Anx. awaiting review new Fuji S1 Pro

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I am anxiously awaiting your review of the new Fuji S 1 Pro digital c camera on the Nikon N60 frame. Thank you.....

PaulSnowden

-- Paul Snowden (Paulsno@aol.com), May 17, 2000

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Hi, sorry for the slow response. (Press of camera reviews means I only get by the discussion forum weekly, if that.)

Fuji's promised us an S1 to review as soon as they have something other than an engineering prototype for us to work with. (So far, AFAIK, there's only one unit in the US, and it's a very early prototype.) Rest assured, we'll do a *full* test on this unit as soon as we can get our hands on one! (This time, using a standard, *very* sharp lens, our own Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8, so it'll be easy to compare absolute resolution with the Nikon D1 that we've already reviewed.)

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), May 21, 2000.


Fuji has been a big letdown recently. We all were excited with their new proprietary honeycomb CCD tech. Then it finally came, we realize they just decided to use cheaper CCD's and throw in major interpolation and marketing BS to crank the pixel numbers. This was the case with the 4700, and I'm guessing the same problem will be there for the S1 pro. It will be a good camera, but don't expect 6 megapixel true res...

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), May 17, 2000.

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