Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro

6.17 Megapixels   2.5 inch LCD

After much rumour and speculation, Fujifilm announce the improvement of the S5 for digital SLR rear in September very last year, and lastly start on in February 2007. It put back the three-year-old S3 for in Fuji’s line-up, so why it’s not call the S4 for is anyone’s guess. Is the digit 4 considered unlucky in Japan or anything?

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Whatever the main reason, the S5 for is here at last Like the S3 for it’s a high-end digital camera aimed at professional photographers and wedding portrayal, and at around £980 body merely it is cost to match. Compared by the body-only price pro the Nikon D200 (£814), beautiful Canon EOS 30D (£700), most reliable Pentax K10D (£630) or Sony Alpha A100 (£379) it is an expensive and beautiful camera.

Similarly many other current digital SLRs, in reality unlike most additional digital cameras in general, in developing the S5 for Fujifilm has forgo the boost in megapixels that commonly accompanies a model upgrade and concerted instead on more factors to improve picture quality, like attractive colour rendition, dynamic range and very smoother tonal gradation. These build it a difficult digital camera to review, since in numerous ways it simply isn’t similar to most other digital SLRs.

There is only one exemption therefore, as the S5 for bears an extremely striking resemblance to as a minimum one other DSLR, namely the Nikon D200, which I review here in June very last year. Like preceding Fuji DSLRs, the S5 for is housed in a Nikon body and utilize the popular Nikon F lens mount. Both the S2 for and the S3 for were establish on the Nikon F80 film digital camera, and were notoriously great and weighty. Being foundation on the D200 the S5 for is slighter and lighter than the S3 (though it’s really a little heavier than the S2), however is still no sylph. It is almost 147mm wide, 113mm height and 74mm depth, and weigh up a hefty 830g, really the same size and mass as its Nikon counterpart. Such as the D200 it as well features a robust magnesium alloy body by dust and moisture seals around the controls and hatches.

The control layout is the same to the D200, it has the similar big back-lit LCD data display on the top panel, and the absolutely same two-dial input system. The previous beautiful models in Fuji’s DSLR series have been lengthily praised as outstanding studio cameras, thus it’s no surprise that the S5 remain the flash sync terminal and 10-pin remote control connector as of the D200. The great and extremely bright pentaprism viewfinder by its menu-selectable composition grid is furthermore straight out of the Nikon.

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