#1 Marc Lacoste

It seems great, but:

1. there is only the two new aperture and shutter modes and the higher res screen up from the f10? is it worth a 30% increase in price (300 => 390€)
2. Isn't the zoom a little bit constrained?

4:12 pm - Friday, January 27, 2006

#2 GARY POGODA

From your image noise tests, it is obvious there was something wrong
with your F11 review model, as it appears to be stuck in ISO 80 mode. :)

Since image noise is my highest-priority consideration for the purchase
of a digital camera, I completely agree with your 4.5 of 5 rating, but the
deal breaker for me is the F11's lack of an in-camera sharpness setting.

As you may have already heard, my wife uses the direct-print capability
(or at least she will, when she gets her HP Photosmart 475 Photo Printer
birthday present on January 30th). While that printer does have several
in-camera processing features, including red-eye reduction and adaptive
lighting, the ability to increase image sharpness is not one of its features.

I cannot believe that the F11 omitted this feature. Would anyone happen
to know if the F10 suffers from this same image softness problem? From
what I saw at DPReview, its images do NOT appear to be soft at all.

BTW, why is the ISO 1600 crop so washed out?

7:17 pm - Friday, January 27, 2006

#3 Mark Goldstein

Marc, you are right, there aren't too many changes from the previous model. But they are pretty important!

Gary, the ISO 1600 example is a little washed out because, despite being a dull day, the camera hit the fastest shutter speed of 1/1000th second at the smallest aperture of F/8.

7:59 pm - Friday, January 27, 2006

#4 GARY POGODA

Mark, to what do you attribute this unusual ISO 1600 behavior?

1. a defect
2. a fluke
3. user error
4. normal operation
5. don't know, don't care
6. other (please specify)

I went to the Fuji website to see if the F10 has in-camera sharpening.
According to its user's manual, it does not.

For some strange reason, the F11 is not even listed on their website;
however, the just released V10 is listed.

One thing I noticed about the V10 from reading the DigitalCameraInfo
preview, is that it uses 3 or 4 pre-flashes for red-eye reduction, which
seems to be very effective at eliminating red.

http://tinyurl.com/acgot

I will definitely be keeping my eye on this one.

9:30 pm - Friday, January 27, 2006

#5 Mark Goldstein

Normal behaviour.

Fujifilm USA have confirmed today that they currently have no plans to sell the F11 in the USA. I have no idea why...

9:33 pm - Friday, January 27, 2006

#6 Bruno Taupin

Nice review. I own a F11 since about a month and mostly recognize my camera in your description but for two points:

1) You said that purple fingling is very rare...actually, I find it to be far too often present on my shots. Especially in tree branches. As far as I am aware, this as been reported by many users. I wonder if their is a way to avoid that ? If yes you found it, purple fringind is certainely very mild on your shots.

2) You say that the body of the F11 is entirely of plastic..well, mine at least is made entirely of metal. The only plastic showing piece being the tripod shoe.

3:23 pm - Monday, January 30, 2006

#7 alain

The F11 is not entirely made of plastic... Only the battery cover is.

5:09 pm - Monday, January 30, 2006

#8 phule

[[ Mark, to what do you attribute this unusual ISO 1600 behavior? ]]

It's called over-exposure. At ISO 1600 with the fast shutter speed being 1/1000 and the smallest aperture being f/8, the image is over-exposed. Any camera with ISO 1600 would produce an over-exposed image with these values.

5:30 pm - Monday, January 30, 2006

#9 GARY POGODA

Thanks Phule. It was just my way of teasing Mark about it.

Alain, glad to hear the F11 is not plastic. I had misread that, as well.

9:14 pm - Monday, January 30, 2006

#10 Stephen Gillette

When viewing the full-size night shot image, I noticed a number of white specs in the dark area, even a few in the lighter sky area. They looked like dust on a scanned image. Are these possibly dead pixels, or specs of dust introduced on the sensor during assembly? I would hate to have to clone them out of every picture!

6:16 pm - Saturday, February 18, 2006

#11 nick in japan

Gary, the F11 wasn't listed because everyone knows that when a manufacturer sells ONE camera, they immediately go into production on the next model, the F12 was bought by a fella in Tokyo, the F13 by a blind Korean in Tague City. News is that Leica did , in fact, finally sell a D lux 2 last month, this may open the door for Panaleica to improve on the 16x9 sensor!

11:23 pm - Saturday, February 18, 2006

#12 Nick

What exactly are the improvements in Natural Light mode and Anti-blur mode noted in the Fuji F11 Test Review???
I think the 5cm Makro and the ISO800 Videomode and the better automode with 256 segments are also advantages compared with the Fuji F10???
I hear from other users that the Fuji F11 has a better resolution???

9:02 pm - Tuesday, March 7, 2006

#13 Charles Hobbs

As a digital novice I found the review to be very thorough and extremely useful. Quite compelling - took advantage of Jessop's offer of the day to buy one. Thanks!

3:04 pm - Tuesday, August 1, 2006