Digital Camera Review

DP Review has posted their review of the Fuji FinePix S8000fd where they write:

The S8000fd packs an awful lot into its compact body, and seems to be trying pretty hard to be all things to all people, with manual exposure controls sitting alongside point-and-shoot convenience features such as face detection. There is a high-speed shooting mode (at reduced resolution), and some extremely high sensitivity modes (again at lower resolution), for shooting in low light. What compromises this all-encompassing approach brings, we shall see. …

The advantage of a larger camera is that the designers can fit more controls onto the body – and allow them room to breathe, so it doesn’t feel too ‘cramped’. And the S8000fd certainly has more than its fair share of buttons and switches, which between them give the user instant access to pretty much all the most commonly accessed controls – although you still need to use the menu system if you want to change white balance or metering, or to use the self-timer (infuriatingly the self-timer also cancels itself after every shot)…

This is because cramming an 18x (27-486mm equiv.) lens into a compact body involves some compromises, both optical and digital (to avoid the camera ending up the size of a suitcase, the sensor has to be very small indeed). The zoom produces significant levels of chromatic aberration at the long end and clearly visible distortion at both ends, but that is to be expected. As is the slight loss of resolution and contrast at longer focal lengths and the less than class-leading image quality in general. We were more disappointed to see that Fuji still hasn’t sorted out the purple fringing and red channel clipping that has plagued previous models.

Detail review about  Fuji FinePix S8000fd

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CNET reviews the Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd and writes:

Any time an electronics manufacturer creates a product targeted at teenagers, I start to worry. Too often it means a poorly performing product with a slick design and an inflated price tag. Fujifilm’s new FinePix Z10fd, which is intended for the mid-teen to mid-twenties market, certainly has a nice look with its bright colors, silver accents, and horizontally sliding lens cover. …

Image quality is good, but the noise reduction algorithm that Fuji uses to keep ISO noise under control takes a lot of sharpness away from the Z10fd’s images. If you’re not going to print your images larger than 4×6 inches, this shouldn’t be a problem, but if you plan to print large, crop, or view images on your computer at full magnification, then you’ll notice that the Z10fd’s images can be quite soft, especially at high ISOs. …

While the Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd is aggressively priced, there are other cameras out there that can deliver better image quality for about the same amount of money.

Detail review about  Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd

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PhotographyBLOG reviews the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 and writes:

This is an 8 megapixel bridge-style compact with a lens that covers a focal range of 28-504mm, perfect for everything from wide-angle landscapes to close-up sports photography. …

The defining feature of the new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 digital camera is its massive 18x zoom lens, equivalent to a very versatile 28-504mm focal length, which should cover virtually every imaginable photographic situation. The FZ18 is a bridge-style compact camera, looking just like a true DSLR at first glance, but featuring a non-interchangeable lens instead.  …

As the debate rages on as to whether, with DSLR prices falling well within reach of the consumer, there is still a market for bridge cameras and so-called ’super zooms’, Panasonic releases its own big hitting 18x optical zoom offering in the 8 megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18. Olympus was the first to offer an zoom on its SP-550 UZ, now replaced by the 560, and Fujifilm counter attacked with the FinePix S8000fd, so it seems that at least someone is still after a big zoom on a small-ish body.  …

Though the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 requires some degree of familiarization and patience to fully get to grips with the range of features on offer – simply because you don’t find all of them located where you might expect, and, yes, that joystick is rather fiddly to operate – that won’t prevent you from taking photographs from the get go; largely because the Intelligent Auto Mode is so reliable.

Detail review about  Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18

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DP Review has posted their review of the Fujifilm F50fd where they give it a rating of ‘highly recommended’ and write:

As the replacement for the Fujifilm F30/F31fd, a camera that has reached an almost legendary status since its launch back in 2006, the Fujifilm F50fd has some big shoes to fill. If anything deserves to be called a ‘classic’ camera in the shortlived world of digital compact cameras it would have to be the Fujifilm F30/F31fd. It wasn’t very pretty, it wasn’t very feature packed and it wasn’t even very cheap. …

Fujifilm’s standard ‘F mode’ button brings up a small menu containing ISO, quality & size, color settings and power management. There is also a button on top to activate image stabilization. Most other settings such as metering mode, white balance, AF mode, burst mode etc. have to be changed in the menu, and unfortunately the F50fd’s user interface simply was not designed for tweaking these settings on a shot-by-shot basis. …

Although the F31fd (and the F30 before it) was a fairly bland compact camera, it was blessed with an outstanding imaging sensor and set the benchmark in terms of image quality, most specifically low light performance. Fujifilm achieved this through some very clever technology in its Super–CCD sensor and Real Photo imaging processor but also, and most importantly, through the bold decision to not jump onto the megapixel bandwagon. Instead, it put a flagship compact camera with a relatively large sensor sporting only six megapixels on the market at a time when most competitors already were heading towards double digit resolution figures.

Detail review about the Fujifilm F50fd

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Tamron Announces the Launch of the Popular AF18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II with Built-In Motor for Nikon (Model A18N II)

A Compact, Lightweight and Ultimate High Power Zoom Lens Boasting the 13.9X Zoom Power Designed Exclusively for APS-C Sized Digital SLRs

Mr. Morio Ono, of Tamron Co., Ltd., announced that the company will release the AF18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro, a lightweight, compact and ultra high power zoom lens designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras with APS-C sized image sensors with a built-in motor for Nikon (Model A18N II).

Product Name

Date of Launch Schedule in Japan
AF18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II (Model A18N II) for Nikon December 13, 2007

The AF18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro is the ultimate high power zoom lens boasting the world’s greatest zoom ratio(*1) of 13.9X, a milestone that Tamron, the pioneer of high power zoom lenses, has achieved by commanding its technologies to further expand the capabilities of high power zoom lenses.

(*1) As of November, 2007. Based upon Tamron’s research of lenses for exclusive use with digital SLRs equipped with APS-C sized image sensors.

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