Fuji S3 Pro @ 1.5 fps

I do love my S3, but it has a frustratingly small buffer. In this video I demonstrate the small buffer in continuous shot mode, and then present a short shadow puppetry performance which was inspired by my frustration.

Timings from DPreview. I shot this in wide dynamic range, RAW, at 1/180. It's not so bad with standard dynamic range, but that eliminates one of the camera's very few USPs.

Shot for a short series of blog posts about the camera:
http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/fuji-s3-dying-for-dream.html
http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/fuji-s3-shoot-dont-talk.html

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[polimero]

Oh so pity... :-( that's bad news for me.

But what about the color rendition? In my Nikon D90, red tones appears sometimes "posterized". I heard that Fuji S Pro series it can solve this problem.

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

@polimero It has a slight greeny-red bias - there are some samples in the blog posts linked above - but you can always bring back overexposed reds, which is nice.

[polimero]

:O!!!!

Holy sh... :-/ Im looking in eBay for some Fuji S3 in order to use as 2dn body (now I have a Nikon D90) but this appears to be TOO slow.

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

@polimero It was the camera's big flaw - the raw files are 24mb each and the camera just can't cope with them. Even if you shoot semi-automatic, it conks out after about four shots. And there's no indicator in the viewfinder that the buffer has filled up. The S5 is apparently much faster.

[Buffalowned9090]

it's a bummer that they didn't make this camera fire faster.

[herrjonna2007]

You're information is wrong man... its about 1Frame per 18-45 clicks ;-)

very funny ;)