Brothers...

bs1946 wrote:

A lot of people forget that before digital, the standard kit lens for 35mm SLRs and even rangefinders was a 50mm lens; 35mm in APS-C. I was given my first film camera in 1956 and after that, just about every camera I had came with a 50mm and like many people, I never got another lens. Probably the second most popular 35mm lens was the the 35mm; 23mm in APS-C. In the early 90s, I had a several fixed lens rangefinder cameras; one had a 40mm lens but the others had 35mm lens. Fixed lens 35mm rangefinder; sound familiar. I went digital in late 2013 and came up with a short list the the X100 at the top. But the X100 had already been replaced by the X100S and where I was, neither one was available; X100s were sold out and X100Ss were still on the way; so my first digital camera was a Panasonic GX7 with the kit lens which was also my first zoom lens.

With the two recently purchased X100S models, I have now owned every X100 model except for the X100V, which for some reason I have no interest in. Actually started with a Silver X100T but people would walk right up in front of me and ask why I was using an old film camera, so I returned the Silver X100T and got a Black X100T which went relatively unnoticed. Next came a Black X100F, and later a Silver X100. The F went to my Daughter-In-Law and I sold the others, which I now sort of regret. Except for that GX7, the black X100T and the X100F were the only cameras I took overseas and all I used on any of those trips. When I look at my keepers taken since 2013, the absolute best ones came form one of the X100s. I bought the Silver X100S and instantly fell in love with it. For me, the combination of the 16mp X-Trans sensor and simple design before Fuji engineers started adding stuff with each new model, make it the best X100 I had. I just got the Black Limited Edition X100S Kit. It is in mint condition with all of the original accessories in the original boxes and it has a low shutter count. Fuji only made 10,000 Black Limited Edition X100S models which makes it somewhat of a collectors model and I will use it sparingly.

Thanks for sharing the story behind the photo, makes it a much more enjoyable post to read and see the story behind the cameras. Learned something too, did not know there was a black limited edition x100s, that’s cool. I wish there was a limited edition Xpro3.