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Hello,

We at 135street (www.135street.com) have one Fuji X100 to test, and we will be doing a review to publish somewhere next week.

If you guys have any suggestions, points, or situations that you want see analyzed, please inform me, so I can make a review that is useful for you.

We will cover all the normal points in a camera review.

Thanks,
 
Sounds good. Interested in comments re: any "shutter lag", if possible- maybe a video to demonstrate it at various settings. For me, this is the one answered question that will determine whether I want to buy this camera or not.
 
Sounds good indeed.

I would really like to see some direct comparison to Leica X1 and Ricoh GXR (with the A12 modules) - in particular IQ and rendering, but also AF, handling. It would be great if some RAW files could be made available (if possible, of course).

Also some comparison comments about the EVF and how does it compare to others on the market.
 
Matus said:
Sounds good indeed.

I would really like to see some direct comparison to Leica X1 and Ricoh GXR (with the A12 modules) - in particular IQ and rendering, but also AF, handling. It would be great if some RAW files could be made available (if possible, of course).

Also some comparison comments about the EVF and how does it compare to others on the market.
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I'm unable to compare it with the Ricoh, since I don't have one, and never used one, with the Leica X1, I can try.

I can post a raw file, but right now, LR3 and Aperture 3 don't support X100 raw files.
 
Please judge the ease and accuracy of focus when shooting at f/2.0. Can you quickly and accurately focus on off center, small subjects while using the OVF? Using the EVF? Using autofocus...manual focus?

Also, there has been an earlier question as to how the X100 handles lights in a low light environment. Could you shoot a subject with street lights in the background in a low light environment and varying aperture.. dusk..night.? To be fair, the cars need to be at some distance not to be simply looking at out of focus street lamp blur (bokeh).
 
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My experience: there is no shutter lag when set up in manual focus mode. When in auto-focus, it has a lag similar to most sub-DSLR sized cameras. I find the auto focus to be quite satisfactory and doesn't distract from the joy of using this camera at all. 🙂
 
I'm not sure how much useful information still another review would yield. Until there there are a significant number in actual users hands, the real gotchas won't show up. Hopefully there will be some soon in the pipeline.
 
I just read the review. My initial response using the X100 was similar to the reviewer's, but only that I noticed the manual focus 'issues'. Once I learned how it works, I use the camera the way it was designed for. Manual focusing with the X100 is designed to be for setting the camera up in a 'zone focus' arrangement. It is NOT designed to behave like an M8 or a Canon 5DMkII. If it was it would cost a LOT more!

There is nothing like the X100 on the market yet. Its an APS-C sensored camera with a GREAT optical viewfinder and a great, fast 35mm lens. Auto focus is fine on the street (for me anyway). I would guess that I'm not going to miss any more 'decisive moments' with the X100 auto-focus than I am with an M2 with the lens cap still on the lens. 🙂 Did I mention that the files at ISO 1600 look GREAT? And at 3200, plenty good enough.
 
It's just hard for me to make sense of the reviews. I've read most of 'em out there, and in many cases it's like these people were using completely different cameras! I guess it's a camera you just have to try out for yourself.
 
It seems to me that the great high ISO performance works nicely with street photography and zone focusing. Of course, if your thing is shooting wide open in fast moving environments, I suspect that you might miss a number of shots with most cameras.
 
Reading about the manual focusing issue in the review has shut down my interest in the X100 (not that I was shopping for one, though). AF is nice, but without a reliable way to accurately focus on my own for critical shots, it ceases to appeal to me.

To the OP, going into gruesome detail about manual focusing with the digital vf would be an interesting read for me (and maybe others who are here and like to shoot full manual).

Were only the M9 the price of an M8.2... hahaha.
 
Pickett Wilson said:
It's just hard for me to make sense of the reviews. I've read most of 'em out there, and in many cases it's like these people were using completely different cameras! I guess it's a camera you just have to try out for yourself.
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This very different review's conclusion around focussing remember me often at the complaining threads here in RFF, around the Contax G. There are people having no trouble with all the specialities using the Contax G focusing system properly as intended by the developers. And others hate that focussing approach and cannot work with the Contax G.

Who is interested in a X100 should really try it before buying.
 
Slightly off-topic, but I would not discard the X100 because of the MF. I would rather see it as digital version of Hexar AF - that camera has no indication of the focus distance in the viewfinder at all and there are many happy users.

For me - as long as the AF is reliable and reasonably fast the X100 remains in the game.
 
bwcolor said:
Please judge the ease and accuracy of focus when shooting at f/2.0. Can you quickly and accurately focus on off center, small subjects while using the OVF? Using the EVF? Using autofocus...manual focus?
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Really? Could you explain the scenario under which this is necessary to me? I am at a complete loss here. You do know it has a 23mm lens right?

But if you do need that capability I suggest you stay well away from the X100. Its AF is a lot better than I can do manually with my ZI, and a lot less capable (though not really slower) than any mid-range DSLR. If you can do that sort of thing with your Leica then I suggest you stick with that, otherwise get yourself a sports/action DSLR like a Canon 1D4 or Nikon D3S.

Also to be honest, you need a very forgiving personality to love the X100, and from the tone of your posts I'm 99.9% sure you won't like its good points nearly enough to overlook its bad ones.
 
JSU said:
How loud is it, compared to a M4, M6, or even a M8.2?

Does the X100 have a "silent mode" like the Canon G10, 11, 12?
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Makes a Leica sound like a herd of elephants trampling by.

It has an electronic leaf shutter. Sounds about the same as other cameras like that. Basically if there is any background ambient noise you cannot hear the shutter trip. If you have the auto-review switched off then you often aren't sure whether you took the shot.
 
uhoh7 said:
Bit of a brutal take:

http://streetreverbmagazine.com/2011/04/14/meeting-a-stranger-the-fuji-x100-a-street-photographer%E2%80%99s-view/

sounds like MF is not like an M8...
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MF is definitely NOT like an M8. I don't disagree with any of the facts as presented in that review.

The camera will suit some people and not others. I absolutely love it.

In particular if you are the kind of person who thinks of a camera as a "just a working tool" this this is absolutely not the camera for you.
 
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