Re: The TikTok craze for the X100V is so confusing...
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RustyRus wrote:
stephenseriously wrote:
Nunataks wrote:
Do the people who see this on TikTok not research that there are several other X100 series cameras? Or Fuji has other cameras with the exact same sensor with an interchangeable mount?
It honestly baffles me...
Based on several videos I've seen that start with an influencer saying something along the lines of "so, check out this sleeper camera that's really flown under the radar" I would say you pretty much nailed it.
The X100v is as advertised. What is baffling about one of the most complete cameras ever made being popular? So what if people on TikTok love it. Hard core photo enthusiasts do as well as professionals. Hell Annie Leibowitz was spotted in a picture using one.
TIKTOK isn't what is making this camera popular, this camera being so damn good is what made it popular.
Also I would rather own an X100v over a Sony A7anything if I have to choose. Even my Current Fuji and Leica gear, the X100v would be the camera I kept if I could only have one.
don't get me wrong, I love my X100V. It's the first camera I've ever bought new immediately on release, and in the two years I've been shooting with it, my estimation of it hasn't dropped an inch. I'm with you, if I had to pick one piece of equipment to save from a house fire, the X100V would be it, no question.
but yeah, I think it's totally reasonable to posit that tiktok and the subsequent explosion of attention the camera is getting from the crowd of young film shooters who are bummed at climbing film prices and looking for a digital camera that mimics their favorite film stock colors is hugely responsible for the fact that fuji can't make them fast enough to keep them on the shelves. Fuji's been doing this for a while, do we think that they weren't prepared to handle the demand from an existing demographic? It's fair to say supply line problems factor into this, but the other half of the equation is almost certainly a surprise boost in sales from an unexpected market.