Fujifilm has been taunting camera reviewers with this retro-style compact camera for months now, but the £999 beauty is finally ready to greet its public. The X100 is a fully manual 12.3Mp digital camera built from magnesium-alloy and with an APS-C (DSLR-sized) sensor crammed into its frame.
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What will particularly interest precision photographers is that Fujifilm has managed to pull off the feat of being both a straight-through-the-lens optical viewfinder and a clever electronic one. You get all the manual settings information you need but can also minutely adjust onscreen details so you can get a better view of what’s in front of your eyes. A 2.7in LCD is also included. This has a 1.44Mp resolution. The 35mm fixed lens supports 25 multi-focus points.
As with Leica’s traditionally-built manual control digital cameras, Fuji allows the X100’s dual processor to step in only when required, allowing the user to adjust and check on the effects of their settings adjustments for the rest of the time. Among the apparent few concessions to modernity is a built-in flash.
The Fuji FinePix X100 compact camera is onsale now for £999.
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Comments
Rosemary_hattersley said: Thanks Knapweed This is but a short synopsis as you say covering the basis specifications As the press release states there are 49 focal points in total across the two means of focusing with 25 separate focus points from the optical viewfinder There are plenty of options for controlling the shutter behaviour including but not limited to full manual adjustments
Knapweed said: Wow so many errors in such a short synopsis The camera is shutter priority or aperture priority or programme depending on how you set the controls It is also fully manual but hardly just fully manualThe 144 MP display is the EV viewfinder not the LCD The LCD is only 046 MPThere are 49 focus points in total the 25 only refers to the optical viewfinderThe camera is crammed with concessions to modernity Probably more than any other compact on the market today It only looks retro but form follows function and the control dials are exactly where they should be