X100S press release! Enjoy

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TThorne
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Re: Highly Disappointing
In reply to rattymouse, 4 months ago

rattymouse wrote:

That Fujifilm decided to put in the useless filter function on the X100s. While you dont have to use these gimmicks, it really belies the serious nature of this wonderful camera. Amazing that someone with clout could not override what is clearly a marketing move.

Also available on the X100S is the Advanced Filter function; users can choose from 8 different artistic effects which can be previewed on the LCD screen:

Pop Colour - great for boosting contrast and colour saturation

Toy Camera - create shaded borders as if you were taking a photo on a toy camera

Miniature - adds top and bottom blur for a diorama or miniature effect

Dynamic Tone - create a fantasy effect by dynamically-modulated tonal reproduction

Partial Colour – highlights one colour and leaves the rest of the image in black and white (choose from red, orange, yellow, green, blue or purple)

High Key - enhances brightness and reduces contrast to lighten tonal reproduction

Low Key – create uniformly dark tones with few areas of emphasised highlights.

Soft Focus – blurs the focus of the image edges to create a softer effect

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While others can choose to ignore that your disappointment is focused on just this one feature, I am going to share your disappointment. What's next? A mode dial with scene selection?

Touching on what was said earlier about video record buttons, I think a camera like this would be much better served with more programmable function buttons than wasting time on making video functions more prominent or adding kiddy art filters.

Even the Q button, which I think is great, does not replace actual function buttons. I hate menus of any kind to be totally honest.

Pall that being said, like you, the rest of the camera does NOT dissapoint me thus far, and I am inclined to do what I normally do, which is order from 5 places as soon as they are available, but maybe waiting on this one might not be a bad idea. I'm sure there are hoards of people willing to discover all the problems for me first.

Lastly, I know split screen is out of the question for the XP1, but if we don't get peaking in a FW update, I'm throwing eggs.

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