There’s a sprinkling of fine noise that’s most obvious in shadow or flat areas. This is barely noticeable at anything other than 100% viewing on-screen though and the image is otherwise very detailed.

The 35mm widest coverage only just squeezes in the entire sail, but the quality is sharp to the edges – the first crop is taken from the extreme left side.

Once again pixel peepers will notice a fine sprinkling of noise in some areas when viewed at 100%, but again it doesn’t negatively impact the image at most reproductions.

As before, the crops also reveal a great deal of fine detail, and good sharp lens performance at the edges – again the first crop taken from the left edge of the frame.

When viewed at 100%, the image again reveals a fine sprinkling of noise. It’s not quite as clean as the best 10 Mpixel models we’ve tested at 100 ISO, but again there is plenty of detail in the image.

The pedestrian 3x optical range though means the F60fd neither zooms that wide or that close at its extremes.

Fujifilm’s face detection is one of the best around, with the F60fd easily locking onto our subject even when turned to profile. The camera is also a master at balancing flash with natural light in all conditions.

Even with control over the aperture though, it’s not possible to achieve a small depth of field, and the boost to 200 ISO has brought an increase in visible noise speckles.

The result taken from a distance of 7cm is slightly under-exposed, but there’s little of the geometric distortion or softening towards the corners we often see with compact macro modes. A good result for the F60fd.

The increase to 400 ISO hasn’t been too detrimental in this example, but the subject matter is quite forgiving.

The camera’s face detection easily locked onto the subject and can recognise full profiles. The F60fd is one of the best compacts in this regard.

Noise levels have become more apparent here, especially in shadow or flat areas. Well-lit detailed areas remain full of information though, as seen when viewing the magazine covers at 100%.

Our second indoor shot was taken with the sensitivity increased to 800 ISO. As such, there’s an unsurprising increase in visible noise levels here, with the result only really acceptable at smaller sizes.

The camera’s also arguably underexposed this shot, which has allowed it to avoid potential camera shake from a slow shutter speed.

The F60fd features sensor-shift stabilisation, although in our tests it wasn’t as effective as models with optical stabilisation – see first page for details.

To be fair, the final result isn’t any worse than rival models, but like those, you’d only want to use 1600 ISO in emergencies. The F60fd goes on to bravely offer 3200 ISO, and even 6400 ISO options, the latter at a reduced resolution. The results ain’t pretty – see our High ISO results page.