[Leica] Follow up on the X100 report - "more pleasure more frustration"

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

The overall sluggishness is what I was afraid of. The X1 (apparently) 
suffers from it even more, and I know the Sigmas do as well as I've 
borrowed them for a bit. I don't necessarily expect Leica M or 
high-end DSLR performance, but the standard for contrast detect 
autofocus and general speed has now been set by the Panasonic GH2, 
and the X100 should be able to match that. Apparently its still quite 
a bit off that, and that makes the very good image quality a lot less 
exciting.

If it had good manual focus performance and reliable no-lag shutter 
firing wwhen set to manual, that would be all that anyone could ask 
at this point, but without that and the other current glitches it 
doesn't add up IMO.



At 10:32 PM +0800 4/12/11, H&ECummer wrote:
>HI Nathan,
>Funny - I had the same thought - but Michael already reported that 
>he had ordered one at the end of his first review. ;-)
>Haven't held the camera in my hand yet but the thought is forming up 
>that I shall pass it up.
>Cheers
>Howard
>>  Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:10:33 +0200
>>  From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
>>  Subject: Re: [Leica] Follow up on the X100 report - "more pleasure
>>      more    frustration"
>>  To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>
>>  I find it amazing the he calls it a keeper after agreeing with 
>>Gordon's points. To me it sure sounds like a piece of junk.
>>
>>  Reminds me of the Fawlty Towers episode where the health inspector 
>>visits the hotel. At the end of the visit he reads out a long list 
>>of problems, many of which are enough to get the place shut down. 
>>When he is finished, Fawlty (John Cleese) asks: "Otherwise OK?"
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Nathan
>
>
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