I just realize that your crocus image was shot with E900 as well. Amazing image quality and beautiful color even for today's standard. For whatever reason, this particular model was not released in Japan.
Thanks Akira.
That is very strange it was not released in Japan. What could be the reason ?
Especially that this Fuji (E900) alone has the ability to deliver a Tiff of 4864-3684 pixels large (with the Super CCD HR sensor). Hyper Utility 3 can also read and translate the raws.
This raw is a larger output than the Fuji S5 and earlier models. The specialty of the sensor, the highlight recovery, works als great with the E900 RAF's.
See the original brochure at that time (2006)
https://www.fujifilm.ca/shared/bin/E900_Brochure.pdf Looking at the ebay selling locations one can conclude that especially in the UK this Fuji was an enormous success.