Fujifilm HS50 EXR has arrived ! (1 Viewer)

[jipi]

Good capture jipi. :t: Its much more difficult to get good captures out in the woods than it is in the garden on a seed feeder so well done.

Hope to see you post more images and tell us about your first impressions using the HS50.

In manual mode, the HS50 offers help to focus with contrast enhancement.

 

[jipi]

All good pictures from everyone but jipi's robin shows how well the autofocus can cope with birds in amongst branches. Hopefully we'll get some sun here on Wednesday and I can get out with the camera.

I was in manual focus, with the help of "PIC HTE LUM. M.AP"

 

[Keith Dickinson]

The sun came out

Wow, we got a bit of sun so I shot off down to the local reserve.
I knew I'd not a lot of time so kept the camera in EXR mode all the time on full auto.

Mandarin at less than 20 foot f5 1/320 iso 800 fl 85.5
Woodpecker 50 foot f5.6 1/150 iso 400 fl 185
Thrushes over 100 yards minimum f5.6 1/100 iso 100 fl 115
Wren 40 foot f5.6 1/240 iso 320 fl185
Black headed gull 100 foot f5.6 1/150 iso 400 fl 185

The wren was the only shot I could get as the little monkey just would not stay still for any length of time

 

[roger1234]

Wow, we got a bit of sun so I shot off down to the local reserve.
I knew I'd not a lot of time so kept the camera in EXR mode all the time on full auto.

Mandarin at less than 20 foot f5 1/320 iso 800 fl 85.5
Woodpecker 50 foot f5.6 1/150 iso 400 fl 185
Thrushes over 100 yards minimum f5.6 1/100 iso 100 fl 115
Wren 40 foot f5.6 1/240 iso 320 fl185
Black headed gull 100 foot f5.6 1/150 iso 400 fl 185

The wren was the only shot I could get as the little monkey just would not stay still for any length of time

very nice pics keith

 

[earleybird]

we were going to the Swell Wood RSPB but whimped out due to the cold.:-C

Lovely Manderin interesting exif on EXR Auto .

Love the Wren shot particularly because it shows him in his usual habitat rather than the usual cropped portrait shot .

That would have been an ideal chance to try the continuous shooting mode !. i think if you set the Mp to 12Mp the HS50 will shoot continuous images at 11fps until you release the shutter button ot the memory card runs out

 

[Keith Dickinson]

Thanx for that eb, I'd been wondering about the burst mode. I suppose I should really make time to read right through the pdf manual, rather than the paper quick start manual

 

[earleybird]

I've not tried it myself yet I must admit.

Have you tried hitting the shutter release button as fast as you can ? I managed to get 9x in focus shots in under 3x seconds ! Its literally as fast as you can press and release the button.

 

[Keith Dickinson]

You are braver than me eb, I'm still at the stage of treating the camera as if it were made of eggshells.
However talking of its speed of recovery -with the woodpecker I did shoot 22 frames in Raw + Jpg in 1minute 53 seconds, which I thought was damn good.

 

[kennethwfd]

fantastic woodpecker shot.

burst rate at ,max resolution 11fps max 5. At 8mp continuous until card full

 

[earleybird]

You are braver than me eb, I'm still at the stage of treating the camera as if it were made of eggshells.
However talking of its speed of recovery -with the woodpecker I did shoot 22 frames in Raw + Jpg in 1minute 53 seconds, which I thought was damn good.

wow you are shooting in raw ?:eek!: I've never managed to do that yet. I haven't had the software to download and edit raw .
Thats an amazing frame rate in raw & jpeg

 

[Keith Dickinson]

The software that is on the CD with the camera can download raw - Silkypix, it does the job but it isn't Photoshop. The Photoshop Camera Raw upgrade that will support the HS50 will probably be along later this year. They upgrade roughly every 3 months, but the next scheduled upgrade doesn't support HS50, so will be the one after if we are lucky.
Shooting in raw is the best way to go. I took a shot of a kingfisher on the HS20 I used to have, was a shot in a few seconds and I didn't have chance to think about anything other than get the bird in focus. The image straight out of the camera was of a black bird, thankfully as it was raw I could alter the exposure and actually recovered the picture to an acceptable level. If it had been jpeg then it would have been the bin for it.

Until Photoshop camera raw is updated that's why I am shooting raw + jpeg - will process the raw files later using either Photoshop or Lightroom. The minute the upgrade is available I'll drop the jpeg and shoot raw only.

 

[Grayseer]

Hello again, got some new questions...
first does anyone know what is max speed of memorycard that HS50 can use?
i have been thinking these

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/844749-REG/Sony_SF16UX_TQ_16GB_SDHC_Memory_Card.html

but is it an overkill?
and second i noticed kenneth said at 8mpix continous shot are limited to cardspace, is it with speed 11fps until card is full??? whoa...

and sorry for these stupid questions...

 

[Hamhed]

I posted my first contribution in the gallery:
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/451892/limit/recent

Exactly what I was hoping to see, jipi. Thanks for posting.

Steve

 

[earleybird]

Hello again, got some new questions...
first does anyone know what is max speed of memorycard that HS50 can use?
i have been thinking these

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/844749-REG/Sony_SF16UX_TQ_16GB_SDHC_Memory_Card.html

but is it an overkill?
and second i noticed kenneth said at 8mpix continous shot are limited to cardspace, is it with speed 11fps until card is full??? whoa...

and sorry for these stupid questions...

I am using this 45Mb/s extreme memory card in my HS50.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/828325-REG/SanDisk_SDSDRX3_016G_A21_16GB_SDHC_Memory_Card.html

I believe the HS50 can utilize faster cards but I have not found a reference yet. SDHC card speed seems to go up to 120Mb/s
perhaps the answer will be in the online Fuji HS50 manual . have you downloaded the manual yet ?

Regarding continuous shooting mode . The camera will shoot continuous shots indefinitely until all the space on your memory card is full but that is only when the camera is set to 8Mp . Higher settings than 8Mp the camera will shoot continuous shots at 11fps but only for a limited number of shots depending on the Mp setting . its all in the manual.

 

[FlyingRabbit]

Here's the EXIF for
1 Blue tit ISO 200 81.3mm f6.4 1/180
2 Jay ISO 100 63.6mm f6.4 1/125
3 Long tailed tit ISO 100 185mm (full zoom) f6.4 1/200
I am useless at judging distances but I was quite close. The blue tit was taken through double glazing. All three are straight out of camera with no cropping only resizing for the posting.

Molly

Hi Molly,

Great pics. and thanks for the EXIF data but can I ask what mode(s) do you normally use for the shots ?

Brent.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/

 

[earleybird]

most serious bird photographers recommend A Aperture mode for birds shots.

Birds are constantly on the move which means that you need a fast shutter speed to feeze the movement . You also need a fast shutter speed to help the IS compensate for lens shake when using extreme magnification particularly hand held shots.

However .... there is a penalty for having a long lens and that is the relatively small size of the aperture available.To maximise the amount of light available you generally need to be sure that you are using the widest possible usable Aperture setting which you can do by using A mode and leave the camera to set the fastest speed accordingly.

I generally guage the ambient light levels and adjust the ISO to the lowest setting I can without losing shutter speed or Aperture . In low light, like UK winter , I generally use ISO 200-400 with a maximum of ISO 800 to retain the most acceptable image quality. However the HS50 will produce better IQ at higher ISO settings than the HS10 and HS20 so perhaps I will do a back to back comparison of the the two cameras some time and see if I can use higher ISO settings to gain faster shutter speeds and larger aperture in low light.

 

[FlyingRabbit]

most serious bird photographers recommend A Aperture mode for birds shots.

Birds are constantly on the move which means that you need a fast shutter speed to feeze the movement . You also need a fast shutter speed to help the IS compensate for lens shake when using extreme magnification particularly hand held shots.

However .... there is a penalty for having a long lens and that is the relatively small size of the aperture available.To maximise the amount of light available you generally need to be sure that you are using the widest possible usable Aperture setting which you can do by using A mode and leave the camera to set the fastest speed accordingly.

I generally guage the ambient light levels and adjust the ISO to the lowest setting I can without losing shutter speed or Aperture . In low light, like UK winter , I generally use ISO 200-400 with a maximum of ISO 800 to retain the most acceptable image quality. However the HS50 will produce better IQ at higher ISO settings than the HS10 and HS20 so perhaps I will do a back to back comparison of the the two cameras some time and see if I can use higher ISO settings to gain faster shutter speeds and larger aperture in low light.

That's pretty much what I have been doing but the available light hasn't exactly been ideal :eek!:

 

[Grayseer]

ok thanks,
reason im asking is that there is no manual atm in my native languake so i havent downloaded it yet... tough i think i can get something out from english one...
thanks for these answers again.
-Jani

 

[kennethwfd]

could you try online translations such as Google translate. Have located the page for HS50 Finland, you might find some info on the specifications here http://www.fujifilm.eu/fi/tuotteet/digitaalikamerat/superzoom/model/finepix-hs50exr/

The information regarding resolution and continious shooting is that at maximum resolution, the camrera will take 5 shots at 11 frames per second, then its internal memory will be full, and will not take any more shots until these have been written to the memory card

 

[earleybird]

ok thanks,
reason im asking is that there is no manual atm in my native languake so i havent downloaded it yet... tough i think i can get something out from english one...
thanks for these answers again.
-Jani

Jani there are some excellent tutorials on the net but they are well hidden and usually in English. You could try one of the translator programs .
This one is probably one of the best .
http://mikeatkinson.net/