#1 GARY POGODA

Is it my imagination, or does image #2 have considerably more noise
and loss of details than any of the other images? Let me guess, was it
shot at ISO 800? ISO 1600?

Is there any way you could include this info so that we do not have to
go through the process of downloading and importing the images?

Not too bad on the purple fringing, but to my eyes, the images appear
quite soft. Anyone concur?

How did you get that shot of my car hood ornament? :)

7:26 pm - Friday, January 20, 2006

#2 phule

I really wish Fuji would just offer this in the US. Having to go through these third-party importers is such a pita.

8:56 pm - Friday, January 20, 2006

#3 weight

My brother has this camera, and it works really really good.
All of the images are super clear and sharp.
Anna W.

7:25 am - Monday, January 23, 2006

#4 weight

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7:28 am - Monday, January 23, 2006

#5 GARY POGODA

I have no doubt that the F11 produces excellent images. I would be
curious to know what sharpening setting your brother uses.

6:37 pm - Monday, January 23, 2006

#6 Mark Goldstein

Gary, unfortunately the F11 does not have an in-camera Sharpening mode (and there are a few other missing features too).

6:48 pm - Monday, January 23, 2006

#7 GARY POGODA

Thanks for the info, Mark. With the added manual controls of the F11
over the F10, I just assumed it had in-camera sharpening. Yet another
example of why it is so important to read these reviews before buying.

7:18 pm - Monday, January 23, 2006

#8 Mark Goldstein

I couldn't believe it either - had to double-check the manual just in case, but it's definitely not there. Along with a manual focus mode, proper manual exposure mode, histogram and RAW mode...

7:21 pm - Monday, January 23, 2006

#9 Paul

The new F30 doesn't seem to offer much user control either, which is sad.

ISO 3200 will be nice though, and the flash has been improved.

Manual focus or at least a focus lock and exposure bracketing would be very useful to me.

But image quality sort of makes up for most of the other deficiencies.

By the way, I used Noise Ninja on the second image, then selected all except the sky and used Photoshops unsharp mask and the image came up very nice.

I really prefer to do my editing on the PC rather than "in camera" settings and I think maybe thats part of the secret of the F11 F30 image quality, lack of noise, not to much in camera manipulation of the image. I am only guessing though.

10:30 pm - Monday, February 20, 2006

#10 Paul

Forgot to ask in the last post.

I would really like to see some portrait type photos or at least with a few people in the image, cafe or something, to see skin tones and indoor performance.
Do you have any images like that?

10:34 pm - Monday, February 20, 2006

#11 Rodney

The sample photos on this site show that the review F11 unit has the infamous "vertical banding" problem. Look at the street night shots, in the midtones and shadow areas - they show vertical lines. Zoom to 100% to see them more clearly.

5:05 am - Tuesday, February 21, 2006

#12 Paul

Are you sure Rodney

I can not see any banding.
A lot of people are using the F11 now and I have never heard any mention of this as a problem with it.

Can anyone else see banding in any of these images?

6:21 am - Tuesday, February 21, 2006

#13 Rodney

Paul

Yes I'm sure. Look at the photos at ISO1600 or ISO800. Look at the midtones and shadow areas at 100% zoom. Then you will be able to see vertical lines.

A lot of people have noticed this with F11s. Seems like a QC problem, with some sets being worse than others.

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=162328

Apparently this problem is also affecting the later batches of F10s.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=16231135

I personally tested all 4 sets of F11s at a retailer, and all the sets had the banding. Another person also tested all the sets at another retailer and found the banding present in all of them.

I've since sent my F11 in to Fuji for repair.

4:54 pm - Saturday, February 25, 2006

#14 Mart

Let's get things in context here! I have a Fuji F810 which I thought took great pics. Albeit sometimes I thought they were underexposed. The F810 has simply one of the best, most solid, build qualitys I have ever seen in this class. Now I am not a professional photographer, but the images from the F11, compared the F810 are, to the everyday man such as me, fantastic. My newly ordered F11 has just arrived and is still in the box. I have a 14 day return guarantee from UKDigitalCameras but if what I've seen is anything to go by it aint going anywhere except in my pocket!

2:14 am - Wednesday, March 8, 2006

#15 GARY POGODA

As long as you have the F810 to use for now, why not return the F11
and wait for the F30 in May? Its ISO 3200 is hard to pass up.

8:01 am - Wednesday, March 8, 2006

#16 Mart

I know. I know. Dont remind me! Sadly my 4 yr old son dropped the F810 (twice). First time I managed to revive it second time no chance. Hence I need a camera now.

10:35 am - Wednesday, March 8, 2006

#17 Mart

Well first impressions of camera are positive. Pretty much as fast as myself in terms of power on and taking pics. It is not as responsive as the F810 when loading up a video to playback but this is hardly critical. I actually think now that the F810 was a pretty special camera in terms of functionailty and pure quality.

Haven't actually seen the F11 switch into ISO1600 mode yet seeing as it takes a lot of pics in ISO800 inside. However the ISO800 pic quality (wrt noise) is nowhere near as bad some websites I've seen (this one included). For point and shoot photography it really is perfect.

Ran it up against my sisters Sony DSC-W7 and it trumped it in all areas. THe W7 is a good camera.

As for weight is weighs exactly 200g with battery and card. I'm sure this is heavier than I was led to believe. The F810 is only 20g heavier! I was actually surprised how solid the F11 is. No ultra compact whatever anyone says. Buy a Casio EX-S600 if you want truly Twiggy proportions.

In short, 100% happy. Looks basic, works basic if you set it up that way and the picture are really fantastic with excellent colour and exposure both inside and outside. All in my honest amateur opinion of course!

10:12 am - Thursday, March 9, 2006

#18 Mart

I am going to eat some very large slices of humble pie and say that I have changed my mind about the F11 to the point that I returned it.

Not sure whether (a) I got a duff camera (b) I didn't spent long enough working with it or (c) I'd forgotten just how good the F810 was. I hope it, in fact it has to be, (a) if all the rave reviews I have read everywhere else are anything to go by.

Point is, after a while I noticed that a much higher proportion of pics than I am prepared to accept were not as pin sharp as I was used to. Indoors ones were OK but again they were not all that pin sharp. There was also a lot of noise in those photos that didn't use flash and the camera used ISO800 just about all the time. ISO1600 was rarely in it but when it was used gave quite noisy pics. The flash was also bad for red eye. In short I was very disappointed to the point I have started searching web again for another F810 (although surely things have moved on since then).

Anyone else had these experiences? Anyone else recommend a better camera than the F810? Am now thinking about IXUS 800 or MJU 800 or Exilim EX-Z850.

1:54 pm - Saturday, March 18, 2006

#19 GARY POGODA

Mart, the only thing that makes sense is that it had to have been (a).

The Canon IXUS 800 is a nice camera, but I cannot picture its 1/2.5"
CCD providing the quality you want.

The Olympus mju 800/810 and Casio EX-Z850 are nice cameras that
have a 1/1.8" CCD, but at 8.0 megapixels they have to be nosier than
the F11 with its 6.1 megapixel 1/1.7" CCD.

I'd either test your (a) theory and try another F11, or wait for the F30,
although I do not think the red-eye will be any better. For that, HP and
Kodak are building automatic red-eye removal into some of their photo
printers now, and there are some excellent software programs that will
effectively remove it if you do not mind computer post-processing.

If you could pick up an inexpensive F810 used, while you are awaiting
the F30, that might be a good option.

I would also try to stay with UKDigitalCameras for their return policy. :)

7:46 pm - Saturday, March 18, 2006

#20 Mark Bullock

I have had an F11 for just over a month now and I am more than happy with it. OK, it doesn't come close to my EOS 350D (Rebel XT/Kiss Digital N) but I didn't expect it to. For a compact Digicam it is superb due to its responsiveness, long battery life and low-light sensitivity. Yes, some of the menus are fiddly, and the autofocus struggles at times, but all in all it is a solid, dependable and pocketable take everywhere camera!

8:48 pm - Monday, March 27, 2006

#21 Mikael Wallenland

Dear sirs

I appreciate the web site http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews.php
like one of the best according the informations about digital cameras.
You ar best may be, but you can be better!

Think about your sample pictures. The most of them is landscapes or citys. Only one of all samples is humans. And this pictures are in very red tones indoors or are groups outdoors and in this groups are often only people from Asia. I am not a <euro-rasist> but unfortunately I am an european and I want to see how look the digital samples with the color of the european skins.
I think that this is the biggest problem of all the digital cameras on the market today,
the impossibility to make theright color of the european skin in- or outdoors.
I remember that the same problem was in the ears 1960 with the cfirst color TV-s.

In conclusion: Can you please put on your digital photo Samples more in- and outdoors portrets of europeans and tell oss how can we make them better with every type of cameras if the results is only red-skin <indian-like> people?

Thanks,
Best regards,

Mikael

3:15 pm - Tuesday, May 16, 2006

#22 dan

this may be a stupid question but here goes...Does the F11 allow you to manually change the ISO setting or does it always choose on its own? Any info would be appreciated, thanks in advance!

4:20 pm - Sunday, May 28, 2006

#23 Mark Bullock

Dan, in answer to your question, yes you can manually change the ISO of the F11 from a fine 80 to a fast 1600 - very useful for low light flash free shots.

6:30 pm - Sunday, May 28, 2006