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Buying a Used Fuji S5 Pro

Started Feb 10, 2012 | Discussions thread
Hulamike
Hulamike Senior Member • Posts: 2,810
The Down and Dirty

Ok, so you caved on the S5 instead of looking at the D7000. (wink) that's fine if you got a good price. Here's the down and dirty though:

The S5 is noisy above ISO 400 and so shooting in low light is very problematic. Newer Nikon's allow for noise free images up to ISO 3200-6400 (ISO 10800 if you have a D4) but you decided this wasn't important to you. Learn to live below ISO 400.

The S5 is a soft focusing camera due to its AA filter. It produces a soft, "film looking" type of image and so if this is your thing you're good to go. If not, expect time in photoshop for sharpening if nothing else.

The S5 is not fast. If you shoot sports or anything where a fast burst rate is important, forget that. The S5 is not a sports camera. It was designed for studio and wedding.

What rarely gets mentioned is Fuji's main claim to fame, Dynamic Range. It still holds detail in highlight areas and shadow areas as well as the D3 and better than most other DSLRs. It was afterall a favorite of wedding photographers, not nature or sports shooters, for a reason. Wedding shooters need to hold detail in the classic wedding shot: white dress & black tux.

Fuji no longer supports the S5. That means if it croaks, throw it away. I have a flooded S5 that I wish could be looked at. Nocando.

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