Beautiful snap of a beautiful place. I received my x100 the other day. I haven't taken any photos outside of my home yet. When I do I will be sure to share.
I'm doing what I always do when I get a new camera... shooting the dogs.
It lets me gauge ISO performance.. try to see how well it does (or in this case doesn't) af-c, and generally let's me spend time with them whilst figuring out a camera
Anyone have any more to share? I blew some highlights here, couldn't get it working with such strong backlight. Also, I notice that the fuji seems very very sensitive to stray light... looks like a hood will be a must for this camera. Anyone else notice that?
That was the point . Color efex cross processed. For shots like these I just play around. Gess I shouldn't have posted them here as they are not 'true samples' out of the camera. Maybe I'll post the straight jpgs and remove these.
I know there are a lot of razor sharp images posted in the leica thread, with absolute color balance...but there are also a fair amount of shots there with colors all over the place if reality is the goal
Still, it should have been mentioned, I'd hate for someone to think this was the result of straight raw conversion.
Anyone could, of course. I would say that it would be helpful if they would mark their photos as heavily processed, at least for the moment. There are presumably a number of people reading this thread who are considering the camera, and for them to see heavily processed shots isn't as useful as seeing clean shots with little processing which show what the camera delivers. Of course, no one has to help these people, but a comment that the shots were heavily processed would then allow the considerers to skip them, for the purposes of evaluation...
Some of the first images I took with the X100. All have gone through my usual Lightroom workflow. The first I wanted to do was try out that high speed sync and am amazed at how much contrast the lens can hold even in very challenging light conditions.
Sharp wide open, but yea you do have to switch to EVF to focus on close subjects. Out of focus lights aren't perfectly circular, but bokeh in general is quite pleasing:
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ps, let's not have a gun debate.. nobody wins on that one.
Don't worry, h00ligan, I am sure that target was shooting back. Hah.
So, how does it compare to your old X1?
Some random first shots today, mostly to observe color and bokeh - also was curious about the macro feature and tried it out on my RF. Not much in terms of processing except some levels. Just minimal output sharpening as well.
Compared to the x1. Different. Considerably faster (can benefit from high speed cards). I prefer the handling...but..not as straight forward. At least ine stop better iso, I'd say maybe 1.5. Totally different boke, more creamy.
I keep forgetting to take off the nd filter...of all the things not to reset when the camera is powered off, that's not one that should stick!!
So far tbh, I prefer it. That said I can see why some could go the other way.
I feel the lens is more capable of isolation..and it's not just the added speed. It flares quite badly and I need a hood of some sort, fuji charges way too much for theirs. I prefer the x100 colors to the x1, and when people talk about it no being as sharp...well that's not what I see. In the above image of my nephew (lol he's older than me) I think you can see the iso performance and a decent pop to the lens..that was only cropped slightly and resized with a double hit on sharpen in lab mode.
What are your thoughts?
I accidentally had a second delivered today. :/ guess tht order didn't cancel.
A few more done recently, this time I shot RAW and processed using Lightroom. Getting the colours same as film simulations in Lightroom is proving a bit of challenge, other than that I am OK with LR processing. These pictures have LR lens correction applied, varying degree of exposure/tone correction and some sharpening.
Some very nice shots in here. I am still smitten with the X100, and have worked my way around its foibles. Still would love a better manual focus, but I can wait to see what Fuji does/doesn't do.
This is my daughter at a local farm processed through Aperture(Thanks Apple!).
