Terao
Kiloran
There's a huge photography show on for the next 4 days in the UK, and the X100 is one of the stars of the show, so thought it would be good to start a thread with first impressions from those who get to see it there.
Mine are:
Its a lovely bit of kit, the hybrid finder is exceptionally gorgeous with a huge amount of eye relief. First finder for years that I've been able to see the whole of with my glasses on. Beautifully sharp shooting information in there, I'm guessing its an OLED screen that's being projected. These two things are a huge plus in its favour for me.
EVF is a little bit laggy and exhibits tearing in low light, probably not as good as the G1 for example, but comparable to the current add-on EVFs available for the Pen/GF2/LX5 etc
Menu system is a hateful jumble of which Canon would be proud, and things are not helped by the command dial being nastily plastic and overly sensitive (reminds me of the S90 in that regard).
Fast shooting in RAW mode, and the film modes work well.
Nice approach to manual focus, you can use the AE button in MF mode to get a close focus from which you can fine-tune if you wish.
All the controls fall nicely under your fingers - easy to reach the OVF/EVF switch, Fn button, and AE/AE-L button by feel alone.
Output is most impressive if the Fuji prints are to be believed (although I suspect they'll be slightly tainted by marketing magic). Would say it matches my D700 up to ISO6400 and that's plenty enough for me.
Not completely convinced by it though, would need to spend some more time with it to see if it kept out of the way of shooting. Its overly-customisable in some regards, too many options to tweak.
Just round the corner from the Fuji stand was the Linhof Teknika stand, stocked full of MF/LF/Pano gear, which to be honest out-porned the X100. Particularly a gorgeous Alpa with twin wooden handgrips that oozed precision...
Oh and there appeared to be some very good deals on Wacom tablets - either available VAT-free or with a full version of Lightroom3 bundled. Worth a look at their stand.
Mine are:
Its a lovely bit of kit, the hybrid finder is exceptionally gorgeous with a huge amount of eye relief. First finder for years that I've been able to see the whole of with my glasses on. Beautifully sharp shooting information in there, I'm guessing its an OLED screen that's being projected. These two things are a huge plus in its favour for me.
EVF is a little bit laggy and exhibits tearing in low light, probably not as good as the G1 for example, but comparable to the current add-on EVFs available for the Pen/GF2/LX5 etc
Menu system is a hateful jumble of which Canon would be proud, and things are not helped by the command dial being nastily plastic and overly sensitive (reminds me of the S90 in that regard).
Fast shooting in RAW mode, and the film modes work well.
Nice approach to manual focus, you can use the AE button in MF mode to get a close focus from which you can fine-tune if you wish.
All the controls fall nicely under your fingers - easy to reach the OVF/EVF switch, Fn button, and AE/AE-L button by feel alone.
Output is most impressive if the Fuji prints are to be believed (although I suspect they'll be slightly tainted by marketing magic). Would say it matches my D700 up to ISO6400 and that's plenty enough for me.
Not completely convinced by it though, would need to spend some more time with it to see if it kept out of the way of shooting. Its overly-customisable in some regards, too many options to tweak.
Just round the corner from the Fuji stand was the Linhof Teknika stand, stocked full of MF/LF/Pano gear, which to be honest out-porned the X100. Particularly a gorgeous Alpa with twin wooden handgrips that oozed precision...
Oh and there appeared to be some very good deals on Wacom tablets - either available VAT-free or with a full version of Lightroom3 bundled. Worth a look at their stand.
