Fujifilm X100S 16 MP Digital Camera with 2.8-Inch LCD (Silver) (OLD MODEL)

Fujifilm X100S 16 MP Digital Camera with 2.8-Inch LCD (Silver) (OLD MODEL)

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• APS-C 16M X-Trans CMOS II sensor with OLPF-less architecture
• Fujinon 23mm f/2 fixed focal length lens
• Newly developed Hybrid Viewfinder
• Digital Split Image Manual Focus System
• Full HD movies, Full aperture F2

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Brand : Fujifilm
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,Point & Shoot Digital Cameras
Rating : 4
Review Count : 180

Fujifilm X100S 16 MP Digital Camera with 2.8-Inch LCD (Silver) (OLD MODEL)

• This is a fantastic camera with excellent potential. Plus, 35mm in FX is one of my favorite focal lengths. So I was really excited to try out this camera when the black version was released. But after playing with it for 3 weeks, I found that the X100s wasn\'t quite there yet.Here\'s why: The Fuji X100s begs to be your every-day companion. It has wonderful potential, but it falls just short of being a great camera. Unless you need/want/appreciate a leaf shutter (including all it\'s limitations like 1/1000 sec max shutter speed at F2.0), I wouldn\'t recommend the X100s.This review is geared for advanced users. I need to define some acronyms:AF - Auto FocusOVF - Optical View FinderEVF - Electronic View FinderCDAF - Contrast Detection Auto FocusPDAF - Phase Detection Auto FocusDX - Nikon\'s APS-C crop sensorFX - Nikon\'s full frame sensorSOOC - Straight out of camera (jpegs)IF - Internal FocusingDOF - Depth of FieldND - Neutral Density Filter (needed to lower the shutter speed; for example when shooting at F2.0 in sunlight)MILC - Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens CameraX100s Cons:1. EVF isn\'t very good. Fuji\'s X100s EVF seems like it\'s 2 generations behind. The Sony NEX-6 or Olympus OM-D E-M5 have significantly better EVFs. In comparison, the X100s EVF is laggy, poor resolution, and colors are not close to accurate. This is coming from someone who actually likes EVFs.2. Weather sealing - This camera, which to me can be your companion, needs to be weather sealed. The build is *almost* excellent, minus some of the doors. Dust can get into the OVF. This camera can easily accompany you as you travel the world. Fuji, make it weather sealed please.3. Nearly worthless horizontal level - X100s can only level for rotation/roll, which is easily fixed in post. It needs to be able to level for tilt/pitch.4. Lens needs internal focusing - It\'s annoying to have the lens focus louder than the shutter. Plus, with the lens element going in and out, it can pull dust into the camera.5. OVF autofocus can easily miss - Even with the AF parallax correction box (which I highly recommend you turn on) the AF using the OVF can easily miss focus. Meaning, you can focus on the tree instead of the person, on accident.6. Macro AF is incredibly slow - Macro AF is very close. It\'s accurate, fortunately, but it\'s slow. Not a big deal though.7. Macro needs to be stopped down to F4.0 - Although not a big deal, F2.0 and F2.8 don\'t produce sharp pictures in macro. You need to stop down to F4.8. AF speed - Fuji loves to claim fastest AF speed. This must be a joke. AF speed is fast if focusing in sunlight on objects that are similar distance. For low light, or objects ranging in distance, the X100s AF is much slower. Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-PL5, E-PM2 (or newer) and Sony NEX-6 or even Sony RX100 are faster. From my experience, after 10,000+ frames with the OM-D EM-5, Olympus does the best CDAF by far. It\'s fast, and more importantly, it\'s accurate. Anyways, although the X100s AF isn\'t as fast as Fuji would like you to think, it\'s still fast enough for my use.9. AF Accuracy - Now this is where the X100s AF system fails. Not only does the X100s get a lot of failed AF (red box instead of green box), but it will give you false positives. You can get a confirmed AF (green box), and then when you check your picture, you\'ll see that it\'s in fact out of focus. Fuji\'s X-M1 (which I also have) doesn\'t seem to give nearly as many false AF, so I\'m not sure why the X100s does this. Out of 100 shots, I may have gotten 5 or so missed AF using the EVF.10. Battery - You must buy spares. The battery is pitifully weak, and the X100s is the worst vs. X-M1, OM-D E-M5, E-PL5, NEX-F3, NEX-3N, NEX-6, and RX100. (I\'m only listing cameras I have hands-on experience with). Spare batteries are cheap and small, so this isn\'t a big deal.11. Lens has a lot of barrel distortion - This is easy to see in the OVF. Doors / walls or other straight vertical lines 5 FT will appear curved. The camera will correct for it though. So not a big deal.So in summary, the X100s can produce wonderful pictures. Q menu is intuitive and easy to use, and the X100s makes it easy to take great pictures. SOOC JPEGs are great, and RAW files are malleable in the newest versions of Lightroom. Fill flash works well and the leaf shutter has some tangible benefits (high sync speed, fill flash, and super quiet).Here\'s what I hope Fuji fixes in the next iteration:1. AF Accuracy - Fuji, don\'t let CDAF fail with false positives. Seriously. (But I think Fuji is close, because I\'ve had my X-M1 since release, and I\'ve only gotten a few false positives, too few to recall individually).2. AF Speed - If you claim something, please let it be honest. Fuji\'s X100s CDAF/PDAF AF *may* be fastest in sunlight with AF on subjects that\'re at similar distances, but it\'s generally slow in real-world use. Everyone can do fast CDAF in sunlight. It\'s overall use that people remember, and in overall use, the X100s is comparatively slow. Olympus does CDAF best.3. IF - Make the lens internal focusing so it doesn\'t suck in dust and so it\'s quieter.4. Allow filters - Although you can buy a filter adapter, Fuji should have made it compatible with filters from the start. There may be an engineering/practical decision for this, but I\'m not aware of one.5. Improve the EVF - I\'m sure this will happen. EVF technology is getting better for everyone. Fuji just needs to use the X-T1 EVF in the next X100 iteration.6. Weather sealing - For a camera that begs to be your everyday companion, the X100s should be weather sealed. It feels solid in the hand, but the doors are flimsy.Recommended competition/alternatives: Keep in mind, nobody has an OVF as usable as the X100s, so there\'s no real direct competition.Affordable MILC without EVF: Olympus E-PM2 or E-PL5MILC with EVF: Olympus OM-D EM-10 or OM-D E-M1Compact Point-and-shoot: Sony RX100M2.I also recommend you check out the X-M1, X-E2, or X-T1 if you want to buy into Fuji\'s X Trans sensor.I\'m really excited about what Fuji has been doing, and I can\'t wait for the next iteration of this camera. I\'m also very happy that the camera is selling well because it\'ll encourage Fuji to continue with the X100 series.
• TLDR: A not so amateur camera, very quirky, very adorable, if you are looking for a small setup for inconspicuous photography and you really know what you are doing, beware, this might be the camera you are looking for. For all the rest of the point and shoot seeker move on and get a G15, G1x, Lx7 and or Rx100II, this Fuji is not the camera for you (reverse psychologically)A camera that cannot take drive by shooting from a car (AF sooooo slooooow), AF points that floats across the OVF because of parallax, a battery life (in video mode)so short you need to carry three of these in a shoot, a battery retention methodology that makes North Korea space program incredible.And I would still buy it again.And I would be anxious to hear a full frame version of this puppy.Yes. North Korea. Such wow.Yes. This is the X100s, yes it has 4 stars, and yes, I stand by it.If you can live with all of these minuses, I would suggest you to buy the lens hood from EZfoto(no not the fuji this is way over priced) and buy a circular polarizer of 58mm from your favorite brand (HOYA / B+W)so you can use it with the lens hood (going for the 49mm is a pain because your thumb and index cannot reach the inside of the lens hood). Then a couple of NP-95 wannabe from STK, and the x100s thumb grip from lens mate. And if you believe leather will get in the way of taking pictures, I suggest you J.B camera design case, they smell bad, but it will disappear in a few days of camera use.Congratulation, you have now a kit that beats the crap out of a d3200 and 20mm 2.8 (incredible lens with no AF on a d3200)With the X100s, we comparing something like 30 2.8 to 35mm 2.0 full frame equivalent.So with the X100S, you will gain (a slow) autofocus and a faster lens.The lens is soft at f2, but it is not bad (it is #somewhatdreamy), stopped at 2.8, the nikkor takes a serious beating. You will love it, it is refreshing.AF speed is... sluuuggish if you are coming from a D3, slow if you are coming from a nikkor 50 1.4 G, incredibly fast and accurate if you come from a Leica M9 :)Build Quality is okay, not bad. Great. But not excellent (plastic knobs feel, battery door and orange plastic retention mechanism, and you can still mount a battery incorrectly!!!!)For a photog, this is a looong series of minuses, but you will manage. If you want to drive by and take pictures from your car, forget it. You have to set it to manual focus, press AE/AF lock and shoot! the AF is too slow and not precise enough, how about for regular street photography?Absolutely. It will work, precise, accurate. But slow.Never forget that you can switch to manual then Ae/AF button lock will focus for you.You now realize that I haven\'t talked about EVF, OVF, textures, the colors, the high iso the fact that you can use a SB700, SB 800, SB910 and the like...This is for your to (re)discover. I would not even call this a rangefinder, this is a Leica M3/M5 on electronic daft punk steroid.The X100S is not the perfect camera, but for some, it is out of the point. It is not as intuitive as a K20D, it is not as engaging as a Leica M9, it is not as shattering as a D3 and 50mm 1.4...The X100s is nothing like that, it is simply a X100s, something you cannot found in any other brand.If Fuji ever release the same recipe with a full frame in 35mm, I am all for it, cause you know, I am not that good of a photographer. The X100s reminds me of the the K100D, it clicks, it is quirky (Af point shifting across the OVF thank you parallax), but it is one hell of a ride. Have fun, you reading those lines, you already made up your mind.So why 4 stars? I told you, this camera is a quirky little thing, from the menus, to the video mode, to the custom mode 1/2/3 out of place (and useless) the Q button does not even allow you for the fast ND parameter but offers you a redundant, flash, wb parameters... Unacceptable! Fn button assigned to movie mode... you cannot be reassign when entering custom menu 1/2/3... Mr Fuji, you have to get out and use other cameras like a K5 or even a D300s / 70D, GH3!Anything, learn a few thing about user interface!!!But to hell with all of these quirkiness and slowish AF (it is not the slowness that kills it, but the lack of anticipation from the photographer to understand that the AF point is not in line with the lens again, parallax).It will make you think, it will make you walk on your toes. And all of this makes for great photography.What a sensor.Coupled with a Nikon Sb700 flash, you can get seriously creative.Don\'t look for speed, don\'t buy it for the look, buy it for the experience. I would not describe this as a true rangefinder though, it is much more than that. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, now go get outside and shoot something, anything. I wish it to be weather sealed.Little piece of advice, you can make an OVF protector by defining lines on a UV filter (utility knife and 52mm would be a good start), on a previously taped UV filter, then \"break\" your UV glass panel along these lines by pressing with two pliers, then remove the tape (so it does not scratch). Don\'t cut yourself! use gaffers tape to tape off this newly made protector.

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