jamesmck
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Do you know if this holds for the X100t as well? Would this lock everything, including the shutter button?
Disappointing Encounter With The X100F
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wet
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James--- holding down the OK button doesn't lock everything. I believe it's the various function buttons & the Q button.
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wet
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-- and it does apply to the 100T
danielsterno
making soup from mud
reading the thread and agree with many of the Pro/Con comments. The original x100 was my first and only digital since 2012 until 2017 and always loved the Mojo perfection of its imperfection when I upgraded to x100f after renting LeicaQ, XproII and 100f. I do miss the original Mojo magic of the X100 and took a while to dumb the x100f down to a a simplistic KISS camera though I think it lost something while gaining faster/more accurate AF, 12 to 24 MB increase which I think matters and faster start up time which are the 3 reasons I upgraded. I am making it work though If I didn't give my daughter the original I might of sold the x100f? not sure. Last, I prefer original sensor without the Xtrans CMOS III as my only digital in addition to M6/M5 though do like the Acros B&W JPEG mode for the majority of my images..... happy spring to all.
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Graybeard
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You seem disappointed. That is what locking does on the x100f.
This is prevent in camera settings if these most exposed controls are inadvertently pressed with the camera in use or in a camera bag.
davhill
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<The original x100 was my first and only digital since 2012 until 2017 and always loved the Mojo perfection of its imperfection when I upgraded to x100f after...>
This is all kinda fascinating, and I’m *still* not regretting that I *still* have the original x100. Just sayin.
This is all kinda fascinating, and I’m *still* not regretting that I *still* have the original x100. Just sayin.
Michael Markey
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Probably because no one would buy one.
Canyongazer
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jsrockit
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I would....
davhill
Canon P
Luddite ...
Dogman
Veteran
I would too. I think.
Right now Leica digital M seems about as close as anything and I don't see myself buying one of those.
But we can dream.
Archlich
Well-known
I don't understand people who refuse to read the manual and customize their camera even ONCE.
Just ONCE, you'll get it all, and it'll be easier to use and more capable than any "old film P&S". Try that with a Ricoh GR. Can't say so with a X100F but it's not hard either.
Keep Learning and it'll never disappoint.
Just ONCE, you'll get it all, and it'll be easier to use and more capable than any "old film P&S". Try that with a Ricoh GR. Can't say so with a X100F but it's not hard either.
Keep Learning and it'll never disappoint.
ptpdprinter
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I don't get it either. It takes about a half an hour, and then you rarely need to change the settings again. Menu angst tells you more about the photographer than about the camera.
karateisland
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Between the Q button and the "my menu" function on the X100F, I find that I can ignore the rest of the menu items virtually all the time. Properly set up, they make a big difference to the camera's usability.
davhill
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I believe the issue for many or even most people is Choice Without Guidance — that there are so many interlocking choices and no guidance from the manual, no information about why one or the other feature is useful in which situations, or what’s important and what’s trivial. That’s tremendously intimidating, and even if you do go into it and choose some things there’s endless uncertainty about what you’ve done. This becomes easier when you gain experience with many cameras of this complexity. Few consumers have that luxury—if I spend hundreds or thousands on a camera I expect to use it for 10 years or more. And this is why someone like Ken Rockwell (regardless of whether you agree) is of tremendous value: he has vast experience with old and modern cameras and can write sensibly about them. He wrote a User Guide for the X100 which leaves the manual in the dust because he runs through the options and says what he chose and why. He gives a baseline to start with confidence. It doesn’t matter if you agree entirely with his choices—ive changed several things. But having used the camera with his defaults and understanding his reasoning, I can make informed decisions about where to go from there.
Michael Markey
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Done deal then John 🙂
On a more serious note .... we seem to return to this subject time and time again.
I think that todays consumer want all this "versatility" in their cameras.
At least the ones that I speak to do .... the more it can do the more desirable it is.
Whether they actually use it ,of course, is a different matter.
I don`t believe its driven by the manufacturer ..... encouraged maybe but on the whole they know that the more a camera can do and the more connected it is the more attractive it is.
jsrockit
Moderator
I didn't say it would be my only camera... but I'd probably have to have one of these... I use Fuji right now.
jsrockit
Moderator
If dpreview.com is any indication...you are completely correct. Many there don't even care if they will use the added functionality, as long as it wins the war between camera A and camera B.
