On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 01:03:18 -0000, Tony Cooper wrote:

On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:19:11 -0600, Savageduck
wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:52:38 -0000, newshound wrote:

On 27/01/2019 22:32, Commander Kinsey wrote:
https://www.nickcarverphotography.co...-is-backwards/

Now I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this. In fact more than
annoyed, I once BROKE a Nikon camera I'd rented, costing me £200, simply
by trying to attach the lens in the correct clockwise manner. The
rental company was not amused.

Agree with you about the bayonet, but FWIW the Fuji zoom goes the same
way as the Nikon. Clockwise is the positive direction, going out.

Never had a Fuji DSLR, but I won't be buying Fuji since two compact
cameras I bought have nowhere near the MP they claim.


Which compact cameras, and you know this how?

My "car camera" is a Fuji FinePix F600EXR, and it's the worst buying
decision I've made in the area of photography. I bought it when there
were not as many choices of compacts that have manual control and
shoot RAW as there are now. And, I made the mistake of buying a
camera online without handling it in person. The local stores didn't
have enough of a selection.

Oh dear, it seems they still haven't begun making decent cameras then, that model is newer than both of mine.

The zoom is jerky and extremely difficult to set to frame a photo.

Yip, my older Fujis had the same problem, the subject had usually moved away (an animal for example) by the time the bloody camera had focused.

Given enough time, I can frame the scene but that makes it worthless
for street photography. OK for a static scene, but that's not the
type of photo I go after. Shutter response is slow so any moving
target is blind luck. It's not good at low-light, but the RAW frame
can sometimes be rescued.

The reviews for the camera painted a good picture, but they were about
image quality. If I photograph a tree, I get a very sharp image. I'm
just not interested in the scenes that the Fuji is good at.

I don't even get a sharp image of a tree. Mine claims 10MP, but viewing it any higher than about 4MP gives an unsharp image.

Our daughter is going to Greece in March, and doesn't want to take her
Nikon DSLR. She'd like to get a compact for the trip. She borrowed my
Fuji for a couple of days and decided she'd be better off with a cheap
P&S. No RAW, but she'd rather have an easy-to-use P&S without that,
so she's doing the right thing and checking out cameras in stores that
she can handle before buying.

I regret selling my Canon DSLR. I thought a compact camera would be easier to take hillwalking etc, but the picture quality sux. I got sharper images from the Canon 6MP camera than from the Fuji 10MP camera. It's like everything nowadays, the number quoted on the box is meaningless. I bought some rechargeable batteries that claimed 2500mAh. I dared to actually test them and found they were 600mAh. I got 100% money back and got to keep them. An obvious fake piece of crap. I use them to power my electric toothbrush, they're utterly useless for cameras.