With the X100, will you keep your M8? or pick up a used one?

[jvan01]

X100 ≠ M8. Next!

 

[tbarker13]

Really enjoy the M8.2. And I cannot see any way that this Fuji camera would replace it.
I think it has the potential to be a nice camera. But a very limited camera.
I guess it might work for the "one camera, one lens" folks. But not me.

 

[mervynyan]

With X100, I can wait to M10. Without X100, I am saving for a M9, still a long way to go.

 

[noimmunity]

Actually, my thinking and question wasn't that the X100 would or could in any way replace the M8, but rather that the announcement of the X100 seems to presage the release in the not-so-distant future of a moderately-priced digital body for M-mount lenses. The X100 changes the waiting game that many of us are playing for various reasons.

I noticed soon after the X100 created a storm here that the head bartender started a poll on how much digital people here use.

Seems to me highly plausible that Cosina is getting ready to cooperate with somebody on a dRF-type project, the two most likely candidates being Zeiss and Fuji.

What the X100 changes, like Mervyn above says, is the waiting game.

Really enjoy the M8.2. And I cannot see any way that this Fuji camera would replace it.
I think it has the potential to be a nice camera. But a very limited camera.
I guess it might work for the "one camera, one lens" folks. But not me.

 

[bwcolor]

Contax would be a great name to attach to a new digital product. Don't know what will come about, but I agree that the X100 is a game changer. It isn't just the camera, but that this camera should force the major and minor players to re-evaluate their prosumer/pro roadmap for smaller, mirrorless cameras. Thanks Fujifilm.

 

[jsrockit]

I will not sell my M8.2 or my X1. However, I will buy the X100 in addition. The beauty of the $1000 price tag is that you can figure out how to swing it without selling stuff.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I guess this is like asking how many people would sell their M6, or other film M-Camera, when the Minilux came out.

If you use nothing but a moderate/fast wide-angle lens on you M8, this camera represents and all-in-one package. I tend to use a lot of lenses on my M8.

This Fuji camera looks nice, and might make a nice replacement for my Leica Mini. I love the Elmar lens on the Mini- very sharp. Built in flash, grab and go. I love the big finder on the Leica Mini. It is the only P&S film camera that I use. Will drop it into the Bag rather than dropping in a flash.

 

[ramosa]

Ken,

Have you pondered using a 28 cron? As you know, it "becomes" a 37.2mm on the M8.

R

I've considered picking up a used M8 numerous times, but what's stopping me is glass. I rely on the signature of my "normal" (a 35 ASPH Cron) on film and I simply can't afford to replace it with anything comparable in a Leica 24mm.

 

[popeye]

Frankly after spotting M8 images, I'm rethinking the need to change lenses...

 

[migtex]

I just hope the Fuji X100 buzz (and success ) made other camera manufacturers do the same.. some retro/classic design with "simple" electronics and inter-changeable lens...
Some of them still have the equipment to build the outside shell and the lens... are you listen Nippon Kogaku?

 

[jaapv]

Frankly after spotting M8 images, I'm rethinking the need to change lenses...

There are a number of simple batch dust spot removal routines in Photoshop.

 

[Steveh]

Yes, I'm selling mine 😱. In fact it will be going up in the classifieds in the next ten minutes if I can figure out how to do it...

This isn't completely to do with the X100 - it's as much about me admitting (for the third time - I've owned two different M6's plus lenses before now) that I'm just not a rangefinder kind of guy and I never will be.

BUT...35mm is my favourite focal length, and I love having a rangefinder-type camera as a walkaround camera, and the X100 is extraordinarily cool looking and I'm intrigued by the hybrid VF, so yes I'll be looking at them very carefully when they come out, and once I've sold my M8 plus lenses I'll have the cash to spare 🙂.

 

[tbarker13]

I just hope the Fuji X100 buzz (and success ) made other camera manufacturers do the same.. some retro/classic design with "simple" electronics and inter-changeable lens...
Some of them still have the equipment to build the outside shell and the lens... are you listen Nippon Kogaku?

Assuming it does end up actually being successful.
A lot has to happen between the announcement of a product and its eventual success or failure in the market.
A few years back, the RF crowd was going bonkers over the pending arrival of the M8...

 

[popeye]

There are a number of simple batch dust spot removal routines in Photoshop.

True.

I use Lightroom almost exclusively and do a similar routine with copy and paste of settings, and while this works on images of the same or similar composition, modification is always close at hand. The beauty of LR is the ease of removing any area the spot tool has been used, regardless of it's place in the history and only it is taken away.

But I still have to do this more so with the M than my long in the tooth Pentax dSLR.

Speaking of which, I need to clean the sensor on the M8...

 

[jsrockit]

Who's going to sell their Nikon FM3 to get this?

 

[ruslan]

If X100 will have good feeling and acceptable iq with more speed image processing than my M8, I'll definitely sell M8 with all lenses and will no regret it.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Who's going to sell their Nikon FM3 to get this?

My boxed F3HP, SN>2M, would probably cover the cost. But I need it in case my 1983 F3HP wears out.

 

[jsrockit]

If X100 will have good feeling and acceptable iq with more speed image processing than my M8, I'll definitely sell M8 with all lenses and will no regret it.

I just can't see the sense in this... unless you need the cash bad. The M8 is more versatile. That said, I'm pretty convinced I could get away with just the X100. I don't want to though.

 

[ruslan]

Yes, M8 is more versatile, but not reliable. I need small, professional tool.

 

[noimmunity]

Judging by the classifieds, there's a new wave of M8s hitting the used market.

I expect them to keep at least US$1K in value through the coming years, even with the pending release in 2012 (pure conjecture on my part) of a dRF alternative option from Cosina/Zeiss/Fuji...