If you have X100T and you care about stills and not video, you will not get much by moving to X100V

William Loney wrote:

2ndact scene1 wrote:

William Loney wrote:

It's all about doing your homework, and deciding what works best for you.

The 100V is shaping up to be a fantastic camera, receiving great user reviews, as well as here on DP review.

However, the 'improvements,' or upgrades over my 100F aren't really things that interest me.

I don't shoot video, nor would I even think about shooting close ups @f2 with a 23mm lens.

But that's just me.

I am amazed at all the discussion and actually passion about the close focus performance of the lens shared by the x100, S, T, and F when shot wide open. Not once have I ever wanted to shoot a subject just inches in front of my x100S at f2.

I strongly suspect that there are very few here who use it that way either. My guess is that it's a very vocal few who bring up that point just to knock a brilliant little camera.

Since I have the F and V, I did some non-scientific but representative test shots at minimum focusing distance. There is a marked difference in sharpness at f2 and f2.8, much less so at f4. I also don't use this camera for close-ups, so I agree it is usually a non-issue. I think I read another review that associated any image softness in the "old" lens to apertures wider than f4 at distances less than 4 ft, or let's say 1 meter for our friends in the 21st century. That jives with my limited experience.

Don