Fuji X100 Digital SOMETHING from Fujifilm

[vincentbenoit]

None of the mirrorless CDAF cameras have a focusing scale on the lens.

Doesn't have to be on the lens. A thumbwheel would work. But at least it should be labelled with a distance scale to allow for prefocusing without having to look in the viewfinder or on the rear LCD screen. This is essential for street photography. Such a basic feature is available on the Sigma DP1/2.

Vincent

 

[jsrockit]

Manual focus is not essential for street photography... fast AF works just fine as well.

 

[M like Leica M6]

Two different bodies. Look at the strap lugs.

Yes, one of them is already a chinese copy 😀

They did something similar in the movie industry some years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvd3kaupZ60

 

[coelacanth]

Probably around the $1500 mark?

Multiple Japanese articles are reporting expected MSRP of 120,000 - 150,000 yen so that sounds about right.

 

[RayPA]

There's the focus selector, with MF option. Guys... that's a focus ring. On the lens. A manual focus ring, with what amounts to an augmented-reality optical viewfinder. This camera is a firmware release away from being a true rangefinder.

Or am I crazy? I might be crazy.

I've been looking at that ring wondering the same thing. Is it confirmed that it's a MF ring?

Doesn't have to be on the lens. A thumbwheel would work. But at least it should be labelled with a distance scale to allow for prefocusing without having to look in the viewfinder or on the rear LCD screen. This is essential for street photography. Such a basic feature is available on the Sigma DP1/2.

I'm with you on this, Vincent. A focus/distance scale was one of the first things I looked for on the lens. It would have been a very nice addition indeed.


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[tapesonthefloor]

Manual focus is not essential for street photography... fast AF works just fine as well.

Depends on if you're looking for a decisive moment or the decisive moment, I suppose. AF takes the art away from me, and turns the whole business into a guessing game. Personally, if I can't turn a focus wheel with my eye pressed against an optical viewfinder, it ain't photography.

But that's my opinion. I know it differs from most.

 

[M like Leica M6]

I just started a Fuji X100 forum.

This camera seems to have captured a lot of fan's imagination.

Stephen

Stephen, does Mr. Kobayashi have something similar, too, with a true rangefinder and M lens mount? Maybe with a "ZI" on it? Pleeeaaaasse....

 

[tapesonthefloor]

I'm with you on this, Vincent. A focus/distance scale was one of the first things I looked for on the lens. It would have been a very nice addition indeed./

How about an audible, beeping distance scale, where A440 = 2M? 😀

 

[wgerrard]

The video does sell the sizzle.

The narrator sounds like the guy who does the safety videos for United.

 

[Frankie]

......My guess is this is the first in a line of high end compact cameras from Fuji. I'll buy one, and likely up grade as the newer variants are released.

An M9 plus any Leica 35mm lens will set you back $10,000.

For that money, you can afford to buy the X100 now [said to cost ~$1800], add a wider- or zoom-lens version later...and then some.

 

[ywenz]

Strange.. there are definitely two versions of the X100 from the pics we've seen one with 35mm lens one with 23mm lens. WTF!?

 

[Pickett Wilson]

The M9 killer? 😉

 

[Pickett Wilson]

ywenz, actually, I don't think there are ANY versions yet. It's an exercise in lust provocation. 🙂

 

[ywenz]

ywenz, actually, I don't think there are ANY versions yet. It's an exercise in lust provocation. 🙂

No there are different body and different lens. Lenses have different FOV and different size aperture ring tabs.

 

[PKR]

Multiple Japanese articles are reporting expected MSRP of 120,000 - 150,000 yen so that sounds about right.

This camera is up for grabs next year. Today Silver is approaching $21/oz and Gold is close to $1,300/oz. What do you expect the exchange rate to be next year with a dollar losing value daily?

The value of gold and silver don't change. Only the relationship of the value changes, as it relates to the fluxuating value various world currencies. It's taking more dollars to buy the same amount of gold or Nikons, than it did last year at this time. And yes, the Yen changes too.

https://online.kitco.com/scripts/cgi-bin/texten.pl

 

[M like Leica M6]

Depends on if you're looking for a decisive moment or the decisive moment, I suppose. AF takes the art away from me, and turns the whole business into a guessing game. Personally, if I can't turn a focus wheel with my eye pressed against an optical viewfinder, it ain't photography.

But that's my opinion. I know it differs from most.

I think we are similar. 🙂

AF, matrix-metering, many fps... that sounds like Kyūdō, the traditional japanese art of bow shooting, with a rocket launcher. Or driving a Ferrari with an automatic gearbox - and a chauffeur.

Am I getting old? Or wise?

 

[jsrockit]

Depends on if you're looking for a decisive moment or the decisive moment, I suppose. AF takes the art away from me, and turns the whole business into a guessing game. Personally, if I can't turn a focus wheel with my eye pressed against an optical viewfinder, it ain't photography.

But that's my opinion. I know it differs from most.

A pretty narrow view of what photography is... I don't see much difference between fast AF and zone focus honestly. I know I prefer manual focus with an M, but I'm certainly not going to say that when I use AF I'm not making photos ...

The art is not in tools used, but the finished image (to most people viewing the image).

 

[jsrockit]

Strange.. there are definitely two versions of the X100 from the pics we've seen one with 35mm lens one with 23mm lens. WTF!?

Prototype 1 and Prototype 2? I would go with the one in the brochure... by 35mm they probably meant equivilent on the one and actual on the other.

 

[Miserere]

To those regretting or complaining about the fixed lens: I think this is a constraint imposed by the OVF. I would be too complicated, particularly for a first attempt, to build a zoom optical viewfinder.

That's the whole point of rangefinders, that the OVF doesn't zoom, it has frame lines. An interchangeable lens X100 would keep the same OVF, but the photographer would have the option of seeing through the lens by switching to EVF view.

 

[semilog]

Prototype 1 and Prototype 2? I would go with the one in the brochure... by 35mm they probably meant equivilent on the one and actual on the other.

Pretty obvious that that's what's going on here.