Top Dawg Mini/StingRay 111

Charles Hood · Issue 18, Apr/May 2004 · pp. 17–21

Products mentioned: Top Dawg Mini, StingRay 111 Sport, PAL/NTSC Monitor back, SunRay Mod lights, Pelican case

17 Other controls include, 3 x zoom, ISO, white balance, flash mode, close-up option, bracketing, sharpness, exposure compensation and exposure lock. Quality wise I set the camera on what Fuji call 3M (2048 x 1536 effective pixels) this gave me 19 images on the 16Mb card supplied. What were the results like? It has to be said that they were pretty similar to other top end 3 mega pixel cameras I have tested. The image didn’t particularly leap out and shout huge dynamic range. I suspect this perception was probably due to the fact that I had hyped myself up on Fuji’s market blurb to expect a quantum leap in technology that gave rise to this disappointment. However, that doesn’t mean the F700 produces poor results. There is more than enough quality for a home print up to A4 size. I’m sure if one was to use this camera without the expectation of its new CCD it would appear at or near the top…