OK - So what do we think of the DPReview Review?

[jsrockit]

However, I find slow write times to be unacceptable (check that: unbearable) exactly for the reasons stated above. I've been shooting mostly L/F JPEG, but I've been waiting for the right camera to move to RAW. The X100 doesn't appear to be that camera.

Will you be shooting many frames per second in multiple clips? Seriously, if you are not machine gunning a scene (or trying to swap VFs while its writing), you will not be bothered by the write times.

 

[Gid]

I've done some write time tests. 10 raw + Fine Jpegs shot in AF if quck succession - time to complete the write to card - 9 seconds. 10 raw shot in quick succession in AF - time to complete write to card - 6 seconds. 12 jpegs shot in quick succession in MF - time to complete write to card - 3 seconds. More than quick enough for me, but YMMV. I could have carried on shooting - there was no lock up.

 

[kermaier]

I feel like it's a gift. $1,200 to me is a bargain compared to Leica. I would pay MORE if I was even buying like a Bessa R2A and a Zeiss 35mm lens, which this is similar to in quality. I'll never be able to afford an M9, and the M8 isn't worth it. But to get a similar experience digitally that I get with my Bessa's is awesome, even if it's 'not a real rangefinder' it's a version of what I rangefinder is for the modern age! It SHOULDN'T be a rangefinder, in 2011. There is no need for one.

Wouldn't an Epson R-D1 be the most similar digital experience to your Bessa?

(I'm not trolling: I currently use and love my R-D1, and my X100 is back-ordered at Adorama.)

::Ari

 

[jsrockit]

Wouldn't an Epson R-D1 be the most similar digital experience to your Bessa?

Probably, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth...

 

[rxmd]

Will you be shooting many frames per second in multiple clips? Seriously, if you are not machine gunning a scene (or trying to swap VFs while its writing), you will not be bothered by the write times.

Or trying to change ISO or anything.

I've been in situations like that. Back then it was with a different camera. A stand at a large conference, the president of the country comes to shake hands with our director, I get rushed to the stand, I shoot the handshake, the camera is set to the wrong parameters from previous shooting, the camera locks me out of the menu for a few seconds, I get lucky the the handshake isn't over yet. This has burned me a little regarding camera speed.

Maybe it wouldn't bother me in a cheapish point-n-shoot, but from a 1000 EUR camera I'd expect more. The fact that the camera doesn't lock up completely (merely locking me out of button operations) may mean that there's hope with a future firmware, but I won't be betting on that when spending my money now.

 

[jsrockit]

Or trying to change ISO or anything.

I use auto ISO to get around that. ON a camera with great high ISO, that's not a big deal.