Since your mind was already made up, I wonder the same thing. Please feel free to take it to PM next time.
I realized afterwards that I really should have moved that last part to a PM, as it didn’t really add anything useful to a public thread. I didn’t want to go around messaging like I was the forum police, but a polite PM could have handled it better.
I apologize for opening my big yap a bit bigger than usual, and sorry about the ‘run’ comment. I misread the original as “I’m planning to buy this auction, what do you think?”, not “I bought this and am crazy happy! woohoo!”
Edit: Edited for context
Well actually I see Chicago X was trying to help matters here and I took it wrong. My bad. I owe him a sincere apology. So with that I am sorry.
Devman,
We are all good here on my end. Your ok.
Brad
(I’d rather get a $150 Fujifilm with 30X zoom. S4500 and SL300.
I’m sure you can take some fine photographs with your Kodak, but photography is much more about the tool behind the lens. I’d still rather go with a Fujifilm, if only to reward the company that put some serious effort into their digital cameras. Kodak has been a lame duck for a long time, and I don’t want to reward them for that. )
U realize kodak invented the digital camera?
Kodak is gone because of huge electronic companys squeezing it out.
The colours of the photos are great , I rate the fuji a close second.
Fuji’s for me havent been reliable and not as popular as they once were.
Value for money the Z990 is hard to beat.
If I was rich the Cannon SX50 would be my choice.
Anyways it really depends on the intended use for the camera, I mainly do night animal shots at long distance, hence why the huge zoom and powerfull multi emitter flashlights.
Regards
I know their place in history, but as a consumer and low ranking amateur photographer, that means nothing outside of history books and their shrinking patent portfolio.
I've had no problems with mine. I still have my first digital camera. A Fujifilm Finepix 2600. I still use it occasionally, and with my first set of nimh batteries too. Actually, I bought two sets at approximately the same time. Those batteries are actually doing a refresh cycle right now. The first set of batteries are still within 80% of their rating.
I don't ever recall Fujifilm cameras ever being particularly popular. You might be right that they're less popular, but I only care that they keep coming out with top end consumer cameras, and preferably with AA batteries. As I said before, I've been disappointed that they've been moving away from AA's. I was hoping that they'd at least use a modular battery bay like Pentax is doing now. Because of that, they may have lost me as a future customer.
Well I have a $450 Sony bridge camera that I bought for its movie taking abilities when my son used to race his truck and your pictures kill mine in quality. I personally envy the pics you post. I know my camera has the ability to take the pics but I will be darned if I can figure out how. I might just have to look in to one of those Fujifilm cameras myself. Especially at that price. Awesome find. congrats
Thanks pal!
The Fuji just arrived. Looks just like a new one. It came with box and all the accessories. He even had 4 Lithium AA batteries for me as well. Here’s a few shots of just the camera. Not a single flaw that I can find and you know how picky I am.
Brad, is it just me or is the camera wet in that picture? I'm guessing it just has some weird finish. Nice camera though!
Does it eat AA-Eneloops or is it with Li-Ion battery?
It doesn’t eat any of them. You just put AA’s in the camera. :bigsmile:
That’s how the newer Fuji cameras are. LOL! They come with a textured finish. It’s awesome in person. Our old ones don’t have this finish.
I know somebody else on here that is gonna buy one of these soon so I can help him set it up to take beamshots. LOL! But I won’t say who.
So you like it!! I like the finish on them.
It looks like something a scubadiver would use. LOL!
But yea I like it.
:bigsmile:
One reason I selected Powershot 120 something… over other was the AA-capability.
Cheapo - yes, for my uses I was blown away by macros, general pic quality for price etc.
I´m happy with it…
Canon's AA cameras were nice too. It's too bad they've quite making premium A series AA cameras. The A720 was the last of a great breed. I think you have the SX120, which is also a good camera, but heavier and bulkier and without the optical viewfinder. It's too bad they've given up making AA superzoom cameras.
I'm thinking about moving up to a Pentax DSLR. They have modular battery bays that allows AA's to be used, and the pricing for a Pentax system is generally less than the other brands.
Rick ask me about the silver being all there on the FujiFilm lettering. My flash made it look like it wasn’t. It’s all perfect and there like on a new one.
Let’s try these. Still playing around to get this camera set right.
manual expsosure 2.8 sec f/4.2 ISO 100 Power On Board 35watt HID
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Now those are dang close to what I see in person.
Well out of curiosity I here’s my older Fuji s8000fd camera set at man 2.8 sec shutter f/4 ISO 100 with the POB.
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