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The Fuji S5 pro is no longer available. It has been discontinued. I contacted Fuji UK to see if they will be getting more in and they said that it is no longer made. They also said that there is no replacement in the pipeline and that Fuji are happy to concentrate on the compact camera and bridge camera market where they have a good share of the market.

No other camera on the market can match the S5 Pro's dynamic range, colours and skin tones. It is the most 'film like' digital camera available. Those of us who own this camera know how good it is and how much time it saves us in post processing and trying to recover blown highlights which is a common problem with all other digital cameras regardless of price.

Those out there who have never owned one don't know what they are missing. It may be slow and have a lower pixel count than other digital SLR's but the good points far outweigh the bad points. I suppose if you are a sports photographer then look elsewhere but for portrait, wedding and landscape photographers this is one very special camera.

Now that the S5 Pro has been discontinued it will be missed and will be much sought after meaning that the camera will be worth it's weight in gold.

I have used many Nikon and Canon DSLR's but my favourite is the S5 Pro.
I've managed to secure a second brand new body and am very happy that I now have two. I will be holding on to these for a long long time so please don't ask me to sell you one.

Long live the S5 Pro !

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What a shame.

Can I ask, sorry if it's a stoopid question......
Does the excellent dynamic range still apply to raw shots?

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The big "sale" at the end of last year was to clear stocks, Fuji UK themselves have had none for ages, the company have also stopped producing batteries for the camera, so if you want a spare genuine one then best buy it now ;)
 
nooooo :(

no replacement in the pipeline..... :(

The big "sale" at the end of last year was to clear stocks, Fuji UK themselves have had none for ages, the company have also stopped producing batteries for the camera, so if you want a spare genuine one then best buy it now
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I did love the big "sale"... 420 for an S5 back then... bargain :D
 
Yes Andy it does and I always shoot raw anyway. Just to give you an idea a Canon 5D has a dynamic range of 8.5 stops whereas a Fuji S5 Pro has a dynamic range of approx 12 stops. Most digital cameras are somewhere between 8-9 stops of dynamic range. If you shoot raw you can usually get an extra stop to recover highlights but I have seen 3-4 stop overexposed shots from the S5 Pro recovered without any shifts in colour. Impressive stuff.
 
TommyGun said:
Yes Andy it does and I always shoot raw anyway. Just to give you an idea a Canon 5D has a dynamic range of 8.5 stops whereas a Fuji S5 Pro has a dynamic range of approx 12 stops. Most digital cameras are somewhere between 8-9 stops of dynamic range. If you shoot raw you can usually get an extra stop to recover highlights but I have seen 3-4 stop overexposed shots from the S5 Pro recovered without any shifts in colour. Impressive stuff.
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Blimey :eek:
I wonder every day if I should trade my D200 for an S5 :thinking:

Thanks for the reply.
 
Here we go again you pixel peepers. It's not all about pixels mate. The more pixels you put on a sensor the smaller they are and the less sensitive they are to light resulting in noise at high ISO. You see it all the time with these stupid compact digital cameras with 14 miliion pixels. Give me the Fuji F30 anyday compared to all that rubbish.

BTW what is the largest print you guys have made with an S5 Pro ?
 
I used to own a Nikon D200 but suffered from blown highlights everytime I shot a wedding on a sunny day but have never had that problem with my S5 Pro. I used to spend ages using Lightroom trying to recover those highlights but as you all know once 255 is hit nothing can recover the detail as there is no detail left in the highlights. I can bring back all the detail in highlights on the S5 Pro with just a small adjustment of the recovery slider saving me so much time and frustration.
 
I've only had my S5 for a few weeks but I'm already noticing the difference in my portraits. I love this camera! Such a shame they aren't planning on a replacement, though it's understandable why not.
 
Yes Flash in the Pan the colours from the S5 Pro blow all the other cameras away.
 
Oh no, now I've started wanting an S5 again!!!!!

So, would it be less 'noisy' than the D200?
 
The D200 is not a very good camera at high ISO. I used to have a Nikon D50 that was better than the D200 at ISO 1600. The D200 is pretty useless after ISO 400 or maybe 800 at a push but the Fuji images are easily usable at ISO 1600. Again it comes down to pixel size and density with the D50 only having 6 MP whereas the D200 has 10.2MP so the pixels in the D50 are larger and much more sensitive to light.
 
TommyGun said:
The D200 is not a very good camera at high ISO. I used to have a Nikon D50 that was better than the D200 at ISO 1600. The D200 is pretty useless after ISO 400 or maybe 800 at a push but the Fuji images are easily usable at ISO 1600. Again it comes down to pixel size and density with the D50 only having 6 MP whereas the D200 has 10.2MP so the pixels in the D50 are larger and much more sensitive to light.
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Yes I've noticed :D

The one thing that puts me off a tiny bit about the S5 is the difference in speed. Is it that bad, compared to the D200?

Thanks to all for the replies :thumbs:
 
The D200 can achieve 5 frames per second and S5 Pro only about 3 which drops to about 1.3 when you shoot raw with the dynamic range extended. Depends what you shoot if it's sports then stick with your D200. I don't have any problems as I shoot mainly portraits and weddings and I never used the 5 frames per second on the D200.
 
andy_fozzy said:
The one thing that puts me off a tiny bit about the S5 is the difference in speed. Is it that bad, compared to the D200?
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I wouldn't use it for sports photography but if you're planning on using it for wedding and portraits then the speed really isn't an issue.

The only thing I don't like about it is the menu system which seems horribly clunky compared to my Nikons.
 
You get used to it after a while . I don't have any problems with the menu system.
 
Lazlo Woodbine said:
I wouldn't use it for sports photography but if you're planning on using it for wedding and portraits then the speed really isn't an issue.

The only thing I don't like about it is the menu system which seems horribly clunky compared to my Nikons.
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Cool, thanks.
Thinking mostly of landscapes, buildings etc. I like my HDR :love:

Do the occasional bit of aircraft, birds, etc.......
 
andy_fozzy said:
Oh no, now I've started wanting an S5 again!!!!!

So, would it be less 'noisy' than the D200?
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Matt's Corsa was less noisy when the exhaust fell off ;)

Oh aye and it's hopeless for stuff like motorsports, took mine to Knockhill on Sunday and after 5 minutes it went back in the boot of the car :bang:
 
Andy you don't need HDR when you have an S5 Pro. There are times when you don't have the time or a tripod or the subject moves making it impossible to take three shots to combine to HDR.
 
TommyGun said:
Andy you don't need HDR when you have an S5 Pro. There are times when you don't have the time or a tripod or the subject moves making it impossible to take three shots to combine to HDR.
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Hmmmmmm..............

Thanks again. You've all given me something to think about when I'm supposed to be sleeping in a few minutes :D
 
I love mine, hardly have to shoot RAW any more since it absolutely nails those skin tones and highlights. :)

Menus aren't as intuitive as the Nikons, but you can still zip through them at a reasonable pace.
 
I can't believe that I turned one down when I was looking for a second body. It was a 100% working one that was a little tatty (just a bit scratched) for £250 !
 
There is no doubting the Fuji S5. Its a shame Fuji is stopping them, maybe they sold them too cheap, its ok to sell a compact cheap as they sell loads but I would say their financial teams got it wrong with an S5

I bought the S1 when they first came out and cost £2500,we bought four of them in total and they always had an advantage over other digital camera where skin tones were concerned.

Last year we bought an S5 direct from Fuji for £360. Matched against the Canon 5D the skin tones were as good as the Canon but no better. Where it really fell down though was speed, especially when in raw mode. I guess it depends on how quickly you work and we work quickly. The Fuji S5 was constantly stopping to write the files. Hence it went.

But for a digital camera under £500 it could not be beaten

stew
 
artona said:
There is no doubting the Fuji S5. Its a shame Fuji is stopping them, maybe they sold them too cheap, its ok to sell a compact cheap as they sell loads but I would say their financial teams got it wrong with an S5

I bought the S1 when they first came out and cost £2500,we bought four of them in total and they always had an advantage over other digital camera where skin tones were concerned.

Last year we bought an S5 direct from Fuji for £360. Matched against the Canon 5D the skin tones were as good as the Canon but no better. Where it really fell down though was speed, especially when in raw mode. I guess it depends on how quickly you work and we work quickly. The Fuji S5 was constantly stopping to write the files. Hence it went.

But for a digital camera under £500 it could not be beaten

stew
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I don't think the general market really understood the S5, after all why would you want to buy a camera that looked like a Nikon D200 and handled like one, but had 4mp less (sorry Andy :lol:) yet cost £100 more?

Once they dropped the price down to the sub-£500 level it started to sell, but I'd imagine Fuji were making a loss on them by that point, so from a commercial viewpoint they're probably glad to see the back of it.

The file-write speed is, as you say, the camera's biggest flaw - if you plan on turning the DR up to 400% and selecting the biggest file size then it's advisable to take a good book with you on shoots to read between shots, it really is painfully slow, especially if you're used to something like a D300.

Having said that, if you buy one for speed then you're missing the whole point of the camera, which is what a lot of the reviewers did when it was first launched....
 
Flash In The Pan said:
The file-write speed is, as you say, the camera's biggest flaw - if you plan on turning the DR up to 400% and selecting the biggest file size then it's advisable to take a good book with you on shoots to read between shots, it really is painfully slow, especially if you're used to something like a D300..
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Also advisable to buy shares in Sandisk :lol:
 
I was very tempted to buy one of these when I upgraded from my D70s.... but went the D300 route and am very pleased I did.
 
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