Interesting as I walked to the Fujinon showroom/gallery today too and got to try the camera out again under better conditions than I did last week. They had it set up so you could shoot a scale model village. Lot's of mini people standing in windows and under covered porches so it was possible to get pics with shadow details to study. The memory card door was sealed so I could not use my SD card to save pics to analyze at home on my PC but I felt ISO1600 pics were also quite good on camera's LCD.
I still did not like the tiny EVF. I don't know how Panny FZ28/38 users manage it! My Canon SX1's is just so much larger and easier to see.
Rick
agree, certainly looks promising indeed, i look forward to seeing more of what this camera can do.
Do you feel compelled to change from ur panasonic?
Just noticed this review (in Polish) of the HS10. There's a full range of images from ISO 100 - 6400. I don't know what others think, but this looks quite promising up to ISO 1600; maybe 3200 if you fill the frame and don't crop.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the full set of images.
Here's some birds taken with the HS-10. From a chinese site:
http://dcbbs.zol.com.cn/56/15_558199.html
Looks very interesting Chris. I'd certainly like the extra zoom. And, as you say, higher shutter speeds would be nice at the extreme end of things. I look forward to seeing more of its capabilities. Have you read the review at dpreview:http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10020206fujifinepixhs10series.asp - it mentions about the shutter speeds at low light etc?
Thanks for posting the link,
Hobbes
Is it just me or does not the HS10 seem to be less noisy then other superzooms? If i compare to my FZ18 the HS10 seem to handle iso 800+ way better then my panny does.
I get very tempted after looking at that commercial