There is no photomagazine that not describes Fuji's new F30 gadget to be the best ever made camera in her class.

I wanted to know more about it and bought this camera and made serious tests. I compared the result to Nikon's Coolpix 880 I ow since 6 years and that makes the best ever pictures I have seen from small sized click 'n go gadgets.

The Fuji has the ability to make fair shots in all situations of light. Good shots are made up to 400 iso, fair good up to 800 iso and just average shots up to 1600 iso while 3200 iso shots are unusable. On one side that super CCD from Fuji plays a hughe game and on the other Fuji's noise flattening works just fine.

But, there is the reverse side of the coin as well. The F30 shot is hughe as long as your intention is to print small sized pictures for your home album or look this on a PC. The compression Fuji uses to make it's jpegs is just a disaster. Holes and losses are visible everywhere and every attempt to magnifie the shot let's you live the blank horror.

I compared at beginning of this gallery the shots to same or similar shots made with the Coolpix 880. Do not forget that the Nikon 885 shot is 1/2 of the size of the one from the F30. The Coolpix 880 has 3 mpix while the F30 has a 6 mpix chip. Fuji was set on fine full sized jpeg while the Nikon was adjusted to just normal jpeg full size quality, thus 2 levels lower then the maximum jpeg quality the Nikon can produce. The pictures are just 75% of the full quality size when the Nikon is set to jpeg fine. Look at the pictures and read my comments to make up your mind.

On the end, the F30 is a workhorse for just any adventurer, tourist or photographer who's intentions are to shoot shots in just any situation of light without the need to cary heavy and bulky stuff around and if the user knows how to handle manual settings she's just a great deal. For magazine prints the camera makes excellent pictures. When ever your goals are to make "serious" quality photography, large prints or just any photo that is close to professional skills, just forget it. Here the F30 will be the toy to avoid. Despite of it's fantastic manual working abilities and the hughe presets, the excellent Makro facilities, the AF system is allmost the worst I have ever seen and the jpeg quality is not following the performance that this camera offers.

But, once you know how to handle this little wonder, you just finish to love it. Take it for what it is, a small good working gadget that makes hughe pictures for your small home photoalbum and this just anywhere and at any light conditions and this with all it's qualities and faults it can bring you.

Enjoy these shots and don't forget that all shown here is just the way it comes right out of the camera. Check the exif data to see settings since most of those shots have been taken by using manual settings on the camera. Photoshop has been used to rotate the vertical shots since the camera doesn't manages this by her own.