Post your X100 photos

No one will ever get a chance to read this post (On page 80! I am sure....) But most of the B&W images suffer from typical digital photo images - lack of shadow detail and blow out highlights. and are in my opinion not very good and are certainly no match for B&W film images. the color is quite good (thats what these cameras are made for after all) The low light performance is quite good, if you don't mind the softer detail. But is this camera really worth 1200 bucks I truly doubt it....
 
kievman said:
No one will ever get a chance to read this post (On page 80! I am sure....) But most of the B&W images suffer from typical digital photo images - lack of shadow detail and blow out highlights. and are in my opinion not very good and are certainly no match for B&W film images. the color is quite good (thats what these cameras are made for after all) The low light performance is quite good, if you don't mind the softer detail. But is this camera really worth 1200 bucks I truly doubt it....
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who cares....i enjoy viewing the images here, colour and B&W 🙂
 
kievman said:
No one will ever get a chance to read this post (On page 80! I am sure....) But most of the B&W images suffer from typical digital photo images - lack of shadow detail and blow out highlights. and are in my opinion not very good and are certainly no match for B&W film images. the color is quite good (thats what these cameras are made for after all) The low light performance is quite good, if you don't mind the softer detail. But is this camera really worth 1200 bucks I truly doubt it....
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What you generally see in regards to dynamic range with digital output is peoples processing choices, much like agitation and developer choice can completely change the way a film will look once developed.. The x100 sensor is very very good, and can probably achieve upwards of 12 or so stops of DR. In fact it's dynamic range is probably higher overall than the $3000 (body only) nikon d700 or the $2500 (body only) canon 5d mkII. In this respect, 1200 bucks is truly a bargain. The thing is, a lot of us don't like 'flat' greyscale images, so we choose to block up the blacks and push the contrast. Regardless, the camera is more than capable.
 
kievman said:
But most of the B&W images suffer from typical digital photo images - lack of shadow detail and blow out highlights.
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I don't see this on that many images here - but this is one of many processing choices. You saw deep blacks and blown whites from a lot of B&W photographers in the film days, even famous ones. (Moriyama, Ralph Gibson, etc.)

Digital DR does start to get limited as ISO increases (and I wind up at 1600+ over half the time) - but I don't recall a wide range of tones from TMax 3200 or Delta 3200 shot at 3200, either.
 
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I miss shooting 6x6!
 
paulfish4570 said:
beautiful. what are those stumps? they look like beavers have gnawed off their trunks ...
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Thanks.

I'm not sure what type of trees the stumps were, they all appeared just to be weathered. Unfortunately we haven't had wild beavers for 200 years but I understand some were released into the wild in Scotland a couple of years ago.

I have a closer picture of them taken with my GF1 and I will post it in the "Something, anything" thread. It shows that ducks like the stumps.
 
I like what I see here, and I don't even like digital! The color shots are very nice, and even the B&W look fine (for digital). I always figured that if I ever went this route to shoot color it would probably be with an M8, since I like the shots from those. But this Fuji is even more attractive (especially at a much lower price). For a small sensor camera, not much to complain about, is there? The macros are an added bonus. Good lens on the camera.
 
I love the X100, it produces raw files that are very easily adjusted when imported into Lightroom. Here are a few to show what I mean, all had minimal processing.

1. The X100 sensor captures enough info that this overblown sky came back in LR

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2. The X100 sensor keeps enough info that the shadows still preserve detail when lifted.

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