Some of the basic specs of the new Fujifilm Finepix-x100:
| Model Name | FinePix X100 |
| Number of effective pixels | 12.3 million pixels |
| CCD Sensor | APS-C CMOS Sensor |
| Storage Media | SD / SDHC / SDXC memory card |
| Lens | High-performance FUJINON lens with Super EBC Coating |
| Focal Length | 23mm, equivalent to 35mm |
| Aperture Range | F2 to F16 |
| Exposure Mode | Programmed auto mode, Aperture priority mode, Shutter priority mode and Manual mode |
| Exposure Compensation | -2.0EV-+2.0EV |
| Shutter Speed | Bulb, 30 sec. to 1/4000 sec. |
| Focus | High-speed contrast AF |
| Optical Viewfinder | 0.5X magnification with approx. 90% frame coverage |
| Electronic Viewfinder | Ultrafine 1,440,000-dot LCD |
| LCD Monitor | 2.8-inch, Colour LCD monitor, approx 460,000 dots |
| Movie Recording | 1280x720 HD with stereo sound |
| Dimensions | 126.5(W) x 74.4(H) x 53.9(D) mm including lens |
The new Fujinon lens:
"This newly developed lens offers a focal length of 23mm (135 equivalent: 35mm) that lets you capture a wide range of subjects while maintaining high resolution and optical clarity. It also features a large F2 aperture which not only delivers both ample brightness and high contrast sensitivity, but also achieves a high level of resolution when the aperture is closed by 1 or 2 stops."
The Hybrid Viewfinder combines the window-type “bright frame” optical viewfinder found in high-end film cameras, such as 35mm or medium-format cameras, and the electronic viewfinder system incorporated in fixed single lens or mirrorless digital cameras.
For more details see the official Fujifilm Finepix-x100 website and the full press release at fujifilm.com.
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96 Comments
Sweet, sweet, sweet!
Too bad it’s not FF 24mm.
Dear Nikon, Retro works!
Please Mr Fuji, I want the same with a 28mm lens, I promise to be the first buyer !
Really beautiful retro design, although I’m not sure whom it is aimed at with its fixed lens. I thought Leica had that market wrapped up with it’s X1. Now with a line of interchangeable lenses, this could be a show-stopper.
If they price this thing right then I have a feeling the X1 is going to lose it’s spot.
I’m worried about the price. They say it’s for the “professional or keen enthusiast”. I’ve gotta feeling that’s gonna mean it’s pricey. I was hoping it would be in the range of the new Samsung NX100- $599 or less. But they probably know they’ve got a winner on their hands and will jack it up.
There is a film compact, Fujifilm Klasse W 28mm 2.8 thats priced about US$1k. Hopefully the X100 is not more than that.
I doubt that…im shocked (in agood way ) by this camera…but i think the price will be between 1500-2000 usd…
Awesome, now all you need is a fake Leica badge.
Movie recording on CCD sensor is gonna be interesting. Can’t wait for the results.
It’s cmos
‘APS-C CMOS Sensor’
yep, you’re right. I skimmed through the spec, saw “CCD sensor” and thought it was so.
or leica is going to need a fake fuji badge.
this is a beautiful camera.
fuji 1
leica 0
Dare I say that this thing is more beautiful than the Leica M9!
The design proportions look perfect.
That is not a CCD sensor, it is the same Sony AP-S CMOS sensor on Leica X1.
the press release states: “The FinePix X100 features a custom CMOS high-performance sensor, internally optimized and developed exclusively for this model.”
In other words, microlenses are offset to avoid vignetting – the same technology in the M8 and M9.
Holy shit, it looks sick! Can’t wait for its release
that is a pretty-looking camera, im diggin the retro styling
Full marks and more to fuji.
Very interesting, and also beautiful camera.
The fixed focus lens is fine for me.
Yep. If a camera is a fixed lens 35mm is as good as it gets for me. That’s the focal length I use 90% of the time. There will probably be a wide angle adapter for it.
I meant to say fixed lens (not fixed focus). A mis-spell gave me the angry looking icon.
Any idea on price? Boy is this tempting! A beautiful design.
Love how this looks, the X1 is priced at about two-and-a-half times what its worth. Any chance this lens will be stabilized?
This is the most beautiful camera I’ve seen in a long time. I -Want- One- NOW!!!!!!!!! Damn this is awesome. Why has it taken so long for a company to come out with this? And Fuji of all people. Did not expect that at all. This is my next camera.
im with you on that! its gorgeous!
plus there wasnt even a single leak on this one!
i love it!
Only wish it had five stops of EV compensation, instead of two. The way _I_ like to shoot zone is to meter and compensate, not meter and dial in manually.
And I really do mean “only”. Outside that, if it’s in the +-$500 range I’m sold.
“if it’s in the +-$500 range I’m sold.”
Absolutely. I’ll happily pick one up in that price range.
i think fuji might hit a grand slam with this baby. i’m damn interested
I wonder if they could make a whole lineup of these. Imagine a two or three camera kit that consists of the X100′s in 18mm, 23mm and maybe 85mm! Maybe distinguish them with different colored leather grips in honey, red and black (along with the different lenses of course)!
That would be too sweet! I like your thinking.
Why not 50mm? 50mm is GOD!!!!!!
lens can be change?
I’d be surprised if it is in the $500–I’m thinking more like the $900-1000. Fuji cameras are not historically inexpensive. Even at $1000, I’d probably pick one up.
Here’s to hoping you’re wrong.
I hope it is not more than $1k.. anything lower is bonus.
“aimed at professional and enthusiast photographers” tells me this is priced well above $1000. Closer to $1500 I believe.
If leica made this, price is going to around $ 2500~3000:)
But the red dot didn’t make it. Fuji did. I’m sure they could make money off these and sell a lot of them for $500 but there are probably enough people out there willing to drop a grand on this thing that that might be closer to the asking price. I’m guessing something like $899. Bummer.
Two words. Wick. Ed. Wicked. What a stunning camera. I would love this as my walk around. After using a FX body, grip, big 2.8 zoom and flash at weddings and such, this would be a nice ‘photographer’s camera’. Every now and again I buy a roll of film and throw it in my dad’s old Miranda EE that he bought in 1974. It humbles me with nostalgia and discipline. I can see this being the digital version of that. Fuji: Bring it!
Notice that it says Made In Japan on the back. Quality.
No one interest on this kind of special optical view finder?
it looks pretty special & comfortable for me.
Oh yeah! Daddy wants one!
Pity it’s not that three layer organic CCD Fuji’s been developing for years, but I’ll take what I can get.
Follow that link to the full press release page, scroll down and you’ll see that Fuji is planning on releasing a GF670W with a 55mm f4.5 lens. Screw digital! That thing takes REAL pictures, on FILM!
Come on guys – there is no way this will be under USD 1000. We don’t know what the viewfinder costs, and magnesium top and bottom…
I’ll buy in a heartbeat up to $1200 – and that’s a D7000! Above that I’ll still buy it because it’s do damn gorgeous! It’s what the X1 SHOULD have been.
Agreed as far as design. I used the X1 during Fashion Week here in NYC, and was not at all impressed, I was getting better results with my Sigma DP2. IQ will be the final determining factor for me. One thing I’m wondering is if this is a manual focus friendly unit. I like the hybrid finder (primarily optical with the digital info and framelines super imposed). Will there be a focusing patch like an M or will this be like a Contax G2 – AF?
Where does the line begin?!?! If it’s under a grand. I’m there on day one!
This camera price is 120000-150000yen(Approx 1400~1750$)
source from Nikkei online.
Damn. Well, it’s out of my price range. Will be a nice camera for those who can afford it.
I just checked and you can get a Leica X1 new for under 2 grand.
That’s a fair price, as it includes a fast f/2 lens. I was going to get a used M8 with a Voigtlander 28mm f/2 (equal to a 35mm FOV), but I’ll be able to save a few hundred smackers and get a new camera instead.
Hope it comes in black as well.
Very nice. Much nicer than EVIL stuff.
Talking about EV things: whats the use of that EVF in this x100?
source here. I want this camera under 1k$.
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Ouch!…
thanks for the link
admin?? is it time for http://www.fujirumors.com
good luck
Can you believe it?
Here we are waiting for the Nikon D7000 to hit the markets and along comes Fuji to blow everyone out the water!
This Fuji camera has an exposure compensation dial. Everything looks like it is easy to set. No extensive menu burrowing!
This would be the perfect walk around camera. Small, light, versatile, yet powerful (APC sensor).
Bring it on!
If it is around the $1K mark I’m gonna get it for sure!
If it lives up to specs in real life then it’s the perfect camera for me. The camera I would sell the back-up D200 for. I have been tempted by the GF1, but really wanted the bigger sensor. Saving now…..
Lord knows I’m a Leica lover, but for me this was love at first sight… that’s gorgeous!!! (looks like an M3). That seems much better than X1 and I expect a much better price of course. I hope Fuji could develop something like that but for interchangeable lens, and I hope that the results will be as good as the shape of this beauty.
Leica getting nervous yet?
not a FF => interest =0
Awesome, truly awesome!!! I have been playing for a couple of hours with an X-1, and the most disappointing, sluggish, useless feature was the contast AF speed. TOO slow for a camera supposedly born for street use, were speed is all. I hope to the Almighty Fuji spent some more money in their AF, to be at as fast as it was on the glorious film MF Fuji AF645 i have had until last year.
shame on leica
fuji has just done a proper x1
EXUSE ME… But whilst we’ve been busy peeing our pants over the new x100, it SEEMS WE MISSED THIS little morsel… a W.A. MF format (basically the wide angle version of the Fuji / Voigtlander). 55mm is quite wide on a 6×6.
http://www.fujifilm.com/photokina2010/list/index.html#h2-3
It’s a film-camera. Not interrested.
Very interesting for those who shoot film. But… are we still shooting film? I do not think I am able to find a good laboratory for b&w pics, nor places where I could print slides without them being scanned and made digital…
Of course there are people shooting film. Me for exemple… every week I develope myself my B&W’s.
I develop a box of 4×5, about 10-12 rolls of 120, and a half dozen rolls of 35mm, every week. Sure there are people shooting film. You got a problem with that?
As much as I like Leica, this looks like the camera the X1 should have been. Now, if it only has a decent way to focus manually, I’ll buy it without thinking twice.
On the photos, it seems to me, that there are two small handles left and right of the lens to set the aperture, and a ring that appears to be a focus ring.
Oops! When looking closer, the ring that seems to be a focus ring may be fixed instead.
Anyone spot the hotshoe configuration? They used to use Nikon on their DSLRs, but what is it on this one?
This is very sexy! I want one
Yeah, Fuji gonna win the pot ! !
A digital “Konica Hexar” imo I like……
A real scoop. This retro beauty reminds me of my Nikon 35Ti. And the viewfinder promises to be the 21st century reincarnation of Leica M concept. I just hope that the X-100 will be just as brilliant in digital as the Nikon was in the analog age.
I’m definitely not going to sell my Panasonic DMW-LW55 converter (35mm ==> 24,5mm)
THIS IS HOW ITS DONE
Can you swap lenses on this?
Now this is a camera I was allready expecting for more than a year…shame on you nikon for not being the first :p
NICE! Pay attention Nikon…
Hey.. I found a fast first contact review of this beauty… in spanish by a great specialist:
He says the feeling is better than the X1 and the viewfinder reminds him a Leica M viewfinder. He also say the Fujinon seems extraordinary.
Where did you get the “90% frame coverage” from? Copied from dpreview.com?
If you look at Fujifilm’s video, this clearly doesn’t make sense. The OVF shows more than the frame, like on a Leica rangefinder.
It’s triple sexy, but a wide-angle only camera with only one focal length does nothing for me. Make it a 28-70 effective focal length zoom camera and I’ll buy one. It’s nice, but it needs either an internchangeable lens or it needs a zoom.
You can’t shoot portraits at 35mm EFL. Think about that. This camera cannot do a headshot. It can’t do it. It really needs to at least go to 50mm EFL for normal field of view. If it did that, I’d drop 1500 on it.
Cameras like this have never been intended for headshots, but e.g. for street photography.
well done Fuji .. but what about Fuji’s Pro Line? hehe
Wow, this is super-sexy! If only it had a 50mm lens I would be more excited; but, still! wow!