A m4/3 owner ready to buy the fuji s5 pro for playing around?

Andreascy wrote:

hello giovanni thank you for your response. you was not offensive at all and i am happy for your advises. The problem is not that i compare this camera with the newers camera. but i believe that this camera can produce much better quality that i found on my pictures and i am wondering if i make a mistake or if is the lens quality etc. The photo taken by the old point and shoot canon of 5mp is sharp pleasing to the eye and you can see a lot of details. in the case of fuji i cant tell the same. of course i will try more and check if i make something mistake in my focus. also a question about iso. in what settings i can use the iso so i can take noise free or little iso images? because even the daylight sometimes if i will use the long end of the lens 200mm to get a shutter speed up i have to raise the iso. what is your suggestion?

Ciao Andreas,

I think that first and foremost one has got to know the limitations of the used tools, today's times we can safely shoot at ISO1.600 if not higher with little to no noise at all, bursts are incredible, big and detailed screens to review the pictures... the S5 is from another era, I can say, from my experience, that till ISO400 things are ok, over that they start to get trouble, there is visible noise which, by the way, is not as disturbing as other cameras but it sure affects quality and perception, this said when I used the S5 it was set on AutoISO with an upper limit of 800 and also has to be known that past ISO1.200 the small photo receptors the sensor was made of, the ones used to gather highlights, got shot off so the benefits of the SuperCCD go down the drain.

Also, lens wise, zooms, even the high quality ones, are always a compromise between quality and focal length range, if you notice most of the "pro" labeled zooms don't go over a x3 factor like the 24-70 which is the classic pro range zoom every brand has, this means that your 18-200 as well as my 28-300 are a lot of compromise, you can't have a drunk wife and full barrel...

About shooting technique the old rule of 1/focal length also is a compromise, a faster shooter speed allows less micro motion but also means either to use very bright lenses (f2.8ish or faster) or high ISO which is not the case for the S5 and here you get to understand a bright prime does the difference and so it was for me switching from fast zooms to fast primes, even an old lens like the 50/1.4D which doesn't do too well on my newer Nikon D800 used to perform much better on the S5 and shooting speed wise I learnt that 1/2x focal length does even better so the case of your lens at 200mm on the S5 leads for sure to blurred shots due to either high ISO or slow shutter speed.

Least but no last, compact cameras pictures look attractive because they are sharp, contrasty, saturated and so on but they don't reflect reality, a D-SLR needs a learning curve to get the best out of it and some post processing, about this last bit the S5 gives an advantage because it used to produce amazing jpg straight out of the camera but it still needs to be mastered with shooting technique and good lenses.

My 5 cents...