I have the F300EXR as a 'carry everywhere' camera to supplement my Olympus DSLR.

I love it.  It takes a while to know which settings are best in order to avoid such things as blown whites, but it is possible.  If you are not feeling like spending so much, look at an earlier version.  F300/F500 etc.

I have no doubt that it will serve you well.

I bought the F600EXR about a month ago, having previously owned an F200EXR and and F30 before that.  I'm afraid I'm really pretty disappointed.  Image quality isn't bad in good conditions, but low-light performance is frankly not up to the hype and anything above ISO200 is very noisy.

My biggest problem is that is just takes forever to start up.  With no card in it's pretty much instant, but with an SD card in it takes between 8-10 seconds to start which is completely unnaceptable for a compact. I've lost so many shots waiting for the flipping thing to start up I've pretty much given up on taking it out with me now.

Very disappointing, I'm afraid this will be my last Fuji. Successive generations have proven disappointing, adding flashy features which look good in the brochure at the expense of actual usability and image quality.

Also, what's the deal with shipping Mac support software that only runs on PowerPC Macs, which haven't enem been made for over five years?

hi rik   can you help,  i have the f600 exr  ,  it must be an age thing, but i am having a problem tryinig to get to set up so i can change the time , i can get to settings but not to set up i have read the manual, it says what to do, but not how to do it  can you help,  thanks

I have an f600 its start up time is only around 2-3 seconds and thats with a 16gb card, i think this little camera is outstanding, its picture quality is superb as is its features, i dont get blown out whites very often as i use its manual controls extensively, also i dont see noise at iso 200 but at 400 there is very very low amounts of noise, at 800 you can see it creeping in a bit all in all a fabulous little camera, i love it.