Fujifilm S5 Pro review
Verdict
With four portrait-orientated colour modes Fujifilm is clearly targeting the wedding and social photographer, and the S5 Pro’s extended dynamic range will certainly help tackle the common ‘black suit/white dress’ exposure nightmare. But is the S5 Pro fast enough? Any delay in shooting is unwelcome and after a while having to wait for the buffer to clear before you can review the image and check that eyes are open etc, is not only time consuming, but also a little embarrassing.
Accept that and the Fujifilm S5 Pro is an otherwise fine camera, with its low noise levels and extended dynamic range producing smooth, clean images with the minimum of fuss, even if we're not convinced that they’re ‘true’ 12 million pixel ones…
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June 23 15:42
John Gatchell
Quite a camera this one is. I have owned the camera for only a few months. Still learning all that it has to offer. From my entry into the digital camera world I have owned Fuji cameras. So it was only natural for me to purchase the s5 pro for my move from the compacts to a DSLR. As the price has come down quite a bit on the s5 it affords the opportunity for first time DSLR buyer to own a quality, pro-grade camera, as apposed to purchasing one of the consumer DSLR's for about the same price. I am absolutely pleased with the quality of the images produced. A big plus is the ability of the camera to use the vast amount of lenses with the Nikon mount. The high dynamic range must be seen to be believed! The buffer is slow, as you have reported in you article, but no problem for the type of shooting that I do.