And now to the camera: From housing forth the Fuji is quite comfortable to hold, even if it is a bit smaller than the current 2012 Bridge cameras such as Panasonic. The controls are arranged quite logical (as the individual models differ today eh hardly apart) and big enough for the hands glove size 10. Only a small hand straps belts could have her still spendieren. All in all it 4 stars.
The camera moves when turning fast enough high for about 2 seconds until ready to operate. The zoom is fast and accurate. For autofocus sometimes takes a little longer to find his target, sometimes he finds nothing, despite good lighting. And then there are, unfortunately, still this annoying shutter lag, can my 6-year-old Fuji F11 almost as good. Felt almost 0.5 seconds too much, because the subject is often gone again! And until the camera then processes the data, pass good 2 seconds (everything always with the highest possible quality level) again. Conclusion: Speed is not their strength, but only 2 out of 5 stars.
Since I photograph a lot in the open under difficult lighting conditions (bright ambient light as snow, bright sun) was the ability to switch between the LCD display and the (electronic) viewfinder for me the main reason for the purchase. Here should not expect too much you, the viewfinder is rather a Mäusekino. Neither is the color display correctly, yet the image can be assessed so that in detail. But better than an ever-glossy display on which you can see almost nothing in bright light, it is all. Here, then, 3 out of 5 stars.
And now to the image quality: 14 megapixels are for such a small sensor as in the S2980 pretty much. In the ausladenderen compared to compact digital cameras housing and lens dimensions should not hide. Who expects a large camera makes better pictures, because a larger lens may sharper features, you are wrong. The images appear as if the amateur painter gone about it again, the details are clearly muddy in the 1: 1 representation they act like painted with Auquarell. Even under good lighting conditions. Crisp focus is different. But at least at ISO200 is the noise that often occurs with small sensors, low. All in all I am personally disappointed by the image quality. There is a maximum of 3 out of 5 stars.
Conclusion: Of course, I was aware that such a power does not come close to a full-frame SLR, neither the speed nor the Abblidungsleistung. But the benefits are then how weak, in fact, that is lean, in fact. Leaving aside the number of pixels, I can hardly find a technical advance in image quality. There's every word advertising - probably not only on this model and - are by themselves, just at least fined.
All in all, given the S2980, given the weak performance of image - and that is clearly the focus now times - a total of only mediocre. 3
