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Fujifilm F80EXR and WP-FXF80 housing
Fujifilm’s FinePix F80EXR features the same innovative EXR sensor technology as its F200, which I reviewed last year.
For land use, the F80 is really excellent as a point-and-shoot, with the added advantage of a 10x zoom – but if you want to shoot manual exposures, it’s a bit of a fudge, with only the maximum and minimum apertures available. The higher ISO speeds of 6400 and 12800 can only be achieved
at lower resolution rates but, from an underwater point of view, there could be times when this compromise is worth the capability.
Last year, I reported that the F200 housing had a physical limitation caused by the camera's long zoom range, which results in a rectangular front port. This made it difficult to add any external accessory lenses and I saw this as a big limitation underwater. Nothing has changed with the F80 housing, but the situation has been saved a little
by Inon, which makes a lens mount adaptor.
Unfortunately, the good news ends there: because this will only allow its close-up lenses to
be used rather than its wide-angles, which to my mind is a big limitation underwater.
DIVE says: Shines on land but disappoints in the housing
Value 7/10 Performance 7/10
www.fujifilm.co.uk
For land use, the F80 is really excellent as a point-and-shoot, with the added advantage of a 10x zoom – but if you want to shoot manual exposures, it’s a bit of a fudge, with only the maximum and minimum apertures available. The higher ISO speeds of 6400 and 12800 can only be achieved
at lower resolution rates but, from an underwater point of view, there could be times when this compromise is worth the capability.
Last year, I reported that the F200 housing had a physical limitation caused by the camera's long zoom range, which results in a rectangular front port. This made it difficult to add any external accessory lenses and I saw this as a big limitation underwater. Nothing has changed with the F80 housing, but the situation has been saved a little
by Inon, which makes a lens mount adaptor.
Unfortunately, the good news ends there: because this will only allow its close-up lenses to
be used rather than its wide-angles, which to my mind is a big limitation underwater.
DIVE says: Shines on land but disappoints in the housing
Value 7/10 Performance 7/10
www.fujifilm.co.uk