Fuji FinePix S9100
Digital Camera Review
Sep 27, 2006
- By Richard Baguley
An update of the venerable (well, venerable in the digital camera industry, at least) FinePix S9000, the S9100 has enough features to confuse a Ph.D. student. For starters, there’s a 10.7X optical zoom, a 9 megapixel sensor that uses Fuji’s Real Photo technology, a flip-out 2-inch LCD screen, plus picture stabilization and an intelligent flash system which Fuji claims more intelligently balances the flash output with ambient light. There are also dual CompactFlash and xD-Picture Card slots. It’s all built around a 9 megapixel Super CCD HR Image sensor in a case that has the look and feel of an SLR camera, but has a non-removable lens. One thing to note: the S9100 is known as the S9600 outside of the US, where our images were taken at the Photokina show in Cologne, Germany. So we didn’t get out models confused: we just traveled a bit to get them.
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Picture Quality/Size Options
The native resolution of the 1/1.6 inch Super CCD HR sensor is 3488 by 2616 pixels, with only a single level for image quality. Although there are no options for different levels of JPEG compression, you can record raw images. You cannot, however, record both RAW and JPEG images at the same time.
Picture Effects Mode
Fuji don’t offer any special effects modes (which is good, as they generally suck) beyond the Finepix chrome and black and white modes. The chrome mode boosts the color saturation, while the black and white mode (surprise, surprise) discards the color information to create a black and white image.
