First photos with Fuji Finepix S100

[Jason Green]

Originally Posted by JennyS

Thank you both for your comments and suggestions - I'll play with it tomorrow with them in mind. I've discovered three options for 'sharpness' - soft, normal and hard, it was on 'normal' so will see what altering that setting does......

It should make a big difference once cropped... I made a test of this using Hard, Normal and Soft. I used the full Optical, then the full 5x digital. I then cropped to the centre on each setting having repeated it each time - the Soft setting had barely any notable noise whereas the Hard setting was... as you'd expect in terms of graininess. I suppose this experiment only goes to show the effectiveness in Macros, though. I'm into invertebrates as you're into wildflowers I take it?

Originally Posted by JennyS

... Until I've properly digested the instruction manual...

I wouldn't advise you eat the manual, unless of course you have it as a .pdf on the start-up disc. But even then...

[Lancashire Lad]

Hi JennyS,

I've spent some time this morning looking at exif data for various flower pics of mine, and the information is pretty much the same as your example, except that most of mine have been taken around f5.6 - f8, and more often than not at shutter speeds faster than 125th second.

ISO has been set at 200 for all of my pics.

This one was taken at f2.8 but at 1/350th sec: -



Hope you've had better results today.

Regards
Mike.

[mrtom]

Originally Posted by JennyS

Thank you both for your comments and suggestions - I'll play with it tomorrow with them in mind. I've discovered three options for 'sharpness' - soft, normal and hard, it was on 'normal' so will see what altering that setting does......

Having compared with photos from the F31, I'm getting way more useable pixels after cropping (big advantage). Middle distance shots are much better, I'll just have to work on the macro (or photograph trees instead of flowers!). The noise probably wouldn't be so apparent in print as its only really bugging me at 'actual pixel size' in Photoshop - I'll test-print tomorrow.

Until I've properly digested the instruction manual I'm probably being unfair to the S100, and having an unreasonable expectation of my own ability to leap from relatively simple to pretty complicated in just two days! More photos will follow.......!

I have my s100fs sharpness set to hard & the images are razor sharp

mrtom