X100f Manual Focus

davearthurs wrote:

Mehran Khalili wrote:

On a related note: I’d love Fuji to make a very cut-down version of the Fuji X100F. Think: only ERF (no large EVF), manual focus only (no AF), RAW-only (no film simulations), and no LCD screen on the back. Think Leica M-D but even more stripped-down. And how about removing all the auto modes too, and the exposure comp dial. Just the three manual controls for exposure on the dials, and you’re done. A totally manual camera. That would take real guts, but Fuji is the only company outside Leica who could pull it off. (And they could do it easily - just using the X100F as a base, and removing features. No need to add anything.)

I think the point of what Fuji is hopefully doing is that both worlds could exist in the same camera - which it could easily do, they just seem pre-occupied with the same old new marketing spins as everyone else of 'even faster' AF and better video etc., that SLR marketing has become every year, rather than actually what photographers might want. I use AF a lot for slow scenes and general use, but for busy street photography MF is the way to go IMHO. They already have MF on there, so why not do it properly.

After four versions of the same camera, by now they certainly should have stepped up the manual functionality : their youtube promo ads are nearly all with street photographers, they have a rangefinder style body, fixed 35 lens, etc., etc., but they are still pretty much in the safe compact digital camera zone in reality.

Some of their lenses have a MF clutch which I think acts the way you want. Implementing that on the X100F would make it a lot bigger in regards to lens depth which would be a bad idea IMO.