Fuji X-T100, experience so far

Im impressed with mine as well, BUT - there are a few things that are disturbing.

1. It sometimes freeze when i turn it off, leaving the screen on, but black, it drains the battery. A really bad bug.

2. When I start the camera and "evf only" is chosen, the camera first lights up the screen before switching to the EVF - all this takes about 3 seconds, which is like a joke in 2020 and very bad software programming.

3. DR400 is flawed. When shooting tree branches or stuff like that against the sun there is weird "sharpening artifacts" that is really ugly and can be seen even on small web-sizes. I guess it is because of the high contrast, but my X100F does NOT have this issue/flaw in the DR400 mode.

4. The little orange lever that holds my battery stopped working in about a week after only removing the battery twice!

5. Why cant I dedicate the Q-button to something I actually need?

6. When shooting a fully manual lens - why does the thumb control wheel automatically switch to being a shutter button (instead of focus/assist zoom) when flipping out the screen to take a selfie? Thats just weird!

7. The on/off switch is extremely thin and feels extremely frail, just waiting for it to break.

Aside from all the flaws, the jpeg image quality (even though not as perfect as the ones from my X100F) is GREAT (when not using DR400 that is) compared to most cameras on the market - they can handle some editing/filters without introducing banding or artifacts. Batterylife seems to be great as well.

My gripe regarding the X-T100 is that it is missing the possibility to save and recall the user custom settings, which is something I use a lot with other cameras.

This is something which would cost nothing to Fuji, which I believe, deliberately denied this possibility at firmware level for pure marketing reasons in order to not overlap with the other X-TXX and X-E3 line.

It's a shame because with this simple function the X-T100 would gain a lot in usability.

Cheers.

Yes, it has flaws. In the end, I got frustrated with the slow startup and general sluggishness, as I am so used to shooting for work with my X-T3. I sold my X-T100 and bought a secondhand X-T20 as a travel camera. I looked at the X-T30, but really couldn't justify the £400 difference in cost. Problem solved. The X-T20 is almost the same size as the X-T100, but in a different class for ease/speed of use. It is great.

SantaMaria wrote:

gohunter wrote:

Yes, it has flaws. In the end, I got frustrated with the slow startup and general sluggishness, as I am so used to shooting for work with my X-T3. I sold my X-T100 and bought a secondhand X-T20 as a travel camera. I looked at the X-T30, but really couldn't justify the £400 difference in cost. Problem solved. The X-T20 is almost the same size as the X-T100, but in a different class for ease/speed of use. It is great.

Exactly the opposite of my experience of XT100 vs XT20

Then please tell what you do to speed upp the slow 3 second startup when using the evf-only. Maybe you are using an extremely fast sd-card or did you come from using a REALLY oldish sluggish camera before buying the XT100?

mrkarisma wrote:

SantaMaria wrote:

gohunter wrote:

Yes, it has flaws. In the end, I got frustrated with the slow startup and general sluggishness, as I am so used to shooting for work with my X-T3. I sold my X-T100 and bought a secondhand X-T20 as a travel camera. I looked at the X-T30, but really couldn't justify the £400 difference in cost. Problem solved. The X-T20 is almost the same size as the X-T100, but in a different class for ease/speed of use. It is great.

Exactly the opposite of my experience of XT100 vs XT20

Then please tell what you do to speed upp the slow 3 second startup when using the evf-only. Maybe you are using an extremely fast sd-card or did you come from using a REALLY oldish sluggish camera before buying the XT100?

Just tested starting it up with EVF-only, and you’re absolutely right that it is 3 seconds and slow, but it is much faster in eye-sensor mode at 2 seconds only—even when your eye is already at the sensor at start up, which is basically like EVF-only. So, definitely seems like a bug.

So I’d suggest setting it to eye-sensor mode as a solution. Actually, curious why you’d use EVF only? What are the benefits over using eye sensor? Because I can’t think of any quite frankly.

Advent1sam wrote:

I think the x-t100 is one of the best sensors money can buy, I have yet to see anything that much better. I have also been using topaz ai gigapixel to re-size to GFX size, 45mp in 3:2 ratio, a quick example

Ok, now you've gone way too gushy.  The T100 has less than 10 EV dynamic range at base ISO.  The GFX is just shy of 12.  Big DR is one of the main purposes of medium format.

I use an X-T100 & own other X's.  By far the T100 has the worst implementation of MF I've seen in any camera.

With all Fuji lenses I have, except the w/ an MF clutch (XF16 & 23), the MF ring must be moved lots to make any focus change.  This makes rocking back & forth to find best focus very hard & slow.  The focus ring is all but dead on non-clutch lenses.

Peaking basically doesn't work.  Its all but invisible even on medium tele.  Since the T100 doesn't have focus bracketing, peaking would make it easier to do focus brackets by hand - big fail.

As I've demonstrated in other posts, most Fuji cameras have under the hood RAW NR for exposures longer that 5 sec. The filtering mangles star shape & alters or removes star colors. Many - most - all? cameras using Sony sensors seem to do some form of this. Recently, a user demonstrated even the GFX-50S has filtering which eats little black holes in stars.

Not the X-T100. Here's a comparison using the exact same region of stars w/ all images developed the same. Its like getting a much sharper lens.

The advantage of the unfiltered X-T100 for star images also gives a downside - higher long exposure noise. W/ good NR software, much of this problem can be removed. Here's untreated & treated example of the X-T100 compared to the filtered X-T3. You'll have to peek to see the noise.

FWIW, one reason modern Sony sensor cameras apply NR to RAW for long exposures is to hide the effects of the PDAF array on the sensor noise. For that reason, I'd expect the new X-T200 w/ 425 PDAF sensors to filter RAW like the X-trans cameras.