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All controls are clearly marked, sensibly placed and easily accessed by right handed shooters. While the zoom tab is quite small, zooming from wide-angle to telephoto and back is smooth, easy, and fairly precise. Shooting modes are a fairly typical compact digital camera mix of fully automatic modes, scene modes, full manual control and a useful panorama capture mode.
The FEXR may lack an optical viewfinder, but it makes up for this omission somewhat by featuring a large 3. Some earlier Fuji digicams featured LCDs that were too shiny, making them almost useless in bright outdoor lighting. Editor's Rating. NEXT : Performance.
Plus, in playback mode, there's a chance to sort through images faster with the Photobook feature, as well as rate your favourites by allocating stars to them.
Like most of its travel zoom rivals the Fujifilm FinePix FEXR is made for the pocket, so there's not much of the actual camera to get a firm grip on. There's a pronounced curve and a vertical rubber strip to the left hand edge at the front, while at the back of the FEXR Fujifilm has introduced possibly the first 'booty' on a digital camera. A bulge top right provides a resting place for the thumb, a backward slanted shooting mode dial topping it off, an unusual move that Fujifilm suggests makes for easier control access and so faster operation.
It looks at once like that portion of the camera is melting, and at the same time very cool indeed. Switch the camera on via the recessed top plate button that sits alongside the shutter release, once again encircled by a zoom lever. The FEXR takes less than two seconds from being activated before you can fire off the first shot, rear LCD bursting into life and lens extending to maximum wideangle with an audible mechanical whirr.
A half press of the shutter release button and autofocus system is virtually instantaneous, in keeping with Fujifilm's claimed 0. As the camera lacks a dedicated ISO button, this is perhaps the most logical choice for the Fn button. Somewhat strangely, there's no external control for another of the FEXR's star turns, its fast continuous shooting speed. Instead the Continuous menu option brings up four options - Off, Top 4, Best Frame Capture and three different kinds of bracketing exposure, film simulation mode and dynamic range.
Choosing Top 4 allows you to take 8 full-resolution photos at 8 frames per second, which is faster than most compact cameras and indeed most DSLRs too. The only fly in the ointment are that only 4 out of the 8 are actually saved to the memory card. Choosing Best Frame Capture shoots at 11fps at 8 megapixel resolution from the moment that you focus and then saves up to 16 images including pre-recorded frames. Once the burst is completed, it takes over fifteen seconds for the camera to clear the buffer, during which you cannot take another picture.
There is also another continuous shooting speed where the Fujifilm FEXR shoots at a faster speed 11fps at at 4 megapixel resolution for up to 32 frames. Although JPEGs are quickly committed to memory in single-shot mode with only the briefest pause between each one, unfortunately after just a couple of shots there's a very noticeable 5 second delay between the capture of one RAW file and the next during which you can't take another picture, which rather slows down the shooting experience unless you stick to the JPEG format.
Both the power button and shutter release fall readily under the forefinger when gripping the camera in your right hand, and the zoom lever is similarly ergonomically located. Nudge the latter and said zoom veritably powers through its broad focal range, quietly zipping from maximum wideangle to extreme telephoto in under three seconds. Looking at the rear of the FEXR there's a clearly labeled and logically laid out control set, with a chunky, ridged shooting mode dial which is reminiscent of those found on DSLR cameras.
Ranged around the dial, which turns with just the right amount of resistance for it to lock firmly into place at each setting, are a range of shooting options, such as full auto, program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual modes, along with a scene position mode SP that's pre-optimised for common subjects.
Note that there are only three available apertures in A mode, rather limiting your control, although there is a full range of shutter speeds on offer. There are two more shooting modes that are particularly noteworthy. Although far from infallible - if you're not paying close attention and it's presented with a busy scene it will call up landscape when macro is needed and vice versa — it instantly makes the FEXR more beginner friendly, instantly recognising no less than basic scenes and then applying one of the three other EXR modes too.
It also includes a a Motion Detection capability, which makes the camera increase the ISO speed to help capture a sharper picture in low-light when it detects movement. Fujifilm's EXR sensor can be utilized in one of three ways by the photographer. There's a choice between shooting at full 16 megapixel resolution in High Resolution HR mode, or an 8 megapixel image in the Low Noise SN mode for shooting without flash in low light conditions, or the Dynamic Range DR mode to achieve an optimal balance between shadows and highlights.
If you can't decide which is best for a chosen scene or subject, then just leave the camera on the scene-detecting EXR Automatic Mode and let it choose for itself. The second shooting mode of particular interest is the rather misleadingly named Advanced mode, which actually has six options that are well suited to all experience levels.
The first shooting mode is the new Advanced Filter, which as the name suggests houses six artistic filters that can be applied to your photos as you take them.
This lets you capture a degree panoramic image very easily without the use of a tripod. All you need to decide is whether you would like to start from left or right, top or bottom, then press and hold down the shutter release while doing a "sweep" with the camera in hand. Exposure compensation is available before you start the sweep, with the exposure fixed once you depress the shutter button. After you are done with the sweeping, the camera does all the processing required, and presents you with a finished panoramic image.
Although undoubtedly fun, there are a few catches. The final panorama is of relatively low resolution, and if you do the sweeping too slowly, or you let go of the shutter release button too early, the panorama will be truncated. If the exposure varies throughout the scene, then some areas will be over or under exposed, depending upon the exposure value that was chosen as the panorama was started.
Finally, people and indeed anything that moves in the frame are recorded as several ghost outlines, which means that you can really only record static, empty scenes, something that Sony have solved in the latest iteration of their Sweep Panorama feature.
You can see examples of this shooting mode on the Image Quality page. The Pro Focus mode makes it easier to achieve a blurred background, perfect for portraits where compact digicams traditionally struggle. In the Multiple Exposure advanced mode the Fujifilm FinePix FEXR can combine two seperate images into one, while the 3D mode automatically creates a realisitic 3D image in-camera that's composited from two individual photos that are taken from different positions.
With video not represented among the other shooting modes on the dial, as mentioned at the outset this thoughtfully has its own button just below, a press of which kicks off recording whichever alternative mode had previously been in use. This means that movie quality needs to be adjusted separately by delving into the camera's shooting menu via the main 'menu' button.
Happily the zoom function can also be used when shooting movies, but in this mode it is altogether smoother, steadier and any operational noise - though still audible if filming in quieter environs - is nevertheless dampened down. The FEXR offers full x pixel footage at 30 frames per second with constantly adjusting auto exposure and focus with stereo sound.
It can record video clips up to 29 minutes long for the x and x pixel formats, with longer times available for VGA and SVGA modes.
The dedicated Movie button on the rear makes it quick and easy to shoot a movie without missing the start of the action, and there's a mini-HDMI port for connection to a HDTV cable not supplied. You can select one of the Film Simulation modes to give your footage a more creative look, and there's the option to take a still photo at any time during movie recording.
The Face Tracking Auto Focus mode ensures that faces stay sharp and correctly exposed during movie and still image recording, even if the subject moves. In addition to these "normal" movie modes, the FEXR also offers several high-speed modes, a feature that was first pioneered by Casio. There are three different speeds on offer - , and 80fps, with the file size varying from x to x pixels respectively.
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