Fuji S20

Now this is more like it. It seems to me that what Fuji are admitting is that their resolution-centred technology, the hexagonal so-called Super CCD, which interpolated double-sized images from the recorded pixels, didn't really work out.

More pixels does allow for bigger prints, but most people have an upper limit of A4 or A3 for a print, so after a certain stage more pixels was pointless. And as far as I was concerned, Photoshop could manage image interpolation at least as well as the cameras could.

Another reason to have more pixels is to capture more detail. But you can only capture more detail with more physical pixels; interpolation doesn't work for that.

Enter Fuji's new Super CCD SR, which puts pairs of photodiodes together to, they claim, offer more dynamic range and detail. One of the pair of photodiodes is low sensitivity, the other high. This is supposed to offer more detail with less noise.

I'm going to have to try one of these when they appear (April, they say). The technology sounds interesting (though not as interesting, as, say the Foveon sensor used by Sigma), but I still have reservations about the Fujinon lenses.