The best camera I've ever used... period.

[Gid]

Originally Posted by back alley

now i really want the x100 again...again!

Its a good time to buy Joe and you know you really want one

It took me a long time to gel with mine, but I wouldn't part with it now. Love it.

[Jamie Pillers]

Its actually only a $200 premium, if you count the value of the included case, hood, and filter adapter. :-)

[back alley]

i'd have to sell some things to get another one...and i would like the black version to boot!

when i was facilitating self help and problem solving groups, i discovered that many people often refused what could be a very simple solution for their problems because they refused to believe that their problems could be solved easily, that their lives were much too complicated for simple solutions.

i find myself and cameras to be the same...how can a simple fixed lens camera possibly be the solution to my camera problems...?

[Snacks]

Originally Posted by KM-25

They just updated the firmware again and this time it is a *HUGE* improvement overall.

They moved Auto ISO into the ISO section! This is brilliant!

[back alley]

i just had a horrible, horrible thought!!!

what if fuji upgrades the x100?

[zvos1]

Originally Posted by Jamie Pillers

Its actually only a $200 premium, if you count the value of the included case, hood, and filter adapter. :-)

Here in Australia, black version is $1,599 which is $400 more than silver one, someone said that accessories are worth around $270 so the premium is even less than $200.

The quality of the black finish on the camera is superb, also I love the leather case that comes with it, it is just beautiful.

[rover]

Originally Posted by back alley

i just had a horrible, horrible thought!!!

what if fuji upgrades the x100?

That would be great!!!

[FA Limited]

Originally Posted by Snacks

They moved Auto ISO into the ISO section! This is brilliant!

but not in the ISO Fn button menu. Fuji always leaves us wanting more
that being said, i've had mines for a few weeks and just upgraded, reading back at all the complaints from last summer, i can't see why people are complaining so much. this new firmware has sorted out most of the wackiness.

[maggieo]

Funny, all three of my favorite camera have been mentioned in this thread! The M2, the M4-P and the X100! (The X10 is a close runner-up for me and the M8 would be a favorite if it was still usable above ISO 320, which mine isn't.)

The X100 is just brilliant and it slips into my purse, so I think I'm going to have to go with Jamie and call it the best (on points) camera I've had in forty-some years of being a photographer.

[Spyro]

Originally Posted by FA Limited

but not in the ISO Fn button menu.

but that wouldnt make sense. The idea is to be able to select both an ISO value and auto ISO at the same time. This way the camera will try to keep your preferred ISO value and, if thats not possible with your other exposure settings, increase ISO automatically.

Unless it had a sub-menu in the FN menu... that would work I guess.

[FA Limited]

Originally Posted by Spyro

but that wouldnt make sense. The idea is to be able to select both an ISO value and auto ISO at the same time. This way the camera will try to keep your preferred ISO value and, if thats not possible with your other exposure settings, increase ISO automatically.

Unless it had a sub-menu in the FN menu... that would work I guess.

my Auto ISO is a set and forget kinda deal unless i need more than ISO 1600. i was hoping in the Fn menu either i pick a manual ISO or use the Auto ISO. for me, configuring the Auto ISO can stay where it was.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by back alley

now i really want the x100 again...again!

And this is the danger of this place (RFF) because I find myself thinking the same thing as I read through this thread!

This thread needs an ignore option!

[zvos1]

Originally Posted by Keith

And this is the danger of this place (RFF) because I find myself thinking the same thing as I read through this thread!

This thread needs an ignore option!

Keith, just think of how much money you'd save over M9 that you were thinking about!! In the end it is all about the savings not the spending ha,ha,ha.
I remember the reasons you passed the camera onto paulfish, I think you tried using the camera for what it wasn't designed for (dark indoors with moving subjects). x100 definitely has it's quirks but I never liked any digital camera as much. My x100 really feels like a film camera once I put it in its leather case, disable replay and use OVF only.

[drec]

I had an X100 for a month or so. 35mm FOV is not my thing, 50 is... so I went the GXR route with 50 and M modules.

[Snacks]

Originally Posted by FA Limited

but not in the ISO Fn button menu. Fuji always leaves us wanting more
that being said, i've had mines for a few weeks and just upgraded, reading back at all the complaints from last summer, i can't see why people are complaining so much. this new firmware has sorted out most of the wackiness.

It would have been nice if they'd fixed the problems first rather than rushing the camera out. The firmware changes have greatly improved the camera at every step. I'm pleased, though, that Fuji has stuck with it and kept upgrading the firmware in response to feedback.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Snacks

It would have been nice if they'd fixed the problems first rather than rushing the camera out. The firmware changes have greatly improved the camera at every step. I'm pleased, though, that Fuji has stuck with it and kept upgrading the firmware in response to feedback.

In a pefect world yes!

Though I think Fuji have probably really needed that feedback from owners to impliment these changes/improvements via firmware upgrades. Hats off to them IMO.

[RObert Budding]

My Nikon D700 is, hands down, the best camera that I've ever used. I still love film, but nice images at ISO 6400 makes it easy to capture my sons playing basketball in dimly lit gyms.

[Jamie Pillers]

The pictures you've been posting in the X100 images thread certainly show you're having a lot of fun with it! :-)

[naruto]

That does it. I am getting one.... a friend has been holding one for me for weeks now...

[NLewis]

Originally Posted by daveisbest

There are only two things about the X100 I really don't like. The slow as hell manual focus ring and the battery life. Everything else is just about perfect.

I don't know why everyone whines about the manual focus. Just like the Nikon AF-S lenses, which also have a manual focus ring on autofocus lenses, they are not intended as the primary focusing system. It is an adjunct to autofocus for:

a) zone/hyperfocal focusing;
b) correcting AF focus mistakes;
c) setting focus when AF is having trouble, sometimes in macro for example or perhaps low light.

Nobody complains about the Nikon manual focus rings. And, nobody tries to use them as the primary focus method. Bring extra batteries, I bought a set of two on eBay for $10 including shipping. Can you believe this whining? Now go take pictures.

[Jamie Pillers]

Check out the latest issue of Photo Technique Magazine; there's a nice article by Steve Anchell describing his experience using the X100 for street photography in Cuba:

http://www.phototechmag.com/index.ph.../steve-anchell

One of his comments parallels the comments here - (roughly) "... turn off all the bells and whistles..." Use the camera like you'd use a film camera for street photography.

[tbhv55]

Originally Posted by NLewis

I don't know why everyone whines about the manual focus. Just like the Nikon AF-S lenses, which also have a manual focus ring on autofocus lenses, they are not intended as the primary focusing system. It is an adjunct to autofocus for:

a) zone/hyperfocal focusing;
b) correcting AF focus mistakes;
c) setting focus when AF is having trouble, sometimes in macro for example or perhaps low light.

Nobody complains about the Nikon manual focus rings. And, nobody tries to use them as the primary focus method. Bring extra batteries, I bought a set of two on eBay for $10 including shipping. Can you believe this whining? Now go take pictures.

Very well said...

[Bike Tourist]

I came late to the party, only having had my X100 for about a month. I was going to use it for personal work and keep using the D7000 for microstock. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the X100 images keep getting accepted by the agencies so that the poor Nikon is not getting out much. Maybe the D7000 will be traded for an X-Pro 1 sometime later this year. That camera should have the X100's advantages, plus interchangable lenses and even zooms and telephotos can be used with the EVF.

[daveisbest]

Originally Posted by NLewis

I don't know why everyone whines about the manual focus. Just like the Nikon AF-S lenses, which also have a manual focus ring on autofocus lenses, they are not intended as the primary focusing system. It is an adjunct to autofocus for:

a) zone/hyperfocal focusing;
b) correcting AF focus mistakes;
c) setting focus when AF is having trouble, sometimes in macro for example or perhaps low light.

Nobody complains about the Nikon manual focus rings. And, nobody tries to use them as the primary focus method. Bring extra batteries, I bought a set of two on eBay for $10 including shipping. Can you believe this whining? Now go take pictures.

Thankfully the good folks at Fuji don't share your abysmal attitude and greatly improved the manual focusing in the latest firmware update.

[Archiver]

I've been using the X100 for the past few weeks as a general carry around camera and I find it fast and mostly reliable. I am working around the quirks and I can see why many people call it the best camera they have used.

My journey into digital photography started with the Canon S45, which had a 35/2.8 eq. lens, and I can say that I would have LOVED this camera if I had it back then! It is ticks the boxes for speed, silence, autofocus, image quality, movie mode, good looks, good handling and usable OVF. I have loads of other cameras but none of them give this combination of values which makes it unique in my book.