Fuji s9500

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Looking at getting a new camera, don't fancy getting a full blown SLR, as the cost is too much tbh, was looking at the Fuji S9500, and have read a few good reviews on it, just want to know if anyone here has one, are they any good, and also, any alternatives.


Cheers :D
 
Colin Da Killer and MOhain have one, and someone else whose name escapes me (Sorry to whoever you are!) and they get consistantly good results out of them.

i'm sure they will be along soon to sing the priases of it :D

cmt
 
Cool, thanks guys, ordered it today, should be here by the weekend, when I can go out and play :)
 
sorry to hijack, im really wanting to get the s9500 but i keep seeing places that it is not an DSLR, this is puting me off getting it. if its not an SLR then what is it?
 
A digital camera.

SLR is Single Lens Reflex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-lens_reflex_camera

The s9500 has no mirror or prism viewfinder, it has an EVF (electronic viewfinder). It also has a smaller sensor area than an DSLR so image quality suffers. It's not as flexible as an SLR due to limited zoom, Fstops and expsoure settings but you will pay about half to third of a DSLR with lenses to cover the range. You get what you pay for.
 
I've got one too, but am not getting the results that the others are. This is down to me though, not the camera!
 
brummie said:
Isnt that just down to the speed of the xd card or is it the same on some fast compact flash?
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It seems to make little difference (I have a Fuji XD and a Kingston CF). It take around 10 seconds to write a RAW to the card. It might be faster with a Sandisk Extreme III but I can't imagine even the fastest card will reduce the write time to anything less than annoyingly slow.
 
brummie said:
Isnt that just down to the speed of the xd card or is it the same on some fast compact flash?
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It seems to be a problem with the RAW file size and the camera buffer speed. The Fuji 9500 RAW files are approx 19mb each and the buffer write speed is only around 1560 Kb/s with CompactFlash, well below the 10 MB/s that a Sandisk Ultra II is capable of.
 
Arrived yesterday, still waiting for the memory cards though (1Gb XD and a 2GB CF II Ultra :D) so only using the 16Mb that came with it!!! :eek:

nice camera, just what i was after, enough settings to play with so i don't get bored, but easy enough to take good photo's, good thing is it takes normal batteries (AA) so if i am out somewhere and the rechargables die, i can still take piccies :)

Overall I am impressed with it, i didn't want a DSLR as the cost of lenses is too much, this to me is the best of both worlds, a point and shoot with a cracking zoom.


well worth the cash
 
I waish i had bought the 9500 as second cam instead of my 5600 :(
Though i do love the 5600 i know i'd have been better off with the 9500
 
Baz said:
good thing is it takes normal batteries (AA) so if i am out somewhere and the rechargables die, i can still take piccies :)
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Thats the thing with the fuji's :)

Think most the others can do the same though.
My E500 can use Cr123a's that are quite common batteries (designed for cams).
Think the Canon range can take AA's too with the grip IIRC
 
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