Fujifilm Finepix F300 EXR Samples

Below are sample crops from an indoor photograph of a book-cover at each of the Fuji Finepix F300's ISO settings. A crop from the Nikon Coolpix P7000
Nikon Coolpix P7000 at the same ISO setting is shown next to the Fuji F300 EXR's crop. Images are all unmodified 100% crops from their respective cameras taken at the highest quality setting. The F300 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 F300 EXR	Nikon Coolpix P7000
ISO 100	ISO 100
ISO 200	ISO 200
ISO 400	ISO 400
ISO 800	ISO 800
ISO 1600	ISO 1600
ISO 3200	ISO 3200
ISO 6400	ISO 6400
ISO 12800
Image quality is virtually identical until ISO 400. At ISO 800, the Nikon gets small edge in terms of image noise which is only visiable when seeing pixels at 100%. This is an excellent performance from both cameras. By ISO 1600, the Nikon P7000 manages slightly less noise while keeping a similar amount of details. The F300 EXR downsizes to 6 megapixels for ISO 3200 and the P7000 manages to keep its full resolution and provide comparable results. There might be a slight improvement over the F200 EXR but not quite enough to catch up with the P7000.	Fujifilm F300 EXR