Anyone who moved from the S602Z?

[RDKirk]

But don't you miss split image focusing?

Not particularly. I was always extremely nearsighted, so when I got old enough to get farsighted, it didn't balance things out, it just left me with a focusing range of 4-8 inches in front of my face.

Focusing the camera was beginning to get hard. I was still cranked at Canon for getting rid of the FD mount, so I continued with my F-1 cameras until the late 90s. I was tempted to go Nikon, but they just didn't look very interesting.

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[RDKirk]

Come to think of it, the reason I didn't go Nikon was because I didn't feel like learning their F-mount evolution gobbledygook.

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[Boo]

I had both a 4900 and still have my S602Z.

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I couldn't get satisfactory 8x10 photos from the Fujis, though.

I had the S602 as I mentioned earlier in the thread (which my father now uses) and I still have the 2800 as it still takes smashing little photos and my son and husband like to use it - I shall simply keep that for the family, it's never let us down.

But I've had some fabulous prints from both cameras - I can think of at least 2 8x10s on the wall in frames now from the 2800 and a 30x20 poster and perhaps 5 10 x 15s from the 602 - and I've printed many, many 8x10s and 10 x 15s from it - and sold prints. I have been published several times, with several double page glossy magazine spreads and a front cover from the 602.

The images used to look rather lumpy on screen, they now look awful if I open them to work on them again after looking at the 300D images that you could happily use on-screen at 1:1 crops if necessary. But despite their appearance on screen, I always found they printed much better than they looked like they might - that would have been a positive point I'd make if anyone asked about image quality - they look a tad weird on screen, but print beautifully.

My father uses the 602 now and doesn't have a computer and we got him an HP inkjet printer with a card reader for Christmas, so he prints straight from the card and consequently only records as 3MP - he can't crop and the printer only does A4 paper, so it saves him card space. He prints a lot to fill A4 photo paper and they look totally fabulous at that size, when I saw the last batch he'd done I was jealous and wondered if I should have kept the camera after all.

So I'm really surprised to hear you weren't satisfied with prints, I would have listed it as one of the 602's greatest strengths.

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[RDKirk]

The Fuji images are unusual in that they do print much better than they look on the monitor.

However, I had been doing my own darkroom work (color and black & white) since 1972, and my standards are pretty high. I didn't expect to get 35mm quality with 11x14 or greater enlargements with the Fuji, but I was not going to be satisfied with less than that at 8x10.

I just recalled, too, that the Fuji's cost me as much as a 300D does today.

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[Boo]

However, I had been doing my own darkroom work (color and black &
white) since 1972, and my standards are pretty high.

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