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Ron777 said:
Man that's a neat looking little camera. I want one just to hold and look at :)
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Agreed. It does look cool.
Ron777 said:
Is the flash up all the time when the camera is on? Or will it suck back down if you pick suppressed flash I wonder.....
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Yeah, you better be able to close the flash. Not good otherwise.
Ron777 said:
Those photos look good, be better if the shooter would have dropped EV or used spot metering to kill those hot whites.
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It boggles my mind that they wouldn't correct the exposure. Otherwise, those samples look promising (haven't pixel peeped though).

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Ron777 said:
Man that's a neat looking little camera. I want one just to hold and look at :)

Is the flash up all the time when the camera is on? Or will it suck back down if you pick suppressed flash I wonder.....

Those photos look good, be better if the shooter would have dropped EV or used spot metering to kill those hot whites.
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Hi Ron,

According to the China site, you can't push the flash back (so stupid). I am very busy lately and so is Hugo (the ex-poster who tests some Fuji cameras for Fuji dealer in HK), if I have the time, I can call him to confirm.

Yes, some of the samples look good. According to Hugo, the WB is better than F200 and the camera is fun to use because of the zoom and Panaroma features.

The iso1600 fried dumplings pic is not too bad. Good enough for most indoor uses.

BTW, the iso400 and iso1600 samples are full size.

It is now on sales in Shanghai, we can expect more users sample pictures arriving soon.

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I held an F305EXR this weekend and can vouch that the flash is ALWAYS up. Unless the sales droid was wrong, that flash never goes down until you turn it off. What is more, it feels very fragile. I can see a lot of damage happening to that extension.

I dont like it because I really try to avoid using flash. Plus, your fingers hit the flash easily.

Stupid, stupid design from Fuji.
 
danny_only said:
Ron777 said:
Man that's a neat looking little camera. I want one just to hold and look at :)

Is the flash up all the time when the camera is on? Or will it suck back down if you pick suppressed flash I wonder.....

Those photos look good, be better if the shooter would have dropped EV or used spot metering to kill those hot whites.
Hi Ron,
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According to the China site, you can't push the flash back (so stupid). I am very busy lately and so is Hugo (the ex-poster who tests some Fuji cameras for Fuji dealer in HK), if I have the time, I can call him to confirm.
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Just called him and confirmed users can't push it back and lock it in shut position, but he used it as extruded finger rest to help holding camera steady :) "Not a big problem" he said. He had not broken the flash, but he complained no continuous mode button.

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danny_only said:
danny_only said:
Ron777 said:
Man that's a neat looking little camera. I want one just to hold and look at :)

Is the flash up all the time when the camera is on? Or will it suck back down if you pick suppressed flash I wonder.....

Those photos look good, be better if the shooter would have dropped EV or used spot metering to kill those hot whites.
Hi Ron,
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According to the China site, you can't push the flash back (so stupid). I am very busy lately and so is Hugo (the ex-poster who tests some Fuji cameras for Fuji dealer in HK), if I have the time, I can call him to confirm.
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Just called him and confirmed users can't push it back and lock it in shut position, but he used it as extruded finger rest to help holding camera steady :) "Not a big problem" he said. He had not broken the flash, but he complained no continuous mode button.
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When my finger hit the flash, it bent forward and started moving down. So I would be very scared of resting my finger on it. Seems very fragile.
 
rattymouse said:
Member said:
Just called him and confirmed users can't push it back and lock it in shut position, but he used it as extruded finger rest to help holding camera steady :) "Not a big problem" he said. He had not broken the flash, but he complained no continuous mode button.
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When my finger hit the flash, it bent forward and started moving down. So I would be very scared of resting my finger on it. Seems very fragile.
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He said he pushed it down many times and had not broken anything, also he puzzled by this design.

When shooting low light, any thing which helps stabilizing the camera is important. When I was using my F30 several years ago, I used a collapsible LCD shade as my Forehead-Image-Stabilizer, I pressed my forehead against it to stabilizing the F30 and peeked through my glass to compose, a 2 stop advantages :) . Too bad these shades are fragile, I broke 3 of them after years of uses, now no longer available in market (modern LCDs are very good under the sun, no market = no supply).

Fuji should name the flash as dual purposes Finger-Image-Stabilizer-Flash :)

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Nice find Danny. I can't understand the buttons/links but is there anyway to make it full size?

Anyway, regarding the flash, we were discussing this over at Ratty's thread and tha US manual says (page 39) that you can push down the flash to turn it off but it warns you (page 11 I think) not to block it as it is going up on power up. As usual Fuji's manual is very vague. Maybe it won't lock down because the flash is set to on in the settings?

In case you guys missed this on my post here are a couple of interesting youtube video of the F300. I think it looks hella cool when the camera turns on and off.

Same video on Fuji site but this is bigger and better version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tpCbHI31_x4&vq=large

And its unboxing by the Fuji Guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=_sTNY029a_o&vq=large

And this one I think is in Japanese:

Fuji says they developed a new IS gyro sensor that enhances IS specifically for long tele, low light and movie mode. They call it IIS (Intelligent IS). Coupled with its fast PD-AF and it looks like a winner.

Of course we need to see more samples at 100% crops to see how well it really works and the IQ but so far it looks pretty good on this demo.

Pay attention at timeline 3:25 for the flash (I wish I can understand it though)...
Pay attention at timeline 4:35 for the IIS and PD-AF...
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=caOmXShGd4A&vq=large

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Hi Roy,

Just clicked on the Chinese calligraphy and dumplings pictures for full (large) size viewing.

Hugo told me it just spring back and could not lock in shut position. Not sure about the rest, I guess soon many owners will tell us the fact (forgot to ask if he used engineering sample or production model)

The high iso IQ is about 1 stop below F200 to me, but Hugo said video better than F200 (before he used Sony Cell phone for home video, more expensive than F300), actually almost any camera's video is better than F200.

The new IS is good according to Hugo, he tried tele end 1/60s inside a moving bus, still sharp. F200's IS is not as good as those of older generation Panny at tele end.
RoysLaw said:
Nice find Danny. I can't understand the buttons/links but is there anyway to make it full size?

Anyway, regarding the flash, we were discussing this over at Ratty's thread and tha US manual says (page 39) that you can push down the flash to turn it off but it warns you (page 11 I think) not to block it as it is going up on power up. As usual Fuji's manual is very vague. Maybe it won't lock down because the flash is set to on in the settings?

In case you guys missed this on my post here are a couple of interesting youtube video of the F300. I think it looks hella cool when the camera turns on and off.

Same video on Fuji site but this is bigger and better version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tpCbHI31_x4&vq=large

And its unboxing by the Fuji Guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=_sTNY029a_o&vq=large

And this one I think is in Japanese:

Fuji says they developed a new IS gyro sensor that enhances IS specifically for long tele, low light and movie mode. They call it IIS (Intelligent IS). Coupled with its fast PD-AF and it looks like a winner.

Of course we need to see more samples at 100% crops to see how well it really works and the IQ but so far it looks pretty good on this demo.

Pay attention at timeline 4:35...
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=caOmXShGd4A&vq=large

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The iso1600 sample (the only one, up to now, shot at 6MP) seems to be good and not far from similar shots from F70 or even F200. I guess the F300 IQ will be at least as F70 (should be very good for such a complete specs camera!) I hope.. :)
 
danny_only said:
According to the China site, you can't push the flash back (so stupid). I am very busy lately and so is Hugo (the ex-poster who tests some Fuji cameras for Fuji dealer in HK), if I have the time, I can call him to confirm.
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The manual says on p. 39 that you can push the flash back down to turn it off -- I'm hoping that's true. Seems early production models may be faulty in this regard.

I'm sure the flash is something a firmware update could fix quite easily -- ideally, the flash should stay down on powering up unless auto/slow-sync flash is selected (since there's no button for flash).

The F300 is supposed to be launched in Singapore two days from now. As a firm believer in Fujis despite their many flaws (I have F31, F200, F70 in addition to 5DII, LX3 and many more) -- I'll be deterred only by a ridiculous launch price :-)
 
cantabrigiensis said:
danny_only said:
According to the China site, you can't push the flash back (so stupid). I am very busy lately and so is Hugo (the ex-poster who tests some Fuji cameras for Fuji dealer in HK), if I have the time, I can call him to confirm.
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The manual says on p. 39 that you can push the flash back down to turn it off -- I'm hoping that's true. Seems early production models may be faulty in this regard.
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Tha manual says something like CAUTION - pressing down the flash causes it not to fire. It's a caution, not a function.

Therefore it could be that while you can press the flash down to disable it, it won't stay down of its own accord.

Needs someone to check this out with flash selected 'off' and in manual or P mode.

Nick
 
NIK11 said:
Tha manual says something like CAUTION - pressing down the flash causes it not to fire. It's a caution, not a function.

Therefore it could be that while you can press the flash down to disable it, it won't stay down of its own accord.

Needs someone to check this out with flash selected 'off' and in manual or P mode.

Nick
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Ah, thanks -- I'd interpreted "caution" as "take note that ...", meaning you can turn the flash off by pressing it down.

If I do get the camera this week, you can bet this will be one of the first things I'll try out :-)
 
No exif in the fill sized high ISO one. And it's pretty high key (dare I say overexposed somewhat)

I'd wait for some more samples on this one.
 
Yes that's how it works, you push down on the flash to turn it off or rather disable it "manually". I believe that is what the Japanese video was trying to illustrate. Call me weird but the more I think about this design the more I think that I can benefit from it with my shooting habits.

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cantabrigiensis said:
danny_only said:
According to the China site, you can't push the flash back (so stupid). I am very busy lately and so is Hugo (the ex-poster who tests some Fuji cameras for Fuji dealer in HK), if I have the time, I can call him to confirm.
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The manual says on p. 39 that you can push the flash back down to turn it off -- I'm hoping that's true. Seems early production models may be faulty in this regard.
Click to expand...
Tha manual says something like CAUTION - pressing down the flash causes it not to fire. It's a caution, not a function.

Therefore it could be that while you can press the flash down to disable it, it won't stay down of its own accord.

Needs someone to check this out with flash selected 'off' and in manual or P mode.

Nick
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I could live with the flash function. The sample pics look pretty good - with typical Fuji colors that I remember from my F31; the greens and blues are not really to my liking. I'm leaning toward the Canon SD 4500 IS, which is smaller and lighter - though it lacks the wide angle 24mm.
RoysLaw said:
Yes that's how it works, you push down on the flash to turn it off or rather disable it "manually". I believe that is what the Japanese video was trying to illustrate. Call me weird but the more I think about this design the more I think that I can benefit from it with my shooting habits.
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