New Fuji HS30-EXR and HS25-EXR split on LiIon/AA and features

Fuji is not a believer in camera birth control, as their Fuji HS20EXR replacement is actually two cameras, the new HS30-EXR and HS25-EXR. And there is a philosophical battery split on the two, the HS30-EXR has a LiIon battery (600 CIPA) while the HS25-EXR continues with AA batteries. Unfortunately the specs are not the same, as the HS30-EXR has desirable features such as RAW, higher-resolution EVF (920 kilodots vs 200 kilodots), electronic level and customizable Fn key (which the HS25-EXR does not).

The main shared specs are a 16mp CMOS EXR sensor, 30x optical zoom (24-720mm eq), 3-inch LCD, 1080p video, PASM, hot-shoe, manual focus during movie recording, etc.

More on these at the Fuji product pages for the HS30 EXR and HS25 EXR. The HS30-EXR page includes a 4-page PDF brochure.

Press release parade at Imaging Resource, dpreview, Photography Blog, etc