Once again, the X-series cameras won the IF Design Award… and this time the winners are the Fujifilm X100T and Fujifilm X30 (now super-discounted at [shoplink 33047 ebay]cameraland[/shoplink] ). Read the press release here.
So what is, according to you, the sexiest X-series camera ever made? Vote the poll!
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(NOTE: I’ve separated X100S from X100T because of some minor design changes. You can add up the results of the X100T and X100/S to see the results of the whole X100 line)
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IMHO it doesn’t make sense to split hair on X100 line body minor differences. As far as ‘design’ it’s all the same. In total x100* makes most of the votes, which is fair.
I agree. X100 series should be just one option.
As is X-E1&2, which is one option.
True.
One option only for X100 family. I do agree.
But the T is slightly different.
indeed, and this is why I’ve split them.
it seems that X-shooters like the slight design changes introduced with the X100T, since they voted for it more than for the X100/S.
But yes, overall, the X100 line seems to be the aesthetically most liked X-series camera amongst FR-readers.
In online pictures(no Fuji dealers near me) It looks like they dumbed down and simplified the x100T design by taking some sexy curves and interesting details out of the x100/x100s. Similar to the way they redesigned the x30. I like the x10/x20 design better. Still, they are all good looking cameras, but it seems the newer cameras du jour got the votes.
The design innovation came with X100, X100s had just very slight design changes and X100T added to it with some more noticeable but not being nor a concept nor an image change, therefore it would have made sense to keep them in just one group.
Being the most recent model it’s just natural it gets a higher score, either from owners and from people that didn’t buy it yet (and some will neve do, probably), while the other two models got the votes of owners with the drawback of being “outdated” models, particularly for the X100.
They’re all beautiful cameras, but I have to go with the X-T1. It’s refreshingly analog!
expected the x100 to be on top, but i am very surprised that the xT1 is higher than the x-pro1 at the moment….. I thought “we” all loved the rangefinder-look 🙂
And in the next poll we want to vote for the sexiest X-batteries!
The XT1 is not an ugly camera, but certainly not a beauty. So many votes for the XT1 surprise me.
“cream off”? That’s a new one. Sounds kind of pervy.
+1
I think the X100T has the most appealing design, but my favourite is the X-Pro 1, because it has interchangeable lenses and I prefer its size.
Impressive you get so much feedback just on the options in your polls!
I’ve handled, rented and owned a few cameras from the Fuji lineup and honestly don’t understand how the X-Pro1 isn’t in the lead. It seems like the only camera that was designed with intention.
Ftom the tone of the presse release, sounds like the IF prize was invented by Fuji people, hand has former Fuji presidents in the jury. I mean: what the hell is the IF prize? Who introduced it? And how can you give any prize to anubody in a field where the Leica M3, designed 1952-1954, is still a model of beauty and none can approach the balance of functionality and size introduced by Olympus in the 1970s?
Firstly, your Leica/Olympus fanboy is showing. Secondly, go Google it. The Leica T took a gold award for @#$%’s sake.
The thing that drives me nuts the most on the internet is people that start ranting without doing any research. They’ve given tons of awards to many manufacturers.
Any of the black & silver ones; voted X-E1/2 but it could easily be the X100/s/t or X-T1. The X-pro1 only being available in black has alway sput me off it and, for me, the X-pro2 needs to be available in silver, too. An X-pro2 in silver with the width shaved down just enough to match the size of the X100/E1/E2 would definitely win it.
A good camera design means something completely different to me than the color or the shape of the body. The X-T1 is in this respect the winner since it is today the best designed Fuji in both ergonomics & technical competences. But that being said it’s not fully the overall winner for most of us yet. In so many points it can still be improved – from the (still) quite laggy AF in low light towards all those small details that are still crampy and in the way of a true, fluent operation and photography (take f.i. the WIFI implementation, the manual controls, …). In flash technology and intelligent TTL-control they are so behind anything else in the DSLR world and the EF-42 is more a toy than a tool. I think Fuji has still headroom to improve this in next FW updates. In the accessory line. In the whole story of RAW conversion and a better partnering up with Adobe. I hope they do so.
You are right, but the question was not what is the best camera about good ergonomic and technical design, but the most beautiful camera.
I love my X-T1, but visually don’t find it nearly as sexy as my X-Pro1 or X100S (silver).
I would guess people are voting for the camera they own/want.
I’m pretty sure most people did indeed. Although the X-T1 is certainly not ugly 🙂
I can find precious information about this IF Design Award, even from their own website and press releases. I see that at least Canon, Leica and Apple Watch have also received awards. In fact, I see more info from the website of the consumer products (yay! we won this famous design award) than I can from anywhere else. Maybe someone else can help.
I have 3 of the X-series cameras. I use the XT1 the most, also the XE1, but I would have to say the XA1 is the best looking, although I use it the least of the three.
One word : bullshit !
Fuji cameras are beautiful but that kind of award…
i have a question to ask. why does the camera design for DSLRs stay the same for so many years? only the button layout is different for each model. when i hold a DSLR, i do not feel any connection between me and the camera design. Whereas, in film days, i saw so many camera designs in film days and you feel for those designs. Anyone knows why DSLRs got only 1 stagnant design for so many years? I was always wondering for the answer. Is it because of the mount which does not allow them to change the design of a camera? Or it is because of some production economic of scale reasons to cut cost in designing all over again? Anyone knows?
Well, more like DSLRs and SLRs. They are all basically the same. My guess is that the design basically works for the majority of people. What would be there to gain? Personally, I don’t feel the old designs of TLRs and speedgraphics and folding cameras. They are cumbersome and had different flaws.
Same reason cars have 4 wheels, steering wheel, gear shift, etc..? – it just works.
In the early days of digital, cameras had the oddest (and mostly ugly) shapes. In the end, things fell in the time-honored wisdom of form follows function. There are still some design-oddballs in the market, though.
Why is a car having a steering wheel and pedals? A gear shift selector? Well, it’s simple, it became a kind of convention one day to develop car in this way. A Ford T was different, but it never made it. I’m btw really not having one issue with DSLR concepts but I’m still suffering of getting used on how fuzzy CSCs are being designed. No improvement there in most cases, really, only the X-T1 has gotten a bit closer to the true DSLR roots and that’s not a bad decision. Most of all, I’m happy some things of the menu can be assigned to function buttons, making the pain a bit less.