Photography Question - Digi Cam

[Delta Whiskey]

Originally Posted by Jon T

Where was it from and at what price?(if that's not too nosy)

I'm still trying to decide between the S5600, the S5700 or the S6500.

QVC were offering it as a TSV (Today's Special Value) last Saturday for £199 (payable over two months). It came with a leather case, a 512Mb xD card, 4 NiMh AA batteries and rapid charger. I've seen the camera alone on offer for £150-£200, Fuji are doing a good bundle for £240.

http://www.fujizone.co.uk/product_in...products_id=87


DW

[altis]

For comparison, here's some test shots with my FujiFilm S9500:
http://warringtonbears.org.uk/S9500/

All of these were taken with it too:
http://warringtonbears.org.uk/steves/index.htm
http://warringtonbears.org.uk/wedding/index.htm
http://warringtonbears.org.uk/lagrave/index.htm

[Barewolf]

Im getting on great with the camera DW. Yours looks snazzy, bit complicated for me i think lol. one day.

Took 200 the other day. Went to alderley edge near where i live, suprised as to how nice it is up there, got some good shots. Uploading them now to flickr

[Jon T]

I think i've settled on getting the Finepix S6500FD, it's selling for £199 at Jessops at the moment.

[Delta Whiskey]

Originally Posted by Barewolf

Im getting on great with the camera DW. Yours looks snazzy, bit complicated for me i think lol. one day.

Took 200 the other day. Went to alderley edge near where i live, suprised as to how nice it is up there, got some good shots. Uploading them now to flickr

Look forward to seeing your latest pictures.

The Fuji is my third digital camera and probably my twelfth camera altogether. I started with a Kodak Instamatic (127 film type) progressed through the Zenit E to an Olympus OM10 then onto the digital cameras.

It pays to carry your camera with you, I spotted this car this morning.

DW

[Delta Whiskey]

Originally Posted by Jon T

I think i've settled on getting the Finepix S6500FD, it's selling for £199 at Jessops at the moment.

Not a great deal of difference between it and the S5700 by the looks of it, you do get the face recognition facility which could be useful. I must say I'm impressed with Fuji cameras, especially the lenses. I can't see me ever using my bag full of Olympus OM gear again, this camera does it all.

DW

[Uncle Peter]

My weapon of choice: Canon EOS400D & EF75-200 F4 L USM

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And a wee sample (bit if heat haze when I took it though)

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[Xaccers]

If you look closely, you can see the pilot waving

[Cobbydaler]

Is that bopdude sitting on the tail?

[Barewolf]

Thats not the pilot its me lol. So you like plane spotting or was that you off on holiday?

[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by Barewolf

Thats not the pilot its me lol. So you like plane spotting or was that you off on holiday?

Hope you packed your butties and a few tins of Stella, not much in the way of in-flight catering service on those freighters

[andygrif]

Originally Posted by Uncle Peter

My weapon of choice: Canon EOS400D & EF75-200 F4 L USM



And a wee sample (bit if heat haze when I took it though)

Good lens that one, I have one myself. I also have the 24-105L with IS...which is something special too!

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by Delta Whiskey

Does the camera have a bracketing setting?, this will take a number of images (normally three or five) at the camera's suggested best setting, one (or two) stops below and the same above. This will allow you to choose the best one.

The best thing about digital cameras is NO FILM. Shoot dozens of images of the the same scene with different setting to get a feel of the camera's abilities.

The camera saves its settings as part of the jpg (EXIF), most photo programs can display that information (see pic). This is very useful when you're comparing shots, you can see which settings are giving you the images you want.

DW

There's a nice little extension for Firefox that lets you view the EXIF data of a photo. Just right click on it and choose Properties, the EXIF data is included.

You can get it here.

Doesn't work on forum attachments but it's fine for image hosting sites...

[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by andygrif

Good lens that one, I have one myself. I also have the 24-105L with IS...which is something special too!

Excellent stuff L lenses well worth the price difference imho. Was looking at that 24-105 you've got but went for the EF17-40 F4L for the extra width

[Delta Whiskey]

Freeware Photo recovery tool:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

"PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted."

DW