The new Fuji ... are you buying new or will you wait and buy a used one later on?

The new Fuji ... are you buying new or will you wait and buy a used one later on?

  • I want it now so will buy new.

    Votes: 48 58.5%

  • I'll wait and pick up a used one and save some money.

    Votes: 34 41.5%
  • Total voters
    82
Keith

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Not wanting to be left out of the 'starting an X100 thread brigade' I thought I'd ask this question.

It'll be an expensive camera in Oz I supect and as much as I like the look and potential of it, if I do get one, I'll be waiting until a used example crops up at a good price that would come into Australia under our $1000.00 import tax threshold.

That could be up to a year down the track of course but in the meantime I have numerous toys to keep me occupied! :D
 
I'm toying with the idea of buying one to replace most of my 35mm work. It would be my digital hexar af...though I could not bear to sell the film camera.

I guess if it proves out, I might buy one before a used copy becomes available.

How's that for a wishy-washy non-answer?
 
This is a really cool camera, reasonably priced imo. (At least in the US...) However, I'm of the belief that, when it comes to digital:

- small sensor digicam output = small sensor digicam output
- APSC output = APSC output
- FF output = FF output

What this means, is that manufacturer, form factor - whatever, doesn't matter much and won't improve your photography. If the sensor size is the same in a $150 compact digicam, IQ will be practically the same in a near $400 digicam. The image quality of the Fuji will be virtually the same ballpark as my Nikon DSLR - both APSC. As much as I think this is a way cool camera, and I'm sure that it will take fine pics... there's simply no compelling reason for me to purchase one. Coolness factor and form factor simply isn't enough.
 
NickTrop said:
This is a really cool camera, reasonably priced imo. (At least in the US...) However, I'm of the belief that, when it comes to digital:

- small sensor digicam output = small sensor digicam output
- APSC output = APSC output
- FF output = FF output

What this means, is that manufacturer, form factor - whatever, doesn't matter much and won't improve your photography. If the sensor size is the same in a $150 compact digicam, IQ will be practically the same in a near $400 digicam. The image quality of the Fuji will be virtually the same ballpark as my Nikon DSLR - both APSC. As much as I think this is a way cool camera, and I'm sure that it will take fine pics... there's simply no compelling reason for me to purchase one. Coolness factor and form factor simply isn't enough.
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I might not have a compelling/logical reason for this...but I would not carry even a small DSLR with me all of the time. I would be comfortable carrying the x100.
 
Dazed... I don't carry my DSLR around with me all the time either. But I do carry a camera with me at all times. It's either a Fuji Finepix F20 or an infrared converted Nikon Coolpix, depending on mood, lighting conditions. Both are equiped with a mirror Flipbac for shooting from the hip. Both fit into a small leather carrying case that I clip to my belt. Anything larger than these that does not have a retractable lens? Wouldn't fit in to a for-true and for-real "carry with me all the time" camera. This includes the D5000 or the Fuji or any of the micro 4/3 or that hideous Sony with the tiny body and the laughably large lens... These cameras are all too big.

The Fuji, while nice, simply is too big for this purpose. It looks to be the size of the Fujica Compact Deluxe fixed lens rangefinder. Nice to handle, nice size... But no practical advantage over a compact DSLR - a little smaller and lighter but "meh" so what... Still too big to be pocketable. Still to big to be a camera you carry with you, literally, all the time...
 
New. I like the carry around factor + large sensor. I'll keep my D90 and SB900 for indoors/home. But, 35 mm carry around will mean I'll have my camera with me much more often. The price is about the same as the body of the D7000 or the D90 when introduced. So, the price is high for me but not unfair. Don't like that it does not ship with the adapter for filter and lens hood, though. Think that's cheap. With a fixed lens, I'll be getting a good filter. Especially if I'm dropping the sucker in my cargo pants pocket all the time with lens cap. I've made a deal with myself that I will not treat this camera with kids gloves. It will be used and have the nicks to prove it.
 
I think the price new will be too much here in little New Zealand so I will be waiting to hear if it's as good as we all hope.
Might even try to import one if the reviews are wonderful.
Might I add that I'm getting sick of waiting ...give us the camera Fuji !
:)
 
videogamemaker said:
We'll see, because that's exactly what I'm planning to do. There really isn't any other digital camera with a good sized sensor and a viewfinder this size with a fast 35mm equiv lens.
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Samsung NX 10 with pancake lens... But for the price difference I'd go with the Fuji... I get what you're saying, and your intentions may be good? And I don't mean to dissuade you...

However, anything bigger than a Minox, or an XA, or a little modern compact digicam with a retractable lens? It will soon not be a "with you all the time camera..." It's too big. After the "new toy" novelty wears off, you'll use it as much as your DSLR. It will get use, but it won't be on your person at all times.

In order to do this, the camera has to be so small and light you are not conscious of it, forget it's there. And taking it with you wherever you go is as "subconscious" as grabbing your keys or your cell phone.

This will be your everyday camera for a few weeks at best...

Betchya...

In my case, I grab the case and attach it to my belt when I get dressed in the morning. I forget it's there, not aware of it. And yes, that means I had to swallow my pride, "give in" to digital, and shoot with a very "uncool" soccer mom silver small sensor digicam or Nikon "Coolpix".

There's a reason why similarly sized film cameras stay on my bureau every morning and used for "events" and when I feel like shooting them... It's the same reason so-called "compact" rangefinders got trounced by point-n-shoots...

Nobody carried a Yashica GX, Oly RC, or even a Trip with them at all times... It's why the XA was a break trhough. And people didn't always have a camera with them until the plastic fantastics came out - with all their concessions, in the 80's...

We've been down this road before... decades ago.
 
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I was sure I was going to buy one but have come to realize that what I really want is something small with interchangeable lenses.

The EPL2 is looking very good right now.

I know the X100 will be very nice and I'm sure the image quality is going to be great, but it doesn't solve the problems I want it to solve.

Of course wait until I see the samples and then pull out the credit card.
 
ruby.monkey said:
At the moment I'm not planning to buy one at all.
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Nor was I based on what it's going to cost but then thought that maybe a year down the track when everyone's sick of it and Nikon and Canon have broken out of their stupors to offer something different as well ... it may be a bargain.

Or not of course! :D

Actually ... if Nikon in particular do ever offer something technically similar to the X100 but styled like a slightly smaller S3 the feeding frenzy the Fuji has created may seem insignificant by comparison. Fuji's deliberate move to market a retro design and the general reaction it's received certainly won't have been missed by the big two!
 
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I succumbed and pre-ordered since it hit all my buttons, I actually prefer EVFs and Fuji's implementation looks promising. And I have never had a bad Fuji camera, from the early Digilux model to the 6x9s, so I am hoping glitches will be minimal. And while my Pany G1/20mm is great, my 2008 "Camera of the Year" is looking rather ancient these days, especially at noisey ISOs over 640. The DP Review preview, with its comments about feel and build quality, tipped me over the edge.

That said, it is hard to over-estimate the camera industry's ability not to listen to its customers.

At least by pre-ordering, I will get one earlier and if I hate it, I can still flip it for near full price. But if wait for everyone to get theirs first, and it is popular, then I may likely be waiting until Fall before I'll be able to get one.

Nikon is going to have to really hit one out of the park to get me to wait.
 
I'm going to wait and see what olympus/panasonic have up their sleeves with their rumored pro-m4/3 cameras (due pretty soon actually) and also Nikon with their rumored pro mirrorless.

To be honest I have little faith in Olympus/Panasonic to bring out something as functionally good as the x100 - they always have great ideas and then stuff them up by bringing out mainly consumer orientated marketing dictated crap (slow zooms and poor user interfaces). The nikon is an unknown quantity but it will be interesting either way.

I'll buy the x100 new though.
 
~5 or more years old? Yeah, then maybe.

edit: I just want to add that while I find it somewhat interesting, it's way overpriced for me.
 
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