Anyone Using the Fuji F200EXR?

[JackConnick]

I've just become a FujiFilm camera/housing dealer.

I've shot several Fuji cameras in the past (F810 & E900) and have always been impressed by their sharpness and rich color rendition. The new F200EXR seems to carry that tradition forward to high definition color or resolution, your choice. I saw the camera at PMA and was impressed. It has a manual mode for us "old school" photographers. The housing is also well thought out and fairly inexpensive. Fantasea Line now makes a wide angle lens for it.

Anyway, has anyone shot this rig? Thoughts? Tips/tricks you'd like to share? I'd love to see some photos!

Thanks,
Jack

 

[Puffer Fish]

Jack, don't have it but would be very interested in seeing images... I've had every camera in that line up to the F50...and liked them a lot...

Their housing are particularly nice.. small, double seals...still carry the F50 as my backup.

 

[JackConnick]

Here's a few links to images, but they aren't underwater:
DP Review gallery

Jack

 

[JackConnick]

New blog article and photos on the F200 here.

Jack

 

[AndyJH42]

I've had the Fuji FinePix F200EXR camera and WP-FXF200 case for a couple of months now.
A few weeks ago I used it for the first time on a trip to the Cape Verde Islands. I've attached 3 photographs.
Conditions were pretty bad, strong currents and lots of swirling sand / algae so I wasn't surprised by the quality of the shots I was getting. It also didn't help that I somehow managed to switch the flash off. I was happy with the quality of the case, double O rings are a reassuring feature. It also feels a bit more solid than some other own brand cases I have used. I have bitter memories of a Canon case that flooded 2 days into a 3 week dive trip.
I'm off to the Red Sea (Safaga) in a couple weeks time where conditions should be better and I can get a better idea of what the camera is capable of.
As a topside camera I can't fault the quality of pictures from the F200EXR bearing in mind it is a compact not a SLR.