john-henry
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Just bought a Fuji F11, after much searching and reading of reviews, to complement my A95. The main reason for doing so was for low light photography during the coming winter months where its high ISO/low noise should prove useful.
First impressions; it’s fast, quick focus and shutter lag, some useful shooting modes e.g. top 3 - where you can shoot 3 frames in about 2.2secs.
Final 3 – you can shoot up to 40 frames at about 2.2 fps and it saves only the last 3 taken, good for action or behaviour shots, etc.
40 frames – shoots up to 40 frames continuously by the shutter button down.
Menus are pretty easy to sort out and access, good screen information in shooting mode, external button for ISO value, 4 way navigator gives easy access to flash, macro and shutter or aperture change - depending on if you’re in AP or SP mode.
The screen is difficult, if not impossible, to see in direct sunlight but good enough to focus with if in shadow, a screen shade soon solves this problem though.
There’s no manual focus but the AF seems to work well with centre AF.
It does have spot metering, it would be even better if it had spot focus and spot metering linked together.
All in all it seems an easy little camera to use with a useful range of features, we shall see as we go along.
I’ve included a few first shots below taken on a quick trip to the local Country Park to try it out. All using Auto WB, Centre AF, Spot metering,
Black-headed Gull was at ISO 100 with -0.67EV, about 40ft in good light.
Rook, ISO 200 about 50 yards away in good light.
Moorhens, ISO 400 about 40ft away in shadow.
Great Tit and Blue Tit at ISO 400 with -1EV (the EV was unnecessary but I thought I’d give it a harsh try to see how bad it would be) all in shadow and with shutter speeds of 1/40th and 1/80th respectively.
I’ll post a few more pics under different conditions as I go along.
John
First impressions; it’s fast, quick focus and shutter lag, some useful shooting modes e.g. top 3 - where you can shoot 3 frames in about 2.2secs.
Final 3 – you can shoot up to 40 frames at about 2.2 fps and it saves only the last 3 taken, good for action or behaviour shots, etc.
40 frames – shoots up to 40 frames continuously by the shutter button down.
Menus are pretty easy to sort out and access, good screen information in shooting mode, external button for ISO value, 4 way navigator gives easy access to flash, macro and shutter or aperture change - depending on if you’re in AP or SP mode.
The screen is difficult, if not impossible, to see in direct sunlight but good enough to focus with if in shadow, a screen shade soon solves this problem though.
There’s no manual focus but the AF seems to work well with centre AF.
It does have spot metering, it would be even better if it had spot focus and spot metering linked together.
All in all it seems an easy little camera to use with a useful range of features, we shall see as we go along.
I’ve included a few first shots below taken on a quick trip to the local Country Park to try it out. All using Auto WB, Centre AF, Spot metering,
Black-headed Gull was at ISO 100 with -0.67EV, about 40ft in good light.
Rook, ISO 200 about 50 yards away in good light.
Moorhens, ISO 400 about 40ft away in shadow.
Great Tit and Blue Tit at ISO 400 with -1EV (the EV was unnecessary but I thought I’d give it a harsh try to see how bad it would be) all in shadow and with shutter speeds of 1/40th and 1/80th respectively.
I’ll post a few more pics under different conditions as I go along.
John
