Post your X100 photos

[jsrockit]

People will argue that the focus ring is supposed to be for fine-tuning focus after you use the AF/AE lock button but, personally, I would have much preferred a more responsive manual focus.

Yeah, I find that to be a cop-out too... manual focus means manual focus with a ring IMO, not push a button and then focus a little. If I want to push a button, I'll just focus with the shutter release button. However, whatever works for the user.

 

[back alley]

i have not even tried the manual focus yet!!
i might never...

my want for this camera is auto everything...with aperture priority.

 

[RayPA]

You should try it, Joe. At least to know that you're not missing anything. 😛 It's not too bad, and it's better after the update. I use MF to set up for fixed-focus/hyperfocal distance shooting.




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[back alley]

i bought the camera, took it home and did the update so i have no experience with the x100 in it's original form.

i am not opposed to automation as i know that the image is what i saw and what the camera recorded...we are a team and if my team mate can do more of the heavy lifting...well than so be it.

the rd1 and i started off smoothly together and we only got better...the x100 and i had a more rocky start but we are smoothing out with time and practice.

 

[greyelm]

Will passengers please proceed to gate 5.

 

[M4streetshooter]

To activate the small focus box...
Hit the AF button, left side...AFS mode, the use that lever, top right to change the size. Move the lever Left or right to get what you want.
Sadly, it doesn't stay small in MF.

BTW, since the update my lens ring works very fast... Dunno.
Efra, nice image... Hard to miss with the subject but you made a nice image regardless.

Good to see you breathing Joe...

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

To activate the small focus box...
Hit the AF button, left side...AFS mode, the use that lever, top right to change the size. Move the lever Left or right to get what you want.
Sadly, it doesn't stay small in MF.

BTW, since the update my lens ring works very fast... Dunno.
Efra, nice image... Hard to miss with the subject but you made a nice image regardless.

Good to see you breathing Joe...

oh, alright, you can only change that via the back display. thanks.

 

[M4streetshooter]

Hey Simon, that smallest of target boxes does really well even in very low light but don't repeat that....there are those amongst us users that would never believe that....

 

[kermaier]

Another nice feature is that you can go into the setup menu and make the AE/AF-Lock button act like a lock on/off switch. I.e., you press it to lock AE/AF and it stays locked until you press it again. This lets you stay in AF-S mode but take a series of pictures of a particular scene without paying for AF lag and without forcing repeated autofocus-recompose-shoot cycles.

::Ari

 

[LKeithR]

...This shot is overexposed due to me shooting in aperture priority at f 2.0 in bright sunlight, it maxes out at 1000th but the warning was missed by yours truly

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Untitled by marc1230, on Flickr

I had the same problem with my Digilux 2 till I figured out what the flashing red shutter speed indication meant. Talk about not paying attention...

 

[Richard G]

MF becomes essential when you want a quick close shot and the command wheel is locked, preventing a quick activation of macro mode.

 

[OlliL]

better watch out von oliverleschke auf Flickr

 

[tensai]

Just got mine here in Tokyo. Love how I can walk around with it all day, how people hardly notice it, how easy it is to operate (of course, it can also be so unnecessarily slow, but I feel I can work around it)..

Didn't get to shoot that much, cause I was beaten down by the heat, but here are some quick shots of today..

 

[back alley]

 

[takeda72]

 

[RayPA]

Looking good Ray. #1&3 are priceless.
If your capturing the intimacy like that, I'd think your doing very well with the camera.
Don

Thanks, Don. It looks like you've got the hang of the camera. Are you using in-camera b&w or post-p conversion?

p.s. checking out seriouscompacts.




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[RayPA]

joe, love the name of the bar, "Pourhouse". 😛





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[tedwhite]

There used to be a Pourhouse in La Jolla, CA, back in the late fifties. It featured cool laid back jazz, like the George Shearing Trio (Marge Hyams, Denzil Best) and Cal Tjader, etc.
Wasn't expensive, so poor college students like me could afford to go there.

Ted

 

[tensai]

Very nice black and white. If I may ask is that in-camera or post/silver efex? Love the tones.

 

[tensai]

Out in the heat again..