{"id":14119,"date":"2015-04-28T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=14119"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:37:36","slug":"fuji-epion-3000ix-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=14119","title":{"rendered":"Fuji Epion 3000ix Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There were two versions of this camera the Epion\u00a03500ix\u00a0and this the 3000ix.\u00a0 The former had a detachable controller that also doubled as a lens cover or a wireless remote or could be clicked to the back making it like the 3000ix.\u00a0 The fixed back is\u00a0better if you don’t want to lose the half that controls everything or the half that takes the pictures.\u00a0 The reason\u00a0I like these cameras (APS taken into consideration) is the 21mm wide-angle. The full size of an APS film image is the H format or 30mm\u00a0x 16.2mm\u00a0\u00a0so using the\u00a0Pythagorean theorem\u00a0c = sqrt { a^2 + b^2 } .\u00a0\u00a0 we get a diagonal of\u00a0 34.1mm While 35mm film has a diagonal of around 43.3mm.\u00a0 If we take the larger size and divide\u00a0it by the smaller diagonal we get a value of 1.26 This is our ‘crop factor’ between the two film formats (Most people just round it to 1.3).\u00a0 So the 21mm of the Fuji is equivalent\u00a0to a 26.7mm lens on a 35mm film camera.\u00a0 Okay there is a problem with all this in that the aspect rations are different but if you want to argue about that you’re welcome to find a camera forum, pretty much anyone will do.\u00a0 I also like the 16×9 aspect ratio which I may have mentioned on a few previous occasions.<\/p>\n

I should probably mention that the film I used was just some random stuff I had.\u00a0\u00a0Some images even look like\u00a0they have\u00a0a 32 colour pallette I cant expain that. I even tried two different methods one of them my Pentax K-3 with plenty of dynamic range.\u00a0 There just wasn’t much information captured in the film itself resulting in this ‘analog’ banding which I like.\"Fuji3000ix_detail-0575\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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