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When is a Fujifilm camera not a Fujifilm camera? When it’s a Nikon…

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The Fujifilm FinePix S1 Pro was an early digital camera, launched back in 2000 when digital photography was very much in its infancy. As the name suggests, Fujifilm started out primarily as a manufacturer of film, but in the late Nineties it could see that cameras were going down the digital route and – undoubtedly fearing that film would very soon be on borrowed time – began developing camera sensors.

And it came up with a terrific one (for the time), based on CCD technology, which arguably captured the colors and tones that Fujifilm film was famous for. The problem was, it didn’t have a camera body to put it in. So it repurposed the Nikon N60 (known as the F60 outside North America) film camera.

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