this was the other little item that i was able to get from michaels this week. it's not quite the same level as the f30 (in terms of low light performance), but i'm sure it's daylight iq will be at least as good. the 12mp sensor was a concern, but i didn't really have a choice, there are no f30's or f31's going around anymore. it's a fair bit smaller than the f30, and looks nicer, but a big part of the cost is the battery capacity, less than half of what the f30 could do. i wasn't even going to take the charger for it to mexico, but now i guess i'll have to with the f50. one annoying thing, with the f30, the battery was charged in the camera, with the f50, you have to take it out, and then when you put it back in, the time has reset 
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it has image stabilisation, how effective that is, i don't know (it's been dumped on by reviewers though). the menu is pretty similar to the old f30, and the controls are similar, so that's a good thing. it's got aperture and shutter priority, so fuji didn't skimp there. so nothing to write home about, but certainly, it should prove handy when taking pictures of night beers 
, and also candid video . it uses both xd and sd cards, and michaels replaced my xd card with a sandisk ultra ii, so that was nice of them .
pic taken with the k200d, using wireless bounce flash, all these pictures were taken as jpegs straight from the camera, some resizing using the gimp.
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), but in the spirit of the day, i took a picture at least.... 