- Feb 16, 2005
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I wanted a camera to replace my Leica D-Lux 4, which was suppose to be my "no-brainer-point-click-done!" camera. Leica did it well, and I took a bunch of "fun" pictures that didn't need outstanding composition, lighting, and props! It's just every I pull out my 5D M2, I feel like I'm obligated to take the best photos as I can. Watch the lighting, background, misc. crap floating in the air, messy hair, subject, bla bla bla.
Well D-Lux 4 is sold, and my X100 just came in today. In fact, I ordered this bastard June 20th, and finally it arrived! So I'm gonna break it down to my initial impressions of this camera! Sorry, it's night time, and lighting is bad.... damn here I go again
The box is just a sleek black box, nothing special. I opened the accessories box and you'll have everything you'd expect. Then you get to the camera box, and you'll be greeted with a nice "bed" for the camera. Nice touch Fuji!
So messing around with the menu's changing the time/date, figuring out the stupid straps, I've finally nailed the basic functionality of this camera. I've noticed that the EVF mode is slow as shit, so you would generally want to leave it on the Optical mode.
BUT here's the problem: The optical view finder is just a plain Jane window, that has some electronic info in regards to your exposure, settings, etc. What that means is that it's not TTL. You don't know if you're focused or not. You're forced to go through EVF, and live through that slowness! So why don't we just use Manual Focus? Because manual focus is garbage. it's basically unusable. It's just a digital "ring" that serves 2 purposes: move focus up one notch, down one notch. It's slower than sin, no matter how fast you spin it. It just wont listen to you! It's not an analog focusing system, it's actually digital. Might as well put buttons for +/- for Manual focusing!
So my biggest gripe with this camera so far, has to deal with focusing. I can't use the optical view finder to "trust" what I'm focusing (even though I'm using SPOT focusing). Sometimes, the camera would just WANT to focus on the item behind your subject, even though 90% of your subject in on the focusing point.
Of course, you wouldn't have this focusing issue if you used the LCD (which you can use as well to compose your shot) or the EVF. Optical view finder is really just for show...
Well D-Lux 4 is sold, and my X100 just came in today. In fact, I ordered this bastard June 20th, and finally it arrived! So I'm gonna break it down to my initial impressions of this camera! Sorry, it's night time, and lighting is bad.... damn here I go again
The box is just a sleek black box, nothing special. I opened the accessories box and you'll have everything you'd expect. Then you get to the camera box, and you'll be greeted with a nice "bed" for the camera. Nice touch Fuji!
So messing around with the menu's changing the time/date, figuring out the stupid straps, I've finally nailed the basic functionality of this camera. I've noticed that the EVF mode is slow as shit, so you would generally want to leave it on the Optical mode.
BUT here's the problem: The optical view finder is just a plain Jane window, that has some electronic info in regards to your exposure, settings, etc. What that means is that it's not TTL. You don't know if you're focused or not. You're forced to go through EVF, and live through that slowness! So why don't we just use Manual Focus? Because manual focus is garbage. it's basically unusable. It's just a digital "ring" that serves 2 purposes: move focus up one notch, down one notch. It's slower than sin, no matter how fast you spin it. It just wont listen to you! It's not an analog focusing system, it's actually digital. Might as well put buttons for +/- for Manual focusing!
So my biggest gripe with this camera so far, has to deal with focusing. I can't use the optical view finder to "trust" what I'm focusing (even though I'm using SPOT focusing). Sometimes, the camera would just WANT to focus on the item behind your subject, even though 90% of your subject in on the focusing point.
Of course, you wouldn't have this focusing issue if you used the LCD (which you can use as well to compose your shot) or the EVF. Optical view finder is really just for show...
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