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The X100 sounds like a really interesting camera and it really seems to be packed with technology but how much would be too much for the camera? For me a $1000 USD price point would be incredibly tempting. At say $1200, I would still be tempted but not nearly enough. At $1500 it would be a definite no, but I'll enjoy reading reviews and seeing sample pictures.

Of course I'm assuming that the camera does a good job of delivering on its promises. Under that assumption, what would be the right price point for you?
 
A lot will depend on the quality of the lens. At f2, the fuji is smack in the middle between common f2.8 lenses and rarer more expensive f1.4 lenses - canon and nikon versions worth $1500- 2000.

Tack sharp at f2, with no CA, and with a blazing fast focus and processor it would easily be worth the rumored $1000. However, 'Fast' and 'fuji' don't normally appear in the same sentence, and it IS a fixed lens.

If they can suck in the leica rangefinder collector crowd then the sky is the limit. - expect some hefty price gouging of early adopters.
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Anything less than $1000 and the quality will clearly suffer. I'd happily pay much more if the Fujinon lens is up to GSW690 standards. $2000 easy.
 
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I'lll wait until it gets down to about $350. Fixed lens, f2.0. That's about right.
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At first I felt the same. I figured a little higher $200.00 for the lens and $300.00 for the body attached to it. After reading most of the info on the camera about the lens, sensor engineering, OVF innovation and so on this camera could be sold at many price points but I sincerely believe $350.00 will never be one of those price points.

I am willing to pay $1000.00 I of course in these times would appreciate more like $7-800.00 I hope it does not start higher than $1000.00 as I will then be waiting for a disgruntled owner selling on flea bay :-D

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I was hoping they would do better then the mediocre toy cameras they selling in all the toy counters at the local drug stores. It's about time Fuji got serious.
 
I don't know about US prices (though everything is cheaper there) but if it is close to the £1000 price point that I saw somewhere then stores just won't consider stocking it. They will only stock items at a price point that they can sell at. If it is more like £500 then it will be stocked and sales should be good.

If Fuji is placing this camera as a Leica X1 competitor rather than a Panny GF1 competitor then they are disillusioned.

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A $1000 for a fixed lens with a fixed focal length is waaaayyyyy out of my budget... period.

Patrick
 
I wouldn't spend more than $250 for it (plus tax & shipping).
 
IKB said:
I don't know about US prices (though everything is cheaper there) but if it is close to the £1000 price point that I saw somewhere then stores just won't consider stocking it. They will only stock items at a price point that they can sell at. If it is more like £500 then it will be stocked and sales should be good.

If Fuji is placing this camera as a Leica X1 competitor rather than a Panny GF1 competitor then they are disillusioned.

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I don't think it will ever compete with the panny GF1. To me, fuji appears to have studied its prey, err I mean customers, closely, and know what buttons to press (no pun intended) to appeal to the rabid, or passionate, rangefinder - collector crowd.

And in this rarified niche, geezers with cash who aren't afraid to use it, perversely, the higher the price, the more they want it.
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I realize others are drooling over this camera; perhaps I shouldn't have posted.

Please forgive.
 
that's perhaps a bit harsh. there are certainly those of us who spent years with an M2 or M4 slung over the shoulder, with a 35mm summicron mounted, and who now see something close enough to that to be desirable, and desire it. surely the digital photography realm, with its several hundred models of cameras that are effectively clones of each other, has room for a camera or two of this type; please no more criticize that than we criticize your choice of whatever it is you shoot. it's not a zero-sum situation, after all.

i doubt that it will be of much interest or value to collectors, though. electronic things rarely are.
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Well, I don't doubt that there are those who can afford to pay rarefied prices for equipment but the reality is that most vendors need to sell the stock that they buy. At the moment, with things as they are, vendors will only stock items at a price that they are sure to sell.

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depscribe said:
that's perhaps a bit harsh. there are certainly those of us who spent years with an M2 or M4 slung over the shoulder, with a 35mm summicron mounted, and who now see something close enough to that to be desirable, and desire it. surely the digital photography realm, with its several hundred models of cameras that are effectively clones of each other, has room for a camera or two of this type; please no more criticize that than we criticize your choice of whatever it is you shoot. it's not a zero-sum situation, after all.
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Kevin cant stand that Fuji is about to make a camera that isnt a clone of the ones already made by Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, etc.. It just burns him up that someone is thinking different. The fact that this camera caused an absolute firestorm simply is beyond his comprehension. Kevin likes his cameras nice and safe .
 
rattymouse said:
Kevin cant stand that Fuji is about to make a camera that isnt a clone of the ones already made by Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, etc.. It just burns him up that someone is thinking different. The fact that this camera caused an absolute firestorm simply is beyond his comprehension. Kevin likes his cameras nice and safe .
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Ratty, I admire what Fuji has done, trying to be different. But I think even you would agree this is a niche product. We can see from many posts people are getting confused between mass market products and niche products.

There is a market for expensive designer shoes, expensive designer handbags and so on and so on. Unfortunately for fuji this forum is like Wal mart. To do the x100 justice it needs a dedicated forum, - perhaps a rangefinder forum (after all there is a M4/3 forum). Some form of recognition that this X100 should not be lumped in with cheap and cheerful compacts.

We can see from the dedicated X100 website Fuji is pressing the right buttons, sending a dog whistle to its intended market.
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