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Newly Developed Fujinon Lens
The FinePix S100FS is a super-zoom digital camera, which incorporates a newly developed Fujinon lens optimized for nature photography. Rich, expressive capacity produces high resolution, making the most of the large 2/3-inch, 11.1 megapixel, Super CCD.
The FinePix S100FS incorporates a high-magnification 14.3x zoom lens which covers a broad zoom range from a wide angle of 28mm to long telephoto of 400mm and Super Macro for shots as close as 1cm from the subject (wide angle end). Manual zoom allows freedom of zooming and precise framing.
This 28mm - 400mm zoom lens with a 10 group and 13 element structure, exclusively designed for the FinePix S100FS, uses a non-spherical surface lens and an anomalous dispersion lens. The non-spherical surface lens suppresses distortion and the curved surface is ideal for efficient focusing of light onto one point, so it realizes high optical performance with a small number of elements. In addition, the anomalous dispersion lens compensates for chromatic aberration well and reduces color drift and mixing on contours - a common problem with telephoto lenses. The lens demonstrates high resolving power and excellent depiction over the entire zoom range. The lens produces clear images by suppressing reflected light inside the lens barrel and by thoroughly eliminating ghost images and flare, which is made possible through multiple coatings.
The lens and CCD were designed as one unit during the development of the FinePix S100FS. This design allows the ultrahigh precision Fujinon lens to achieve maximum resolution at all focal lengths of the long zoom of 28mm - 400mm. You can use the whole of your concentration on taking photos without having to think about changing lenses, unlike single-lens reflex cameras.
The lens-shift type image stabilization mechanism in the FinePix S100FS automatically detects vibration of the camera body by a sensor in the camera. This mechanism was devised with new compensation technology and makes the optical compensation function operate precisely according to the degree of vibration to refract light in the direction to compensate for the vibration. The mechanism produces a compensation effect equivalent to about three f stops.*
The FinePix S100FS does away with troublesome maintenance thanks to the composite body and lens structure, because there is no need to change lenses, so there is no penetration of dirt and dust onto the CCD. You will always take photos with a clean CCD.
Newly Developed CCD and New Processor for Inspiring Image Quality
The FinePix S100FS is a superzoom digital camera with composite lens for nature photography. The CCD, image processor, the lens to take in the light, etc., of the FinePix S100FS were all optimally designed under a new concept. The CCD sensor, the core unit of the FinePix S100FS, is a newly developed Super CCD VIII “HR”. The light receptor area is expanded because of the large 2/3-inch CCD with about 11.1 million effective pixels. FUJIFILM's unique octagonal shape helps to maintain high pixel numbers and enhance the light collection efficiency and light capture efficiency per pixel. The CCD materializes high resolution and high sensitivity with low noise and creates high resolving power which thoroughly expresses the details of subjects and has rich tonal expression with an extended Dynamic Range.
The FinePix S100FS's CCD has succeeded in reducing noise even further. The CCD reduces the effect of noise by raising the amplification factor of electric signals before output from the CCD by improving the amplifier which converts the electric charge created by the photodiode into electric signals. It becomes possible to transfer signals with a high S/N ratio which contributes to high-quality images for digital conversion.
The RP (Real Photo) Processor was developed through deepening FUJIFILM's original image processing technology. The further improved RP (Real Photo) Processor III is incorporated in the FinePix S100FS. The processor is able to read at high speed by using parallel processing achieved by combining the new dual channel output system developed for the 2 /3-inch Super CCD VIII “HR” with the 14-bit dual A / D conver ter for both rich tonality and high-speed reading. The unique double noise reduction system separates noise with great accuracy from the image signals input and meticulously eliminates noise. This makes it possible to create clear images with extremely low noise for ISO3200 ultrahigh sensitivity photographs with full pixels (11.1 megapixels ) . ISO10000 ultrahigh sensitivity wi th 3 maga recorded pixels is also an option. This processor created from FUJIFILM's sophisticated image processing technology, enables the creation of images with smooth tonal expression while maintaining high resolution and extended Dynamic Range.
