I saw this topic and decided to join
I own fujifilm finepix s series camera too and I have been searching for some firmware modifications for quite a while. Fujifilm bridge cameras are good and low price but lack features like manual focus and raw shooting.
I am not coder or anything like that (not 0 but still not enough to script anything).
As I see main problem is that we dont have main 1.0 firmware ?
If so, I have an idea, what if access camera memory manually ?
Camera have some kind of mini hdd or memory card in it where it stores theese some free mb and firmware itself. So idea is to dismantle the camera itself to get the momory card what is in camera and then try to acces it.
Then we can see by ourselves what is in camera .
Then we will get original firmware .
The problem is that we screw up camera like that.
Good thing, that we may actually use used cameras or even not working ones to get to this hdd or card in camera itself. It will be cheaper too.
Main is that card is not damaged, camera may even be broken.
I dont know, but maybe this sounds like fiction, but I have not seen any idea like this before.
Thumbs up for guys trying, good luck !