I didn't really look at the specs too carefully on them, but I'd evaluate getting a bridge camera carefully these days. Having had one in the past, they're in an awkward niche. On the one hand, they are large than true compacts (often the same size as a m4/3 camera), but have a greater zoom range. If you absolutely need the zoom they're worth considering, but they're big enough to make you not want to take one in my experience, and further, their performance at the long end generally suffers immensely anyway (the fuji appears to be F/11 at that point, and the canon is only f/3.4 on the wide end). For on the go stuff if I'm going light, I've been much happier with a p&s with a short zoom range that performs very well through the whole range and with fast aperture, because I'm just not going to use my p&s for mega tele work.
FWIW, I had essentially a predecessor for the Fuji you are looking at and it did have excellent color and contrast. |
