The remarkable X100

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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More off camera flash with The Fujifilm finepix X100

So today was our grandson Freddie care day or as it's known to us "Freddie Friday" I chose the X100 original for all these shots and used a cord to trigger the large V850 Godox flash to fire. I also used a demflip modifier which is basically like a bounce card of old days use. It gives quite soft light as you can see from these shots. If anyone is interested in the actual set up I would be happy to explain my technique and the equipment used. What it does prove is the little original Fujifilm from 2010 still gives wonderful colour and lovely photography.

Finepix X100 jpeg action

Today I tried out the Finepix X100 in jpeg mode to see if it renders a good image Indi was in her dog cage/bed and just had to be photographed! I quite like the files from this little old camera more now than ever before, there's a certain depth and softness that really gives the image character. For those that are interested the exposure was 1/30 sec f/4.0 ISO 3200 the camera was supported on a manfrotto pixie tripod. Below is an image from yesterday this was lit with flash from the camera and it really gives beautiful RAW files from this camera are really adaptable and easily edited. The exposure was 1/1000 sec f/2.8 ISO 400 obviously as I have previously discussed the leaf shutter allows high shutter syncing

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