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The more I use this camera, the happier I am with it. It's proving to be everything I had hoped the Fuji would be.That's an interesting final comment Rich.
Noise at high ISO is very good and I have very acceptable images from noise and sharpness perspective up to 1600, not tried pushing beyond that yet.
Focus is obviously slower than a DSLR but not bad at all, certainly no worse than the Fuji with added features like face detection. The manual focus option is quite nice, there is a multi function ring on the lens that can be used for manual focus and you can program the centre selection button in manual focus mode to zoom in on the point you have focused on. I didn't do photography in the manual focus days and have had very little practice manually focusing on anything but this seems very useable to me.
Colour rendition seems a little cold on the LCD on the camera but comes out nicely on the computer, Lightroom has some canned camera profiles for it for portrait, landscape etc which match nicely with the Nikon profiles so I can use my import presets (mainly portrait) on these images as well.
The controls are actually quite nice, I nearly always shoot in Aperture mode (or Amateur mode according to Ray :thumbsup:) and I find this easy to control with only one annoying feature which is the splash screen that comes up on the LCD to explain what each mode means.
'P' works nicely as well with the control wheel adjusting the aperture for an adjusted P* just like an DSLR.
If you are not using the control ring on the lens for focusing you can assign this to control the aperture/shutter speed and this works well.
Only down side at all is composing on the screen instead of through an eye piece, I need to try and reduce the amount of information on the screen as this is distracting for this, but so far even in bright sunlight I have had no issue with the screen becoming too washed out to see properly. The stance you have to take to hold the camera however is not great, I don't think I'll be taking any steady slow exposures with this camera.
Overall I would give this a very high mark 9/10 compared to 6.5/10 for a fully working Fuji.
I've just been loading some holiday photos on a drive so I can give the relatives visitng this weekend a potted holiday slideshow. I had trouble getting the blu ray player to keep to the right date sequence ...because not only are the files a mixture of Nikon D7000 _DSC and Fuji _DSCF filenames but I forgot to reset the date on the Fuji to BS time...so the 'date' overlaps by an hour! However....on a large screen I have to say that the Fuji images are CLEARLY better than the Nikon files! You immediately see when a FUJI image pops up ...not just because it's out of sequence but ...it's punchier! Now maybe it's the Nikon lenses ( I did have some damage issues with them on the last trip) or maybe the incamera sharpening default is higher in the FujI? But my Fuji is a 9/10 for image quality...6/10 for speed of focus and wake up time!
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Eric