Not sure if new F31FD is working properly

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Hi Chaps

Bought a new camera at the weekend - Fujipix F31FD and it finally arrived today and have been taking some shots with it.

I have read some ace reviews on it and people in the camera shops highly recommended it, so I had high hopes for the quality of the shots.

Anyway took a few shots tonight I haven't been bowled over by it. I have tried a few different settings (well most of them) and shots come out very similar.

Here's one of the pics I have taken at various settings.



Now please tell me if I am being picky, but the bush on the right looks a little blurry and if you zoom into 100% of the boy's face it looks quite pixelated.

Maybe this is what I am to expect, but to be honest it isn't much better than the 2MP I currently have.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
 
ive bought one of these recently, only had it 2 days myself.. i'm not entirely sure why his face has come out like that - it might be the fact that its at ISO400, but ive found mine is giving better quality than that at 400.

though having said that, my old canon 3.2mp camera wouldnt be anywhere near as clear as these at ISO400.


i'm taking mine to my graduation tomorrow, so i'll post back with some shots from that to compare :)
 


now i know this is a bad example of a picture, . you can only get one shot of the lummox before he gets up and walks towards you to be stroked.
yes, he's big! he weighed in at 2Stone at his largest, and he's not just fat either.
 
The images look fine to me.
Remember, you’ve taken the photo at ISO400 which is a high setting for a compact camera and it's completely noise free !! The shutter speed is 1/600 which isn't necessary for outdoor portraits ;)
To improve the photo I would have used a lower ISO setting of 100 to show even less noise and a smaller aperture of F4 to increase depth of field (more front to back area in sharp focus). These new settings would bring the shutter speed down to 1/80 which is probably about right.

I’m assuming you are focusing correctly?
Half pressing the shutter button down with the focus point over your subject, waiting for the ‘in focus’ beep and then pressing the shutter button all the way to take the shot.

The F31 is a superb camera.
 
I'd actually go as far as saying they look very good for a 100% crop off a compact. The fact that it's ISO400 impresses me further.

I really need to grab one of the F31 fuji's. Everyone's always raving about them being superb for low light at high ISO's.
 
boycee said:
I'd actually go as far as saying they look very good for a 100% crop off a compact. The fact that it's ISO400 impresses me further.

I really need to grab one of the F31 fuji's. Everyone's always raving about them being superb for low light at high ISO's.
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I wouldn't say so, it looks way over sharpened tbh, not as good as my old olympus. Having said that it could be due to ISO400. Try another shot at a lower ISO and see what that comes out like. :)
 
Considering the fact it's at 400ISO that's a brilliant quality picture from a compact, remember most images you'll see on here will have had adjustments and been resized, sharpened etc.

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Cheers for the info.

I think I'd best have a few more tweaks on the settings.

The reason I was posting about this is I took about 20 shots of the one I posted at various different settings on the camera, from the lowest ISO to the highest and then using Auto ISO.

For me when I look at the dark pink flowers on the bush on the right, they seem to have come out quite soft as opposed to the sharp clarity I was expecting.

Maybe my expectations were a little too high :confused:
 
Hawkpie said:
Ok so in AP mode have a very high value for the ISO (ie 1600) or a low one of 100? (I think thats the lowest).
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It depends on the light conditions.
  • Low Light and no flash = highest ISO setting
  • Low light (indoors) = higher ISO
  • Bright light (outdoors) = lower ISO
 
AP means you set the aperture yourself, and the exposure is worked out for you automatically. The smaller the number ie F2.8 the smaller the depth of field. ie landscape shots you'll want something like F8+, to mean more of the shot will be in focus.

I'm not sure whether the ISO is adjusted automatically or not, but if it's not you'll want to use as low a ISO number as you can to obtain correct exposure. As iso goes up the noise you'll see in the photo increases.
 
boycee said:
AP means you set the aperture yourself, and the exposure is worked out for you automatically. The smaller the number ie F2.8 the smaller the depth of field. ie landscape shots you'll want something like F8+, to mean more of the shot will be in focus.
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Compact cameras typically only stop to F8 anyway.

Wide angle landscape photography doesn't necessarily require F8.

The Hyperfocal distance - If the lens is focused at the hyperfocal distance, everything from half the hyperfocal distance to infinity will be acceptably sharp.

e.g. Settings : 17mm lens setting, subject focus distance 4meters
An aperture of F4 gives sharp focus from 2 metres in front of the subject out to infinity behind.
 
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