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The “starblogger” Ken Rockwell felt in love with the [shoplink 100018 ebay]Fuji X100[/shoplink]. He keeps posting pictures and notes about the camera. I post a short excerpt of his impressions:
“Initial impressions are that it rules. Images are super-sharp, and look great even at ISO 800 and f/2. Except for some odd quirks like hard-crashing just like the LEICA M9 did in 2009, the X100 is a winner. As expected, it’s very Japanese: way too many features, menu BS and sloppy programming getting in the way of just shooting. The X100 has all the crazy film modes and tweaks of Fuji’s DSLRs. I’m hoping that once I select which of the 10,000 display modes suit me that it will be smooth. Since the makes such horrible JPGs and has such horrible auto WB and no blue/amber fine tuning, the JPGs out of the X100 are superior to the M9’s JPGs.“
He liked the camera such a lot that he invited Fuji to make a fullframe camera to rule out the Leica M9 🙂 Read more at www.kenrockwell.com!
The Fuji X100 is almost impossible to find in Stock. You can find some of them in auction on [shoplink 100018 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. But as usual price is much higher than the official 1200 Euro/Dollars!!!
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Wow! I agree with Ken Rockwell!!
Will someone (Fuji as much as anyone) make a FF compact!
Just imagine having a full frame M mount camera with EVF, which could accept ANY current 35 mm lens, (via adaptors). So lenses like the 14-24mm f2.8 Nikon could be used without having to have the huge Nikon body to go with it. Surely somebody in the camera business must think that’s a good idea?
Daydreamers could think of the technology in the Contax AX, which moved the film plane back and forth to achieve auto focus- maybe the time has come for that technology to be used in a digital camera.
Why such a large lens without aperture control?
Much better idea is to make a FF mirrorless camera which would accept ANY 35mm lens out there, and you could have 14-24mm f2.8 lens which would be 4x smaller and lighter than Nikon 14-24mm 🙂
Just look at Panasonic 7-14mm (m43) compared to Olympus 7-14mm (43rds), same coverage and focal lenght but a lot smaller and lighter.
Granted, not as good quality (optical, but close) and build, but not too important considering size benefit.
Some choice quotes from Ken Rockwell before the X100 came out:
“Fuji X100. Do I care? Not really. If everything tries to imitate the greatness of the LEICA M3, then why not just shoot the real thing?”
–http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/2010-09.htm
“Every time we turn around, some other forgettable camera, like the Fuji X100 or Minox DCC 5.1, is trying to ride the M3’s coat tails into immortality.”
–http://www.kenrockwell.com/leica/m3/buyers-guide.htm
I find it just a little too cheesy that Rockwell so gleefully ragged on the X100 before it came out (without having even tried one), but of course, now that he has his hands on one (a free review copy?), the tune to his song has changed.
Fuji must have done a great job turning it around, going from “forgettable” to “it rules”. Sort of makes you wonder if he got a free review unit.
Ken Rockwell is a cunt
Must you spell out a 4 letter word instead of using ‘c***’?
It just shows what a muppet he is, I stopped reading his BS “reviews” a long time ago.
I hope the *starblogger* bit was meant to be ironic. While entertaining, I’m not sure Rockwell should be taken super seriously.
I suppose his tune changed when people started clicking on his “X100” google ads… I hate that man.
I don’t understand why this site needs to link back to ken’s site, he is a douche bag. All he cares about Google page rank and how much money he can make by writing crap about photography stuff that he never used. I bet he is working on some article on Nikon D5 (non existence camera).