A try out Fujifilm Finepix X100

Finepix X100 10 years young!

Out with just the original X100 today as I said I am selling my V powerhouse of a beautiful camera and stepping back in time with the original X100.

It's a true condition GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) I am have suffered from this too. In buying every version of the X100 but have kept the original in storage within my house.

The Original, S,T and F all had the same f2 lens, the V had the MKII version which was sharper and much faster focusing than all the other variants put together.

In looking back through Adobe Lightroom Mobile CC that I use on this Samsung Tablet the images looked very sharp but potentially too sterile in their output.

I decided after watching Chris Orange on you tube ( very good channel) that he loved the older generations of sensor output, so I decided to break out the original the Fujifilm Finepix X100 from 2010 ( this started me with Fuji addiction) I saw it at the Photography Show and was smitten. I met a gentleman called David Cleland from Northern Ireland at the show he was a Fuji X photographer and his work was amazing all done with this little X100.

The Fujifilm stand had prints from this dinky little camera that blew me away! They were full of colour and detail absolutely amazing all from this Finepix X100.

So today I took it out again my first Fuji love and you know what? I may just keep using it alongside my XF10 all over again. I hope you like the Indi photos below.

Keep shooting!

Mark

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