{"id":16589,"date":"2015-12-28T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2015-12-28T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T23:48:31","slug":"fuji-s-autofocus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16589","title":{"rendered":"Fuji S Autofocus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_K3_2698\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Every once and a while I try a camera so bad that I have to ask myself whether I\u00a0should destroy it to spare any other poor soul from its awfulness.\u00a0 In this case I present to\u00a0you the Fuji S which I can only assume stands for (S)hit.\u00a0 It’s not that I had high expectations for this camera that were dashed.\u00a0 It’s cheap plastic materials and 125gram weight ease that notion from\u00a0your mind.\u00a0 No it’s the\u00a0fact that it offers a 26mm lens which is unique enough to\u00a0stir\u00a0attention but it turned out to be as soft\u00a0as a flaming\u00a0marshmallow.\u00a0\u00a0The lens is made from 3 elements in three groups and has a maximum aperture of\u00a0 f5.6.\u00a0 The shutter speed is fixed at 1\/70 second which is fast enough but if it doesn’t vary and the aperture doesn’t vary then essentially the exposure doesn’t vary. The camera\u00a0does take AAA batteries which is nice.\u00a0 Fuji has made some incredible cameras over the years so when they produce something like this 2004 abomination it seems out of step.\u00a0 So if your holding a roll of film in one hand and a Fuji S in the other do yourself a favour and recycle the camera and put the film into something more worthy like a Fuji Dl Super Mini <\/a>or if you need 26mm a Canon Sure Shot BF-10 <\/a>which will give you that and shutter speeds from 1\/250 second to 1\/40 second to boot.<\/p>\n\n\t\t