Fuji Klasse W

Off topic: A guy I know went to a Chinese tattoo place late at night after spending the evening in bars.

He asked for a tattoo that was poetry, and was very proud of what they did.

Then he went to a Chinese restaurant and showed them the tattoo. They fell about laughing because it said 'This guy was drunk one night.'
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
Off topic: A guy I know went to a Chinese tattoo place late at night after spending the evening in bars.

He asked for a tattoo that was poetry, and was very proud of what they did.

Then he went to a Chinese restaurant and showed them the tattoo. They fell about laughing because it said 'This guy was drunk one night.'
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He was lucky, since he got a tattoo that actually made some sense. Many if not most of the Chinese and Japanese character tattoos made in the West are either nonsensical or very bad calligraphy so that the characters are unrecognizable. There's actually a web site devoted to bad Chinese and Japanese writings in tattoos and popular culture:

http://www.hanzismatter.com/
 
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So how about the camera? Fuji Klasse W.
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Today I dropped by my local Yodobashi Camera and I took a look at a Fuji Klasse W. Neat little camera, though it seems a little pricey for a P&S. The menus were all in English, unlike the Fuji Natura's. Here's a few shots I took with my cell phone camera.
 
Yes, I can see the camera works in English, even though it's Japanese market only.

I was going by Megaperls "Note: All instructions for this camera in Japanese only!" so maybe the instruction book is in Japanese but the menus can be in English.

Also, your photos show a black camera, whereas I've only ever seen a silver camera. Are both available?
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
Yes, I can see the camera works in English, even though it's Japanese market only.

I was going by Megaperls "Note: All instructions for this camera in Japanese only!" so maybe the instruction book is in Japanese but the menus can be in English.

Also, your photos show a black camera, whereas I've only ever seen a silver camera. Are both available?
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Yes, I think it comes with only a Japanese instruction book, no English. It's a pretty basic camera though. You'll work out most of the functions within 5 minutes. Both black and silver versions are available. The black version came out just recently, I think.
 
The black one has been the Klasse S, and that has a 38mm lens.

Now it seems the Klasse W (with 28mm lens) is available in silver or black.
 
There are three versions of Klasse: Klasse (38mm f2.6, discontinued, the same as Rollei AFM35), Klasse S (38mm f2.8), Klasse W (28mm f2.8). They are all good cameras, as the images are sharp, contrasty, saturated, and vivid! The only problem is the price. Rollei AFM35 was $399 when new (already expensive!). A good used Klasse probably costs $220~$330. But the new, smaller-aperture S or W costs more than $700! I would definitley go for T3 or CM rather than Fujifilm with price this high.
 
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I found on fuji web that manual focus is available for Klasse. Who know how (by focusing barrel?) as I could not find any cue on the camera body.
 
I have this camera (Fuji Klasse W). I like a 28mm lens and as such I think this camera is superb. Although web images, here are a few examples:

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I keep finding that Im use this camera more and more. I love the +/- EV control lever; that I can disable the flash for everytime I turn it on; and that I can rewind and leave the film leader out.
BTW, only the manual is in Japanese, not the camera. I can read a degree of Japanese so I could slowly work things out in the manual
 
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conradyiu said:
I found on fuji web that manual focus is available for Klasse. Who know how (by focusing barrel?) as I could not find any cue on the camera body.
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Its a menu option. You keep pushing the centre button of the jog wheel until "AF" then turn the jog wheel to the distance. Its something like 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 10, oo (in metres). Once you turn off and back on again it restores to AF.

Ive actually found this feature very useful. Especially with candid type shots where you may not actually look through the finder. As well its useful for shooting though a fence or similar foreground distraction where you cant guarantee the camera's focus point. Its not as easy as barrel focusing but again, a p&s is a compromise to begin with and this one is a great compromise.
 
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