The time has come for those who preordered the X100S to check if it keeps what it promises. The first reviews are very positive.
FR-reader Mark has it since two weeks. He linked me his review. Here are his first impression:
“In a nutshell – in good daylight, the AF rocks. In both speed and accuracy. That’s coming from a D700 user. Indoors in incandescent light – not so crash hot. Probably just on one second in dim incandescent light to lock onto a subject 3 metres away. If the light gets even lower – it can and did fail to lock focus. This is not a deal breaker for me – as thats just not the way I’ll need to use this camera. This is where the new improved manual focus feature comes in handy. […] The Fuji JEPG engine is also a big strong point of this camera. I am primarily a RAW shooter – but since getting this camera I have done a little experiment by only shooting in JPEG. There is something quite liberating and very pleasing when you can shoot and upload images so quickly without having to even fire up the computer. RAW will always have its place – but at the moment I don’t feel I need it am I am very much enjoying the “Fuji colours” I get from the JPEG files.””
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On a side topic, can we determine sales numbers of XPro1 and E1 from the serial numbers? My XPro1 has SN 21G01906, purchased 12 months back.
Just for those curious I received shipping notice early this morning… My order was placed on January 8th.
X100s looks being shipped also all over Europe, I picked up my pre-order today (Czech Republic). I was surprised because estimate of my shop was 10th April, but it’s here and we have holidays on monday, so plenty of time to have fun with new toy 🙂