Fuji X100 Digital SOMETHING from Fujifilm

The shutter is a question... I haven't seen any mention of the shutter by Fuji except to say it has little/no lag time. The shutter speed dial goes to 1/4000, which I think would eliminate a leaf shutter. But why put a focal plane shutter in a fixed-lens camera? Maybe this custom sensor can indeed capture without a mechanical shutter...

In a related issue, Fuji says there's a 3-stop ND filter... Is this a glass filter that is moved into the light path, or another trick of the sensor?
 
ywenz said:
without a mechnical shutter to "cut-off" light, grabbing snap-in-time data from a sensor will be blurry, due to the fact that the pixels are still gathering light.
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Okay, I understand. How is the no-shutter frame grabbed in a 1.7 sensor?

Frame grabbing was done long ago with a delay line and a good sized buffer. I don't know what would be required with the current size memory dump done with a capture. it's a little out of my league, though I do understand the technology.
 
alexnotalex said:
and what about good old digital zoom to turn the 35ish into a 50ish? I could live with 9MP...
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When my calculation is right then you crop 70% away on either side of the frame when you go from 35mm to 50mm. That's in total approx. 50% of the megapixels. That's 6 and not 9MP. Or am I wrong with my calculation?
 
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Measuring my carry-around Zorki-1 (which is about the same size as a Barnack Leica II) with the 35mm CV pancake lens on it . . . comes to pretty much the same size as this Fuji. Very very pocketable - actually even smaller as I forgot about the accessory v/f on top of the Zorki.. A hell of a lot of people use 35mm equivalent for the majority of their pictures, so it's an excellent minimalistic idea in my opinion.

If only the X1 had had a pop-up viewfinder instead of a pop-up flash . . . .
 
MartinP said:
If only the X1 had had a pop-up viewfinder instead of a pop-up flash . . . .
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I don't get this line of reasoning... the external viewfinder for the X1 is bigger and brighter than anything Leica had in the Minilux and CM. It looks good with the Ext VF too... like a Leica Digital Standard. If they put in the camera it would change the camera's size and would be small and relatively useless.
 
tom.w.bn said:
When my calculation is right then you crop 70% away on either side of the frame when you go from 35mm to 50mm. That's in total approx. 50% of the megapixels. That's 6 and not 9MP. Or am I wrong with my calculation?
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you're righter than me. I could probably live with 6.
 
xayraa33, I'm joking! I'd get a Yashica but I think the Fuji will be about $2.000.00 +/-. I've got a couple of film cameras now and I don't really need more. I use the digital I have for sketches, so I don't need two.

It's an interesting market response from Fuji though, I'm glad they decided to provide a RF digital at a price point that will interest people. I'm sure this will lead to a product that will permit interchangeable lenses in due course.
 
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