Hi
I have had a Fuji F10 for a while and it has done great service. it is well
used and battered. I once had to crudely straighten the lens assembly when
it was dropped but it has continued to give me excellent photographs on a
candid basis. Its great talent is low light photography. It gives me
pictures in impossible situations and usually much better than flash
pictures.
My serious photography is done with a Fuji S6500fd. This camera is brilliant
and even better at low light than the F10, but because of its bulk it cannot
be used where the F10 can be taken.
last week I decided that , because of its sorry appearance, the F10 needed
replacing. I bought a Fuji F47fd. It's slimmer, has more option and with 9mp
full of potential. I have only had it 2 weeks but already I find that the
low light performance is inferior to the F10. It gives me superb photos at
ISO 100, 200, 400 but after that the pictures are very grainy. The low light
candid shots are inferior to the flash photos.
Fuji seem to have lost something in the race for megapixels.
It makes me think that 6mp is the optimum quality for a compact and the
larger mp should be left to the slr's.
CK