It might be the 1st time I actually pre-order anything. I just hope the UK price is under £700.
$1000 converted to £'s = £666. Perfect price point I feel.
I am a long time rangefinder user a=including several Fuji gw and gsw. The camera will be small enough to carry two of them with different lenses. There will be no need to clean the sensor and the fujinon lens will rival anything nikon has.
Remember the Xpan? Those were fujinon spherical lenses.
This camera will fill a big void in the industry with superb optics. not to mention the hybrid optical/electronic viewfinder.
needless to say, I will own one and then two when another lens version comes out.
luminosity wrote:
Would create an intensely loyal, if small, base of people who bought and used it.
Oh heck yeah it would. I would love two small rangefinders that were nearly silent with incredible high ISO for wedding work. Travel would also become much nicer. I mean really people LOVE their M9's.
...this thing just feels like a thousand bucks. It's as solid as a stone, though light packers won't appreciate just how heavy it is. Regardless, the body exudes quality, and the grip was as comfortable as ever...
For $1k I'm interested as well but... does it come in *black*?
I love good design that borrows from history - but for me this feels like retro for the sake of it.
Don't get me wrong - I am sure good photographers will be able to take great pictures with it. And I know for some, the retro design will really appeal. I just don't think imitating ye olde design = good design.
I was playing with my Ricoh GRD today - and musing that that is good design, with great photographic controls, and a clever integration of new technology and materials, with the tried and trusted usability of cameras of the past.
On a totally unconnected note, the reported 1400-1700 price range feels steep for a fixed lens, cropped sensor set up, now that micro 4/3rds has established itself. But I know others will feel differently.
$1000 puts it in a completely different light than the previously projected ~$1700.
at ~$1700, i have all sorts of issues with this camera. but at an eventually-settling-into-under-$1000 price tag - i'm forced to adjust my opinion about the x100. (...yet wonder even more about the fanbois who were willing to shell out $1700 for this rig.)
abam wrote:
(...yet wonder even more about the fanbois who were willing to shell out $1700 for this rig.)
it is not fanboism, 1700USD is less then FX camera with 35f2 lens i use for reportage. It is also less then DX+24G i used before and less then FX+35f1.4 i will use soon
yet all in perfect small package.
When you wear two cameras and many accessories with you, it matters a lot. I would use it as always with me camera+second body for weddings. So if quality is there, i would pay north of 2k for it. And i never owned nor liked anything fuji, so i dont rate as fanboi/grl
Sadly µ4/3 have nothing to offer to compare and leica is lol
as for focal lenght, it is fine for people photography, i dont do candid wildlife or whatever people need 120mm walkaround lenses for. You can crop it a lot at that resolution and zoom with your legs the rest. Small and durable here beats the flexibility.
"it is not fanboism, 1700USD is less then FX camera with 35f2 lens i use for reportage...
which is not a direct rebuttal, because $1000 would be even less than that.
...It is also less then DX+24G i used before and less then FX+35f1.4 i will use soon..."
it also most likely won't AF like either of those rigs*, be as fast as them or handle as well, and the DOF won't be nearly as thin as an FX w/ f2 lens attached. additionally, already calling it a "perfect small package" at this point, fit to do duty as a second professional camera "for weddings" does sound a bit to me like giving more than the benefit of the doubt to something that is still a half-functional mockup.
of course i will be happy if it will cost less, but i hope they will not make it cheap - there is enough cheap P&Ss. As it is designed it should last long, another reason why i would likely have no problem to invest more. I will of course as well evaluate it before buying, but have hopes.
AF is no problem for me, i use autofocus only with tele glass and long distances. DOF? Well that is sure, but as said, at those distances DOF is more like "little sharp to lot sharp", even on FX and half body portrait is not really so huge difference.
Thank You :-), We will see how new 35 will be. must suffice until X100 comes and is as good as i hope, D700+35 Is still LOT smaller then main camera. :-)
