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I believe my current camera, the S602, is about equal to the S7000 up to an 8" x 10" print. I don't need anything larger than that, so I haven't run any comparisons on larger print sizes. However, I do believe the S7000 is superior to the S602 in many ways, and at $400-$500 (usd), it's a real bargain.
Price is the big worry with the S20 pro. Hopefully it will drop quickly. Hope they have improved battery consumption too.
I recently turned the power saver function off on my S7000, and have yet to kill the batteries before I ran out of memory (512mb xD card). If the S20 can do better than that, it won't be by much. What kind of batteries are you using that you aren't getting satisfactory run time from? I've got 2 sets of Energizer 2100 mAh batteries (made by Sanyo from what I hear) and they really seem to perform well. Besides, at $9 a set I can afford to carry 3 sets so battery life hasn't even entered the picture.
Nice.
I like your fantasy! Now THAT would be the camera "to die for" as they say in America.The idea inside the S20 is very interesting but not enough to me to
justify that price and going out with 2 bodies (S7000 and S20). It
would be cool if they could produce a ccd with 2 independent group
of sensors that could work with different ISO to increase DR or at
same ISO to produce maximum res, then you'd have just one body that
turns into HR/SR from menu. I don't know if it is technically
possible but certainly you can't say I have no fantasy
Yes, unfortunately, though I don't know why it would be that hard for Fuji to demonstrate the benefits of the SR sensor. Clearly, it has better DR and better high ISO performance than a 602, for example.
Why not indeed, though I think a hardware upgrade would also be needed to improve overall lag (AF lag, EVF lag, shutter lag)
--I own an S7000 and I wouldn't buy an S20. If I had to buy a new
camera right now I'd buy the S7000 again. That's subjective of
course and depends on how you use the camera.
I like the s7000 high res allowing to produce good quality crops
and nice landscapes full of details. I do often crops when I shoot
action or simply because I rethink of the framing later, here is an
example:
http://www.pbase.com/image/27502581.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/24816500/large.jpg
The idea inside the S20 is very interesting but not enough to me to
justify that price and going out with 2 bodies (S7000 and S20). It
would be cool if they could produce a ccd with 2 independent group
of sensors that could work with different ISO to increase DR or at
same ISO to produce maximum res, then you'd have just one body that
turns into HR/SR from menu. I don't know if it is technically
possible but certainly you can't say I have no fantasy
Finally I have some concerns about the way Fuji is marketing this
product, it seems they introduced it like a 'solution looking for a
problem' meaning they leave up to us the effort of demonstrating
its advantages.
Probably I'd be more excited if they improved the S7000 features, a
great job could be done with an inexpensive firmware upgrade, but
they don't want to listen. On the hardware side they should try to
achieve overall faster speed: AF lag, prefocus lag (quite poor
currently), burst mode (more frames and faster write speed). I
don't get why people necessarily associate these features with
DSLRs, why not a fast compact camera?
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Antonio
http://www.pbase.com/antonio_2
How does S20 pro compare to S7000 on start up speed, shutter lag zoom speed; all the same?
Is that the only advantage of the S20 over the S7000?
Of course then there is: the best DR in digital cameras,
Besides the better dynamic range, the full res 800 ISO is one of the main reasons that made me choose the S20 over the S7000. Here's a link to concert shots from the S20 I took, all hand-held at ISO 800, no post-processing:
