Fujifilm FinePix S1 Pro

A digital SLR based on the Nikon F60/N60 body, but with Fuji electronics. It takes Nikon mount lenses, including older AI and AIS manual lenses without metering for those. It takes Compact Flash memory cards (including micro-drives) and SmartMedia cards (up to 128mb). The Finepix S1Pro uses the Fuji Super CCD. It has 3 million sensor sites, arranged in a diamond array rather than a rectangular grid. Produces a 6 Megapixel image 3000x2000 Uncompressed Tiff (25 - 45 seconds to save depending on memory card!), or three Jpeg in Fine, Normal, and Basic settings (good, bad, and ugly compression). ASA/ISO speeds 320, 400,800, 1600, Color or Black and White, with other settings.

A little outdated now, but can produce nice images, but stuggles with outdoors daylight (think Tri-x on a sunny day) and on camera flash is iffy with blown out highlights (bleached out white faces instead of skintone). That said if you have controlled lighting, and consistent available light, had warm and punchy image quality that made this a popular portrait camera during the early 2000's. Updated with the S2Pro, S3Pro, and S5pro. Slow shooter, noisy with a loud shutter clack and strange spring effect which sounds like a film advance mechanism.

Lens Compatibility

AFS lenses don't work in AF mode. No support for the Nikon VR lens. Accepts Nikon mount lenses, including older AI and AIS lenses and the modern AF, AF-D, etc. lenses, including the new "G" lenses without aperture rings. However, it doesn't meter with AI or AIS lenses, like a digital manual camera.

Battery System

This camera takes 4 AA cells, andtwo CR123A lithium batteries. And the CR123As are sort-of optional; if they're left out and replaced with the specific batter adaptor, everything works except the built-in flash. If CR123As are in use, and become exhausted, the camera will sometimes lock up completely. Turning off the camera, removing the CR123As, and turning the camera back on will normally bring it back to life.