Friday, November 25, 2011

Fujifilm x100 is a major disappointment

I've had the Fujifilm x100 for about 6 months now and frankly I seldom use it, to the point where my photography is suffering. The problem I'm having is not the brilliant and huge sensor, because that is the only things I actually like about the camera.

Here's a list of my greivances:
  1.  The focus is molasses slow; when it does finally lock on, a good half of the time it's locked on to the wrong spot.
  2.  Who thought it was a good idea to limit the shutter speed to 1/4 second?
  3.  Exposure is almost 2 stops under from a normal looking image on the screen.
  4. Any time you need to access something in a menu, it usually 4-5 button presses.
  5. Did I mention that the focus is slow? An EOS-1 from 1996 focuses an order of magnitude faster.
  6. Activating Macro focus takes 3 buton pushes, and focusing even slower than regular focusing.
  7. Forget about focusing in low light.
  8. Lens is either too short or too long, never just right, but that's just my taste for focal lengths.
  9. Not very sharp wide open, needs to be at least at 2.8 or 4 to be sharp.
In short it's pretty to look at and impresses others when they see you with it, but other than that it's generally useless. I made a big mistake selling my Panasonic GF-1 and buying this bimbo of a camera. I am going to sell it while it still has some value and buy the new Panasonic GX1. Hopefully that will inspire me to go shooting again, mostly I leave the x100 at home because it frustrates me to no end.