With great pride I can inform you that X100 is nice to use. If it is then you want to pick it up more often which will result in more photos being taken. One of the most important things in a camera is whether it's nice to use. It's the first and last battery charger that I've seen doing it. I have no idea why it even needs to come off in the first place. However mis-designed it may be.īattery charger with the plastic bit attached. You can use various household items in place of the spacer but it's nicer to have the original element in place. Keep that in mind when buying this camera second hand. When battery is not inserted, there's nothing holding it in place so it's WAY too easy to lose it. It has a weird plastic spacer to use when the battery is inserted. Lastly the issue is not with a camera but with the charger. I have since used a different SD card and it hasn't happened again. Maybe it had some issues or I forgot to format it in camera as it's a wandering SD card that I use between many cameras. My hope is that it was a problem with the SD card. The camera was throwing errors to a worrying degree and I lost some photos this way. Neither seem worthwhile since I use the optical viewfinder 90% of the time.Īnother issue I had on the last shoot was with SD card reading and writing. What's left is opening the camera myself or sending it to Fuji. I can't give you a percentage of how many are affected but there's more than 1! All the 5-minute-crafts DIY methods didn't help me. Searching the internet reveals that this is a thing for X100 cameras. This functionality has been broken on my camera for several years now. To show the electronic viewfinder the camera needs to put blinds on the optical viewfinder. It also sits right where your finger is when holding the camera so it's natural to use.Īlthough the build feels very good there are some potential issues that could cause problems for the longevity of this camera. And I regularly don't even use digital cameras and shoot film instead. For example my main digital camera is a 12 year old Leica M9. Keep in mind that I'm a person that sees very little issues in old cameras. Is it still worth using this camera in 2021 ( or beyond )? Is it worth buying? I will write some words that could help answer these questions but the choice is always yours. Or much cheaper if you're lucky whereas X100 cameras don't appear to have bargain deals. For example the X-Pro1 can be had for $100 less on a regular day. You can expect to pay around $400 - $500. Today the camera is still asking quite a lot of money on the used market. There are several newer versions available: X100S, X100T, X100F and the current one, X100V. And it's also sized like a "normal" camera instead of a "compact" one. X-Pro1 is like X100 but allows interchangeable lenses. First X-Trans sensor was introduced with Fujifilm X-Pro1. The original X100 has a 12mpix CMOS sensor running a regular Bayer pattern. It's the special Fujifilm sensor that has a different filter array instead of the conventional Bayer pattern. Later X100 models ( including X100S which came after X100 ) had an X-Trans sensor. Or you can switch to an electronic viewfinder which most photographers know from today's mirrorless cameras. You can overlay some digital information on top of the optical viewfinder. You can frame "through the glass" as you would do with a real rangefinder camera ( only without the rangefinder part ). The viewfinder is both optical and electronic. You can't miss the fact that it's a hybrid viewfinder.
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