After a lot of hunting, I finally tracked down a source for the rare and much-praised F30 - turned out that Big Camera in Bangkok still have some. I got the Big Camera store at Airport Plaza in Chiang Mai to order one for me and I picked it up today. Needless to say, I love it...........

Point is, in true Thai style, Bangkok actually sent two F30's to Chiang Mai - so that branch now has the second one for sale. If you're after one of these gems and you're in/near to Chiang Mai, you're in luck. 6,900 baht and you get a free case + 1Gb memory thrown in.

After a lot of hunting, I finally tracked down a source for the rare and much-praised F30 - turned out that Big Camera in Bangkok still have some. I got the Big Camera store at Airport Plaza in Chiang Mai to order one for me and I picked it up today. Needless to say, I love it...........

Point is, in true Thai style, Bangkok actually sent two F30's to Chiang Mai - so that branch now has the second one for sale. If you're after one of these gems and you're in/near to Chiang Mai, you're in luck. 6,900 baht and you get a free case + 1Gb memory thrown in.

I have one of these f30 and paid 15k for it few years ago. very nice cam and totally worth it for the price. go grab it.

Had to smile when I saw that the box of mine still had the B14,900 price sticker on it.....................

Having been using the F30 for a few weeks now, it's just astonishing the quality of shots you can get with the "N" (natural light & no flash) setting in low-light situations. As the CM Big Camera store manageress said: "VERY good CCD!". Real shame that after the F30/F31, Fuji just re-joined the "me too more megapixels" herd.

As the replacement for the Fujifilm F30/F31fd, a camera that has reached an almost legendary status since its launch back in 2006, the Fujifilm F50fd has some big shoes to fill. If anything deserves to be called a 'classic' camera in the shortlived world of digital compact cameras it would have to be the Fujifilm F30/F31fd. It wasn't very pretty, it wasn't very feature packed and it wasn't even very cheap. But the F30/F31fd produced some of the best results we've ever seen in a compact camera, and was leaps and bounds ahead of all its competitors when it came to low light / high ISO performance, proving that just because a camera has a small sensor it doesn't have to be completely useless at anything over ISO 400.

The F30/F31fd's outstanding performance in low light was the result of some clever technology (Super CCD sensor and Real Photo Processor) on the one hand and Fujifilm's admirable refusal to succumb to the pressure to compete in the 'megapixel race'. In an almost unique attempt to optimize image quality (rather than marketing potential) they limited the F30/F31fd's resolution to 6 megapixels, on a sensor that is slightly bigger than the competition's.

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I'm still using an F11 - fantastic P&S - I remember reading at the time how this camera was actually the benchmark that DPReview used when evaluating all the Dslr's up to 10 megapixels!