NEW DELHI: Fujifilm has launched its FinePix F300 EXR compact camera with 15X zoom in India.
Priced at Rs 20,999, the F300EXR is equipped with the world’s first ‘Face detection pixel built-in CCD’ which ensures auto focus speed of 0.158 sec, or as fast as human eyes blink.
According to Fujifilm India managing director Kenichi Tanaka, “Today’s discerning photographers are looking for a camera with a high zoom range, yet compact and pocketable, with no compromises on picture quality or being irritated by slow auto focus or blur. F300EXR delivers on all those counts, and is destined to be the star performer in this year’s intense competition for the best ‘super zoom’ compact cameras.”
FinePix F300EXR is successor to Fujifilm’s ‘F’ series models.
Fuji placed pairs of face detection sensors on the EXR sensor, which works by receiving the incoming light of images and calculating the phase difference to find if the object is in front focus or back focus position. This mechanism is the same as that of external sensors on DSLRs and realizes the incredible auto focus speed of 0.158* sec.
The EXR has the ability to decide between the two focusing systems on the camera, which is hybrid auto focus system.
The camera also boasts of Motion Panorama feature that has been extended to 360 in degrees enabling the opportunity to capture the scene around you in a single photo.
F300EXR comes with a 15X lens which offers 24mm – 360mm focal length, while still optimizing quality via the new EXR sensor.
Such high zoom ratios have up till now only been possible in larger ‘bridge’ cameras, but F300EXR has a clever double sliding structured lens mechanism, which means that 2 lens elements neatly fold away from the path of the retracting lens, giving a remarkably neat, compact look, and a camera depth of 32.6 mm, all of which realize the world’s
smallest camera size.
F300EXR is fitted with a new 3″ high contrast wide-view 460k resolution LCD. The Wide View Filter on the LCD means that the camera can be pitched at various shooting angles to enable framing of awkward shots.