It should arrive in the next couple of days, so will post first impressions not long after that along with some images and then maybe a fuller report after a week or two.
Well I have had my HS30EXR less than 24 hours and tomorrow it is going back because after less than 25 shots it has developed a "Lens Control Error" as it tries to focus.
Having read a Fuji forum in which this error comes up a number of times on many different models over a considerable period of time I am beginning to wonder whether to try something else!
First impressions based on less than 25 shots are good, it feels well balanced, most things are at your fingertips, menu system reasonably obvious, the manual though is IMHO terrible.