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Fujifilm S5 Pro
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I’ve never taken much notice of the Fuji Pro camera range in the past, but boy does this look like a D200 to me.
It might as well be a rebadged Nikon.
Mark, your probably right to a fair degree. In some press release I read recently, its stated that many of the components in the new S5 are taken from the Nikon D200. Of course the Fuji S series have always been rebadged Nikons anyway.
You’d wonder why a company as big as Fuji would want to make camera’s that are very very like another manufacturers.
Wonder if one company is tied to another in some way.Nikon was originally an optics manufacturer and has supplied many other manufacturers with camera components, especially lenses, for many years. This included Ricoh, Mamiya and – wait for it – the lens on the first Canon camera! Fuji has retained the Nikon lens mount and doesn’t seem to make much effort to produce a range of lenses for SLRs for their own cameras. In this case they seem to have used far more than just the lens mount as the body does look like a rebadged Nikon D series. Fuji is probably Nikon’s closest partner in the photography world nowadays.
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Hi mark, As a happy owner of an S3 Pro I have been waiting to see what the S4 was going to be like, so an S5 is a shock. any chance of posting the link so we can have a closer look.
Any other S3 usere out there, what do you think of it?.. I only have one gripe and that is the processing speed in RAW it is very very slow. Would a faster Memory card make much of a difference.
John
Ya suprised not to hear anything about an S4. Seems like its due out early 2007. 12mp too by the looks of it.
Found this for you:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06092502fujifilms5pro.asp
Mark
Mark wrote:
You’d wonder why a company as big as Fuji would want to make camera’s that are very very like another manufacturers.
Cost!! Increasing your bottom line.
It’s not unusal. How many car manufacturers sell the same chassis/engine combinations with slight tweaks in the body and just rebadge it to their own brand? Sony have stopped manufacturing a lot of their products, opting instead to buy them in from third parties and redbadge them. They all do it to decrease cost. One manufacturing line, one development cost and far greater economies of scale. Fuji have used Nikon parts and indeed the Nikon F mount of quite some time, so it’s not a huge shock that they went further down this road.
The S3 seem to have had a very short life. Fuji seem to have just “dumped” their entire stock. Many of the people I know who bought the S3 will never again touch Fuji…….not that anything was wrong with the S3 but the first ones released were so expensive and then all of a sudden, Fuji just dropped the price by almost ?900 and then, literally just a few weeks ago “dumped” the entire stock of S3’s they had.
John, glad to see you are happy with your purchase. I have heard that they did make some major worthwhile changes on the S3 over the S2 and that the image quality is very good. I had the S2 for a few weeks but got rid of it quickly as it just had too many annoying problems like a second battery that fooled you into thinking all was OK when the main battery ran down………..what was happening was you could keep taking images but they were not being saved to memory card. Now you could see this in the bottom of your viewfinder but you could easily miss it also as it was not highlighted in any way. It also produced a green cast that could not be cured….except in Photoshop.
Anyway, they corrected all this in the S3 and seeing they have jumped forward to S5, I can only imagine that the improvements will be major.
I bought one of those “dumped” S3s
they’re slow, the colour is rough, they’re an F80 effectively… but!They do have an extended dynamic range trick which is bloody handy under certain conditions.
Si
spoke to fuji today the number 4 is unlucky in japan so that why the new camera is the s5, and boy it looks good
I debated whether to get a D200 or wait to see what replaced the S3, the S3 has possibly the best overall image quality for DSLR’s in the non-pro price range but after trying the body and its slow, slow, slowness and lack of iTTL/Commander mode, I stuck with the D70 I had at the time. A year ago my ideal camera would have been the D200 body with the S3 sensor but that was a year ago and it will probably be 6-8 months before we see the first S5 in the shops. Its still bascially a 6MP camera with 8MP quality which might not be enough for some people, especially if you want to sell stock. Personally I would gladly give a few million pixels for better high noise performance and in a way I’m glad at least one company isn’t followong the megapixel sheep, but when the next full frame Canon comes out with 6 billion pixels or whatever it will be fairly close to the fuji launch and might kill off anything under 10MP for any self-respecting follower of photographic fashion.
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