It’s interesting to see how Fujifilm words the transfer of its operation to China. They say:
“Fujifilm Reinforces the Foundation of its Digital Camera Business Promoting cost competitiveness and increasing the pace of product development by optimizing its manufacturing and R&D business bases”
Really - what they are saying is that it’s cheaper to produce digital [...]

Here is a very interesting review on the speed comparisons between the Nikon D200 and the Fujifilm S5 Pro by RaduGrozescu.com.
He writes: “Most Fuji S5 pro owners will use it in a wide DR setting, so they will have to live with 1.6 fps which is about what one can “pump” the shutter [...]

Fujitsu Limited has announced the release of its new LSI image-processing chip MB91680A-T, for use with cutting edge Foveon X3 image sensors and 3CCD technology, as a new addition to Fujitsu’s Milbeautâ„¢ line of advanced image processing LSI chips for digital cameras, which includes the flagship model MB91680. The new chip enables sharp, high-quality images [...]

Here is an interesting comparison of the high ISO between the Fujifilm S5Pro and the Nikon D80. The pictures were from a Korean website called SLRClub.com. Considering the noise on the Nikon D80 rated very well in many reviews says a lot about the Fujifilm S5Pro.
At ISO 3200, the Fujifilm is very good.

Source: SLR Club [...]

According to the latest report by BCN which is market research firm constantly monitoring POS data from 2,680 stores operated by 23 contracted major retailing companies. Nikon has the number 1 market share in Japan.
Nikon has claimed 47% of the DSLR market in Japan during December 2006. The increased market share was attributed to [...]

Think Camera has conducted a preview of a pre-production Fuji film S5 Pro DSLR. In the preview all tests were conducted using jpegs only as the pre-production did not come with the software used to read RAW files. The new S5 Pro is based on the Nikon D200 body with a Fuji chip and Fuji [...]

Fujifilm has announced another addition to their popular F series digital compact camera with the 8 mega pixel Fujifilm Finepix F40fd. The main difference between the Fujifilm F40fd and the F31d is the higher resolution of 8 mega pixel versus 6 mega pixel in the F31, lower ISO of 2000 against a top of 3200, [...]

The much awaited Fujifilm S5 Pro has been confirmed for sale towards the end of January 2007 (Japan only) with a tentative release date scheduled in the USA towards February 2007. Here’s an English translation of the Fujifilm Japanese site.

There have been a few DSLR announcements in the past few months such as the Nikon D80, the Pentax K10D and even the Olympus E-400. All of these DSLR have one common theme; a sensor with higher megapixels.
It’s interesting that the much awaited Fujifilm S5 Pro with a Nikon D200 cloned body has decided to [...]

Fujifilm has finally announced the development release of the much awaited S5 Pro. The only problem is that you cannot get one until next year which is why the press release says it’s an announcement of the development of the Fujifilm S5 Pro.
Here’s what they say in the press release:
Confirming the company’s commitment to professional [...]