Moving on from X100

[mlu19]

Owned the x100 for a little over a year before I got into film and sold it; missed it so much.

 

[furbs]

I haven't so much as seen an X100 in the flesh (chrome?), but you seem happy about the new X100s, and that's good. If it makes you happy and there aren't any starving mouths to feed, why not? Of course, there are better things you could purchase, like a lens for my M4, but the X100s is a start. PM me for my address

 

[f16sunshine]

I grew really tired of my x100's exposue problems so I pounced on a used Canon 5d to try it out and compare the exposures. Here is my comparison, I would appreciate some help from the expert digital photographers out there...

So here is a photograph taken with the 5d with 50mm lens. ISO is 800 and we're at f2 on Av mode.

Here is a photograph taken with the x100. Again ISO 800 and f2 but I had to put the camera at -2 EV to get a similar exposure. My camera seems to expose well during daylight but when in situations like this it consistently underexposes by over 1EV.

Is this lighting really too tricky for the x100 to figure out? I'm tempted to move on to the 5d permanently. Thoughts/comments/help appreciated...

You just need to get used to the different metering.
Learn to spot meter and use manual when the exposure is high contrast.
If you put a wider lens on the 5D it would have metered this scene differently as well.
Wider lenses put more light on the metering cel which will makes the camera(s) underexpose high contrast scenes.

Dob't blame the camera via comparison with the 5D. It's like blaming a melon for not tasting like a peach.

 

[f16sunshine]

BTW I could not move on from the x100 even though I may purchase an x100s as well.
The little x100 changed the game for me. It has completely paid for itself several times.
It's on the list with a few of my Contax bodies and Rollies that will get a retirement when they no longer are worth the cost of repair. I'll use it until it dies.

 

[Glenn2]

I upgraded to an X-100S from X-100 about a week ago. I find it better than the 100 but not by a huge amount, both cameras are superb tools, the 100S just has a sharper edge.

At my stage in life, retired, no kids I can indulge my interest in photography so just gave my X-100 to another photographer who I'm hoping will make good use of it. Yes he's an RRF member.

Last year while traveling in India I shot with the X-100 alongside my old M4 and found the two worked very well together. Was trying to revisit places and people I'd photographed four decades earlier. It makes for an interesting time series. It's even more fun when you can give people prints from 40+ years ago shot with the same camera you're holding in your hands.

When I can work out how to post photos here I'll share a few of the Fuji-Leica comparisons. For now here's a link to another gallery with a few of the Indian Fuji images, -> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1029029

The first shot is of Mukul who used to be a regular member here on RFF.
We met for chai in Delhi where I got this f/2 , ISO 3200 photo in a back alley.

Glenn

 

[rehview]

Yes, I said underexpose when I meant overexpose.

Both cameras are in their 'multi' metering settings. The x100 have me blown highlights without the EV comp. I am aware of spot metering but I feel I haven't had to spot meter with other cameras I have had in these lighting situations. With external light meter and x100 in manual I have no problems, I'm just growing frustrated with in-camera metering.

This is my only quibble. Other than that I have much praise for my x100. It has been an unassuming and charming companion on many trips for me now. But argh! The metering.

 

[koven]

Its your fault not the cameras, the x100 changed my life.

 

[benlees]

I grew really tired of my x100's exposue problems so I pounced on a used Canon 5d to try it out and compare the exposures. Here is my comparison, I would appreciate some help from the expert digital photographers out there...

So here is a photograph taken with the 5d with 50mm lens. ISO is 800 and we're at f2 on Av mode.

Here is a photograph taken with the x100. Again ISO 800 and f2 but I had to put the camera at -2 EV to get a similar exposure. My camera seems to expose well during daylight but when in situations like this it consistently underexposes by over 1EV.

Is this lighting really too tricky for the x100 to figure out? I'm tempted to move on to the 5d permanently. Thoughts/comments/help appreciated...

I don't see a problem here? If you were to crop the X100 image the exposure would be very similar.

 

[rehview]

I know, but I had to put -2EV on the x100 shot.

 

[benlees]

I know, but I had to put -2EV on the x100 shot.

Gotcha! I'm occasionally playing with comp dial on mine, too! Mine does overexpose (especially when the ISO goes up) but very consistently.

 

[clicker]

Moved from X100 to X100s, and never looked back. Love this camera !

 

[Shade]

The x100 was my back up camera until I find that I need camera with interchangeable lenses (my main is xpro1), and I need a longer reach at times. The xpro is nice but the macro tele is no lens for a wedding ( I tried), so I sold it for an om-d and a few lenses..

 

[boomguy57]

Huff and the rest of those "review blogs" make their money by whipping people into a frenzy so they click the Amazon and B&H links on their pages and buying stuff, from which they receive a percentage. Additionally, if you don't review things nicely you can't expect camera manufacturers to ship you hear to test and review for free. You scratch my back, I scratch yours.

Hype is always just that--hype. In the end they're all just cameras.

Good luck with it.

Just saying that the amount of hype these things get is ridiculous.

For example, two years ago Steve Huff was gushing all over the X100, although to his credit he pointed out some quirks inbetween his exuberant, nearly orgasmic outbursts.

Last month when Huff wrote about his new X100s he introduced it by ranting about how lousy the X100 was.

It's pretty funny actually.

We must of made such lousy photos in the past with all those horrible antiquated cameras ;-p

Think if only you could restrain your GAS for two years and then only buy two-year old depreciated equipment at half-price. It would be new to you and an improvement over your older equipment, but you could cut your investment 50%.

As for myself, the X100, X100s were disappointing, I think they are cluttered and sluggish with nice cosmetics, and yes, a six-year old $400 DSLR will run circles around it, albeit with a penalty for bulk and coolness. But neither the X100 or DSLR fit into my pocket so if I am going out to shoot, why not bring something that works really well and actually can hit focus on a kid or moving subject? If I only shoot static or slow subjects it quite a limitation imposed by the camera.