Fujifilm Finepix F200 EXR

Fujifilm’s Finepix F200 EXR is a 12-megapixel camera with a 5x zoom lens.

It’s a capable compact camera, but there’s more to it than that, though. The EXR in the name refers to a Fujfilm technology that’s supposed to offer better results in less-than-ideal conditions.

For instance, most compact cameras are pretty poor when it comes to performance in low light. But one of the F200’s EXR modes allows it to effectively split the camera’s image sensor in two.

That halves the resolution to six megapixels but doubles the size of each pixel. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but that basically allows each pixel to let in twice as much light, giving much better results when there’s less light to go around.

If you don’t want to or can’t use the flash, it’s a great idea. Quality is still not quite up to the levels of an equivalent digital SLR, but it was better than we’ve seen from almost any other compact.

The other way the camera can split the sensor allows half of it to capture dark shadow areas in detail and the other half to capture bright areas in detail, where a normal camera can only capture one of those things. That then gives you an image with lots of what’s called dynamic range, making it much more vibrant.

That’s what the camera offers that’s new – keep an eye out for a full review on the site very shortly.