Camera Test: FujiFilm FinePix F50fd
Posted on December 7, 2007 - Filed Under Cameras, Photo, Reviews | Leave a Comment | 134 views
When the 6-megapixel FujiFilm FinePix F30 was released last year, its high ISO limit of 3200 was groundbreaking. And when we tested it in the Pop Photo Lab, it boasted full resolution capture with astounding noise and resolution results all the way up to ISO 3200. That legacy is both a curse and a blessing, however, when we tested Fuji’s follow-up to the F30, the 12-megapixel, 3x zoom (35-105mm f/2.8-5.1) FinePix F50fd (street: $250).
Were it not for the high ISO lab results of its ancestor, we’d simply report that FujiFilm was a little too ambitious with its ISO range on the F50fd. It’s a mistake that many other camera companies have made, and continue to make, with virtually unusable high ISO settings on their compact cameras.
Sadly, not even the F50fd’s great additions, of which there are many, can convince us to recommend it over its predecessor.
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