This has been a busy week for new camera announcements. Following Panasonic’s stream of new cameras, both Fujifilm and Samsung have announced a number of new models.
Fujifilm’s new F305EXR (called the F300EXR in Europe I believe) looks like a very competitive travel-zoom camera. The F305EXR packs an incredible 15x zoom into a very compact body, while still achieving the widest angle lens out there of 24mm, (compared to the 28mm of the Canon SX210). It also features a high resolution 460k dots large 3″ screen.
The F305EXR faces stiff competition among other travel zooms, most importantly the ZS7 from Panasonic and Canon’s SX210 IS.
Fujifilm F305EXR vs Panasonic DMC-ZS7
- The F305EXR has more zoom (15x vs 12x)
- The F305EXR higher ISO sensitivity, hopefully indicative of lower noise at high ISO
- The ZS7 features optical lens image stabilization, which likely will allow you take photos at even slower shutter speeds without blur than the F305EXR’s sensor shift image stabilzation
- The ZS7 also has a built in GPS, great for geotagging photos
See a detailed comparison of the F305EXR vs the DMC-ZS7 at Snapsort.
Fujfilm F305EXR vs Canon SX210 IS
- The F305EXR higher ISO sensitivity, hopefully indicative of lower noise at high ISO
- As mentioned above, the Canon SX210 IS doesn’t have a very wide lens, only 28mm, unlike the ultra-wide 24mm of the F305EXR
- The F305EXR has a much higher resolution screen than the SX210, making it much easier to see the quality and focus of your images as you take them
- Similar to the ZS7, the SX210 has optical image stabilization built into the lens, whereas the F305EXR has sensor-shift image stabilization
See a detailed comparison of the F305EXR vs the SX210 IS at Snapsort.
Source: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/f/finepix_f300exr/