I will wait for the reviews before I jump to conclusions! While flare may indeed be a risk if they don't have an optional hood, your other assumptions seem premature.
4:3 normal??? Try getting prints done....crop,crop,crop. 3:2 is the way to go for me.
This! Thank you Glen for making such a cogent statement.
Just keep in mind that you might expect those controls to be in those locations because you're probably an older photographer. But the reality is that, for the overwhelming majority of photographers and the overwhelming majority of cameras, those controls haven't been in those locations for a very, very long time. And for many of us photographers who did shoot back in the manual focus film camera days, we transitioned away from these older control locations when cameras, in general, migrated away from these old control locations.
Yes, My Canon G3 has a built in 2X ND filter and I found it to be quite useful at times. I've since moved on to an Oly E500 and an Oly E30, but I still get out the G3 when I'm on my motorcycle. I think the X100 would make a great motorcycle accessory.
As someone using many different manual cameras, Im ready to find adjustment dials right about everywhere. LF lenses have their aperture set with a lever on the shutter and shutter speed with ring on the shutter, as do my 6x9. My TLR has shutter speed on a lever around the lens. My film SLR sets aperture with a ring on the lens, but shutter speed is set using two buttons. I have an XA with aperture set through a straight vertically moving lever on the front of the camera body. Some TLRs are set though wheels. Many SLRs have a shutter speed dial on top. 70s rangefinders have the controls all over the place, on dials, rings, wheels, levers etc.
Fair enough, but custom size frames are not cheap.
Yep. I too have many film bodies with controls in different places, but it is the clear layout of them (indeed the fact that they exist at all) that I was really on about. You can see instantly how they work and where they are set, which is often not the case with modern cameras.
Framing in general is not cheap. And even VERY expensive standardized frames come in standard sizes. (In the US, that pretty much means 26X36, 11X14, 8X10, 5X&, & 4X6 none of which matches camera aspect ratios all that well) A good mat cut to the proper size and fit into a standard frame is about anyone can do.
Everyone talking about it says the x100 has a leaf shutter.
