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Just smaller. I already have another body (actually 3....A73 and A7R3, that I can use 35mm GM), or I could use my X-S10 with fuji 23/1.4 to achieve the exact same look and recipe if I want to stick with Fuji. But the X100 is just smaller. There is also the lack of noise, or VERY quiet shutter in the X100. It is practically imperceivable in normal everyday noise level.
When I went to Japan, I don't mind carrying the Sony around in the day, but I found in the evening, let's say I am done with that day's main photograph stuff and just want to capture by happenstance, I found the Fuji x100 (original) to be better suited. On the very last day in Japan I left the Sony A7R3 in my room and spent the whole day with just the original X100.
1 - Leaf shutter - for the silence shooting
2 - Built in ND filter
3 - OVF (although I don't really care about this)
4 - Physically just very compact, if you don't add a hood on.
it's pretty much the same size and weight as an x100.
https://camerasize.com/compare/#846,816
My idea when I bought the XT10 and pancake lens was to have a camera that I could use as you describe, plus I can use big lenses on it when I want to as well.
Is it really quieter?
https://cameradecision.com/compare/Fujifilm-X-T30-II-vs-Fujifilm-X100V
AFAIK these both have mechanical and electronic shutters
I wish I'd flexed my Very account and just got one for an every day carry. People have snapped them up, knowing they are going to be in huge demand, have added a several hundred quid to the price tag and are selling them on for big profits.
I even heard of one seller asking £18k for a BNIB X100VI.
Madness, but an incredibly lovely camera all the same, Fuji could double the price and it would still sell like Prosecco at a hen party.
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Bit of trading feedback here.
I thought these 2 were about the same price, from the same product and technology range, from the same manufacturer.
What is so different about the x100 that you prefer??
in this review, they rate the XT higher, and say the X100 has "Not so good Ergonomics&Handling"
https://cameradecision.com/compare/Fujifilm-X-T30-II-vs-Fujifilm-X100V
Yes. It's smaller when you have a lens on.
I am in a fortunate position to have other cameras so if I want to use something that I can change lenses, I will use another body. The X-S10 is basically a baby X-T4 anyway with the same internals, still quite modern in all respect, IBIS, decent AF etc.
Someone on Talk Photography won the raffle to be able to get the limited edition one!
Although I would think twice at twice the value....at that money I would lean towards a used Leica Q2.
I did consider pancake lenses but, as far as I understand, the lens in the X100 is better quality than the pancake lenses and approaching the quality of Fuji's bigger lenses which are fairly substantial.
The jpegs that come out of the camera are really nice. There are hundreds of 'recipes' that claim to mimic old film stock. These work with any Fuji. Some of them look great. On a trip to London last November, all my pictures looked like they came from a Gillian Welch album cover.
I will be keeping mine but would be interested if Fuji were to do a stripped back monochrome version. The updated sensors, no IBIS, no video or sound.
I will qualify all of that by saying I know less about cameras than guitars and I don't know much about guitars.
I like the idea of a monochrome camera. But for me the problem is you can't adjust black and white images by colour on a monochrome camera. For example on a colour sensor shooting monochrome you can change the brightness of the sky by adjusting the blues in the image.
If you want a pure B&W Fuji then I would just get an old X100S and use B&W recipe on it, output 100% JPEG.
The pancake is a dedicated XF lens, costing £340+
When I searched I couldn't find anything to suggest it was not as good as a built-in lens
whereas this guy says the lens is wonderful:
Pros & Cons of Fujifilm's 27mm Pancake Lens (notanomadblog.com)
anyway, we can avoid a long investigation, someone did the work already:
X100(S/T) vs. XF 27mm F2.8 — Fuji vs. Fuji (fujivsfuji.com)
he says the separate lens is better, but still loves having an X100
Anyway I just love the compact package. Although I do drag the two conversion lenses with me when I travel, if we're popping out somewhere while abroad I sometimes take "just the camera" which isn't quite pocket-sized but still supremely compact, with almost no sacrifice in overall image quality. We print out a lot of images here as we send family photos out at the holidays, and I'm getting similar or better quality to my old Nikon D750 with the little Fuji at a fraction of the weight/bulk.
I have Panasonic hybrid gear here as well which I use for pro video production but Panasonic's best lenses are absolute pigs - humongous things. Not that much fun to travel with.
I really like using the 27mm pancake lens. It is very sharp but also renders with a quite a bit more contrast than the lenses with more elements. Again, how good it is depends on how you use it.
I probably should have said that the X100V was the best for me at the time.
I did try the XT3 with the Fujinon 23 F2.8 but preferred the X100V.
I am going to say it was the creamier bokeh.
Furthermore, there is also a section of people always looking for that imperfection in lenses, they call it "character".