Fuji Finepix F200 EXR Indoor Crops

Below are sample crops from an indoor photograph of a book-cover at each of the Fuji Finepix F200's ISO settings. A crop from the Fuji Finepix F100fd at the same ISO setting is shown next to the Fuji F200 EXR's crop. Images are all unmodified 100% crops from their respective cameras taken at the highest quality setting. The F200 EXR was set to P mode and 12 megapixels resolution, this is equivalent according to the manual to using Resolution-Priority mode.

These crops help determine which ISO settings can be acceptably used on these cameras. As noise increases, most cameras compensate with noise reduction which introduces softness. The result is that, while you can partly reduce noise at the expense of details, the maximum acceptable print size gets smaller as ISO is increased. The point at which a print become unacceptably noisy is a matter of personal taste.

Fuji Finepix F200 EXR	Fuji Finepix F100fd
ISO 100 - 1/4s F5.1	ISO 100 - 1/4s F5 .1
ISO 200 - 1/4s F5 .1	ISO 200 - 1/4s F5 .1
ISO 400 - 1/6s F5 .1	ISO 400 - 1/6s F5 .1
ISO 800 - 1/12s F5 .1	ISO 800 - 1/12s F5 .1
ISO 1600 - 1/25s F5 .1	ISO 1600 - 1/25s F5 .1
ISO 3200 - 1/150s F5.1	ISO 3200 - 1/50s F5.1
ISO 6400 - 1/100s F5.1	ISO 6400 - 1/100s F5.1
ISO 12800 - 1/200s F5 .1	ISO 12800 - 1/200s F5 .1
Differences are not that big, but the Finepix F200 EXR produces slightly more detailed images at each ISO. Using automatic white-balance, under CFL lighting, the F200 leaves a yellow color-cast while the F100 produces more neutral colors.