Shutter speeds ranged from 1/4 to 1/4,000 second, and ISO topped out at a very usable 800. The gallery shots give you an idea what I was able to do, but not the whole picture. On the Mode dial there's a Natural Light setting that adjusts ISO without tapping into flash to capture whatever light falls on your scene. There's also a PC sync connection on the front.įujifilm takes flash seriously, too, offering a hotshoe and PC sync terminal for external flash, and building in its intelligent flash system that can adjust flash power depending on focus data.īut what sold me on this unit was its natural light performance.
There's plenty in the Fuji FinePix S9100 to handle the needs of advanced amateurs looking for maximum control over their photos, with PASM exposure modes, a Raw file format, auto/manual focus, three metering modes, nine white balance modes (including two custom hold modes), a six-mode popup flash, plus a choice of external flash hot shoe and a PC sync connector.Ĭhanges from the S9000 to the Fuji S9100 include a slightly larger 2-inch LCD display with double the resolution at 235,000 pixels (which also makes the camera just a scant three grams heavier) the i-Flash metering functionality we've seen previously on the FinePix F30 and S6000fd models improved autofocus performance new image processing algorithms that are said to offer better resolution and sharpness and the addition of Fujifilm's Hyper Utility Software HS-V2 (version 3) to the product bundle. Like its predecessor, the S9000, the Fujifilm S9100 has the same overall body design, dual media slots (CompactFlash / Microdrive, and xD-Picture Card), and an electronic viewfinder that can offer frame rates of either 30 or 60 frames per second. Fujifilm's FinePix S9100 couples a powerful 10.7x optical zoom lens which can focus down to just 0.4 inches, with a 1/1.6 inch nine-megapixel Super CCD HR imager that yields a maximum ISO rating of 1,600.