lynnb
Veteran
darya151
Established
Nick Devlin's article is objective, right to the point. I like the way he compared the cameras to sisters, one wittier and sharper than the other! Couldn't agree more with his point about the silver. Hope they come out with one in solid black!
Darya
Darya
Dana B.
Well-known
Great review. But I must say, I just bought an X100s ... and like a bad dog brought home from the pound, don't want to touch it. Too many friggin' menu options, too many scrambles to open the &%$&^%!!! manual. Fuji should slap a Pro label on it, and remove half the buttons and features. They're not intuitive at all.
Case in point, I was in the Yucatan shooting Mayan tombs in godawful heat when all of a sudden the controller locked up. Completely locked up. Took me the entire afternoon to discover what the manual explains in small print: if you press the OK button for two seconds, it locks the controls. Now what (*^)*&^!! lab-coated geek would program such a silly feature into a camera?
Compared to my Fujifilm GF670, with three controls, the X100s is a nightmare.
Don't get me wrong. The images are stellar. Am going to keep this thing and figure it out, even if I have to plop the manual near my toilet. But it's slow going folks. For the non digi geeks here, the X100s is a slog.
Case in point, I was in the Yucatan shooting Mayan tombs in godawful heat when all of a sudden the controller locked up. Completely locked up. Took me the entire afternoon to discover what the manual explains in small print: if you press the OK button for two seconds, it locks the controls. Now what (*^)*&^!! lab-coated geek would program such a silly feature into a camera?
Compared to my Fujifilm GF670, with three controls, the X100s is a nightmare.
Don't get me wrong. The images are stellar. Am going to keep this thing and figure it out, even if I have to plop the manual near my toilet. But it's slow going folks. For the non digi geeks here, the X100s is a slog.
ZlatkoBatistich
Established
You're right Dana B., -- lots of little things to learn like that. Controls, shortcuts, quirks, etc. But I think it's worth it. After a while, it starts to become 2nd nature.
Dana B.
Well-known
I certainly hope so, thanks. Now I've got to head back to the *&%^%*&!!! manual, as my EVF screen is a few stops darker than the optical one. It looks as if I pressed the DOF button on an old SLR. One issue after another with the X100s.