Presented at photokina, Cologne, in September last, the Fujifilm X100, which had captivated the crowds began to take shape, with a sheet and near-final prerelease lying here and there on the Web. What is the X100? A bet for Fujifilm, a great many fans waiting for: a camera relatively compact format reminiscent of the Leica rangefinder with a sensor cameras (APS-C), a fixed focus optics (24 mm , equivalent to 35mm) and a new generation viewfinder, which combines the optical sight to a digital display. All under a very retro look, compact, with a grip adapted to the experts and the promise of ignition and flash triggering, as time money ... Speaking of silver, there is obviously opportunity to "shoot" RAW (digital negative) and JPEG modes, which recreate the records Provia, Velvia and Astia films Fujifilm.
A fact sheet that makes your mouth water
On the menu, a CMOS APS-C by 12.3 Mpix designed by Fujifilm, a perspective of 23 mm (equivalent to 35mm) opening to F2 (!) With control of the aperture on the lens ( like the Leica), a screen of 460 000 points. We must add a viewfinder of Galilee, which provides a really good optical sight, and a remote LCD display, 1.44 megapixel for digital information in real time, superimposed ... a dream. Side sensitivity, it's 100-6 ISO 400, ISO expandable to 12800 - the logic specifications. Besides carectéristiques that appeals to many buyers is the retro look - you'd think the X100 right out of the years 60-70 - which gives it great discretion. With an SLR, it is indeed quickly spotted, while the X100 goes instead to the device of your grandfather. To avoid being disqualified by critics fools, the compact features a 720p HD video mode (1280 x 720 pixels) with a recording of stereo sound. But it is understood that the video is not crucial for this unit, but clearly the right picture "old school" Cartier-Bresson. With or without flash, since the flash plus a claw on top of the Fujifilm X100.
A genre that many try to control The compact camera with SLR performance and responsiveness of a film, many manufacturers have tried. Side fixed lens, Sigma first, with DP (DP1, DP2 or DP2s), frankly unconvincing. Leica offered a more convincing version, the Leica X1, but very expensive and slow. The radius of the apparatus with interchangeable lenses, the Panasonic GF1 and GF2, through NEX Sony and its 5 or 3 or NEX and Olympus Pen E-P1, P2 and E-E-PL1, the picture is more flattering, but the speed of development is still perfectible and ergonomics has bristled over what a pro. Suffice to say that Fujifilm has a card to play in the segment. Scheduled for March or April, to the X100 would display $ 1,000, a price that the property intended for experts and that is anything but delusional: there is a housing expert / pro all metal with a good optical stripe. The story (and our next tests) will tell if Fujifilm succeed in transforming the excitement generated by success.
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