A mild winter
Aren't the snowdrops early this year? You don't normally see them until February, but they've been present since the very beginning of January this time around, doubtlessly a consequence of that balmy December we had. The Fujifilm GA645Zi is an odd camera, a kind of consumer point-and-shoot writ large. It is, of course, medium-format and uses the 6X4½cm aspect ratio. It says "Professional" on the top plate, but incorporates such features as autofocus, auto-exposure, automated film loading and film advance. All these were granny-proofing measures introduced in consumer point-and-shoots to preserve their purchasers from the horrors of focusing and the perplexities of winding on. It has a four-position zoom lens, the zoom being mostly at the wide-angle end of the range. I thought it would make an excellent all-rounder ...just the job for chucking on the back seat of the car or taking on holidays and, at sixteen frames per roll, precisely twice as economical at the eight frames 6X9cm GW. Early impressions are favourable. It is certainly very easy to use and image quality looks excellent.
A mild winter
Aren't the snowdrops early this year? You don't normally see them until February, but they've been present since the very beginning of January this time around, doubtlessly a consequence of that balmy December we had. The Fujifilm GA645Zi is an odd camera, a kind of consumer point-and-shoot writ large. It is, of course, medium-format and uses the 6X4½cm aspect ratio. It says "Professional" on the top plate, but incorporates such features as autofocus, auto-exposure, automated film loading and film advance. All these were granny-proofing measures introduced in consumer point-and-shoots to preserve their purchasers from the horrors of focusing and the perplexities of winding on. It has a four-position zoom lens, the zoom being mostly at the wide-angle end of the range. I thought it would make an excellent all-rounder ...just the job for chucking on the back seat of the car or taking on holidays and, at sixteen frames per roll, precisely twice as economical at the eight frames 6X9cm GW. Early impressions are favourable. It is certainly very easy to use and image quality looks excellent.