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, trading as Fujifilm, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the realms of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals.
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FinePix S1 Pro was an interchangeable lens digital single-lens reflex camera
A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor.
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introduced in January 2000. It was based on a Nikon F60
The F60 (or N60 as it is known in the U.S.) is a 35mm film SLR camera which was sold by Nikon between 1998 and 2001. It replaced the F50 and was aimed at the lower end of the amateur autofocus SLR market.
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(Nikon N60 in the U.S.) film camera body that was modified by Fujifilm to include its own proprietary image sensor
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and electronics. Because of the Nikon
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body, it had a Nikon F
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lens mount and so could use most lenses made for Nikon 35 mm 35 mm may refer to:
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cameras. It was autofocusing, had an electronically controlled focal plane shutter
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with speeds from 30 sec. to 1/2000 sec. and built-in exposure metering and pop-up flash. Its ISO
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film speed equivalents ranged from 320-1600.
The camera is no longer in production, having been superseded by the Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro
The Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro is an interchangeable lens digital single-lens reflex camera introduced in January 2002. It is based on a Nikon F80 (N80 in the U.S.) film camera body that was modified by Fujifilm to include its own proprietary image ...
in January 2002.
Aside from the Nikon lens mount, the camera's principal distinction was its unique (and controversial) 3.1 megapixel
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photo sensor. Known as the Super CCD
Super CCD is a proprietary charge-coupled device that has been developed by Fujifilm since 1999. The Super CCD uses octagonal, rather than rectangular, pixels. This allows a higher horizontal and vertical resolution (at the expense of diagonal res ...
, it was unique in having its photodiodes
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The package of a photodiode allows light (or infrared or ultraviolet radiation, or X-rays) to reach the sensitive part of the device. The packag ...
oriented diagonally rather than horizontally and vertically as in all other SLR cameras. This allowed the use of a sophisticated interpolation
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system that produced an output image equivalent to 6.2 megapixels. The apparent resolution of images in this interpolated mode lay somewhere between 3.1 megapixels and the 6.2 megapixel interpolated output.