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The most boring camera I've ever used

This camera has great IQ. The OVF is GREAT. The EVF not so much (never used it). Colours from this camera are superb. High ISO noise is extremely low. Video is insanely bad. It's physically the most attractive camera I've ever used.

It especially looks great when you add a leather case, and throw away the lens cap and keep the lens permanently protected with a filter that you can wipe down when it gets dirty.

The lens has great sharpness and clarity (see below).

I got rid of this camera because I nearly died of boredom. I had no idea how uninteresting the 35mm focal length was until I got this camera. A much more interesting focal length is 24mm, or 50mm. The X100s can shoot at 50mm if you shell out the equivalent of a new camera to buy its bulky 50mm teleconversion lens. But it can't shoot at 24mm, even if you shell out heaps for its wide conversion lens.

Also, I just couldn't get used to the menus, they didn't seem as intuitive as Pentax, Panasonic or Canon.

This camera is ridiculously expensive for what it can do. After 3 or 4 months with this camera, I only managed to take one interesting photo, which was a panorama of 10 shots stitched in Photoshop (see below - I apologise for the black border).

Strangely enough, I have taken interesting 35mm shots with other cameras (like the Canon shots below), but not with the X100s.

About 5 seconds before I literally dropped dead from boredom, I managed to sell this camera for nearly the same price that I bought it for new (weird). I've since owned a Pentax Q with a single prime lens, which I honestly enjoyed more than the Fuji X100s. Since then I've also owned a Panasonic LX100, which was incredibly more interesting and capable than the X100s, and now have a Panasonic GX85.

I miss the looks of this camera. And the EVF. And the IQ. And the great build quality. But it just didn't add up to a fun camera. I would one day consider a Fuji X100s-like camera if it came with fabulous zoom lens like that of the Sony RX100.

 Boss of Sony's gear list:Boss of Sony's gear list
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH OIS Olympus M.Zuiko ED 75-300mm 1:4.8-6.7 II Olympus 9mm F8 Fish-Eye Body Cap Lens
Fujifilm X100S
16 megapixels • 2.8 screen • 35 mm
Announced: Jan 7, 2013
Boss of Sony's score
3.0
Average community score
4.0
bad for good for
Kids / pets
awful
Action / sports
awful
Landscapes / scenery
good
Portraits
acceptable
Low light (without flash)
excellent
Flash photography (social)
great
Studio / still life
good
= community average
Fujifilm X100S Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 Panasonic LX100 Sony RX100
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