Brilliant camera, in my opinion. I own several fuji cameras and the chip in this body renders beautiful .jpgs especially in Velvia and B/W. It is my go-to body for some applications. It's not the fastest but with the right lens/situation you can get around this with manual zone-focusing, and it's 16.3 Million Pixels which I think is more than enough to be getting on with. Also they are so cheap on the second hand market. Definitely a camera worth having in your inventory. Here are three images to illustrate my case: first two using an 18mmF2 and third using a 14mmF2.8 With the 18mm I pre-focused on the ground roughly where I felt that my up-coming subject would pass me by and using f8 - this can be a tricky lens to use with moving subjects - and with the 14mm at f11 zone-focusing which is a dream in the right conditions with this particular lens. The .jpgs have been adjusted to taste using Photoshop with some very simple tweaks.