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How good is the Fuji S3 Pro?

Postby birddog114 on Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:02 pm

I have few wedding pp want to buy few of them from me.
I have one will be landed here tomorrow and propose to have another lot of ten in the next few days due to the good demand from wedding field.
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Postby Heath Bennett on Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:09 pm

I get the feeling that wed photogs like the colour saturation and skin tones.
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Postby fozzie on Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:16 pm

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Postby redline on Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:26 pm

are you offering the buffer upgrade was well Birddog?
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Postby birddog114 on Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:31 pm

redline wrote:are you offering the buffer upgrade was well Birddog?


Not available yet, possibility when it's available in HKG market
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Postby birddog114 on Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:37 pm

fozzie wrote:Review from Thom Hogan:

http://www.bythom.com/fujis3review.htm


Thanks fozzie,
Seen it before but want to get a real comments from our members whomever comes accross with this baby.
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Postby shutterbug on Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:17 pm

If I had to get another fuji I will get the S2, unless the price was similar

S3 is too slow and the AWB is much better on the S2

Only good thing about the S3 is the battery system.

How much are you selling the S3?
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Postby birddog114 on Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:20 pm

shutterbug wrote:If I had to get another fuji I will get the S2, unless the price was similar

S3 is too slow and the AWB is much better on the S2



The S3 will come with the new upgrade, have you read it?
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Postby shutterbug on Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:25 pm

Yes I have read it already, it might capture quicker but the preview might be slow? We have to wait and see.....
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Postby birddog114 on Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:38 pm

shutterbug wrote:Yes I have read it already, it might capture quicker but the preview might be slow? We have to wait and see.....


I have one on my desk tomorrow morning for a wedding PP, he wants to try it out then a bulk order to come, perhaps lot of 10.
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Postby cameraguy21773 on Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:25 pm

I think Fuji needs to take that sensor technology they have and build a camera around it, but from the ground up. In another forum I saw a post asking people to compare the Fuji S3 with the Nikon D1x. On its face that says quite a lot for the old D1x (I sure like mine) and not much for the Fuji S3 which should be a significant advance in its line and may not be.
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Postby kipper on Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:06 pm

I find the whole two lots of photosites quite interesting. I like one aimed at exposing the scene for shadows/midtones and the other for capturing the highlights.
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Postby cameraguy21773 on Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:38 pm

kipper wrote:I find the whole two lots of photosites quite interesting. I like one aimed at exposing the scene for shadows/midtones and the other for capturing the highlights.



Which it apparently does quite well ... would make a great dedicated landscape camera don'tcha think?
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