Fujifilm X100 (12616) Digital Camera - Black

L'appareil photo correspond tout à fait à ce qui était attendu, cependant il serait bon que les notices vendues en France soient en français. Nous avons reçu la notice en anglais. Cordialement,

First, a little about me and why I chose this camera. I've been a street shooter for 34 years. Went to SVA and studied with Lisette Model at the New School. Worked as a custom printer and assistant for many photographers in NYC and printed for Modernage and Berkey K&L.... which is a long way to say, I know film. I have owned several digital cameras and still shoot 120 film with a Yashica. I read everything there was to read about the X100. Last year a week after it was announced I started selling my Lumix GF1, EVF and lenses. The Lumix was just not intuitive for me as a street shooter. I also felt like I was going to break it. Shooting with Nikon F2's and F3's one gets used to feeling like you could use it as a weapon if needed. Not so with small plastic feeling cameras. The X100 has the only things I want or need. Shutter, aperture and focus. Give me a decent meter and I'm set. I like the fact that the X100 has done away with the nice but unnecessary Program modes. The controls are real metal knobs. The build quality is like a good film camera. If you hit yourself in the head with it, it's going to hurt. Image quality: You have to see it to believe it. I always liked to shoot RAW but the JPEG quality will blow your doors off. I see no reason to shoot RAW with this camera. The lens is sharp and fast (f2.0). It is matched to the sensor. The image quality will make you weep. Flash: The built in flash does the best fill flash I have ever done. Your mileage may vary but I doubt it. Read the review of this camera at Ken Rockwell's website. Regarding video: If I wanted to shoot video I would bring a video camera. It's 720p, looks nice but it's not an $80k Ikegami. If I want to shoot video, my phone does that just swell. The quirks that I had read about: The manual focus is fly by wire and very slow. What can you do? You spend 15 minutes learning how the camera auto focuses and you use it. Focus is slow, writes to the card are slow, start up time is slow. I didn't find any of these things to the extent that I had read about. If I hadn't read these things, I would not have even thought about them. If you know what you shoot and how you shoot and you actually go out and make lots of images, any camera becomes intuitive. The photographers brain is the most important part of the image flow process.... you learn to use the tool and then you don't have to think about it. Menu structure: It's not a Canon or Nikon or Lumix... it's an X100. Some say the menus are not intuitive and difficult to navigate. You figure it out and use it. After a while you don't have to figure it out. Non-Interchangeable lens: It's a 35mm equivalent. The only 2 lenses that I ever use are 28 and 35mm so once again a non issue for me. Funky filter issue, lens cap and lens shade: Yeah the filter ring thing is kind of stupid but once you do what you need, it's not. I purchased an aftermarket lens shade which was 110.00 less than the Fuji. Makes the camera look more like a Leica but I end up taking it off most of the time. The lens cap is metal, very high quality and you will lose it. I've read some negativeness about this inexpensive lens hood being loose (JJC from A&R). So far no problem... and think about it, if it is so tight that when it takes an impact it translates the force right to the lens barrel that's not good either. It should be like a break away mirror on a motorcycle (BMW only I know or owned) meant to hold until the force begins to exceed the point of doing damage to the more expensive parts and then pops off. Anyway.. the hood and filter mount are fine unless you are going to be using it as a hammer. Battery life: 300-400 exposures. I purchased two after market batteries for 9.00 each. They last as long, are 45.00 cheaper than the Fuji batteries and they haven't set the camera on fire. Hey, when you had to reload after 36 exposures, that was something to bitch about. Only then you didn't know to bitch about it. Battery charger: There is a little plastic piece which holds the battery in place in the charger. Many have complained that it is easy to lose. Two words - Crazy Glue. In conclusion, some people like to talk about their camera. Some like to wear them out. This camera is for the latter. If Eugene Smith were alive, this is the digital camera he would use. If you don't know who Eugene Smith is, shame on you. I have a Nikon D100 that my brother gave me when I had no digital camera at all (He also gave me the Yashica Mat)and the D100 does it's thing very well too. The X100 is just a different tool. These are tools, not jewels. If you want to sit around and talk about your camera and find yourself doing that more than using it, well that's a different kind of tool. One other thing... I purchased the 8 gig Eye-Fi card. It transfers images to the 8 gig sd on my Android phone. It works. Very cool to have a backup made while you are shooting. It will use your battery though.

Appareil compact de très belle fabrication, look à la "Leica" bluffant, viseur optique très clair, objectif lumineux et de haute qualité. Agréable et efficace !

A bit confused with the settings at first but after researching a bit more, the pictures came out great.

I really wanted to love this camera. Instead I'm left a little disappointed. First the good: the quality of the sensor is top-notch. Images at 1600 look fantastic and 3200 is very good. That, combined with the sharp, wide, fast lens should make it a great indoor shooter. The top controls and aperture ring are great. Exactly what I was expecting. But the x100 is let down by its focus. The auto focus in low light simply isn't good. Now, it's not awful, but it's not as good as other cameras (i.e. budget SLRs) in this price range. I know it's phase detection vs contrast issue. But I don't care by what method the thing focuses, I just want it to be faster and more accurate. However, the auto focus, even though it's not great, is leaps and bounds better than the manual focus. Simply put, the x100's manual focus is pathetic. I can't imagine it ever being useful. It's slow. Even with the 1.1 firmware it's super slow. I understand it's fly by wire, but that doesn't explain it's glacial speed. I could go on and on about the terrible manual focus - it's that bad. Also, I really don't care that much about the hybrid viewfinder. I leave it on optical the vast majority of the time. I dislike EVFs. Supposedly that x100s EVF is better than most, but I wouldn't know. The only time it'd be useful is for manual focus and we all know how I feel about that. You pretty much have to use the EVF and manual focus for macro. Personally, I think I'd just take a step back and hope I have enough detail to crop in post. The parallax issues are more of an issue than I thought they'd be. I'd never used a camera with an offset viewfinder before. Before I received my x100, I thought people online were needlessly complaining. It's definitely something to be aware of if you're shooting within a two or three feet. What you're focusing on may not be what you're truly focusing on. And your image will definitely shift from what you had framed. I don't think this is an issue with the x100 per se, just offset viewfinders in general. Minor complaints: The write speed is a little pokey. Even with a fast, 45 MB/s UHS-1 card be prepared to wait a good 5 seconds or more for the burst buffer to clear. The black, textured plastic isn't nearly as sumptuous as I thought it would be. It's just hard black plastic. If this camera had been $800, even with all the flaws I would have given it four stars. But for $1200 I expect a manual focus that is usable. For the x200, if Fuji fixes the manual focus, preferably a direct mechanical dial, and switches to phase detection for the auto focus, it would definitely be a five star camera.