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I've got the Fuji X10 camera here, and this is another rangefinder styled camera, as you
can see, kind of looks like old film cameras.
It's a fixed lens, but it's got a zoom, a 28mm to 112 equivalent zoom on it. So you
have a nice fast f/2 at the wide end and, maybe best of all, when you zoom it all the
way in, it's still, you only lose one stop of light. It goes to f/2.8. Both of those
are pretty wide apertures and that lets you blur backgrounds more effectively. Also better
low light shots, where you don't have to use a flash as much.
Something really smart is there's no on/off button that you have to play with. Instead,
Fuji's built it into the zoom lens. I love that. I wish every camera did it, and another
thing I wish cameras, more cameras did was let you manually zoom using the barrel. It's
a lot more precise and frankly a lot quicker than the power zoom you'll find on most compact
cameras. Love that about it.
The sensor, while it is on the small side compared to DSLRs, it's a lot bigger than
other compact cameras have. It's about twice as big as other cameras that it competes with,
frankly. And it's a lot bigger than your typical point-and-shoot or your phone cameras. So
bigger sensor, better pictures generally speaking.
Fuji has given you a lot of the controls that you need right up front on dials and, so you
don't have to dive into menus so much. It's really nice when your out shooting and you
need to make a quick adjustment like exposure compensation. It's right here on the dial.
If the picture's too bright, just dial it down to -1, or something, take the picture
again. Probably come out pretty well.
It's got a really nice, what Fuji calls an EXR mode on here. And what that does is, it
analyses a scene and will apply some of their processing magic to it. For instance, in low
light, what it'll do, is it'll take the 12 megapixels sensor and actually bend them together
and give you a 5 megapixel low light image. What that does is it combines pixels to gather
more light and it'll give you less noisy low-light shots. It's pretty cool and it really does
work.
This has two macro settings. It has macro and then super macro. Super macro lets you
shoot something so close you're lens is almost touching it. And it'll really blur that background
too, so you can get just an awesome close-up shot of anything that looks interesting with
that super macro. It was one of my favorite things about the camera actually.
If you have any questions about the X10, just give us a call.