500.
Then you would all be moaning it's to expensive and saying I can get a DSLR for that money.
If you want a serious point and shoot buy an LX3, you can even add an EVF. I had one for a week and it took some lovely pictures with it I just did not like the lens sticking out it made it difficult getting in and out of your pocket and then there was the lens cap, either dangling on it's chord or having to put that in your pocket.
It does not matter what the camera manufacturers do some of you will always find something to moan about.
In this economic climate I don't think you are going to see any specialized cameras coming out for at least a year or two.
Buy the F200EXR, if you don't like it sell it on. I am pretty sure in most situations it will blow the pants off the old F30/31FD, and it will probably produce better pictures than the LX3 too.
If anything I would like it to have the ability to add a screw on adapter tube so you could use filters and maybe a telephoto lens.
