I knew someone would cave in. You were high on my list, Bob. It seems nice ad sharp. Uniform lighting exposure is excellent. DR rears it's head in a few shots, but nothing you can't live with. I really don't know how another camera would have done. I have some DR issues with my micro43 bodies, but of course that's a somewhat smaller sensor.
I'm very jealous, BTW. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
