When Fuji came out with their excellent low-noise-even-on-high-sensitivity-settings technology a couple years back (three? four?), I was certain that within a year, the same wonderful thing would have happened to most other compact cameras. Sadly, it is not so. Basically all other compact cameras have really awful noise over 200 ISO, and it's a great shame, especially for otherwise really promising cameras like this Ricoh.
I don't get it. Normally a technical breakthrough like that is reversed-engineered lickity-split by competitors.
*sigh* Having a coolpix 990, I feel like someone who owns an abacus listening to people who have laptops.
ReplyDeleteOh well, its not the machine but the person behind it that matters, right? right???
I had a 950, a good camera. And the 990 should be even better, particularly if they solved the purple fringing the 950 had.
ReplyDeleteThat's not to say you wouldn't be pleased with the improvements that have happened since, of course.
Didn't Fuji hold those camera sensors down to 6 Mpixel? I thought that's what Mike Johnson mentioned. You just cannot put more on those tiny sensors and expect good results. So if that is correct Fuji refrained from going too far and didn't invent anything new.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see how the very ambitious 12MP sensor does when the Fuji F50fd comes out.
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