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The FinePix S1 announcement is google cached. Check it out here… and thanks to the FR-reader who spotted it.
Feature 2FUJINON 50x Optical Zoom (24mm – 1200mm)** & Super Macro
Vast zoom range from 24mm** wide-angle to 1200mm** super-telephoto offers the advanced features and flexibility of a DSLR without the weight and hassle of interchangeable lenses. 3.0-stop*** image stabilization to reduce blurring and produce excellent results from wide angle to telephoto.
Weather Resistant
The world’s first weather resistant (water resistant and dust resistant ) structure in its class*. The lens-body integrated design and sealing on approx. 70 areas are designed to allow field photography without typical worries about the weather, season or general shooting environment.
FUJINON 50x Optical Zoom (24mm – 1200mm)** & Super Macro
Vast zoom range from 24mm** wide-angle to 1200mm** super-telephoto offers the advanced features and flexibility of a DSLR without the weight and hassle of interchangeable lenses.
3.0-stop*** image stabilization to reduce blurring and produce excellent results from wide angle to telephoto.
A: DSLR with long zoom lens
B: FinePix S1
Wide
Zoom
Macro
100x Intelligent Digital Zoom
Fujifilm’s super resolution technology offers an incredible 100x Intelligent Digital Zoom.
Newly developed image processing software produces excellent quality results throughout the whole image, right to the edges of the frame. Distant subjects are captured in crisp detail even when at the full zoom.
- 50x Optical Zoom(1200mm**)
- 100x Intelligent Digital Zoom(2400mm**)
The newly developed FUJINON optical 50x zoom lens (24mm – 1200mm)** incorporates a combination of aspherical lenses and ED lens.
It provides a bright aperture rating of F2.8 – F5.6 with 13 elements in 11 groups. The lens effectively combines aspherical and ED elements for reduced aberration and superior image quality.
With Super-Macro Mode capturing subjects as close as 1cm from the lens, the FinePix S1 seamlessly covers an enormous focal range with no need to ever change lenses.
Lens shift image stabilization ensures that even hand-held shots are free from blur.
High Resolution
Stunning high resolution images can be achieved from the center of the frame to the edges when telephoto shooting.
The newly developed processor ensures low noise levels in high sensitivity shooting at night.
From the wide-angle to the telephoto end of the lens, you can produce high quality images with superb detail — you’ll capture everything from the small leaves on trees to actual human hairs.
Movie Functions
New FULL HD Movie (1080p / 60 fps)
Movie scene recognition ensures that settings are optimized according to your subject. Full HD Movie shares your memories with family on the big screen, using the mini HDMI connector.
The newly developed image processor uses special technology which compares and combines several frames to produce enhanced noise reduction in the movie.
A newly-developed 5-Axis Image Stabilization function has been installed to reduce camera shake when shooting movies.
2-Axis Optical Image Stabilization (Pitch, Yaw) and 3-Axis Electronic Image Stabilization (Roll, Vertical shift, Horizontal shift) will be employed when shooting at the 50x and shooting moving subjects.
1: Pitch
2: Yaw
3: Roll
4: Vertical shift
5: Horizontal shift
High performance AF
Excellent AF performance with improved speed and precision
Speed and precision of focus during movie shooting is faster and more accurate.
And the new AF follow-up function enables the user to keep moving subjects in focus.
Wind Filter
Wind noise is reduced during movie shooting with the wind noise reduction setting.
H.264 High Profile
The FinePix S1 realizes H.264 format incorporating both high quality image and small data size
One Touch Movie Recording Button
A one-touch Movie Recording Button enables you to capture all the action in full HD.
High Speed Movie
Sometimes things happen too fast for you to see them properly with your own eyes. The FinePix S1 can freeze the action at up to an amazing 480 fps! So you can see every single minute detail and watch things happening step by step in slow motion.
* High Speed Movie can be recorded at the following speeds and sizes : 480 fps (240 x 180 pixels), 240 fps (320 x 240 pixels), 120 fps (640 x 480 pixels).
HDMI Connect
imply connect any HDMI cable available in the market to the HDTV and enjoy the full impact of high resolution images and movies.
* Direct connection from the HDMI Miniport (camera).
42 Responses
This would be disappointing. I was hoping or a weather sealed and potential complementary body to my XP1 and X100s.
Fingers crossed for the 56mm now…
Just off topic briefly, regarding the sensor issue, would a square sensor be a bad suggestions? That would mean more stable shooting – being able to shoot in landscape most of the time and simply crop later or chose orientation via fn button if you needed a rectangular image?
I am really hoping for some ‘pro kit’ announcements tomorrow. I have some great jobs coming up and dual card slots an d W/S as rumoured would be epic!!
Actually, since the image thrown by a circular lens is itself circular, using such a sensor make sense and would give us all of the data rendered by the lens, part of which is omitted by a rectangular sensor.
This probably isn’t done for two reasons:
1. Tradition. (And that may be driven by the fact that we have two eyes, arranged horizontally.)
2. A bigger sensor (rather than the cropped ones we use) is cheaper.
Meant “more expensive.”
If this were a multi-aspect ratio sensor, then yes, but otherwise, no.
Try drawing a circle, then placing a 1:1 square and a 3:2 rectangle inside it. You will see that while it is indeed true that the 1:1 square uses more space, if you ultimately need a picture with one side longer than the other, a rectangle will use up more of the circle than cropping away top/bottom of a 1:1 square.
Nothing about the sensor but probably safe to assume this is pretty much just a weather sealed SL1000, so will have a similar 1/2.3″ 16MP BI-CMOS sensor?
It says the resolution is “high” 🙂 It’s like helpful… only…
In my opinion the good news is Fuji using a 5-axis image stabilization system at this camera. Hope next weather sealed X-camera will use something like this.
Is this an X-S1 replacement?
No.
Holy crap! 50x photos that look like taken with a potato! Can’t wait!
Why not 15x zoom (this is pretty extreme already) with a greater focus on quality? *Someone* need to challenge the Sony RX10!
Who knows what the image quality is like… the photos are “simulated”.
This is very underwhelming. I need a weather sealed X camera for my caribbean trip next month!!
it’s dry deason there, don’t worry
No problem. Take your X-S1. It’s weather-sealed.
You don’t need a weather sealed camera for that AT ALL.
Why have I never felt attracted to this type of thing?
I’d rather shoot with my X-E1 + 27mm pancake than with this camera… Last compact I touched was the Fuji X10. And after the first week I never touched it. Except for selling it.
you probably haven’t been attracted to it because A. you don’t have kids (taking photos from the sideline of your kid’s football game with your 27mm pancake gets you “Yes Joey you were one of the kids out there on the field somewhere” or B. because you’re not interested in taking photos of girls at the beach without being noticed. I love my X-E2 and 50mm summicron but I take my sony hx-50v to sporting events to get close ups of the players from anywhere in the stadium.
So this was the rumored weather sealed camera?
Boring…
Really? Does anyone read this website?
For about a week now we have known the weather sealed X was not going to be released at this show.
I agree this is boring but expected…
All I want is the fujifilm xpro1s or xpro2.
What a bummer! Just give us a weather sealed X-E2 with in camera image stabilization and we won’t buy Sony A7’s.
Keep dreaming for the XP1 update. Fuji has made it clear that they don’t care about it. It’s much more important to update all the cameras which fall under it, and who have now all surpassed the XP1.
If this 5-axis image stabilizer is a sensor-based one and not a optical in the lens, it would be a nice development for future X-bodies.
I from my part would be very happy about it.
Else, I do not need much at the moment and still using happily my X-Pro 1.
However, I played that week with a OM-D EM-1 and have to admit: What a extremely nice and fast camera it is. No reason for me to change, but some of it I really would like to see with the next X-bodies. My X-Pro 1 feels in comparison a little bit, yeah, let’s face it: slow 😉
Daniel
Patrick – can you confirm – is this the weather sealed X camera in the Fujica style body?
[I sure hope not!]
Thanks!
no, not at the ces…. will come later in january or early february (cp+)
phew!!!
Wow, I really hope this is not what all the build up was about.
Waiting for that 56mm lens release 😉
So the 56mm is delayed?
keep faith… it will come
5AM London time passed. 6AM London time passed. I am sitting by computer keep refreshing this page but I have to go to sleep at one point
Feel bad for you mate, its only 5pm here in Australia but I’m still getting impatient.
stay tuned, next deadline is 3AM NY time… it’s morning in London, so really time for that hell of a portrait lens to come!
David, if it doesn’t come in 30 minutes, then go to sleep… but resist man, drink a red bull, a coffe, whatever. 30 minutes, it must come. Fuji never made an annoncement later than 8AM GMT (3AM NY time). They won’t announce the lens when it’s night-time in Tokyo.
Maybe they’re holding it back just to teach us rumor-hungry folk a lesson 🙂
I am standing by
http://www.fotosidan.se/cldoc/ljusstarkt-tele-till-fujifilm-x.htm
Here are the news! In Swedish.
how much is 10,000 krons in Euro/Dollars?
10000 SEK is about 1000 Euro.
But we have insane salestax in Sweden so cant really compare the Swedish price to euro/dollar.
Oh I thought those taxes were that high on alcohol only up there :).
It’s all over dpreview now too