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Fujifilm's S1000fd and S8100fd Ultra-Zoom Pro-sumer Cameras Have 12x and 18x Zoom
Posted by Jason Chen at 4:01 PM on January 24, 2008
These two high-end consumer cameras from Fujifilm both have fairly high zooms (12x on the
S100fd and 18x on the S8100fd), but they've got a few other interesting functions as well.
The S1000fd succeeds the Fuji S700 by having 10-megapixels, that 12x zoom, facial detection, automatic red-eye removal, panorama shooting mode, a 2.7-inch LCD, max 1600 ISO (or 3200 ISO at a decreased 3-megapixel resolution), picture stabilization, manual mode, 30fps VGA movies, high speed shooting (7.5fps at 2-megapixels for 15 shots, 3.3fps at 5-megapixels for 6 shots, 1.4fps at 10-megapixels for 3 shots) and an xD/SD/SD-HD slot. This will retail in April for $249.
The S8100fd, on the other hand, is also 10-megapixels but has an 18x wide angle zoom and 6400ISO (at 5-megapixels), which follows up the S8000fd's 18x zoom without wide angle. This, like the S1000fd, has face detection, but also has i-Flash (intelligent flash),
manual mode, macro shooting at up to 1cm, dual-shot mode, 30fps VGA movies, 2.5-inch LCD, and xD/SD/SD-HC card compatibility. This will be available in March for US$399.
AU: Once again, local pricing hasn't been announced just yet, but I expect it to come through tomorrow. Will update then.
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jamesivon
Posted 1:55 AM 24/1/08
Feature seams to be awesome and cost is affordable. I already have kodak ZD710 camera still looking for this product.
jamesivon
Grifter
Posted 1:46 AM 24/1/08
Sweet Jesus I like this camera! And the price. Sign me up!
Grifter
Brian Lam
Posted 8:11 PM 24/1/08
@zingbot: Your wish is my command. Anti PMA Shield coming right up.
Brian Lam
mettleh3d
Posted 8:11 PM 24/1/08
thats a ridiculous price..
mettleh3d
zingbot
Posted 8:11 PM 24/1/08
OMG ENOUGH ABOUT FUJI!
See now, that was a joke about the people who always do that when there are three or fifty Apple posts a day. There were just 3,305 Fuji posts and no one says a freaking word.
Maybe Gizmodo could set up a 'no fuji' RSS feed. That'd be awesome.
zingbot
Brassen
Posted 8:01 AM 24/1/08
I didn't know it was camera day today!
Wish I knew how to use about 80% of the resources of my simple point and shoot camera...
Brassen
ANoel
Posted 2:11 AM 25/1/08
K... lemme guess... this week you guys jacked a 18-wheeler destined for B&H and out fell boxes of Fuji, Canon, Pentax, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and even goddamed EazzzY USB cameras!
PLUS all their catalogues!
This is not an unboxing it's an UNTRAILERING!
ANoel
x23
Posted 6:33 PM 24/1/08
god you guys are such camera fanboys. all i ever see is article after article about cameras. we get it. you like cameras. why don't you just go marry one.
(hint : replace "camera" with "things apple related during the annual apple show" and you other commenters can see how stupid the bitch-about-apple comments are.)
x23
TheWirralBells
Posted 8:12 AM 8/2/08
Just a small point - the sensor on the S8100fd is less than 6mm wide. The noise levels in images ay anything above about 200 ISO is going to be rather high. This thing has 370,000 pixels per square millimetre. Compare this with a DSLR which typiclaly has about 16,000 to 25,000 pixels per sq.mm and you can see the problem. It's the small sensor that enables it to have such a big zoom. I'd rather have a bigger sensor with less zoom which would give higher quality images, that could then be cropped/enlarged to create bigger images.
TheWirralBells