The Fujifilm X30 is an advanced
digital compact camera
A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film or film stock. Digital cameras are now ...
announced by
Fujifilm
, trading as , or simply Fuji, is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the areas of photography, optics, Office supplies, office and Biomedical engine ...
on August 26, 2014. It succeeds the
Fujifilm X20
The Fujifilm X20 is a digital compact camera announced by Fujifilm on January 7, 2013. It is the successor to the Fujifilm X10, with which it shares its lens. However, instead of an EXR colour filter pattern as in the X10, the X20 uses an X-Trans ...
whose 12 megapixel
X-Trans CMOS sensor
An active-pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor, which was invented by Peter J.W. Noble in 1968, where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. In a metal–oxide–semic ...
it shares. The X30 abolishes the tunnel optical viewfinder of the X20 and offers an electronic viewfinder instead. In terms of more advanced compact cameras, it occupies the middle ground between the
Canon PowerShot G16 and
Nikon Coolpix P7800 on the one hand, and
Sony RX100
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 series is a high-end compact camera part of the wider Sony RX series. It started with the DSC-RX100, announced on 6 June 2012, and is part of the Cyber-shot RX line of digital cameras made by Sony. Seven annual gene ...
series and
Canon PowerShot G1 X series on the other.
In terms of Fujifilm's own product line, it was positioned as a more compact and affordable model than the
Fujifilm X100S, which has a larger
APS-C
Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C ("Classic") format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 30.15 mm field d ...
sized sensor that records 16 megapixels. The X30 was the last model of its kind.
See also
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List of retro-style digital cameras
This is a list of retro-style digital cameras, categorized into five body types:
* modular cameras with a digital back,
* true rangefinder cameras (without autofocus),
* rangefinder-style mirrorless cameras,
* digital single-lens reflex cameras ...
References
External links
Dpreview.com
X30
Live-preview digital cameras
Cameras introduced in 2014
Point-and-shoot cameras
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