I bought a Fuji X100 yesterday. After struggling with the onboard software for a while I decided to read the manual and get it set up to suit the way I want to use it.
Here are the first pictures, taken around Greenwich earlier today: <http://www.web-options.com/X100/> Hard to judge it properly yet. I think it's going to work well for my purposes, which is to take pictures at lunch time in the area where I work. It was a pleasure to use today in the market, but it has its quirks. First off, the dials are too easy to change by accident, so most of these were shot at 1/500 on auto aperture, rather than both on auto. That has meant I had to recover most of the exposures in Lightroom. The optical viewfinder, which is why I bought this rather than some other camera, is essentially just a framing device - you can't use if for manual focusing, so you have to be aware of where the focus point is. In some of the pictures it's clear that I wasn't thinking of that when I pressed the shutter. But it's early days and I think I'll emjoy using it. It's unobtrusive, easy to shoot one-handed (you can see your humble servant using it this way in a reflection in one of the pictures), responsive and quick. It can't really be compared to a Leica M, despite the reviews, but perhaps Leica should be thinking about a digital CL along these lines, and about returning the M10 to the same size as the M3 - the X100 suggests that it can be done. B B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
