LisaO
Regular
Today was First Day out with a Fujifilm Finepix X100
I ordered it from Japan since I wanted it for my trip to Italy and I leave this Wednesday, too late for B&H order even if it was available in the US this week.
So this afternoon I shot with it for the first time. I just received the camera day before. First thing I did was upgrade the firmware to the new 1.01 version that just came out this week then I played around with it trying out the settings the previous night. It is the first camera I have had in recent times that I have had to read the manual in order to figure things out, but that's a good thing.
First thing I noticed was how light the camera is, yet it is not tiny. The faux leather feels a little funky but not bad. It is nice to have all the buttons and dials it feels like a "real" camera. If you have seen photos you know it looks sort of Leica-ish. But because of the light weight it does feel like an M8 or M9.
There are many buttons and dials on the X100, one thing I like to have easy access to is ISO and the func button take you right to the ISO setting. The camera has a dial for shutter speed on top and an aperture dial on the lens making it very easy to set and at the end of each there is an A if you set the aperture to A you are shooting shutter priority, if you set the shutter speed to A you are in aperture priority if you set them both to A you are in automatic mode.
There are 3 options for viewfinder optical, electronic and LCD and it's easy to change between them. The camera can be silent and that is how I like to shoot, this is probably my favorite feature.
The two negatives are it is slow writing to the memory card and I was using a fast 45 MB/s San Disk Extreme Pro and when it goes into battery save mode it takes forever to come out and I find it easier to switch the camera off and on.
Today (Saturday) I went on a photo walk organized by Mostly Photo Podcast on the Twit network in New York City with about 35 other photographers. I shot with the X100 and a GF1 too.
I ordered it from Japan since I wanted it for my trip to Italy and I leave this Wednesday, too late for B&H order even if it was available in the US this week.
So this afternoon I shot with it for the first time. I just received the camera day before. First thing I did was upgrade the firmware to the new 1.01 version that just came out this week then I played around with it trying out the settings the previous night. It is the first camera I have had in recent times that I have had to read the manual in order to figure things out, but that's a good thing.
First thing I noticed was how light the camera is, yet it is not tiny. The faux leather feels a little funky but not bad. It is nice to have all the buttons and dials it feels like a "real" camera. If you have seen photos you know it looks sort of Leica-ish. But because of the light weight it does feel like an M8 or M9.
There are many buttons and dials on the X100, one thing I like to have easy access to is ISO and the func button take you right to the ISO setting. The camera has a dial for shutter speed on top and an aperture dial on the lens making it very easy to set and at the end of each there is an A if you set the aperture to A you are shooting shutter priority, if you set the shutter speed to A you are in aperture priority if you set them both to A you are in automatic mode.
There are 3 options for viewfinder optical, electronic and LCD and it's easy to change between them. The camera can be silent and that is how I like to shoot, this is probably my favorite feature.
The two negatives are it is slow writing to the memory card and I was using a fast 45 MB/s San Disk Extreme Pro and when it goes into battery save mode it takes forever to come out and I find it easier to switch the camera off and on.
Today (Saturday) I went on a photo walk organized by Mostly Photo Podcast on the Twit network in New York City with about 35 other photographers. I shot with the X100 and a GF1 too.