She looks like an old timer, but filmed in HD quality: Fujifilm has built a beautiful hybrid camera. For the X100 you have to set much by hand, the picture quality is outstanding. A test of the oldies with processor heart. Why not a car manufacturer builds something like that? A new car that looks like an Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider 1600, but is equipped with the latest technology.
If there are cameras and a small niche of fans beloved for such new vintage. Leica sold for years for four-figure sums such digital cameras, now makes the Fujifilm camera Solmser farmer with the X100 competition. The new camera from Fujifilm has some of the legendary Leica cameras are very similar: A large optical viewfinder on top of the silver magnesium chassis, including a black, roughened surface, so you can keep the camera well.
The X100 has the same effect as a classic car: It looks at love, passes over it and this is mentioned. However, one can shoot with the X100 also very good. The camera has a classic car thing in common: You have to work consciously with it and do everything yourself. And it is not quite so difficult to park, take pictures with a X100 like a classic car without power steering.
Fuji Film of the X100 has missed some automatic functions. For example you can manually set the aperture and let the camera's automatic exposure time matching the select - or vice versa. Other compact cameras with comparable large image sensor, such as the Sony NEX-3, the X100 is different, however: There are no full-automatic, no scene modes.
If you shoot with the X100, must decide and make the recordings aware. Buttons and wheels as before the operation of the X100 is designed. The case is slightly larger than that of many other compact cameras with image sensors in the APS-C format. The larger cabinet allows it to accommodate many choices wheel: shutter speed, exposure compensation and aperture can be set via specially designed controls - that simplifies and speeds up the work.
So you can set the shutter speed and aperture before turning on the camera - as before, when cameras got along without batteries and everything worked mechanically. Of course this affects only pretending. The X100 is not a real old timer, but reproduces the look and feel using sophisticated software and processors.
So one can ask, for example, as before with the focus ring on the lens focus manually. However, the focus ring is missing from the label that indicates to what distance we have now focused straight. Say: Manual focus can be the X100 only if they switched. One must, unfortunately, far too much boost.
Until you come down from one meter to three inches, passes too much time, turning and rotating. Beautiful is the manual focus, however, that the camera remembers the setting. Once you have a creative focus in half a meter away, the setting remains intact even if you turn off the camera.
In this case, the software reproduces the most of the mechanical operation. The X100 is more comfortable to handle than, say, the smaller Panasonic GF2 have to click around at the photographers a lot more in the software menu. The X100 revealed gaps in memory, however, the software of the X100, the mechanical control logic to not continuous.
An example: If one wants closer than 80 inches of a subject approach, you have to adjust your camera in macro mode. Then you can focus on subjects that are located up to ten centimeters. However, forget the X100 each time you look at the images on or off the camera that you had previously activated the macro mode - annoying.
Apart from that, the X100 offers all the advantages and some disadvantages of modern software-controlled digital cameras. Has fallen too: You can be a function key on the top of the case, even with evidence of a function - for example, ISO setting, self-timer, movie recording. This is urgently required, because all of these important functions can be called otherwise only the menu of the camera, which is too cumbersome.
The camera stores images in raw format - this is done (of course also depends on the memory card) average fast. Dissolved several times in short order, the camera comes with saving some point, however, not afterwards, and for some not to use eye gaze. The X100 is filming HD (720p) and focused during recording.
A stereo microphone is built into the case. Even if the rather distinguished snapshot cameras: the X100 calculated widescreen images with the Sony's cameras sweep known panorama mode. It moves the camera from left to right, the software converts it together a Panaromabild. Not so good: The hybrid optical viewfinder combining the advantages of a clear viewfinder image with on-screen information in addition to the currently selected settings - there we have the best of both worlds.
If you want to focus manually, you can also switch easily to the Live View image - this operation is solved ingeniously. Like all digital cameras need the X100 a bit until you can shoot after switching on. 2.2 seconds, however, are a little long. You can reduce that time by a so-called quick-start function to 0.7 seconds, though the camera used on that standby power.
The autofocus is slower than that of cameras like the Panasonic GH1 or GH1, but - felt - X1 faster than the Leica. It goes like this. The image quality of the X100 is superb - thereabouts suggest you do not have much. The quality of the can with a digital SLR like the Canon 7D confirm compete loose, what the results of the software provider DXOlabs (raw data creates a developer).
However, you can tune in digital cameras and the mirror-less systems such as micro four third NEX and the quality of the recordings also very much by the choice of high-quality lenses. This option is not for the X100 - the good prime lens is fitted firmly. Beautiful, but also quite expensive One conclusion is difficult: The X100 is as beautiful as a Giulia Spider 1600th It wants them.
And: The X100 is clearly better to use than an old Alfa Romeo. If you want to replace the X100 is a compact always with camera or a SLR, you have to restrict itself. The X100 is slightly larger and heavier than the NEX cameras from Sony, you have to do without the freedom with various lenses and is not one or the other motive can take photos, because the X100 is not fast enough for use.
Ultimately, of course, but each camera, a compromise - and we must decide on their own. The price - about 1000 €, the X100 currently costs - is expected to discourage some buyers. True, compared with the digital system cameras from Pansonic, Sony Olmypus and this is something steep. Mainly because you pay for another the lens, but not for the next generation of faster processors and higher performance image sensors can be shared.
But: Compared to the Leica X1, which is similarly constructed, but even after years still costs 1,500 euros, the Fujifilm X100 is even beneficial. If one chooses for this wonderful compromise.
If there are cameras and a small niche of fans beloved for such new vintage. Leica sold for years for four-figure sums such digital cameras, now makes the Fujifilm camera Solmser farmer with the X100 competition. The new camera from Fujifilm has some of the legendary Leica cameras are very similar: A large optical viewfinder on top of the silver magnesium chassis, including a black, roughened surface, so you can keep the camera well.
The X100 has the same effect as a classic car: It looks at love, passes over it and this is mentioned. However, one can shoot with the X100 also very good. The camera has a classic car thing in common: You have to work consciously with it and do everything yourself. And it is not quite so difficult to park, take pictures with a X100 like a classic car without power steering.
Fuji Film of the X100 has missed some automatic functions. For example you can manually set the aperture and let the camera's automatic exposure time matching the select - or vice versa. Other compact cameras with comparable large image sensor, such as the Sony NEX-3, the X100 is different, however: There are no full-automatic, no scene modes.
If you shoot with the X100, must decide and make the recordings aware. Buttons and wheels as before the operation of the X100 is designed. The case is slightly larger than that of many other compact cameras with image sensors in the APS-C format. The larger cabinet allows it to accommodate many choices wheel: shutter speed, exposure compensation and aperture can be set via specially designed controls - that simplifies and speeds up the work.
So you can set the shutter speed and aperture before turning on the camera - as before, when cameras got along without batteries and everything worked mechanically. Of course this affects only pretending. The X100 is not a real old timer, but reproduces the look and feel using sophisticated software and processors.
So one can ask, for example, as before with the focus ring on the lens focus manually. However, the focus ring is missing from the label that indicates to what distance we have now focused straight. Say: Manual focus can be the X100 only if they switched. One must, unfortunately, far too much boost.
Until you come down from one meter to three inches, passes too much time, turning and rotating. Beautiful is the manual focus, however, that the camera remembers the setting. Once you have a creative focus in half a meter away, the setting remains intact even if you turn off the camera.
In this case, the software reproduces the most of the mechanical operation. The X100 is more comfortable to handle than, say, the smaller Panasonic GF2 have to click around at the photographers a lot more in the software menu. The X100 revealed gaps in memory, however, the software of the X100, the mechanical control logic to not continuous.
An example: If one wants closer than 80 inches of a subject approach, you have to adjust your camera in macro mode. Then you can focus on subjects that are located up to ten centimeters. However, forget the X100 each time you look at the images on or off the camera that you had previously activated the macro mode - annoying.
Apart from that, the X100 offers all the advantages and some disadvantages of modern software-controlled digital cameras. Has fallen too: You can be a function key on the top of the case, even with evidence of a function - for example, ISO setting, self-timer, movie recording. This is urgently required, because all of these important functions can be called otherwise only the menu of the camera, which is too cumbersome.
The camera stores images in raw format - this is done (of course also depends on the memory card) average fast. Dissolved several times in short order, the camera comes with saving some point, however, not afterwards, and for some not to use eye gaze. The X100 is filming HD (720p) and focused during recording.
A stereo microphone is built into the case. Even if the rather distinguished snapshot cameras: the X100 calculated widescreen images with the Sony's cameras sweep known panorama mode. It moves the camera from left to right, the software converts it together a Panaromabild. Not so good: The hybrid optical viewfinder combining the advantages of a clear viewfinder image with on-screen information in addition to the currently selected settings - there we have the best of both worlds.
If you want to focus manually, you can also switch easily to the Live View image - this operation is solved ingeniously. Like all digital cameras need the X100 a bit until you can shoot after switching on. 2.2 seconds, however, are a little long. You can reduce that time by a so-called quick-start function to 0.7 seconds, though the camera used on that standby power.
The autofocus is slower than that of cameras like the Panasonic GH1 or GH1, but - felt - X1 faster than the Leica. It goes like this. The image quality of the X100 is superb - thereabouts suggest you do not have much. The quality of the can with a digital SLR like the Canon 7D confirm compete loose, what the results of the software provider DXOlabs (raw data creates a developer).
However, you can tune in digital cameras and the mirror-less systems such as micro four third NEX and the quality of the recordings also very much by the choice of high-quality lenses. This option is not for the X100 - the good prime lens is fitted firmly. Beautiful, but also quite expensive One conclusion is difficult: The X100 is as beautiful as a Giulia Spider 1600th It wants them.
And: The X100 is clearly better to use than an old Alfa Romeo. If you want to replace the X100 is a compact always with camera or a SLR, you have to restrict itself. The X100 is slightly larger and heavier than the NEX cameras from Sony, you have to do without the freedom with various lenses and is not one or the other motive can take photos, because the X100 is not fast enough for use.
Ultimately, of course, but each camera, a compromise - and we must decide on their own. The price - about 1000 €, the X100 currently costs - is expected to discourage some buyers. True, compared with the digital system cameras from Pansonic, Sony Olmypus and this is something steep. Mainly because you pay for another the lens, but not for the next generation of faster processors and higher performance image sensors can be shared.
But: Compared to the Leica X1, which is similarly constructed, but even after years still costs 1,500 euros, the Fujifilm X100 is even beneficial. If one chooses for this wonderful compromise.
- Fujifilm updates X100 firmware to v1.10 (21/04/2011)
- Fujifilm rumored making X200 high-end compact (07/04/2011)
- Fujifilm announces shortage of X100 camera, targets late March / early April US release (10/03/2011)
- Fujifilm already facing shortage of FinePix X100 retro camera (10/03/2011)
- Fujifilm X100 production resumes; early April ship date anticipated (29/03/2011)
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