squirrel$$$bandit
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I'm gonna wait for the first shipment and see how you all like it...
Finally, X100
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videogamemaker
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Case, hood, and even the filter adaptor are all separate extras. I'm interested what the "protective cover" is, since they already listed the lens cap. Probably just a cloth pouch.
Accessories included
Li-ion battery NP-95
Battery charger BC-65N
Shoulder strap
USB cable for the FinePix X100
Lens cap
Metal strap clip
Protective cover
Clip attaching tool
CD-ROM (Viewer software, RAW File Converter etc. *3 )
Owner's manual
Optional accessories
Li-ion battery NP-95
Battery charger BC-65N
Leather case LC-X100
Lens hood LH-X100
Adapter ring AR-X100
Shoe mount flash EF-20, EF-42
MCTuomey
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X100's 12.3 mpx vs M8's 10.3 mpx
retnull
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The images look good. Life-changing? NO. But, they look very good for a small digital camera.
In my experience, Fuji lenses have a certain delicate or gentle personality. I see this quality in the sample images here.
In my experience, Fuji lenses have a certain delicate or gentle personality. I see this quality in the sample images here.
maenju
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For the nominal resolution this is correct, but it doesn't say a lot about the detail capture or actual resolution, given the M8's lack of an anti-aliasing filter and choice of excellent lenses. The Fuji lens may be very good, but you are limited to it.
videogamemaker
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It's not really that the images are expected to be life changing, it's the camera itself that is so exciting.
If these were images from a new aps-c Dslr from sony or canon, only the most anal of pixel peepers would be excited, as this is only a marginal improvement over the d7000 or 60D in noise (and looking like dynamic range too).
It's the fact it is shaping up to offer class leading aps-c quality in a much smaller form factor. If it increases the number of times a photographer has his camera and takes photos, that's what could be "life changing" to that photographer. Having a high quality small camera to carry more often than a dslr. Too often we have to choose between "great image quality", small size, price, and a viewfinder.
Leica X1? no viewfinder and expensive
Nex? No viewfinder (and for now, slow lenses unless you adapt and lose AF)
m4/3? none of the small ones have good integrated viewfinders, and image quality isn't as good as aps-c
real P&S like s90/lx5/XZ-1? No viewfinder and IQ is way behind aps-c
M8/9/RD-1? Price (and it is looking very likely that at least on the noise-in-high-ISO front, the x100 will readily spank all 3 of these)
user237428934
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It's not a small digital camera. It has a DSLR-size crop sensor. So I expect an image quality comparable to the 40D I had once (or even better). Everything less is a complete failure.
Paul T.
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I think the point is, that this is a far more compact camera than the D40.
Yes, I should hope that quality will exceed the 40D, or the D3000, ot more or less twice the price.
I love the look of that OVF, but as ever it looks like we are expected to pay a 100% premium for the smaller form factor and lack of zoom etc.
Spyro
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What always disappointed me from the dawn of digicams was digital colour. Which was to be expected because it was filmmakers business to make awesome colour palettes, it was Kodak and Fuji who had that experience and tradition, not Canon or Nikon. But because Fuji and Kodak never made a digital camera that I liked, I was basically stuck with tragic and unnatural looking jpegs made by CaNikon, or a raw file that demanded of me to reinvent the wheel. From what I've seen so far, Fuji is about to change all that. I like the camera, and I love the colours.
btgc
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When it will be in store, I'll walk down the street and see the thing. Why boil blood before I can see one in life?
One is for sure, successful or not, X100 will open gate and start new flow in compact camera market. As it's noted before and in this thread too, in future cameraphones will basically eliminate $100-200 P&S market.
One is for sure, successful or not, X100 will open gate and start new flow in compact camera market. As it's noted before and in this thread too, in future cameraphones will basically eliminate $100-200 P&S market.
jsrockit
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or maybe because the focus is on still photography and video is an afterthought... :bang:
monochromejrnl
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27 sample images and ALL shot at ISO200 :bang:
Thardy
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In order to not be totally shocked, I would say take the US price and just use UK currency, so about £1200 + some fudge factor.
jsrockit
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I never trust images from the company's website... I'll wait for reviews in order to look at sample images. I'm excited about this camera, but god damn, release the thing already...it's getting long in the tooth listening to the fujinerds.
videogamemaker
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videogamemaker
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Yep, especially since example images are always jpegs with NR on. I will gladly take noise with the details that stay behind, rather than smeary NR, so I want to see Raw directly to jpeg with only chroma noise reduced.
Paul T.
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UK price is announced as £999.
A straight conversion from dollars, plus VAT would be £900.
Thardy
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Well, at least that's fair.
cjcm
Member
Yes. Most @200 iso, and only one @400 Iso :-(
There still must be something to tweak on high iso. I am 100% sure that I have seen few hours ago on this picture gallery a picture of a street at night in sepia colors, and from what I have seen on my Iphone, shadows were very / completly dark... this picture has disappeared now !!!
On the picture samples in the gallery mentionned above (http://www.finepix-x100.com/en/gallery/images) several samples with snow seem to show also a lack of exposure latitude (... althought it could be a wrong exposure ... ).
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GSNfan
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That image is shot at ISO400, but with -1.3EV and a shutter speed of 1/30. So in other words that is also an ISO 200 photo.
