Fuji X100 Digital SOMETHING from Fujifilm

FYI Fujifilm has said that the sensor in this camera will have the best image quality of any digital camera they've produced yet - including dynamic range.

For everyone whining about a focussing scale on the lens - learn how to use a digital camera properly. If you want to scale focus change the focus activation button to the 'AF-L' button on the back, set the lens to your chosen aperture (f5.8 or f8 or whatever) and use that back AF-L button to focus on something around 1-1.5m away. In doing this, you've set and fixed the focus to that distance, left the aperture to cover DOF from there till infinity, and you have NO af lag when you press the shutter. It's exactly the same in result as using the focus scale on a lens, no harder. Besides that there IS a focussing scale INSIDE the viewfinder, which will ALSO be viewable on the rear LCD, meaning you won't have to put the camera up to your eye. Fixed. Done. Gone. No more complaining about it.

Edit: The reason that the lens will probably have a focus by wire mechanism is because it's significantly less mechanically complex to design than a mechanical solution, meaning they can make the lens far smaller. It's probably harder to link parallax adjustment in a body and lens that small too - much easier to just have it done electronically.

I'd rather have the wire focus and a smaller package with similar functionality thankyou very much. Size is one factor that truly matters for this camera.
 
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arturo said:
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.
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Ahem, Leica M's also don't have zoom finders. Why not just show the frames for 35-50-90 (equivalent) like my M2? That should be possible. For teles you can always switch to the EVF, something you cannot do with an M at all...
 
tom.w.bn said:
Camera and the girl: very nice.

The good thing about this camera is that it's not available. Focussing your GAS attacks on something that is not available is good for your bank account. Hopefully it's really slow and has a lousy picture quality. Otherwise the GAS attack will continue.
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I would take the girl :D

Well its look is truly authentic!!! so much similarities to leica-m cameras, very cute! they even put the marker for sensor surface, like the film surface...

Oh man thanks fuji!
 
A very interesting camera concept - an EVIL camera w/o interchangeable lens.

However, it's exciting to read between the lines of what we know up to now:
  • The camera's hybrid viewfinder just needs different frame data and an expanded software, but no different mechanical parts, and it would be useable with a true EVIL design.
  • It has been said the camera's lens design is a retrofocus design, and that the camera's sensor features offset microlenses. So, the sensor is optimized for a certain light angle of incidence. Combine that with a retrofocus spec, and you might get a specification for a series of interchangeable lenses that could be optimized for that sensor.
  • Another interesting aspect is the fact that the fastest specified shutter speed is 1/4000s. It's fairly improbable that such a speed can be obtained using a leaf shutter. I suspect the design will use a focal plane shutter - which might also be read as an indication that this design might have the potential for a migration to be the basis of a true EVIL camera system.
 
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.


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It looks like it's a servo driven MF. In Optical VF mode, there will be an LED on the side to indicate focus achieved.
 
Just can't stop the hunger for more specifications...so, I applied some basic photogrammetry:

Flange to Sensor Plane = 26mm [Brian Sweeney take note...]
Filter size = 46mm [I happen to have a nice wide angle rubber hood...in stock.] :D

The X100 body is 127mm wide (5"), 12mm (1/2") less than an M-body; body thickness [not counting the front grip, LCD and VF protrusions etc.] is ~31mm, 2mm less than the M.
 
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ywenz said:
It looks like it's a servo driven MF. In Optical VF mode, there will be an LED on the side to indicate focus achieved.
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That's the best news I've heard so far. This is looking like an extremely usable camera to me, and I thought I had pretty specific (read: strange) needs.
 
CameraQuest said:
I just started a Fuji X100 forum.

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

Stephen
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Many have been asking for this kind of camera for some time. The success of the Canon G9,10,11 should have been obvious to many camera manufactures.

Fuji was listening and in a position to deliver as requested. 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.

Listening to ones customer base can result in a successful product line and profits. Fujifilm didn't get to their position in the camera/film business by being stupid. Now look at Kodak, a company who ignores it's customer base and treats them poorly.

Tell me you don't see the difference..
 
I sold all my cameras this morning and I'm standing outside of B&H. There is a line around the block. News trucks and a couple of mounted police just showed up... Everyone is still pretty cool, but there are quite a few glassy-eyed folks milling about. The cops just lowered their plexi faceshields. Every few minutes the door opens and shouts go out. It's all or nothing, "hell no, we won't go!". I will be able to make good pictures, if I can just get one of these cameras...

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We don't know anything about the important facts like picture quality or responsiveness. But I must admit that this is one of the most beautiful camera designs I have seen for a while.
 
Jaime M said:
But there looks like 2 cameras! One 35mm lens, big strap lugs and the MF, AF-S, AF-C dial on left position

And the other one 23mm lens, little strap lugs, and the MF, AF-S, AF-C dial on right position


Maybe both are pre-production, maybe prototipes, or maybe an epic fail :D
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Yes. I was wrong. Two different design models.
 
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