Fujifilm FinePix X100 First Look Preview: 1. Introduction. Review based on a production X100 with Firmware 1.10 NOTE - On 21st March 2012 Fujifilm updated the X100's firmware to Version 1.20 with a number of new features - most notably the ability to customise the 'RAW' button. We recommend familiarising yourself with these improvements and bearing them in mind when reading this review, which is based on the previous FW version. In amongst all the cameras announced at Photokina 2010 - including enthusiast SLRs such as the Nikon D7000, Canon EOS 60D, Pentax K-5 and Sigma SD1 - one utterly unexpected model stole the show. Fujifilm unveiled the FinePix X100, a compact camera with an SLR-size APS-C sensor and traditional analogue control dials, that hides ground-breaking technology inside a retro-styled body with looks to die for.
The X100, though, is something totally different. The large-sensor, fixed-lens compact isn’t a new idea, of course, and both Sigma’s DP series and the Leica X1 have already visited this territory. Key features. Fujifilm X100 Test Report. Exceptional But Frustrating The Fujifilm Finepix X100, to give it its full name, has been one of the most eagerly awaited new cameras of the first half of 2011.
Announced at Photokina in September, by the time the X100 started shipping in Europe and the Far East early in March an almost cult-like following had developed. The tragic Japan earthquake and its aftermath halted production before many cameras had been produced, and as a consequence the few units that had been delivered by the end of March – mostly in Asia – started selling on eBay for as much as double their $1,200 list price. In early April a small initial North American shipment that had left Japan before the earthquake began to fill dealer back-orders.
Fujifilm has announced that production has now (early April) resumed, but there are likely to be parts shortages for some time, and so meeting the heavy world-wide demand may take quite a few months. Ladder and Wall. San Miguel de Allende. Fujifilm X100 @ ISO 200 The Lens JPGs. Fuji X100 Follow-Up. Antique Street Fountain. San Miguel de Allende. March, 2011 Fujifilm X100 @ ISO 200 As I sat down to document some of my ongoing thoughts on the Fujifilm X100, following my initial field review, I received the following email from a gentleman named Gordon... Thank you for your review of the fuji x100. I have made my living as a photographer since 1971. I am having a love/hate relationship with this thing. This camera has such promise, but is full of glitches and stupidisms which are spoiling my pleasure in using it. I'll try to be brief, but if you have any influence with fuji at all, I'd love to make them aware of my issues. 1: My latest issue is the camera locking up. 2: Manual focus. 3: In manual focus, I cannot get rid of that huge distracting distance scale which obscures the bottom frame line at close distances, even if I uncheck the box in the menus that is supposed to hide it. 4: Battery life. 5: I never shut my dslrs off. 7: Focus spot parallax. 8: Everything is sluuugggiiiish.
Meeting a Stranger: The Fuji X100: A Street Photographer’s View | Street Reverb Magazine. Fujifilm FinePix X100 Review: 1. Introduction. Review based on a production X100 with Firmware 1.10 NOTE - On 21st March 2012 Fujifilm updated the X100's firmware to Version 1.20 with a number of new features - most notably the ability to customise the 'RAW' button. We recommend familiarising yourself with these improvements and bearing them in mind when reading this review, which is based on the previous FW version.
In amongst all the cameras announced at Photokina 2010 - including enthusiast SLRs such as the Nikon D7000, Canon EOS 60D, Pentax K-5 and Sigma SD1 - one utterly unexpected model stole the show. Fujifilm unveiled the FinePix X100, a compact camera with an SLR-size APS-C sensor and traditional analogue control dials, that hides ground-breaking technology inside a retro-styled body with looks to die for. It's the company's first camera with a large, APS-C sensor aimed at professionals and advanced amateurs since the S5 Pro DSLR of 2006. The X100, though, is something totally different. Key features Compared to...