The Fujifilm Finepix X100
This was the camera that started everything for Fujifilm and turned it into the company it has become today.
This was a seminal camera and it absolutely changed everything, there wasn't anything like it in the market and the reviewers were highly complimentary.
They made statements like " amazing" " more Leica than a Leica" "A real game changer" It won awards for its design and image quality.
It was an amazing time for Fujifilm and I strongly believe that this camera designed and manufactured in Japan was some of their finest pieces of photographic equipment.
It's 12mp sensor was talked about so much as it was the first camera to not have a anti alaising filter over the sensor. The original Bayer sensor seems to have the original feeling of what the Fujifilm designers envisaged. I find now 12mp to be plenty for large prints and beautiful colours.
Many reviews of the camera complained of the slow focus speed and soft nature at f2. These were fixed in later iterations of the model but the softness of the f2 lens wide open wasn't fixed until the X100V. I recently sold the beautiful X100V as I have said before I actually do prefer the "older " camera
There is much discussion about megapixel amounts thses days but again how much do we really need? Hardly anyone prints anything now and Instagram images can be photographed using a phone. I have printed images from this little classic and they look fantastic!
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