I have been using for years a wonder called FinePix F30, from Fuji. It's a compact digital camera, of "only" 6 megapixels, whose image quality (specially at low light) blows away pretty much any other compact camera I have ever used.


It was released three years ago, and in the mean time, Fuji joined the wagon of "more megapixels is always better", something which any average photography lover knows is false. But it seemed hard to scape that market law.


Yet today, I have read that Fuji announced the release of the all-new F200 EXR, introducing the first EXR sensor (12 megapixels).


In very short, this is an adaptable light sensor, whose way of working can be modified in order to get very high light sensibility and very low noise (by coupling two adjacent pixels, working like an old 6 megapixels SuperCCD), or to get a very large dynamic range, or to get a very large resolution (12 megapixels). Further information from Fuji is available here.


So we have, in my opinion, the first digital compact camera who deserves the honour of being a worthy sucessor of the longtime missed FinePix F30/F31.


This, and the Micro 4/3 system, are in my book the two REAL innovations we have seen recently in the world of photography: 