Are Fuji S5 user's still liking hot for the S5?

[AngelMorales]

Hi,
Just wondering if you S5 user's, are still hot for this camera or are feeling otherwise about it?
Angel

[darkroomdevil]

Still love mine, have two s3's also - but haven't compared side by side with other cameras - so I don't feel like this helps much

[DougAxford]

I've done quite a few weddings and portraits on mine and am very happy with it. AWB is awsome on jpg. I've never had a shot more than a few points off color so far on AWB. All reviews I have read by real working pros are very much the same. Most have switched from raw to jpg after swearing never to do so. The wedding Sat. I shot all AWB and all auto exposure. I've never trusted either on any camera until now. The menu system sucks, but you get over that eventually.

I've returned to Canons for all our sports work. The Fuji is way too slow and files are too big for what I need.

I promised to post some samples weeks ago and decided not to. My reason is that so many things on this forum seem to end up in a never ending useless dicussion, IMHO anyway. I'm just not interested in opinions from people who have not used something.

There are many good posts on other pro forums from pros working with this camera every day. The only thing close is the 5D on raw for wedding work. I'm not a raw guy, so the choice was simple.

Doug

[billsstills]

After reading the recent review on DPreview and from other users including now Doug Axford's comments I am absolutely gonna get one for my wedding work.
The previous models semed to always lack something and were basically D100's with Fuji sensors. I had a D100 and thought it had a very good sensor but missing even the more accurate autofocus of my D70 among other features which my second hand D1x had.

If there's going to be "auto-focus" it needs to be better than my eyesight and ability to work a lens.

I have tested my new D200 autofocus against my D2h and it competes well in drag racing which is as fast as you can get.
Many reviews are basically saying, as far as I can understand, that the Fuji is the best 6mp camera on the market for people photos... this is what I want in my arsenal.

Great jpegs... that's me.

I'm not a Nikon or Canon fanatic but I do have a lot of Nikon lenses, some old Canon ones among a few Oly.

Bill.

[Dick Parrish]

I've been using mine for weddings since March. I'm VERY happy with it! I'll keep my S3 for backup.

[Ronald Garrett]

What I did is get a D2x and sell my D200. The Fuji S5 Pro is now the backup for the D2x. It is also the main camera for my outside the studio portrait work, which usually turns out to be horses, { I live in the country in an area inundated with horse farms}. Don't laugh, horse lovers are VERY serious about their sport, and treat their horses as well as they would a child. The S5 gets the colors accurate every time.

I have tried to set my equipment up so each item will serve more than one purpose. Thus the S5 fits very well for a backup as well as a first purpose camera. Low light shots, {preffered for horse portraits} are essentially noise free. I use the camera on auto ISO with very good results. The S5 is not bashful about ramping the ISO up, but still controls noise very well.

I know the camera interpolates up to 12 MP, but I have not been able to see any degradation in the images it produces. I have been well pleased, {and more importantly so have my customers} with 17 X 22 images.

If this camera would fire at 6 FPM, it would blow away anything that Nikon or Canon has, IMHO. For me I think it is worth the couple hundred more I paid for it over the D200, {not taking anything away form the D200, it is an awsome camera}.

Having said all the above, if I had to have just one camera for all purposes, it would not be the S5 Pro only because of speed.

[joedmiles]

See my post in the other thread...as I didn't see this before posting. Not good news!