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Fujifilm FinePix S6500FD Digital Camera Review

Others/Miscelleneous by wutske @ 2007-09-09

The Fujifilm FinePix S6500FD was introduced at the end of 2006 for a MSRP of €370 ($500). Nowadays you can get this dSLR-like camera for €270 ($365), which is incredibly low if you see what it´s capable of.

Image Quality - ISO Test

Image Quality: ISO Test

Time for the most important thing about the review, how does it perform?
ISO tests (100% crop):

ISO100

1s – F2.8 - ISO100

Only a minimal amount of noise is visible at ISO100.

ISO200

1/2s – F2.8 – ISO200

There's not really a difference between ISO100 and ISO200.

ISO400

1/5s – F2.8 – ISO400

Noise reduction artifacts are becoming more visible at ISO400 (take a good look at the surface of the northbridge and the shadow of the big capacitor)

ISO800

1/9s – F2.8 – ISO800

At ISO800, the noise reduction really kicks in, there's some serious loss of detail.

ISO1600

1/18s – F2.8 - ISO1600

There isn't much detail left at ISO1600, the colors are less vivid too due to noise reduction.

ISO3200

1/30s – F2.8 – ISO3200

At ISO3200 it almost looks like you've made an oil painting, it's quite obvious that shooting at ISO3200 is a not an option, if you don't use RAW tough.

ISO100 (RAW)

1s – F2.8 - ISO100 – CCD-RAW

The amount of noise is very minimal in this picture. The image looks a bit soft, but this is very normal for RAW images, because no in-camera sharpening has been applied.

ISO3200 (RAW)

1/40s – F2.8 – ISO3200 – CCD-RAW

At ISO3200, there is a lot of noise, the image has a blue-ish cast, but there's still a lot of detail visible.

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/09/09

Price in the U.S. is down to around $270

Nicely done review. I never like high ISO result, always try to avoid.

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/09/09

wutske is an unknown reviewer from [M], time to get to know you.

Comment from geoffrey @ 2007/09/09

Nice article, I might get one of those

Comment from wutske @ 2007/09/09

My first review

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For the interested ones, I'm Phillip, 19 years young, still studying (electronics-ict) and if you want to know more about me, just send me a PM

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/09/10

You're the one.

Nice camera for the price; good buy here in the U.S.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/09/10

Hardfreak, can I change your username on the forum to "wutske"? easier to track

Comment from wutske @ 2007/09/10

absolutely, no problem

Comment from jmke @ 2007/09/10

Done

Comment from EsaT @ 2007/09/26

Nice watercolour effect at high iso.
(BTW, PCB traces are best for seeing lessening of details when ISO increases)

Quote:

S6500FD is best described as a fixed lens camera in the body of a dSLR.

dSLR? Except for shape it doesn't differ much from all those Point&Pray aka P&S cameras with that button tapping driven menu based UI.
This is SLR-like user interface.

I think this would be better to leave to their BS... err marketing material:

Quote:

Inside the camera you'll find a 6,3MP SuperCCD, what makes this CCD super is the fact that it has a very good SNR (signal-to-noise-ratio) resulting in less noise when you use a higher ISO value.

After all it's clear that sensor itself isn't so much better than others and that most of low noise level is achieved with strong noise reduction.

Quote:

Picture Stabilization: this boosts the ISO value

More PR BS, image stabilization is system which allows using longer exposure time without camera movement blurring picture.
(this isn't even so called digital image stabilization)

But you forgot plus for wide angle, those 38mm unwide angles are horrible... but it's fun to look their users to step backwards for fitting every people into frame. 28mm is much better and "minimum" for landscapes.

Comment from wutske @ 2007/09/26

Quote:

Originally Posted by EsaT

Nice watercolour effect at high iso.
(BTW, PCB traces are best for seeing lessening of details when ISO increases)

1)dSLR? Except for shape it doesn't differ much from all those Point&Pray aka P&S cameras with that button tapping driven menu based UI.
This is SLR-like user interface.

2)I think this would be better to leave to their BS... err marketing material:
After all it's clear that sensor itself isn't so much better than others and that most of low noise level is achieved with strong noise reduction.

3)More PR BS, image stabilization is system which allows using longer exposure time without camera movement blurring picture.
(this isn't even so called digital image stabilization)

4)But you forgot plus for wide angle, those 38mm unwide angles are horrible... but it's fun to look their users to step backwards for fitting every people into frame. 28mm is much better and "minimum" for landscapes.

1) okay, your completely right about that, but this camera isn't a dSLR-camera so you can't expect it to have everything a dSLR has (+ the lack of dred buttons make this camera a lot better for beginners)

2) The sensor is better than the average sensor, mainly because it's a lot larger (1/1.7" compare to 1/2,5" you'll find in most camera's)

3) I know it's PR BS and I've said that in the review too:

Quote:

this boosts the ISO value until the shutter speed is fast enough to prevent motion blur.This technique does work, but also results in more noise, a problem you don't have when you have an optical image stabilization.

4) I've mentioned that in the conclusive toughts

, but maybe I should have put it in the pro list too.

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