[Leica] OT the fuji f30

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 4:35 PM -0500 1/5/08, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>this is off-topic except that someone on the LUG suggested
>I buy the fuji f30 back in august '06--a purchase i'm still
>very happy with.
>
>i happened to notice that used
>f30s seem to sell for over $300, which is odd for an 18-month
>old digital camera which sold new for less than $300.
>
>there's also a grumbling that fuji messed around  with the
>high speed software rendering in the subsequent cameras up
>to and including the f50 and somehow wrecked a good thing.
>
>so do i have a mini-cult camera on my hands? :-)
>
>-rei
>
>--
>Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>Ridgewood, New Jersey
>


Unfortunately Fuji started playing the megapixel game, and is now up 
to 10 or 12 with the F50. In doing so they killed the low noise 
capabilities of the f10 through f30. The F30 is the highest specced 
camera in the series that still retains the excellent low noise 
characteristics; people have discovered this and that is why the F30 
is so expensive used.

For a user, check out the F20. Shortly before Christmas I bought a 
couple of refurbished units for $100. For that money you get 
excellent low noise ISO800 performance, although not much in the way 
of manual control. But it is the best point and shoot for taking 
pictures around the house, and it's still cheap.

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