This is story about my first digital camera and how it served me well until it died!
I have purchased this camera in 2004. I was quite feature packed for 2004. Featuring that fancy Fuji SuperCCD IV HR sensor with native 6.6 MP and extrapolated 12Mp ( Which was quite a bit crazy at the time )
Read more on this topic here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_CCD
Here are some basic specs:
| Sensor | SuperCCD IV HR |
| Effective pixels | 6.3 million |
| Image sizes | 4048 x 3040 (12 MP) 2848 x 2136 (6 MP) 2016 x 1512 (3 MP) 1600 x 1200 (2 MP) 1280 x 960 (1 MP) |
| Image formats | JPEG (EXIF 2.2) CCD-RAW |
| Sensitivity (auto) | ISO 160 – 800 |
| Sensitivity (manual) | ISO 200, 400 ISO 800 (1 MP / 2 MP / 3 MP only) |
| Zoom control | Buttons on rear Focus/Zoom ring on lens barrel |
| Digital zoom | 3 MP: 2x 2 MP: 2.5x 1 MP: 3.2x |
| Auto focus drive | Continuous AF Single AF |
| Bulb shutter speed | Yes |
| Apertures | F2.8 – F8.0 (10 steps) |
| Electronic viewfinder | 0.44″ 235,000 pixel LCD |
| LCD Monitor | 1.8″ 118,000 pixel TFT LCD |
| Histogram | Play mode Record mode (live histogram) |
| Continuous | 3.3 fps, first 5 frames 2 fps, last 5 frames 1 fps, 40 frames * * 1 MP / 2 MP / 3 MP only |
| Color modes | Standard Chrome B & W |
| Flash range | Wide: 0.3 – 8.5 m (11.8 in – 27.9 ft) Tele: 0.9 – 7.9 m (3.0 ft – 32.2 ft) |
| USB interface | USB 2.0 |
| External flash | Flash hot-shoe |
| Remote control | Screw-in wired shutter release |
| Video out | NTSC / PAL selectable |
| Storage | Slot 1: xD-Picture Card Slot 2: Compact Flash Type I/II |
| Supplied Fujifilm software | FinePix Viewer Image Mixer VCD2 for FinePix RAW File Converter LE |
As you see it had pretty good features, rivaling some of the SLR of the time, for example Canon Rebel. Also zoom was pretty good but obviously without any stabilization.
But one time I was climbing up the faterfall, and trying to take photos in same time. I lost my footing on slippery rocks and fell straight in the water. When I pulled myself out I realized that camera was on the shore but I was not happy for long – it was quite a bit smashed… so no water damage but lens and all camera front was smashed to bits.
I was quite disappointed as this is the only camera I had at the time. But I was restless an inventive. I turned out to ebay in search for old or used or broken camera of same kind. And I was lucky! I managed to score camera with broken LCD. After fiddling for a while i managed to make one working camera from 2 broken ones !!!
Here is the insides of Fuji Fuji Finepix S7000:
