The

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FinePix S1 Pro was an interchangeable lens

digital single-lens reflex camera A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor. The reflex des ...

introduced in January 2000. It was based on a Nikon F60 (Nikon N60 in the U.S.) film camera body that was modified by Fujifilm to include its own proprietary

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and electronics. Because of the

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body, it had a

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lens mount and so could use most lenses made for Nikon 35 mm cameras. It was autofocusing, had an electronically controlled

focal plane shutter In camera design, a focal-plane shutter (FPS) is a type of photographic shutter (photography), shutter that is positioned immediately in front of the focal plane of the camera, that is, right in front of the photographic film or image sensor. ...

with speeds from 30 sec. to 1/2000 sec. and built-in exposure metering and pop-up flash. Its

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film speed equivalents ranged from 320-1600. The camera is no longer in production, having been superseded by the Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro in January 2002. Aside from the Nikon lens mount, the camera's principal distinction was its unique (and controversial) 3.1

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photo sensor. Known as the

Super CCD Super CCD is a proprietary charge-coupled device image sensor design that was developed by Fujifilm starting in 1999 and marketed with its digital cameras, starting with the FinePix 4700 and S1 Pro. Super CCD cameras were sold until 2010. The Supe ...

, it was unique in having its photodiodes oriented diagonally rather than horizontally and vertically as in all other SLR cameras. This allowed the use of a sophisticated

interpolation In the mathematics, mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a type of estimation, a method of constructing (finding) new data points based on the range of a discrete set of known data points. In engineering and science, one ...

system that, according to Fujifilm, produced an output image equivalent to 6.2 megapixels. The apparent resolution of images in this interpolated mode lay somewhere between 3.1 megapixels and the 6.2 megapixel interpolated output.

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