I can understand this... I feel the same way about Leica after using Fuji.
Cameron
seasick, yet still docked
Love a good review set in a different context.
So, who's been using the new X100s? Mine will arrive on Thursday. 
agricola
Well-known
I have.
It's fast.
Switch on, bring it to the eye, hit the shutter - it's focussed and done.
You remember those old film clips of Cartier-Bresson walking the markets/the streets of Paris and casually raising, firing, and dropping the camera?
You can do that with this thing and it acquires focus without your having to think about it. It's a pity the results (which I get) do not come near the output of HCB.
There is a lesson in that ...
P.S. the menu reminds me a bit of my mate's M9 which I used for a while - pretty simple. That assessment is based on my experience with my D600 and faithful Canon G10, and my beloved Hexar AF which has a better (much) viewfinder than the X100s
P.P.S. then I went and fondled my IIIf RD ST with 1948 Summitar - gee it's really simple and sweet ...
It's fast.
Switch on, bring it to the eye, hit the shutter - it's focussed and done.
You remember those old film clips of Cartier-Bresson walking the markets/the streets of Paris and casually raising, firing, and dropping the camera?
You can do that with this thing and it acquires focus without your having to think about it. It's a pity the results (which I get) do not come near the output of HCB.
There is a lesson in that ...
P.S. the menu reminds me a bit of my mate's M9 which I used for a while - pretty simple. That assessment is based on my experience with my D600 and faithful Canon G10, and my beloved Hexar AF which has a better (much) viewfinder than the X100s
P.P.S. then I went and fondled my IIIf RD ST with 1948 Summitar - gee it's really simple and sweet ...
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Nice. Exactly what I've been waiting for.
Yeah, the camera can make you quicker and more responsive, but it still won't frame things or find content for you.
daveleo
what?
Regarding the X100s . . . .
Regarding the X100s . . . .
It will be good to read commentary comparisons of the JPG's relative to the X100.
I expect that resolution, sharpness and all the technical stuff will "improve" (?),
but commentary about how the JPG's look and feel right out of the camera -
the world is holding it's breath for a variety of good opinions.
Regarding the X100s . . . .
It will be good to read commentary comparisons of the JPG's relative to the X100.
I expect that resolution, sharpness and all the technical stuff will "improve" (?),
but commentary about how the JPG's look and feel right out of the camera -
the world is holding it's breath for a variety of good opinions.
agricola
Well-known
>>Exactly what I've been waiting for. <<
Same here.
The Hexar Af was it in film. Quick focus, great to handle and a terrific viewfinder.
As for viewfinders, I also have the M4. The viewfinders in the M4 and the Hexar AF make the X100s viewfinder look like a toy.
But, despite the distortion of the framelines in OVF (the framelines bend inwards), the X100s works. The shooting data is there before your eye. And in EVF mode there is none of that pincushion distortion. Although you do have to get used to the LCD rendition of the scene, which is not so jarring after a while.
One thing that is a little like the Hexar AF is that the focus rectangle in the X100s OVF can be set up to move about while compensating for parallax as you get in closer. I won't try to explain it here; you will be able to set it in the X100s menus. It's very useful. With OVF. Not needed with the EVF or LCD back screen.
Low light performance is wonderfully good. With matrix metering (showing my Nikon upbringing!) it gets things so right in varied low-light scenes. I think more satisfyingly so than the D600.
And I have had quite a bit of fun with it setting the Aperture to A (auto) and the shutter dial to A (auto) and letting Auto ISO have its head. It makes choices that are uncanny. I have the ISO auto set at Base 200, upper limit 3200 and minimum shutter speed 1/125th. With that set-up it took a shot of a wooden statue in a church at 3200 ISO and at 100% I have difficulty picking the difference from 800 ISO.
But I miss the subject isolation of the 50/1.4 on the D600, and the breathtaking rendition of a Summitar/Summicron or 90/2.8 tele-Elmarit.
However none of them are as compact and/or swift as the X100s. And it's files are superb.
Dave, I am using mainly Jpeg. Tried a few RAF files in Silkypix which I've never used before, and it was really hard work. I have been using Aperture 3 and may have to get LR 4.4 or whatever. The Jpegs look really good (bear in mind I've only had this thing for about 48hrs) but I am surprised at how small are the Jpeg files - about 3mb (although I could be mistaken - that's Jpeg Fine and Large - the Owner's manual says that Jpeg setting should print to 11x14 or so). The RAF files were reading at about 30mb in Silkypix.
I'm taking it with me on the Camino Frances (to Santiago de Compestella from St Jean Pied de Port) next month.
Same here.
The Hexar Af was it in film. Quick focus, great to handle and a terrific viewfinder.
As for viewfinders, I also have the M4. The viewfinders in the M4 and the Hexar AF make the X100s viewfinder look like a toy.
But, despite the distortion of the framelines in OVF (the framelines bend inwards), the X100s works. The shooting data is there before your eye. And in EVF mode there is none of that pincushion distortion. Although you do have to get used to the LCD rendition of the scene, which is not so jarring after a while.
One thing that is a little like the Hexar AF is that the focus rectangle in the X100s OVF can be set up to move about while compensating for parallax as you get in closer. I won't try to explain it here; you will be able to set it in the X100s menus. It's very useful. With OVF. Not needed with the EVF or LCD back screen.
Low light performance is wonderfully good. With matrix metering (showing my Nikon upbringing!) it gets things so right in varied low-light scenes. I think more satisfyingly so than the D600.
And I have had quite a bit of fun with it setting the Aperture to A (auto) and the shutter dial to A (auto) and letting Auto ISO have its head. It makes choices that are uncanny. I have the ISO auto set at Base 200, upper limit 3200 and minimum shutter speed 1/125th. With that set-up it took a shot of a wooden statue in a church at 3200 ISO and at 100% I have difficulty picking the difference from 800 ISO.
But I miss the subject isolation of the 50/1.4 on the D600, and the breathtaking rendition of a Summitar/Summicron or 90/2.8 tele-Elmarit.
However none of them are as compact and/or swift as the X100s. And it's files are superb.
Dave, I am using mainly Jpeg. Tried a few RAF files in Silkypix which I've never used before, and it was really hard work. I have been using Aperture 3 and may have to get LR 4.4 or whatever. The Jpegs look really good (bear in mind I've only had this thing for about 48hrs) but I am surprised at how small are the Jpeg files - about 3mb (although I could be mistaken - that's Jpeg Fine and Large - the Owner's manual says that Jpeg setting should print to 11x14 or so). The RAF files were reading at about 30mb in Silkypix.
I'm taking it with me on the Camino Frances (to Santiago de Compestella from St Jean Pied de Port) next month.