[Leica] Fuji X100

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Since I haven't had a production X100 in my hands, my comments are 
only hearsay from others who have used the camera. The main thing I 
hear about the camera that I don't like is that there is no good/easy 
way to manually focus the camera. The UI in general seems to need 
some tweaking. File quality seems to be very good and up there with 
the best of the APS-C cameras, but that is hardly going to sway me 
from an M9, and probably not from an M8 either. The X100 is just the 
most appealing of the large sensor fixed lens cameras to date, but 
that is enough to engender a lot of interest.

W.r.t. the M9/M8 processing; the M9 feels somewhat faster than the 
M8. Firmware improvements have made definite differences and of 
course it has double the processing power compared with the M8. I 
would still like the camera not to be buffer limited, especially 
since it can't do 5fps anyway. I only use it in single shot mode, but 
I would like to be able to keep on shooting indefinitely as fast as I 
want in that mode. Seems like a reasonable request to me.




>>  Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:17:25 +0200
>>  From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
>>  Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji X100
>>  To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>
>>  I was thinking the same thing, except that mine is an M8--what 
>>does the Fuji have that my M8 with a 35mm Summicron does not?
>>
>>  Possibly it is more reliable...
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Nathan
>
>Hi Nathan,
>Is that a troll I see before me?? :-)
>The reason I didn't upgrade my M8 to an M9 (beyond price) was that 
>when I used the M9 for two days in Seattle two years ago at the LHSA 
>I couldn't believe how slow the processing was. The reason of course 
>was that they used the same processing chips as in the M8 while the 
>M9 was processing about 50% more info in each picture.
>When I asked about it the Leica rep said that they didn't want to 
>change too much circuitry in the M9 to avoid reliability issues.
>From Henning I understand that the X100 is also a slow processor. If 
>true then that would be a deal breaker for me.
>So I am waiting to see what the M10 brings and in the meantime 
>staying with my M8 - which took me three tries to get a reliable one.
>Cheers
>Howard
>
>
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