dazedgonebye
Veteran
The sensor in my 300D is old tech.
The D90? Brand spakin' new from my point of view.
The D90? Brand spakin' new from my point of view.
btgc
Veteran
Thinking about price, $1000 is a $1000 even in Africa, as we say here. Five years ago another ground-breaking camera came out, I mean Sony DSC-R1 with APS-C sensor and 24-120 varifocal lens.
I remember mussings around it, though my friend is still using it until today and is perfectly happy with it. He spent even more than $1000 for it as it happins with import goodies. But even I must admit that it's a good, solid camera no matter what one think about digital cameras.
Let's now think if X100 is similar phenomena as R1 were? And if dollar has become more expensive or cheaper over years?
I remember mussings around it, though my friend is still using it until today and is perfectly happy with it. He spent even more than $1000 for it as it happins with import goodies. But even I must admit that it's a good, solid camera no matter what one think about digital cameras.
Let's now think if X100 is similar phenomena as R1 were? And if dollar has become more expensive or cheaper over years?
Matus
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On the aging note - when I bought my Minolta 7D I knew it will not give me all I want (6 Mpix is just not enough for me) and also its performance of AF or others was not what I would wish, but I could not get anything much better at that time.
But it works the other way as well. If you get a tool that you are satisfied with, than this tool will not get worse once a new one will be released. I now this sounds contra intuitive to many ...
But it works the other way as well. If you get a tool that you are satisfied with, than this tool will not get worse once a new one will be released. I now this sounds contra intuitive to many ...
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
But in a dire pinch you can scrape bits off the camera to start a fire or make a signal flare.
PKR
Veteran
But in a dire pinch you can scrape bits off the camera to start a fire or make a signal flare.
4000 deg F ? I can't remember. That seems really low.. must be > 3K C
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semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
Paul T.
Veteran
fujinons also tend to produce harsh bokeh at large apertures, both in large and medium format lenses. if this new lens is no exception, i'm pretty sure it will be downplayed!
I'm looking forward to the bokeh wars!
There could be focus shift, too! (I know you can check for it with an EVF, but that's irrelevant).
Imagine the fun!
YOu might have to be brave to own this camera, if the bokeh is 'unapproved', as with the VC 40/1.4 and 35/1.4... immune to the gasps of horror.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
We already know that the lens has a 9-bladed aperture and MTFs that show rather low astigmatism. Both are good signs.
Paul T.
Veteran
AH, that might not stop people. I predict a firestorm in December 2011... Once we get photos of cats/babies in front of a Christmas tree, it only takes one photo of a double ring on a single fairylight and after that, le déluge...
mervynyan
Mervyn Yan
Through the viewfinder, is it for real? wow
it has the histogram, distant scale,
it has the histogram, distant scale,
and crys of people who say that they see no difference between those photos and one from their [insert cheap P&S] that's 5 years old.
The Fuji lens on my St801 is really good. This one will be, too.
I might buy one just to use alongside my Hi-Matic 9. Compared to mowing lawns for the whole Summer of '69 to get my first fixed-lens RF, this one is cheap.
I might buy one just to use alongside my Hi-Matic 9. Compared to mowing lawns for the whole Summer of '69 to get my first fixed-lens RF, this one is cheap.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
For me it was delivering newspapers by bicycle for a couple of years to save up for a FE-2 and 35/2 AIS... When I was a kid, I'd written a letter to Alfred Eisenstadt asking what to save up for (I thought I wanted to be a photojournalist some day) and, along with warm encouragement, he told me to get a simple SLR and a 35, not a 50 -- a typed note on LIFE stationary that I still have.
And so the 35 became, and remained, my home focal length. I did not obtain a 50 Summicron until 1998, and I didn't get a Nikon 50 until this year.
Yeah, I'm a little bit excited about the X-100.
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cam
the need for speed
The FE2 and 35/2 AIS is a great combo. You heard it from the best.
35/2 Nikkor-O, factory AI converted for me.
35/2 Nikkor-O, factory AI converted for me.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
Paul T.
Veteran
What a lovely story!
I hope we, when we've had letters from naive kids wanting to make their way into our business, have managed to be as gracious.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
Until I got an M6 in the late 1998, FE2s were almost all I shot (I've never used an SLR or DSLR that I liked more), and the 35 was my most-used lens by far. So I got my first "real" camera and to a first approximation, that was it. (Most of the others, including the FM2 [no TTL flash, less informative meter readout] and FA [multiple annoyances] were mistakes for me.) These days I do prefer the M6 as a platform for the 35, but I never could have afforded one in high school or college. As it was I had to sell the great AIS 180/2.8 ED to make tuition one year :-(.
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v3cron
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I don't appreciate these manufacturers coming along and discontinuing all of their good films (like Fuji just did), and then giving us some faux-retro-styled-crap thinking it will act like a pacifier in a whiny baby's mouth. They think very little of us. You should be insulted rather than excited. Don't buy it.
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Yes, it's really surprising and unconscionable that companies should adopt corporate strategies designed to secure their future or enhance business. They definitely should be punished.
—Mitch Alland
Shophouse Demolition
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