How will you test your new Fuji X100?

[narsuitus]

Here are the tests I perform when I get a new lens and/or camera:

1. Target Test--I have been using something I made by pasting product bar codes, a Kodak color chart, and a Kodak gray scale on a pistol shooting target in order to evaluate how well the camera and lens captures details, blacks, whites, grays, and colors. I perform this test with the camera on a tripod, a remote shutter release, and the SLR mirror locked up. I use manual exposure mode or aperture exposure mode to test each f/stop.

2. Brick Wall Test--I photograph a brick wall in order to evaluate optical defects such as pin-cushioning, barreling, vignetting, and moustaching.

3. Duck Test--I go to a duck pond in order to evaluate how well my camera and lens handles moving targets. This is were I usually get a good idea of how good or bad the frame rate and lag time are.

4. Field Test--I use the camera and lens under actual conditions in order to see if they fulfills the need I had when I bought them and to see if they have any quirks. For example, one quirk I discovered in one lens I was testing was that it produced images that were warmer than all my other lenses.

How will you test your new Fuji X100?

By the way, if you do not have a good lens testing chart, here is a good one I found on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/TEST-CHART-FUJI...92476?pt=Lens_Accessories&hash=item2eb010e39c

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Oh, good grief.

 

[PKR]

Oh, good grief.

Right on My Brother.. this is getting to be absurd.

 

[robbeiflex]

Seriously? You're joking right?

As an avid hobbyist with little time available for my hobby, I just use my new purchases and see if I like them. 😱

 

[Matus]

c'mon guys, narsuitus is just kidding 😀 ... I hope ...

 

[Rick Waldroup]

No, I don't think he is kidding at all, unfortunately.🙄🙄

 

[Pickett Wilson]

We have, right now, the most incredible selection in history of cameras at our fingertips, and instead of going out shooting some photos, someone starts a thread wondering how folks will test a camera that doesn't exist yet. Just incredible.

I'm gonna go shoot some pictures.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

As for testing, I will see if it holds up to the durability of an F2 by placing the X100 on a table and striking it with the trusty Nikon.

If it passes that trial, I will use an unofficial Navy test in which I will go to a body of water and place the camera in the water to see if it floats. If it does not float, an assistant will document its performance underwater with a Nikonos IV-a. Finally, we will monitor its progress towards the bottom of the ocean via a pattern of VLAD bouys and note the depth at which it succumbs to pressure.

Results to be published here after test and analysis.

Phil Forrest

 

[v_roma]

Well, discussing how one will test the X100 is, to me, clearly premature. But, hating the same non-existent camera to the point where you fantasize dropping it in the ocean seems to be the other side of the same coin.

 

[JohnnyT]

Against a rock to see if there is any distorsion on the barrel afterward. 🙂

We are never sure, if there is a ninjas invasion, any megapixel will never do any good if the titanium body do not hold any dirty tricks they'll show us...

Just kidding 😉... Before anything I'll read some reviews, test it in store and buy it if I do like it like any other camera that I've bought... If I do like the texture of the file, it gonna be a winner, if not, i'll continue to play with my other toys (okay, tools...)!

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I'll wait a few months, let the early adopters be the "Bleeding Edge". The first batch of these types of camera usually go through "growing pains", bug-fixes, and internal tweeking to get it right. Next Summer or Fall is the time to seriosly consider one as "prime-time".

Buy one, read the manual, charge the battery, put in a card, take a few pictures. Same as the EP2.

 

[Al Patterson]

Maybe Mr Gandy wants all the X100 wanking in one place?

Seriously though, the tests listed are fairly complete, although some of us might want to drop it from eye height to see how sturdy it is...

\sarcasm mode off

 

[teo]

I'm waiting to see Petronio's test shot... with models 😀

 

[aizan]

i'll wait to see what mike johnston, sean reid, thom hogan, and erwin puts say. i'll also go to the camera store to try it out.

 

[semilog]

By using it on the street. If I come back with something good, it works.

 

[ampguy]

I will shoot the cats

I will shoot the cats

Orange cat will test for color accuracy.

grey cat will test for shadow detail, and exposure accuracy.

Here are the tests I perform when I get a new lens and/or camera:

1. Target Test--I have been using something I made by pasting product bar codes, a Kodak color chart, and a Kodak gray scale on a pistol shooting target in order to evaluate how well the camera and lens captures details, blacks, whites, grays, and colors. I perform this test with the camera on a tripod, a remote shutter release, and the SLR mirror locked up. I use manual exposure mode or aperture exposure mode to test each f/stop.

2. Brick Wall Test--I photograph a brick wall in order to evaluate optical defects such as pin-cushioning, barreling, vignetting, and moustaching.

3. Duck Test--I go to a duck pond in order to evaluate how well my camera and lens handles moving targets. This is were I usually get a good idea of how good or bad the frame rate and lag time are.

4. Field Test--I use the camera and lens under actual conditions in order to see if they fulfills the need I had when I bought them and to see if they have any quirks. For example, one quirk I discovered in one lens I was testing was that it produced images that were warmer than all my other lenses.

How will you test your new Fuji X100?

By the way, if you do not have a good lens testing chart, here is a good one I found on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/TEST-CHART-FUJI...92476?pt=Lens_Accessories&hash=item2eb010e39c

 

[bobby_novatron]

Actually, I've got all of you beat already.

I traveled to the future (using my home-made time machine ... BTW, the schematics are posted in a different RFF forum) and in 2014 I purchased the Fuji X200!

Since returning to 2010, I have been taking test photos with the X200 and am pleasantly surprised. Its 3D holomatrix imaging (via the 35 megapixel dual quantum-state CMOS sensors) is really quite something. Plus, I can use all my LTM, M-mount, Contax-mount, Nikon-mount, Fisher Price mount, and medium format lenses -- at the same time!

Ain't technology grand? 🙂

 

[wontonny]

I'm just gonna sit back and have you guys do all the tests and just reap the benefits. 😉

 

[alexnotalex]

Wow. Do you know where I can find a Fisher Price to M adapter?

Actually, I've got all of you beat already.

I traveled to the future (using my home-made time machine ... BTW, the schematics are posted in a different RFF forum) and in 2014 I purchased the Fuji X200!

Since returning to 2010, I have been taking test photos with the X200 and am pleasantly surprised. Its 3D holomatrix imaging (via the 35 megapixel dual quantum-state CMOS sensors) is really quite something. Plus, I can use all my LTM, M-mount, Contax-mount, Nikon-mount, Fisher Price mount, and medium format lenses -- at the same time!

Ain't technology grand? 🙂

 

[JohnnyT]

Is the X200 a big cardboard box? 🙂

The ad campaign was (will) going with something like this :

Forget the titanium cauz it rust!

Actually, I've got all of you beat already.

I traveled to the future (using my home-made time machine ... BTW, the schematics are posted in a different RFF forum) and in 2014 I purchased the Fuji X200!

Since returning to 2010, I have been taking test photos with the X200 and am pleasantly surprised. Its 3D holomatrix imaging (via the 35 megapixel dual quantum-state CMOS sensors) is really quite something. Plus, I can use all my LTM, M-mount, Contax-mount, Nikon-mount, Fisher Price mount, and medium format lenses -- at the same time!

Ain't technology grand? 🙂