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Just a crazy thought. ..i want a x100t
- Thread starter Hannalee
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X-E1 and the 35mm 1.4 lens is a great combination but if you want an X100 series camera that will cost less than the X100T and still provide the identical image quality, why don't you look at lightly used X100S cameras?
The X100S lacks a couple of the upgraded features of the X100T but is just as good a camera.
If AF is a criteria, not close. I have both and having been using both this week. The T's AF is much better in good light and in another league in low light.
My feelings in no particular order: Both cameras grow on you. They charmed me into really liking to use them. Eronomics is very good on the T and excellent on the XE1. In bright light the ovf is nice to have. Wish the T battery would last as long as the XE1. Both need a thumb rest. The 35/1.4 is a poor match with the XE1. Picky about acquiring sufficient contrast to lock and in low light borderline useless. The 18 is much better. The new 35/2 is as well. My wife uses the 27, it's fine. I shot the 35/1.4 for years with the XE1. Great lens. But if you want to improve AF, that's the first lens to take a pass on. And perhaps the 60. If you're shooting jpegs, the XE1 has the better render and no plastic skin issues at iso's over 1600. The evf on the XE1 is archaic. It's dark, low res and slow to refresh. Breaks down quickly in low light. The T's evf/ovf is lovely and a tiny bit larger. The X1 has ILC flexibility. The 23 on the T is a very good lens above f2.8. The XE1 can mount excellent glass like the 35/1.4.
Ive been seriously thinking about selling my T and buying a used XE2. Dedicating it to the 18, 27 and 35/2. A really nice setup and carry, for me. A gripped XT1 is my large lens body.
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X100T, XE1, XT1, XF-14, 16, 18, 23, 27, 35/1.4, 18-55, XC-16-50
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Joseph Broz
Leading Member
There is not another camera that acts like the Fujifilm X100T. Just look at my gear list none of these cameras come close to the X100T. The X100T with the sensor inside this camera takes photos that make a DSLR blush. The sensor and the optical view finder and electronic view finder plus the shutter speed 32,000 is worth the money.
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crowley213
Senior Member
As I do not owe any other Fuji camera than the X100T I cannot compare, nevertheless I could imagine that you will come "close" with some of the Fuji cameras in regards of image quality, maybe AF speed and whatever. But what you cannot get close at all is the overall package, the one thing that makes the 100 series absolutely unique... size, concept, handling!
From my personal point of view: The X100T may (very likely) be an economical "questionable" camera... but it is absolutely unquestionable a camera just fun to shoot with an outstanding image quality. Or in other terms... the X100T is not what you need, it is what you want!
So, if budget is the main driver of your decision, skip the X100T, you will get other solutions for less money. Or, as also already mentioned, look for an X100S, it will be the closest solution you can get considering the facts that make the X100T unique.
Herbert
From my personal point of view: The X100T may (very likely) be an economical "questionable" camera... but it is absolutely unquestionable a camera just fun to shoot with an outstanding image quality. Or in other terms... the X100T is not what you need, it is what you want!
So, if budget is the main driver of your decision, skip the X100T, you will get other solutions for less money. Or, as also already mentioned, look for an X100S, it will be the closest solution you can get considering the facts that make the X100T unique.
Herbert
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PentaxNick
Senior Member
Others have mentioned getting a used X100S instead. While this will give you the same image quality, I didn't get on with it when I had one. I find the X100T far better handling and better for picture taking. The improved viewfinder for manual focussing, the far better aperture ring and the WiFi just add up to a far superior package overall.
Nick
Nick
You'll be far off since the x100t has a 23mm lens on it giving it that 35mm field of view, the 35 on the X-E1 will give you a much slowe focusing 53mm field of view, not even close.
Original X100 is a very nice camera, with almost a cult following, but it is quite a bit different from the X100S/T.
Simply read this site's review of the X100S and you'll see the big differences between it and the X100 (they compare the cameras).
All that aside, I'm sure you'll get a lot of enjoyment from the X100; like I said, it's a very nice camera.
lnbolch
Senior Member
The X100 line is highly complementary to the interchangeable lens line, with not a whole lot of redundancy other than high image quality, and it shares the hybrid finder with the X-Pro1. First is its retro styling—like a compact rangefinder camera of old. On the street it is not noticed—ideal. No one guesses you are using a state-of-the-art camera.
Second it has a leaf-shutter built-in. All but silent, never drawing attention to itself even indoors. People relax. With the OVF, EVF and LCD you have the choice of viewing. Often the LCD is the least conspicuous. A great camera for photographing people as they are—natural and unposed.
The leaf shutter gives it a feature no other can match—its "SuperIntelligent" fill-flash. Sounds like hype, but has won my confidence in practice. The flash tube is very close to the optical axis, practically eliminating a secondary shadow. Set to to -1/3-2/3 EV and it will open shadows accurately over its whole range of shutter-speeds all the way from available darkness to the harshest of sunlight. Loads of shadow detail while looking like normal light. Worth the price for the bad lighting it cures, and the ability to enable working in very difficult shooting venues. (Of course, if used as the primary light, the results are truly ugly.) Fill-flash, it is.
For those in love with shallow DOF, it has a ND filter built in.
In film days, I really did not want to carry big noisy SLRs with me after work. I mostly carried an excellent compact rangefinder, the Konica S3. Very close in size, handling and with a leaf-shutter. Self-contained, the perfect carry-everywhere camera. I have found no need to upgrade from the X100 to the S or T. I will probably continue to carry the X100 for the rest of my life.
Second it has a leaf-shutter built-in. All but silent, never drawing attention to itself even indoors. People relax. With the OVF, EVF and LCD you have the choice of viewing. Often the LCD is the least conspicuous. A great camera for photographing people as they are—natural and unposed.
The leaf shutter gives it a feature no other can match—its "SuperIntelligent" fill-flash. Sounds like hype, but has won my confidence in practice. The flash tube is very close to the optical axis, practically eliminating a secondary shadow. Set to to -1/3-2/3 EV and it will open shadows accurately over its whole range of shutter-speeds all the way from available darkness to the harshest of sunlight. Loads of shadow detail while looking like normal light. Worth the price for the bad lighting it cures, and the ability to enable working in very difficult shooting venues. (Of course, if used as the primary light, the results are truly ugly.) Fill-flash, it is.
For those in love with shallow DOF, it has a ND filter built in.
In film days, I really did not want to carry big noisy SLRs with me after work. I mostly carried an excellent compact rangefinder, the Konica S3. Very close in size, handling and with a leaf-shutter. Self-contained, the perfect carry-everywhere camera. I have found no need to upgrade from the X100 to the S or T. I will probably continue to carry the X100 for the rest of my life.
I loved my X100. My X100T is now on eBay. The T has its strengths, but the slow eye sensor coupled with no view mode button made it nothing but a hassle for me. Not speed but the disconnect between seeing a shot, seeing nothing in the viewfinder, then...eventually seeing the shot again. Replaced with an XE2 which has yet to arrive. Same view mode nonsense but doesn't matter as the eye sensor has switched before my eye reaches the cup.
PentaxNick
Senior Member
Yep. Should have read, to get around the slow switching sensor I put the View Mode in eye level only. But then the LCD is killed for chimping and menu use. Fuji has gone back and forth on this depending on camera model. Never been an issue for me until I got the X100T. With it, it's hit the View Mode, hit play, half press shutter, hit View Mode a few times and back to shooting. So I ignore it and forgot it even exists.
PentaxNick
Senior Member
That's not quite how it works on mine. With the View Mode set to Viewfinder only the menus only appear in the viewfinder (bad) but the playback is on the rear LCD (good).
Nick
That's totally weird. I just tried with it in eye sensor only. Hitting the play button does nothing on the LCD. Next is a reset, I hate resets.
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