carstenw wrote:
Perhaps it is made outside of Japan. Then the camera would avoid having to deal with the high Yen exchange rate. On second thought, then it should be cheaper in Japan too. I don't know.
Everything is more expensive in Japan. For example the Canon S95 is 45,000 yen here or almost $550 while $399 shipped in the US.
Well he has one supposed shot from the camera, but if you look at his EXIF information there is a lot of stuff that doesn't add up. Looks edited to me. I think its a fake.
I definitely fell in love with this camera the instant I saw it. I literally felt the immediate NEED to own it once I saw the camera. It's exactly what I've been hoping for for years.
Personally I'm glad its not a tiny camera. I hate small pocket cameras, this is absolutely compact enough for me, it doesn't have to fit into my pocket.
I am very excited for this and I hope I can scrape some cash together to pick one up!
When they announced a $1000 price tag, I was sold. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to give up my GF1/20 kit. Well, more that I don't want to have to sell it and take that loss =)
Fuji will really have to mess up that hybrid VF (HVF anyone?) for this to fail.
Versus other APS-C offerings, I think the defining constraints for X100 size are sophisticated optical VF (making the camera larger), and fixed wide lens (making the camera smaller). IOW, the size is inline with its feature mix. As for giving up ones other cameras to adopt the X100 (and its limitations), well, I already have 20 in my menagerie, so what's one more? The X100 also means I can ignore the Sony A55, thank god. Sorry, Mr Pogue!
Paul Yi wrote:
I've gone through whole thread, but maybe I missed it, but who makes the sensor for this camera?
Is it by Fuji or by Sony?
Fuji have said it's "custom made", which you wouldn't say unless you ordered it from someone else. After all, if you make it yourself, by definition it's "custom made". Fuji manufactures EXR CCDs for their compacts, but in the X100 they explicitly say the processor is EXR, not the sensor.
But let's cut to the chase, it's 12.3MP, and CMOS, so I would say the manufacturer has to be Sony. Sony also has a track record of making "custom" sensors for others, like Nikon.
That is a bit disappointing....
Fuji sensor would have been better.
If they were to use the sensor from other company, Kodak would have been much better too.
Paul Yi wrote:
That is a bit disappointing....
Fuji sensor would have been better.
If they were to use the sensor from other company, Kodak would have been much better too.
I think it's a bit premature to get worried. After all, it's only speculation, so far.
Paul Yi wrote:
That is a bit disappointing....
Fuji sensor would have been better.
If they were to use the sensor from other company, Kodak would have been much better too.
I would have liked to see a new Fuji Super CCD but I'm sure they had their reasons - cost of a new, higher MP design, processing requirements of the Super CCD (none of the S DSLR's were fast). A Kodak CCD would have been lousy at higher ISOs and it would have likely resulted in a much more expensive camera due to the cost of the sensor.
