I got nostalgic for this old camera and discovered your channel. I just wanted to let you know that this content is fantastic and I love what you're doing.
F30 was my first digital camera and I give this little gem a lot of credit for my photography journey. I have had photos taken from this camera in curated gallery exhibitions and magazine prints. I had several photos published in the JPG Magazine, had a photo used by CBS News in their feature story about recession and housing crisis, and I was one of the runner up in the Popular Photography Magazine's 2007 Photographer of the Year award... all photos taken with the Fujifilm F30. My camera's sensor has a lot of dust on it and I have no idea how to clean it so it is sitting in my office drawer. Does anyone have any suggestions?
With my Panasonic LX100, I cut the bottom off a plastic bottle that would fit over the lens and attached the neck of the bottle to my vacuum cleaner using loads of gaffer tape to attach it to the hose. Then with the cleaner running and the bottle firmly over the lens, I switched to camera on and off whilst zooming the lens to it's extremes a few times, and that sucked the dust out with no damage to the camera. Please note I did not seal the bottle at the camera end, so no vacuum was created and air was able to flow in and through the lens.
I recognized your name from flickr -- your photos are truly exceptional. The F30 was also my first camera and it's surprisingly capable, even compared with newer point-n-shoots.
Another great video and camera! For those who want this sensor but dont want to pay the insane eBay prices for this camera, you can get this exact sensor in two other cameras that are much cheaper. The Fujifilm Finepix F20, which I just scored for $5 on eBay, and the Fujifilm Finepix S6000fd. The F20 is basically the F30 with a lower resolution display and a different battery. I also have the S6000 and think it's a better camera than the F20 or F31fd as well. Has all the settings and features from the F31fd plus more. Better lens with a very useful 28mm-300mm equivalent that acts just like a DSLR lens. You turn it to zoom rather than a little rocker switch, and it has a manual focus ring! It also goes to ISO 3200, shutter speeds up to 1/4000s, its got an EVF and probably most importantly, it shoots RAW whereas the F31fd is JPEG only. Just a much more pro camera than the F31fd IMO, it's just packed with tons of features and a steal for what they are running on eBay right now. Hope that helps.
A couple of years ago I got an F30 at a second-hand shop for a really low price. I didn't really know about the reputation of the F30 and F31, I simply remembered reading somewhere that the FinePix 'F' series were higher-quality. When I reviewed the first test shots I was instantly blown away. I expected nice Fuji colours, of course; but I didn't expect usable night shots taken at 1600 ISO (the maximum value the F30 will go, versus the F31FD's 3200 ISO), nor did I expect this kind of dynamic range from a point-and-shoot from 2006. And as you say, battery life is incredible - and I'm still using the battery I got with the camera. Thanks for this lovely review, which I was looking forward to. And great photos, of course! Cheers! //Rick
1. don't worry about the video length. we'll gobble up anything that you put out. 2. your reviews have improved a lott! i really love the set you used for this one. mostly grey with accents of green, red and orange. very simple and very beautiful. 3. please don't balance your laptop that precariously. makes me anxious looking at it. 😂
Great review. Always makes me want to try the camera out! Btw I sit through the whole 20 minutes, so longer vids are no problem, so it'd be cool to see the editing process.
Great review. I was using a Casio Exilim EX-750 7.2 mp camera around 2005. I made 8x10 prints with no problem at all, they look great, don't let the old cameras or low MP count deter anyone from printing!
The main task is to determine which colors you like best: Canon, Olympus, Fuji, Nikon, Panasonic. All of them have specific color shades. After using some cameras of different vendors with CCD sensor, I made my choice on Panasonic color shades.
I love the pictures you got!! They looks so good! I'm excited that these old digital cameras are coming back since I grew up with these cameras. My mom always had one on her from 2011 up until like 2018 when she got an android phone. I use to steal them from her to take pictures of my Monster High dolls and my cat lol. I found 2 of our old cameras and I'm excited to start using them again! :)
Really good point about shooting at lower exposure to protect the highlights in these older digicams. Being used to shooting later cameras with raw, it's easy to forget how quickly these things blow highlights. I'm inclined to leave the F30 at -2/3 EV when shooting in bright sunlight, or at night with prominent street/shop lights.
+1 for one video about the process of editing JPG files from older cameras 🙂 Thanks for a great review. F30 was my very first digital camera and the very first camera I bought with my own money. I still have it at the bottom of some forgotten drawer but now I want to find it and see if it still works 😄
Twenty, thirty, forty minutes? Makes no difference to me; I love hearing your thoughts and listening to your reviews. Personally, I'm not big into major post-processing effects and have avoided LR (so far, so good!). Go with whatever you feel comfortable with. That DXO looks great fun! Looking forward to the next one already. Take care
Great video as always! I owned the F10, which was the first one of these and it's also very impressive how great the imagequality is for such an old camera! And it's so small and fast. Great camera for so little money. Fun to shoot and great results.
Really like the pictures you posted from this camera. I recently shot a little bit with a Fujifilm j28 with a 10mpx ccd and was super surprised at what these little things produce. Great video, and have a great day 🖖
I’ve been looking for one of these at a reasonable price for over a year now and finally hit the jackpot on the sister f20 in mint condition for $56 shipped with a shutter count of 20, an xd card, leather case, extra batteries and a card reader. Would have preferred the f31fd but I refuse to pay $200+ for a decent condition one after factoring in batteries and a card reader, let alone a mint one at $300+. A/S mode and a slightly better screen just isn’t worth it. Can’t wait to shoot with it!
The FinePix F31 really was a breakthrough when it came out. I recommended one to a family member who loved it and used it for many years. I thought about buying an F30 or F31 for myself a few years ago since I had such fond memories, but ended up getting a super inexpensive FinePix F11 instead. It's not quite as refined, slightly lower resolution and sensitivity but is very similar in use and in output. The F11 was a variant sold only in non-US markets which had slightly more manual control than the F10. It's a lot of fun and I often take it with me for interesting macro shots.
I have the F10 & the F11 at lower ISO they are almost as good but the F30/31 are better and way easier to use. The XF1 is even better but its a bit expensive but has the super ccd tech on a cmos exr chip. Its amazing
Thanks for this review! It made me pull out my Fuji Finepix F200EXR with a super CCD sensor to shoot with again. The portraits that I took of my kids at the time were rather nice, I could even say they were filmic like as they were not too sharp.
I enjoyed your video presentation of this camera. In reference to editing photos, I think one video discussing your overall approach and technique would be more than sufficient.
just stumbled upon your channel today and I just wanted to let you know that I love your contents! I've been shooting a lot in y2k digicams lately and I love that you're also shooting digicams and show your work in videos. You are inspiring to start talking about my digicams collections
In 2006-7 I bought this camera for the architecture firm I worked at because guys would walk construction sites with awful lighting conditions shooting unusable cellphone pix. It was very popular and often went "missing".
just to follow up actually on my last comment - manual mode is the only mode you can set AUTO ISO/400/800 etc. You can't do AUTO ISO 400 for eg in any other mode. M doesn't let you set aperture of shutter either. it just gives you that AUTO iso mode and some other WB/photometry settings that aren't in Auto mode. So that's one thing people may have wanted, to have AUTO ISO 400/800 in the A/S mode too.
Fantastic video and beautiful photos - as usual! A stand alone video on your post processing methods would be really interesting. Particularly as you say that you apply effectively the same process regardless of the camera. That would be really useful and avoid you having to repeat the same stuff in each video. Really enjoying the content and your enthusiasm for these older cameras. Thanks
Love this review. My first digital camera was one of finepix A series and loved its color. The price of old (so-called) digicams, especially finepix got raised a lot here in Korea recently and it’s hard to find one in good condition :( but thanks to you, I could just buy a dxo after watching this review. Excited to wait for delivery! ;)
You make me fall in love with every camera you review. This needs to stop! You're going to bankrupt me. Al kidding aside, it's very apparent by now that the common advantage all these camera's share is you behind the lens. I would love to see a separate video on how you edit, even with more modern files like the E-M5 III or the Leica SL for example.
those.. ccd sensors, but also love my Fuji Apsc Models from X-e1 to Xt-1 ! Fujis Colour Experience still blends in 2023! And you are are a very natural and enthuistastic person in Photography Life... Best Wishes from Germany, always watching your episodes with a personally heart warming feeling! Thx Thommy
Hey, i‘m thinking about buying ether a FD 31fd or a fd30 off of eBay. They’ re both quite expensive, but I am still considering. What would you suggest? I am really unsure because the fd31fd is more expensive than the fd30, and I’m not so sure about the difference and whether it’s worth paying more for the 31. Any recommendations? I am an absolute beginner and really unsure
I had a similar later Fuji Finepix compact camera, I forget the model number it was new in about 2012. It wasn’t built very well, you had to put a bit of card on top of the battery to make sure it made good contact with the battery contacts!! But it was a small camera and useful to leave in your jacket pocket or bag.
The Fuji E-550 had an earlier version of SuperCCD sensor, 6MP. It allowed forres‘ing up to 12MP jpgs, which had a very „flat“ look = good for post processing. The E-550 also had RAW. Also, the E-900 had RAW and 9MP. Both used AA batteries (which I like the idea of - no proprietary batteries to worry about). Both also had okay-ish optical viewfinders. Maybe a review of one of these would be nice…? :-)
The E-550 was released in 2004 and actually has the 4th gen SuperCCD, which came out 5 years prior in 1999. Great little cameras but a short two year run before the F series replaced it.
I have the Fujifilm Finepix F30, which was my first digital Camera, when it was new it was one of the very best performing compact Cameras. I do not use it any more, but the first years I had it I used it a lot, fx a tour in the mountains of Norway and Sweden, those hundreds of images are still fine today and someday I will go through those images with Gigapixel, to blow them up for prints. Nice Camera, I would have like the wide angle of the zoom Lens to be a bit more wide and the screen to be more easy to see in bright sunshine, it takes fine close-up images.
You nailed it! Great cameras but you actually called out one of the things I forgot to mention in my video which is that I would love for it to be a bit wider angle. It would be perfect if it started at 24 mm
Great little pro-tip for scooping gems like these for anyone interested. The average pawn shop usually has a bin of these older point and shoots kicking around. For peanuts 🤫
Lovely fuji CCD colors! Regarding your post-processing instructions, I think they would be better done as an individual webpage that you link to from each video post rather than that incorporating into the video, maybe. Ah the DXO. What an interesting concept that was and a great sensor it had for its time vs what was available for most mobile devices then. I thought about getting it at one point when it was on clearance but the thought of maybe stressing the lighting port of a phone, the seemingly fragile ergonomics, and also being dependent on the developer's software support near the end of its service life made me hesitate. It would be cool to get your take on what I missed out on :-)
I can’t wait to talk more about the DxO ONE. Really an interesting camera and concept. And thank you for the feedback! I’ll be working on a standalone video for sure
Cool, this took me down memory lane. One of my first cameras actually. Unfortunately, I didn't like the Fuji image quality. Probably why I have never tried a Fujifilm camera again.
I only just came across your channel and love of CCDs and was wondering what you’d make of the F30 - I remember convincing my family to get it while I was at school and all the camera magazines were raving about them. Thanks so much, now in need to dig it out for a shoot!
I seriously loved all your photos with this camera, the colors are incredible. also, wow! love seeing my old stoop and our photos from Paris! Miss you friend!!
I don't need it.....I don't need it. Lol As a Fuji Finepix Pro S2 owner, I didn't even know that they had the Super CCD sensor in a PnS body. Between this and my Minolta 7D, there's just something special about that old school color grading that hits the Nostalgia button just right.
The form of strap is round. it's very covenient. The strap is very reliable. Plastic grip can be broken easy. Broken grip is not a problem. The main flaw of point and shoot cameras - no horizont level. The grid is not the decision, cause it makes it difficult to identify and find best composition in frame.
the guy is a huge creep, she just mentioned his photographic style because it's a good example of a supper exaggerated high-key flash that people can instantly know what she meant
I can't seem to get this and the Canon Sd1000 or Ixus 70 anywhere in Ireland. But...I have got f60fd ..on the way to me through ebay...and a IXUS 330. Hopefully they will work..
This series, f20,f30,31fd are the best pocket cams u can get and they are cheap as dirt. N/SP = natural light/scene position. Has the np95 battery. Same as x100 so battery life is endless
What is the name of the music that plays close to the beginning and at the end of the video? 🙂I like it very much. By the way, very nice review. Nice camera, also. 🙂
I had 5 or six SuperCCD cams in those days, and I have none now! How could I just give them all away to my nephews who trashed them all brand new so quickly? I’ll never see those colors again…
Thanks for this great video! Just have a question about the XD card. Can't seem to find any which have storage above 512mb. Do you have any idea how many pictures this would store before having to export?
6Mpix Fine mode 2848x2136 - 170photos; 6Mpix Normal mode 2848x2136 - 339photos; 3:2 mode 3024x2016 - 339photos; 3Mpix 2048x1536 - 651photos; 2Mpix 1600x1200 - 818photos. The info from the User Manual of F31FD, the end of manual: chapter "Technical Characteristics"
How do you transfer the pictures to your pc? Mine doesn't recognise the cam, thus i have to insert the xD crd into my Fuji A600 to transfer. Do you need specific drivers? I haven't found any.
Can you review the Canon SD1000 camera? I am looking for a cheap CCD that shoots jpegs with the film look straight out of the camera that is also travel friendly and pocketable. It can be a point to shoot style camera or a interchangeable lens camera
I don't have that camera unfortunately but you'll find the SD1000 is climbing in price thanks to this video : ruclips.net/video/js8JGtB6LGU/видео.html :)
the proper way to hold a point and shoot is with your thumbs and index fingers lol its not meant to be held like a dslr. i like the look of the images though
The G9 and 10 are better spec-ed, truly manual and can get amazing shots plus the ability to shoot raw. But for me who has a million cameras and is looking for something that is just straight up fun, the Fuji F3 FD suits my needs better.
@@OneMonthTwoCameras oh I completely understand the right tool for the job. I was more so asking which of the two is a better overall pick only comparing them to one another
Would you ever be interested in shooting a few SOOC JPGs to get a feel of what the camera is trying to do? With these smaller sensors most need editing, but I have a couple that can do it all without any post.
@@OneMonthTwoCameras somehow I missed that Chrome SOOC moment, but yeah, nice, thank you! I'm sure many of us know it needs a Curve modification or exposure tweak to satisfy our eyes.
Still own a F11 (super ccd) and a F70 EXR. The F70 takes SD cards, but the F11 was stuck to XD cards ... and recently the one I had just died on me, with still a lot of images on it. Out of the blue, just like that; no way to retrieve anything (I've tried). Those XD cards are hard to find nowadays, and pretty expensive too. From now I'll be using the F70 EXR more I guess.
I got nostalgic for this old camera and discovered your channel. I just wanted to let you know that this content is fantastic and I love what you're doing.
Oh my heart
F30 was my first digital camera and I give this little gem a lot of credit for my photography journey. I have had photos taken from this camera in curated gallery exhibitions and magazine prints. I had several photos published in the JPG Magazine, had a photo used by CBS News in their feature story about recession and housing crisis, and I was one of the runner up in the Popular Photography Magazine's 2007 Photographer of the Year award... all photos taken with the Fujifilm F30. My camera's sensor has a lot of dust on it and I have no idea how to clean it so it is sitting in my office drawer. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Oh man I have no idea how to clean off the dust but that is incredible. I love hearing your journey with these cameras.
Just buy another one. They go for $30 on ebay. Or the F20 is even cheaper but has no A/S mode
With my Panasonic LX100, I cut the bottom off a plastic bottle that would fit over the lens and attached the neck of the bottle to my vacuum cleaner using loads of gaffer tape to attach it to the hose. Then with the cleaner running and the bottle firmly over the lens, I switched to camera on and off whilst zooming the lens to it's extremes a few times, and that sucked the dust out with no damage to the camera. Please note I did not seal the bottle at the camera end, so no vacuum was created and air was able to flow in and through the lens.
I recognized your name from flickr -- your photos are truly exceptional. The F30 was also my first camera and it's surprisingly capable, even compared with newer point-n-shoots.
Another great video and camera! For those who want this sensor but dont want to pay the insane eBay prices for this camera, you can get this exact sensor in two other cameras that are much cheaper. The Fujifilm Finepix F20, which I just scored for $5 on eBay, and the Fujifilm Finepix S6000fd. The F20 is basically the F30 with a lower resolution display and a different battery. I also have the S6000 and think it's a better camera than the F20 or F31fd as well. Has all the settings and features from the F31fd plus more. Better lens with a very useful 28mm-300mm equivalent that acts just like a DSLR lens. You turn it to zoom rather than a little rocker switch, and it has a manual focus ring! It also goes to ISO 3200, shutter speeds up to 1/4000s, its got an EVF and probably most importantly, it shoots RAW whereas the F31fd is JPEG only. Just a much more pro camera than the F31fd IMO, it's just packed with tons of features and a steal for what they are running on eBay right now. Hope that helps.
A couple of years ago I got an F30 at a second-hand shop for a really low price. I didn't really know about the reputation of the F30 and F31, I simply remembered reading somewhere that the FinePix 'F' series were higher-quality. When I reviewed the first test shots I was instantly blown away. I expected nice Fuji colours, of course; but I didn't expect usable night shots taken at 1600 ISO (the maximum value the F30 will go, versus the F31FD's 3200 ISO), nor did I expect this kind of dynamic range from a point-and-shoot from 2006. And as you say, battery life is incredible - and I'm still using the battery I got with the camera.
Thanks for this lovely review, which I was looking forward to. And great photos, of course! Cheers! //Rick
That is so awesome! I love stumbling across these cameras that maybe go unappreciated by others but then blow us away
1. don't worry about the video length. we'll gobble up anything that you put out.
2. your reviews have improved a lott! i really love the set you used for this one. mostly grey with accents of green, red and orange. very simple and very beautiful.
3. please don't balance your laptop that precariously. makes me anxious looking at it. 😂
Thank you Amal! And do not worry; no laptops were harmed in the making of this video :P
This content of yours was a big trigger for me to buy a f31fd. Thank you very much. Now I am enjoying the "nostalgic" experience.
Great to hear!
Where do you find storage cards for your f31fd? My regular sd cards won’t fit
😂 I am just filled with nostalgia looking at these images reminds me of life before having children.
:P!!
I got the F50se and f60fd. Was so impressed by the photos, I’m now waiting on an f30. These fujifilm cameras with their super ccd sensors are superb!
That is awesome! I have an F50 as well. It will make its way into the rotation in the future :)
Great review. Always makes me want to try the camera out! Btw I sit through the whole 20 minutes, so longer vids are no problem, so it'd be cool to see the editing process.
Wow thanks Gab! Great and helpful to hear.
Great review. I was using a Casio Exilim EX-750 7.2 mp camera around 2005. I made 8x10 prints with no problem at all, they look great, don't let the old cameras or low MP count deter anyone from printing!
The main task is to determine which colors you like best: Canon, Olympus, Fuji, Nikon, Panasonic. All of them have specific color shades. After using some cameras of different vendors with CCD sensor, I made my choice on Panasonic color shades.
Such filmic colors and rendering! CCD FTW.
It's wild how much these sensors give the feels
You can buy an XD adapter that takes micro SD cards. They are very cheap on Ebay.
2GB is the max sized XD card that the F31 will write to.
I love the pictures you got!! They looks so good! I'm excited that these old digital cameras are coming back since I grew up with these cameras. My mom always had one on her from 2011 up until like 2018 when she got an android phone. I use to steal them from her to take pictures of my Monster High dolls and my cat lol. I found 2 of our old cameras and I'm excited to start using them again! :)
So cool! I hope you enjoy!
Really good point about shooting at lower exposure to protect the highlights in these older digicams. Being used to shooting later cameras with raw, it's easy to forget how quickly these things blow highlights. I'm inclined to leave the F30 at -2/3 EV when shooting in bright sunlight, or at night with prominent street/shop lights.
Exactly! I am always shooting all these older camera that way. Makes all the difference.
+1 for one video about the process of editing JPG files from older cameras 🙂 Thanks for a great review. F30 was my very first digital camera and the very first camera I bought with my own money. I still have it at the bottom of some forgotten drawer but now I want to find it and see if it still works 😄
That is awesome! And thank you for the feedback. I'll start to get a dedicated video into the plan!
Twenty, thirty, forty minutes? Makes no difference to me; I love hearing your thoughts and listening to your reviews. Personally, I'm not big into major post-processing effects and have avoided LR (so far, so good!). Go with whatever you feel comfortable with. That DXO looks great fun! Looking forward to the next one already. Take care
Haha! Thanks Cliff! Excited to get to know this weird little DXO marvel.
Thank you for your excellent review. This inspired me to pull my F31fd out of the "old tech" box and give it a (re-)try in 2023 (nearly 2024). 📷 👍
Great video as always! I owned the F10, which was the first one of these and it's also very impressive how great the imagequality is for such an old camera! And it's so small and fast. Great camera for so little money. Fun to shoot and great results.
Thanks the comment and couldn't agree with you more!
Really like the pictures you posted from this camera. I recently shot a little bit with a Fujifilm j28 with a 10mpx ccd and was super surprised at what these little things produce. Great video, and have a great day 🖖
That's awesome David! Yeah these cameras are little ancient jewels.
I enjoy long format video. 30 minutes doesn’t necessarily turn me off from watching, and in most circumstances, it excites me when a video is long.
I’ve been looking for one of these at a reasonable price for over a year now and finally hit the jackpot on the sister f20 in mint condition for $56 shipped with a shutter count of 20, an xd card, leather case, extra batteries and a card reader. Would have preferred the f31fd but I refuse to pay $200+ for a decent condition one after factoring in batteries and a card reader, let alone a mint one at $300+. A/S mode and a slightly better screen just isn’t worth it. Can’t wait to shoot with it!
The FinePix F31 really was a breakthrough when it came out. I recommended one to a family member who loved it and used it for many years. I thought about buying an F30 or F31 for myself a few years ago since I had such fond memories, but ended up getting a super inexpensive FinePix F11 instead. It's not quite as refined, slightly lower resolution and sensitivity but is very similar in use and in output. The F11 was a variant sold only in non-US markets which had slightly more manual control than the F10. It's a lot of fun and I often take it with me for interesting macro shots.
I've heard about the F11. Sounds like a great camera as well!
I have the F10 & the F11 at lower ISO they are almost as good but the F30/31 are better and way easier to use. The XF1 is even better but its a bit expensive but has the super ccd tech on a cmos exr chip. Its amazing
Very enjoyable video.
They do print better than you might expect. A friend had a gallery exhibition years back of his F10-31D photos in Hong Kong.
That is awesome!
Thanks for this review! It made me pull out my Fuji Finepix F200EXR with a super CCD sensor to shoot with again. The portraits that I took of my kids at the time were rather nice, I could even say they were filmic like as they were not too sharp.
That is awesome Wendy!
I enjoyed your video presentation of this camera. In reference to editing photos, I think one video discussing your overall approach and technique would be more than sufficient.
Thank you Anthony! Appreciate the feedback.
just stumbled upon your channel today and I just wanted to let you know that I love your contents! I've been shooting a lot in y2k digicams lately and I love that you're also shooting digicams and show your work in videos. You are inspiring to start talking about my digicams collections
In 2006-7 I bought this camera for the architecture firm I worked at because guys would walk construction sites with awful lighting conditions shooting unusable cellphone pix. It was very popular and often went "missing".
Ha! Amazing
just to follow up actually on my last comment - manual mode is the only mode you can set AUTO ISO/400/800 etc. You can't do AUTO ISO 400 for eg in any other mode. M doesn't let you set aperture of shutter either. it just gives you that AUTO iso mode and some other WB/photometry settings that aren't in Auto mode. So that's one thing people may have wanted, to have AUTO ISO 400/800 in the A/S mode too.
Fun video! The Chrome setting shots look great. Camera is worth the price of admission just for that.
Totally agree!
Good pictures, I really love the range of that generation Fuji cameras.
Fantastic video and beautiful photos - as usual! A stand alone video on your post processing methods would be really interesting. Particularly as you say that you apply effectively the same process regardless of the camera. That would be really useful and avoid you having to repeat the same stuff in each video. Really enjoying the content and your enthusiasm for these older cameras. Thanks
Thank you Andy! Appreciate you watching it and appreciate the feedback. I’ll be working on a standalone video shortly
Love this review. My first digital camera was one of finepix A series and loved its color. The price of old (so-called) digicams, especially finepix got raised a lot here in Korea recently and it’s hard to find one in good condition :( but thanks to you, I could just buy a dxo after watching this review. Excited to wait for delivery! ;)
Oh that’s exciting! I can’t wait to hear what you think of the DXO and I can’t wait to make my review!
Love your reviews! Great to see such fun budget friendly options.
Thanks so much! Glad you like them!
You make me fall in love with every camera you review. This needs to stop! You're going to bankrupt me.
Al kidding aside, it's very apparent by now that the common advantage all these camera's share is you behind the lens.
I would love to see a separate video on how you edit, even with more modern files like the E-M5 III or the Leica SL for example.
Ha you are too kind. Thank you and yes, I would love to do a video like that. I'll have to do a camera files through the ages post vid. :P
I'm really proud, that I bought them all, Fd 31fd, fd30, fd20, Fuji e550,fuji e900- love dose
those.. ccd sensors, but also love my Fuji Apsc Models from X-e1 to Xt-1 ! Fujis Colour Experience still blends in 2023! And you are are a very natural and enthuistastic person in Photography Life... Best Wishes from Germany, always watching your episodes with a personally heart warming feeling! Thx Thommy
What a beautiful collection you have! Well done 👏🏼
Hey, i‘m thinking about buying ether a FD 31fd or a fd30 off of eBay. They’ re both quite expensive, but I am still considering. What would you suggest? I am really unsure because the fd31fd is more expensive than the fd30, and I’m not so sure about the difference and whether it’s worth paying more for the 31. Any recommendations? I am an absolute beginner and really unsure
Great review! I my opinion, I would like to see one separate video for post-production pics. Thanks for your vids.
Thank you Rene!
Wow, great photos... Fuji cameras always amaze me
Thank you Gus! Agree - these fuji cams are a delight.
I had a similar later Fuji Finepix compact camera, I forget the model number it was new in about 2012. It wasn’t built very well, you had to put a bit of card on top of the battery to make sure it made good contact with the battery contacts!! But it was a small camera and useful to leave in your jacket pocket or bag.
Gotta love the camera you can always have on you.
I still keep my f31fd and totally agree with everything you say but a disposable camera. And they sell for $150-300 :-).
The Fuji E-550 had an earlier version of SuperCCD sensor, 6MP. It allowed forres‘ing up to 12MP jpgs, which had a very „flat“ look = good for post processing. The E-550 also had RAW. Also, the E-900 had RAW and 9MP. Both used AA batteries (which I like the idea of - no proprietary batteries to worry about). Both also had okay-ish optical viewfinders. Maybe a review of one of these would be nice…? :-)
I'd love to review those! Have them both I believe.
The E-550 was released in 2004 and actually has the 4th gen SuperCCD, which came out 5 years prior in 1999. Great little cameras but a short two year run before the F series replaced it.
I have the Fujifilm Finepix F30, which was my first digital Camera, when it was new it was one of the very best performing compact Cameras. I do not use it any more, but the first years I had it I used it a lot, fx a tour in the mountains of Norway and Sweden, those hundreds of images are still fine today and someday I will go through those images with Gigapixel, to blow them up for prints. Nice Camera, I would have like the wide angle of the zoom Lens to be a bit more wide and the screen to be more easy to see in bright sunshine, it takes fine close-up images.
You nailed it! Great cameras but you actually called out one of the things I forgot to mention in my video which is that I would love for it to be a bit wider angle. It would be perfect if it started at 24 mm
@@OneMonthTwoCameras Yes, 24 to 70mm would have been perfect
Wonderful review! I got my start on a 2001 Fuji bridge camera. This takes me back.
Aww that is awesome! Thanks for the comment as always :)
Great little pro-tip for scooping gems like these for anyone interested. The average pawn shop usually has a bin of these older point and shoots kicking around. For peanuts 🤫
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Lovely fuji CCD colors! Regarding your post-processing instructions, I think they would be better done as an individual webpage that you link to from each video post rather than that incorporating into the video, maybe.
Ah the DXO. What an interesting concept that was and a great sensor it had for its time vs what was available for most mobile devices then. I thought about getting it at one point when it was on clearance but the thought of maybe stressing the lighting port of a phone, the seemingly fragile ergonomics, and also being dependent on the developer's software support near the end of its service life made me hesitate. It would be cool to get your take on what I missed out on :-)
I can’t wait to talk more about the DxO ONE. Really an interesting camera and concept. And thank you for the feedback! I’ll be working on a standalone video for sure
Cool, this took me down memory lane. One of my first cameras actually. Unfortunately, I didn't like the Fuji image quality. Probably why I have never tried a Fujifilm camera again.
I only just came across your channel and love of CCDs and was wondering what you’d make of the F30 - I remember convincing my family to get it while I was at school and all the camera magazines were raving about them. Thanks so much, now in need to dig it out for a shoot!
That is awesome! Welcome to the channel and thanks for the comment!
"Should I do a video on how I process my images or should I add that to every one of my videos?"
YES
Thank you for the feedback! I'll start to get a dedicated video into the plan.
I seriously loved all your photos with this camera, the colors are incredible. also, wow! love seeing my old stoop and our photos from Paris! Miss you friend!!
Isn’t it so fun to look back at these old photos! I remember getting this camera specifically for that trip and I’m so glad that I did
Greit review! Really looking forward to seeing the review of the dxo camera. Kinda forgot that it exist.
Thank you! Can’t wait to share more about the DXO
I don't need it.....I don't need it. Lol As a Fuji Finepix Pro S2 owner, I didn't even know that they had the Super CCD sensor in a PnS body. Between this and my Minolta 7D, there's just something special about that old school color grading that hits the Nostalgia button just right.
S2 Pro + Minolta 7D that's an awesome combination. Forgotten and dispised by many but if you know, you know!
Haha! SORRRRYYYYY!
Because this is a point and shoot it's better served as a conceal and carry.
classic camera. you can control exp in a/s mode too, i think you just said in manual.
*Beautiful images!* 📸
Thank you Olga 🙏🏻
The form of strap is round. it's very covenient. The strap is very reliable. Plastic grip can be broken easy. Broken grip is not a problem. The main flaw of point and shoot cameras - no horizont level. The grid is not the decision, cause it
makes it difficult to identify and find best composition in frame.
lols you mentioned terry richardson. thanks for the review I might pick one up but im torn between some other compacts right now.
There are a lot of choices out there!
the guy is a huge creep, she just mentioned his photographic style because it's a good example of a supper exaggerated high-key flash that people can instantly know what she meant
I have another camera for you 😁
Casio EX-Z750
Surprisingly Ken Rockwell used to use this camera as his walk around pocket camera.
*Cost about $25
Great video. Would definitely like to see a post processing video.
Thank you for the feedback! I'll start to get a dedicated video into the plan.
Amazing pics as always 😊
TYSM!
@@OneMonthTwoCameras Thanks for the inspiration 🥰
@@horizongrid the pleasure is all mine!
@@OneMonthTwoCameras Thanks for being so nice. Kisses from Portugal 🇵🇹
I can't seem to get this and the Canon Sd1000 or Ixus 70 anywhere in Ireland.
But...I have got f60fd ..on the way to me through ebay...and a IXUS 330. Hopefully they will work..
This series, f20,f30,31fd are the best pocket cams u can get and they are cheap as dirt. N/SP = natural light/scene position. Has the np95 battery. Same as x100 so battery life is endless
I’m so grateful you shared with me! These cameras are just the best!
@@OneMonthTwoCameras your welcome thank u for re-introducing them to the world.😁
They're getting rarer and not dirt cheap because of this video. 😩
Nice shots, I'm a big fan of digicams.
Thanks Jeff!
I would love to see Your tutorial on post processing Your pictures 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🔥❤️
It’s in the works!
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That 36 to 108 zoom seem to end up in a lot of camera. Got a feeling it's the same lens in different brands
Just watched your vid, i was looking to buy something like that!! In Portugal it's just hard to find
These are unfortunately getting hard to find everywhere. People are getting more and more hip to the awesomeness of these old cameras
unfortunately i couldn't find it in spain but it seems like Nikon Coolpix P50 would be a good alternative
What is the name of the music that plays close to the beginning and at the end of the video? 🙂I like it very much. By the way, very nice review. Nice camera, also. 🙂
One video on how you do post processing.
Thank you for the feedback. I'll start to get a dedicated video into the plan.
I have this camera and the monochrome files are very fine.
PS How to get rid of purple fringing? Is there a CA button in Lightroom?
I really missed the SuperCCD sensor on the older finepix cameras.
They were well ahead of their time
Hey there, I recently bought this and keen to learn about it. May i know what card you use and how you transfer pictures?
I had 5 or six SuperCCD cams in those days, and I have none now! How could I just give them all away to my nephews who trashed them all brand new so quickly? I’ll never see those colors again…
Ugh you and so many of us in that same boat not realizing the gold we had.
canon powershot s60 has raw and 6mpx, ccd , intervalometer. Same era I think.
Ooo googling now :)
Thanks for this great video! Just have a question about the XD card. Can't seem to find any which have storage above 512mb. Do you have any idea how many pictures this would store before having to export?
6Mpix Fine mode 2848x2136 - 170photos; 6Mpix Normal mode 2848x2136 - 339photos; 3:2 mode 3024x2016 - 339photos; 3Mpix 2048x1536 - 651photos; 2Mpix 1600x1200 - 818photos.
The info from the User Manual of F31FD, the end of manual: chapter "Technical Characteristics"
Really broke my heart when someone broke into my car and stole my camera, along with the photos that were lost forever on the memory card.
How do you transfer the pictures to your pc? Mine doesn't recognise the cam, thus i have to insert the xD crd into my Fuji A600 to transfer. Do you need specific drivers? I haven't found any.
It's my first camera. Wonderful🎉❤
Can you review the Canon SD1000 camera? I am looking for a cheap CCD that shoots jpegs with the film look straight out of the camera that is also travel friendly and pocketable. It can be a point to shoot style camera or a interchangeable lens camera
I don't have that camera unfortunately but you'll find the SD1000 is climbing in price thanks to this video : ruclips.net/video/js8JGtB6LGU/видео.html :)
Thanks for the review! Could you please let me know if it’s possible to transfer photos directly to a mac computer via usb cable?
Yes it works via USB transfer from camera via Image Capture on a Mac! I can’t speak to a PC but I imagine it cl would be the same
Thanks!
the proper way to hold a point and shoot is with your thumbs and index fingers lol its not meant to be held like a dslr. i like the look of the images though
I don’t believe in proper anything ;)
Killer review! I have a quick question would you go for a Canon G9 or G10 if they are priced the same?
The G9 and 10 are better spec-ed, truly manual and can get amazing shots plus the ability to shoot raw. But for me who has a million cameras and is looking for something that is just straight up fun, the Fuji F3 FD suits my needs better.
@@OneMonthTwoCameras oh I completely understand the right tool for the job. I was more so asking which of the two is a better overall pick only comparing them to one another
@@TheRebelBagel I'd say the G series as they were a bit later and gave far more control.
im looking for a solid digicam that doesn't have great quality. does anybody have a good rec?
Hi nice reviews like the others u make,its possible you make a video about the canon sd1000 aka ixus 70? Thanks
Thank you! I'll keep an eye out for those cameras.
@@OneMonthTwoCameras nicee thx 💙
Im nervous for the Macbook 🥲😭❤️
:P
Today i understand why the manual has a part like: How to hold the Camera?
May I ask if the photos you post in the review are SOOC or are they edited to look like film?
Hope this is helpful :) ruclips.net/video/-DFHtgyRjEU/видео.html
Would you ever be interested in shooting a few SOOC JPGs to get a feel of what the camera is trying to do? With these smaller sensors most need editing, but I have a couple that can do it all without any post.
There are a couple at 5:31 and I tried to show some before and after throughout.
@@OneMonthTwoCameras somehow I missed that Chrome SOOC moment, but yeah, nice, thank you! I'm sure many of us know it needs a Curve modification or exposure tweak to satisfy our eyes.
A stand alone about upscaling would be helpful. Never really understood it. I do mostly everything in camera
Colors!!!!
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It is possible to get your Lr in mobile version?
Silly question but what SD card are you using? I’m getting card error!
2GB is the limit. Makes sure it's 2GB or less.
Still own a F11 (super ccd) and a F70 EXR. The F70 takes SD cards, but the F11 was stuck to XD cards ... and recently the one I had just died on me, with still a lot of images on it. Out of the blue, just like that; no way to retrieve anything (I've tried). Those XD cards are hard to find nowadays, and pretty expensive too. From now I'll be using the F70 EXR more I guess.
Oh no! What a bummer that it died so suddenly. I suppose that will eventually happen to all my old cameras....
@@OneMonthTwoCameras The Fuji F11 is still okay as far as I'm aware; it's the XDcard that (in the F11 camera) just died on me ;-)
@@pixelpeter3883 oh interesting!
@@OneMonthTwoCameras Looking forwards to your DXO camera-dongle review :-)
can someone please tell me the name of that acress i cannot sleep
that macbook is making me anxious
Ha! You're not alone; a few people have mentioned it :P
@@OneMonthTwoCameras haha. That’s basically my daily work setup in the afternoons here in Oregon.
@@patrickjclarke I mean who could blame you?! Also tell Oregon to cool it with this heatwave. 😂
@@OneMonthTwoCameras ugh, for sure on the heat. Over it.
Bạn có fuji f100fd không. Bạn hãy làm video về nó
I'll keep my eyes out for an F100fd!
Please 10-15' dedicated videos 😃✌️
Thank you for the feedback. I'll start to get a dedicated video into the plan.
The next X100 should have an APSC super CCD sensor. That's all.
Holy crap I wouldn't survive the excitement. :P
Plastic is better because its lighter. I would gladly give up a little durability for lighter weight.
Song?
These metal bodies were always "bling". Their build quality isn't an eyesore when you take these out in public. Shame it's XD though.
Yeah the xd is a bit of a fumble but if you have other xd cameras (aka love old cameras) it may not be too much of an issue.