gilpen123
Gil
Hmmmm availability early 2011, I can't stand to wait that long.
narsuitus
Well-known
I am in love!
The X100 looks like the camera I have been waiting for.
I hope it lives up to its specs.
I find it hard to believe but if I buy the X100, I will then own 5 Fuji cameras (the X100 plus two S5 and two medium format rangefinders). Fuji must be doing something right.
The X100 looks like the camera I have been waiting for.
I hope it lives up to its specs.
I find it hard to believe but if I buy the X100, I will then own 5 Fuji cameras (the X100 plus two S5 and two medium format rangefinders). Fuji must be doing something right.
loneranger
Well-known
What I dont understand is, why didnt this come out earlier, the concept is simple, why not in 2007. Are these digital camera makers so tone death.
Harry Lime
Practitioner
Nice.
Fuji just made the camera everyone has been begging Leica to build for the past few years.
Guess who's going to get my money?
Fuji just made the camera everyone has been begging Leica to build for the past few years.
Guess who's going to get my money?
hteasley
Pupil
This is just the first salvo of Photokina. I'd be surprised if this is the only camera targeting this niche, at the show. I'd bet several manufacturers will be coming out with APS-C compacts; those that haven't already committed to m4/3, anyway.
Frankie
Speaking Frankly
The Fuji X 100 has more useful feature built-in than Leica X1 has ever been conceived. The Leica X1 is dead even if the X100 is priced to match.
The X100 would also challenge the M8/9 equipped with only 35~50mm lens. All eyes must now be on IQ.
The O/EVF is a game changing concept. The EVF is said to be 1.44M in resolution...800 x 600 x RGB? [same as Oly E-P2 or Pany G1/2], good enough for me. 100% EVF coverage is expected and so supported.
If we accept 6Mp (a la RD-1) as being useful, then the 35mm equivalent fixed lens actually covers 35~45mm using the digital zoom technique. Perhaps one day soon, Fuji would actually offer a screw-in 2X extender [a la Canon G7~12]. A 37~70mm range would be very nice.
The APS-C sensor would have 6u pixel size...and ISO 6400 with boost!
Fixed lens means no dust can get in, no need for sensor cleaning gizmo.
The lens aperture ring has an "A" setting, and the shutter speed dial as well...so direct auto mode control. That couple with direct +/- 2 stops exposure compensation, what more would one need. I am sure there will be a menu-selectable auto-ISO setting.
Auto-focus is built-in...another reason for no interchangeable lens as yet. Although the brochure did not say it, why equip the lens with a focusing ring if manual focus is not supported.
What is most interesting is the body dimensions match Leica pre-M8/9. The lens is a thin 20mm thick pancake. No weird strap attachments, no unusual gizmo...
The X100 spec. say .5x OVF magnification, and looks like with dioptric correction built-in [wheel left of eye piece]. I would not doubt Fuji or others would make a VF magnifier...there are plenty of perimeter VF room to use, as much as a 1.25X, making the VF a 0.75.
I have seen no picture to confirm this, but I am sure Fuji would not omit a tripod screw hole.
The camera needs no side grip [more money], no external dioptric correction lens [more money]...the only thing I have not found as yet is reference to image stabilizing, something I don't care for anyway.
The X100 would also challenge the M8/9 equipped with only 35~50mm lens. All eyes must now be on IQ.
The O/EVF is a game changing concept. The EVF is said to be 1.44M in resolution...800 x 600 x RGB? [same as Oly E-P2 or Pany G1/2], good enough for me. 100% EVF coverage is expected and so supported.
If we accept 6Mp (a la RD-1) as being useful, then the 35mm equivalent fixed lens actually covers 35~45mm using the digital zoom technique. Perhaps one day soon, Fuji would actually offer a screw-in 2X extender [a la Canon G7~12]. A 37~70mm range would be very nice.
The APS-C sensor would have 6u pixel size...and ISO 6400 with boost!
Fixed lens means no dust can get in, no need for sensor cleaning gizmo.
The lens aperture ring has an "A" setting, and the shutter speed dial as well...so direct auto mode control. That couple with direct +/- 2 stops exposure compensation, what more would one need. I am sure there will be a menu-selectable auto-ISO setting.
Auto-focus is built-in...another reason for no interchangeable lens as yet. Although the brochure did not say it, why equip the lens with a focusing ring if manual focus is not supported.
What is most interesting is the body dimensions match Leica pre-M8/9. The lens is a thin 20mm thick pancake. No weird strap attachments, no unusual gizmo...
The X100 spec. say .5x OVF magnification, and looks like with dioptric correction built-in [wheel left of eye piece]. I would not doubt Fuji or others would make a VF magnifier...there are plenty of perimeter VF room to use, as much as a 1.25X, making the VF a 0.75.
I have seen no picture to confirm this, but I am sure Fuji would not omit a tripod screw hole.
The camera needs no side grip [more money], no external dioptric correction lens [more money]...the only thing I have not found as yet is reference
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Tone 'death', heh.
At least Fuji appears to be listening...maybe they were expecting something from other manufacturers and when it didn't (fully) happen they decided to press the 'go' button.
At least Fuji appears to be listening...maybe they were expecting something from other manufacturers and when it didn't (fully) happen they decided to press the 'go' button.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
As I said above, the concept it simple, but the implementation is far from simple. In 2007 there were not hi-def VF displays, for example, and the eccentric microlens tech that was required was not available.
Make no mistake. Substantial new engineering went into this camera.
randomm
Well-known
Well, well... my new camera has arrived 
douglasf13
Well-known
Everyone needs to check out the lens diagram for this camera. Obviously, there are lens elements inside the "body" of the camera, and the seemingly short lens is a bit of a facade. Sony did something similar with the DSC-R1, which improved the camera's proportions by making the lens look smaller than it really is. This is probably a major reason why the camera is fixed lens.:
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
The EVF will presumably be 3:2. More like 1500 x 1000 nominal. The LCD on the back is 460k pixels, and eyeballing the aspect ration, it will probably be roughly 800 x 600 nominal.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
That aspheric element is insane.
Something *very* promising is that the MTF plots look quite symmetrical (medial vs. saggital). This suggests low astigmatism. The 30 lp/mm trace suggests substantial field curvature at f/4. The curves look quite a lot like the curves for the 50mm Summicron-M. Very promising.
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urban_alchemist
Well-known
To quote De La Soul: Ooh ooh ooh!
And to those questioning how this could come from Fuji: Hasselblad MF cameras are rebadged Fujis, and my X-PanII proudly bears the Fujifilm logo...
And to those questioning how this could come from Fuji: Hasselblad MF cameras are rebadged Fujis, and my X-PanII proudly bears the Fujifilm logo...
aizan
Veteran
wtf...the aperture dial and the shutter speed dial both turn the wrong way!
Frankie
Speaking Frankly
Fuji makes many optical things most of us have never heard of. Almost 3 decades ago, I was given an 1" think small text Fuji product catalog. 2 evenings of careful reading and I was still going at it.
jky
Well-known
What! No depth of field scale!?!... screw it...
Maybe it'll be super imposed in the heads up display of the viewfinder... that'll be nice.
Seriously though, my first thought was "WOW!"... as many have mentioned already - I'm wondering about the cost, operational speed, etc...
Maybe it'll be super imposed in the heads up display of the viewfinder... that'll be nice.
Seriously though, my first thought was "WOW!"... as many have mentioned already - I'm wondering about the cost, operational speed, etc...
cam
the need for speed
i am running, not walking, to see this on Wednesday!
seriously, i was just looking at picking up a Hexar AF but, oh my, digital!!!
i will definitely report back :angel:
seriously, i was just looking at picking up a Hexar AF but, oh my, digital!!!
i will definitely report back :angel:
Leica All Day
Veteran
this thing looks awsome.....
How much impact do you guys think rff and possible other photo sites had when Fuji did research on developing this camera?....
cheers, michael
How much impact do you guys think rff and possible other photo sites had when Fuji did research on developing this camera?....
cheers, michael
Jamie Pillers
Skeptic
Thanks for the heads-up. This is REALLY close to the ideal. Add an interchangeable lens capability and a image processor so good that raw and white balance adj. are no longer needed, and thus the rear screen no longer needed.
I just read the text in the brochure about the optical viewfinder. It LOOKS like there's a brightline there, with lots of room to spare around it!! So, if that's true, this viewfinder isn't one of those tunnel jobs like on the Canon G series!
I just read the text in the brochure about the optical viewfinder. It LOOKS like there's a brightline there, with lots of room to spare around it!! So, if that's true, this viewfinder isn't one of those tunnel jobs like on the Canon G series!
iwaki
Member
What! No depth of field scale!?!... screw it...
Maybe it'll be super imposed in the heads up display of the viewfinder... that'll be nice.
Seriously though, my first thought was "WOW!"... as many have mentioned already - I'm wondering about the cost, operational speed, etc...
when i saw this thread this morning, i thought i'd read through it and post my thoughts.... well... i gave up ;-) it's growing way too fast.
I think i saw a depth of field scale super imposed in the viewfinder. Although not having the depth of scale markings on the lens is a small minus for me. But having it in the viewfinder could actually be better. (well.... or just different)