Just fess up, immediate X100 owner ... yes or no!

[Tompas]

No.

Instead, I'm thinking about buying my first 4x5 field camera.

 

[Roger Hicks]

No.

Instead, I'm thinking about buying my first 4x5 field camera.

What sort? I ask because they're often SO different from one another.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Jungle Jim]

Yes--- My first digital camera. It will be used in conjunction with the battered M3 that I inherited from my father (Lots of memories there! )

Ordered it from Precision Camera using the RFF link and also ordered the hood assembly. I already have a spare Fuji battery, a generic wall charger, and 2 spare Sandisk SDHC cards that I ordered from B&H. Since I didn't order the X100 from Precision until Feb 24th, it may be a while before I get my grubby little paws on one.

All the Best!

 

[MRohlfing]

For the price of the Fuji X100 I get 2 years in my fitness center which I believe will enable me to carry my Olympus OM-2N everywhere I want.

 

[Catto]

For the price of the Fuji X100 I get 2 years in my fitness center which I believe will enable me to carry my Olympus OM-2N everywhere I want.

Exactly. For the price of an X100, you can save yourself two years of going to the gym. I know which one I'd rather have...
R!

 

[bgb]

Just calculated that I will get 2 years gym membership and an OM-1 for what the X100 is selling for.
I know which one my Doctor would recommend

 

[jsrockit]

I just figured out that I can get over 1200 donuts for the price of the X100... by the time I'm done, it won't matter what camera I want to use anymore.

 

[bgb]

In the same theme i could buy, shoot and process 1695 frames of colour C41 for the price of an X100 here in NZ
That's 47 rolls of 36 or about a years worth. WI would get way more if it was B&W and I did the processing myself of course ... even more if i got some cheap film from the USA.

 

[shashinka-ichiban]

Patiently waiting for mine to come in.

 

[berlincontemporary]

I'm insatiably curious to find out how many people here are actually going to be straight up X100 owners ...

I prefer my compact, high quality, minimalist Ricoh GXR.

 

[Mcary]

Had to vote no, sounds like a wonderful piece of gear, but way I look at it I barely use my M8 and M6 an acceptable amount of times each month so adding a third camera to the mix, no matter how nice, seems rather silly for **me**.

**me* the word me in the above post refers to me myself and I and no other person's living or dead..

 

[hausen]

Call me shallow but I really don't care what it cost, or whether I am materialistic or not. Have had a day to play with my latest addition and I love it. Feels great in my hand, looks great and I am stoked with what comes out of it. But I don't think anything less of anybody that doesn't want one. Life is too short and I just picked up some scans from weekend shooting with my old Konica S2 and OM-4. I am a camera whore and proud of it.

 

[cosmonaut]

No. I need to use what I currently have. I have three cameras already, two more than I need.

 

[John Robertson]

I'll be buying one but will wait for the first ones to develop bugs and be fixed before I get mine.I usually don't buy when things are first released.

Same with cars I find.
Great to be the first on the block with ------
then the recalls start.
Been there, got the T-Shirt etc!!!

 

[merciless49]

No, but I will get it in time. That's what it looks like for me, now. I'll have to save up and sell of some gear to finance the purchase. But I'm also not one to be an early adopter of any technology, so I think it's to my advantage money-wise to wait and also wait for bugs to be fixed.

 

[Keith]

Same with cars I find.
Great to be the first on the block with ------
then the recalls start.
Been there, got the T-Shirt etc!!!

Fortunately Toyota weren't involved with the X100!

 

[Spyro]

yeah I'm getting one.
I could give you a couple of pages of rational arguments why
but at the end of the day the main reason I'm getting one is because I want one, ha!

 

[tedwhite]

I voted no. But the vote is just for now. I've got something like 8 cameras and I really don't feel like tracking down and counting all the lenses (although I know where the Xenotar 2.8 is). I will probably wait until a) the price comes down a bit, and b) user reviews start coming in with, of course, a few pics. Can I afford to buy it now? Sure. But I've been bitten a few times by new production runs that turn out to have issues.
(we don't use, apparently, problem anymore).

 

[Keith]

I'll be interested to see what effect this camera has on my film to digital ratio. When I had an M8 my recreational shooting wasn't influenced by it at all ... I found the need for IR filters and the crop factor quite a deterent and although the Fuji is a fixed lens 35mm field of view it's different because that's what it is and there's no wondering otherwise.

I'm not quite sure why but I have found 35mm film a bit tedious lately ... partly because of the lack of resloution I get from it with my V700 and partly due to costs of film and chemicals, which is income related and no reflection on the price of being a film shooter.

Maybe the Fuji will fill the slot for quick and easy photography and for the more dedicated approach I'll turn to MF and occasional LF where film usage is more considered and the V700 provides better resolution courtesy of the larger negatives!

 

[dof]

I'll be interested to see what effect this camera has on my film to digital ratio.

It didn't happen until after owning one for a year, but the M8 was absolutely the camera that weighted the scale toward digital for me. I wouldn't be surprised to hear from others that the X100 is that camera for them.