Fujifilm FinePix X100 Digital Camera - Black (12.3MP, APS-C CMOS EXR) 2.8 inch LCD

Whether you're an avid photographer, or just want a camera to capture holiday snaps and important moments, you will absolutely not be disappointed by the FinePix X100. Designed to look and feel like an old Rangefinder camera, the technology packed into the device is absolutely incredible. Some people may find the lack of zoom a little daunting at first (and will lead you to learn the best lesson in photography - the best zoom is your two legs and feet), it allows the prime lens to exhibit some of the widest aperture and best optical response of any point and shoot camera on the market today. The build quality is absolutely stunning - a solid, clunky metal aperture dial and shutter speed knob really helps you feel like you're "making a difference" - and the results on the images are utterly astounding. Even if you keep the camera fully in "Automatic" mode, I've never come across a device that has so successfully got exposure so perfectly right every single time. Low light performance is out of this world, and the soft, gorgeous bokeh you can find from knocking the aperture wide open is just unbelievable. This review might sound like I'm taking things to excess, but once you start using the camera, you'll find it very hard to disagree. To sum it up - ordinarily, when friends say "That's a great photo, your camera must be brilliant", it normally sets me off on a rampage of explaining how "The camera doesn't matter". However, when they say this about the shots from the X100, I can't help but agree. Buy it now, and you absolutely won't be disappointed.

After researching,researching and yet more researching i dropped on this fabulous camera due to a 'sunday night price drop' on Amazon for the great price of £650 and now a few months later i'm totally obsessed with it! Like most people I was looking for a lightweight SLR alternative (my main camera is a Nikon D300S)and could not ignore the image samples this camera was throwing up,in particular the wonderful portraiture by Damien Lovegrove and the love it/loathe it nature of the reviews. This camera has re-affirmed my love for photography,i love its quirks and the endless debate about performance but you cannot deny it looks amazing (like a 'real' camera) and produces impressive images i have yet to match with my favourite D300s/80-200mm f2.8 combo. I also own a Lumix GX1 which,although impressive (with the 14mm lens),cannot match the beautiful quality of the exposures the X100 produces nor the grin it puts on your face. Yes it's sometimes sluggish with autofocus but when it locks on,boy does it get it right! I was hugely sceptical about purchasing one but i'm glad i did and as testimony i am due a break in Rhodes in June and this will be my camera of choice to take along,its discreet appearance and superb low-light performance being the main factors behind the sublime image quality. I'm even tempted to get the Fuji X-E1 and 35mm f1.4 combo after a good hands-on look at Focus On Imaging earlier this month,really impressive. Get one! (N.B i have recently purchased an Artisan & Artist retro cloth strap and soft shutter-release button for my little baby and my girlfriend now calls me 'Camera Whore')

I suspect that, like me, many photographers will buy the X100 as their second shooter or off-duty camera. For me, it's an off-duty shooter for when I'm not doing my day job as a photojournalist on a newspaper in northern England. I've had it for a couple of months now and am really beginning to understand the way it works. It's got its quirks and one or two things about it will drive you up the wall. It's certainly not a camera for the beginner but, for the experienced snapper, it's a joy. There's all the manual control you could expect from what is basically a high-end compact, and the image quality is great. If you can afford the jump in price from the black and chrome camera only option you'll find it's money well spent. For a start, it's beautiful in the black and the quality of the accessories that come with the limited edition kit is fantastic. I bought my X100 because I like to shoot on my day off but wanted a camera that would slow me down and take me back to my roots of being too broke to have lens options and carefully composing and metering each shot for fear of wasting film. I'm so taken with the X100 that I've set up a blog in its honour, where in addition to posting pictures from the camera, I'm conducting an ongoing, real-world review of the camera. There's quite a lot on there already so please click the link below and take a look before you make your final decision about buying the X100, and don't forget to leave a comment and follow the blog if you like it. [...] You'll find the blog at [...] (here's the shortlink to the home page [...] )

Highly recommend this product. Only issue is with macro focus the camera says error and you have to restart it. I think this issue has been resolved with the firmware update. Irrespective of this, this camera is the very very good!

I'm sure like many photographers here I started by reading some of the great reviews of this little camera. I too confess to having been seduced by the PR machine and some previously well trusted reviewers who have all basically been raving about it, so for XMAS 2012, this was my treat. The first couple of portraits I shot with it were great - especially in low ambient light, and after nearly 700 or so photos with it I've come to the conclusion that essentially this is all it's really good at - and that means I will probably be selling it or leaving it at home and that hurts after wanting to like it so much. In my opinion the truth that the other reviewers gloss over is; * Autofocus IS too slow. I've lost count of the number of reaction shots I've missed that my D90 would have nailed every time. Sometimes it simply won't focus where you want it. * Specular lighting really confuses it - hunt, hunt, hunt - and completely out of focus endpoint. * Forget about photographing fireworks - it can't focus. * Manual focus is a joke - turn the ring over a dozen times to reach infinity. It's unusable in real world situations. * Strong sun scenes are poorly metered. Beach scenes have great sky, but pitch black subjects. Yes I know I can stand there for several minutes adjusting the manual controls until I have one that looks OK, but by then the subjects have wandered off in boredom. Can it really be so hard to get decent matrix metering these days? Fuji show it can be done. * The exposure compensation dial is frequently knocked when removing the case or taking the camera out of a bag - the friction seems high enough at first appearance, but it really needs a lock position as in reality it is just too easy to rotate out of zero. * Battery life is really poor - you will need some spares. It can go from 3 bars to completely dead in about 12 exposures if its running down. * Panorama mode, which is a great modern feature, seems to nail it maybe 60% of the time, other times I find I get a lot of exposure banding or completely mis-aligned images. * The case doesn't accommodate the lens with the standard lens hood - that's really annoying. Don't get me wrong though, the X100 CAN take great photos. Portraits in poor light are superb and the lens is wonderful wide open. The ND filter that you can pop in from the menu makes getting DOF in bright light easy and it is of course small and silent - which is great for street photography - except then the slow AF issues start to kick in and the crazy manual focus scheme that isn't really manual but fly by wire. Overall though, from my trip to Andalucia, I'd have to say that I wish I'd taken my Nikon D90 instead. Perhaps that's the shortest summary I can think of.

This is a lovely product and the firmware has sorted all major criticisms. Beautifully made; the black limited edition is a very attractive package. But it's got to do the job, and the IQ of the photos is just not good enough. I used the camera in a variety of situations: daytime and evening, indoors and out, test shots, family, interiors and landscapes. The results were lacking in resolution, colour, definition and gradation. Out of the camera JPEGs were very good (although not great) which is just as well, because the RAW files required a LOT of work to bring them up. I am astounded that experienced photo reviewers here and elsewhere have rated this camera so highly. Not in the same league as results from equivalent priced Nikon and Canon offerings IMHO. I wanted a second camera to tote along when my main system was a bit too much -- but I would always be leaving THIS camera at home to avoid disappointing results.

It was one of my hardest choices ever made! To spend £699 on X100... or to wait for a new model and spend £400 more... To make it harder, I've been in love with the X100 since it was out (but had no budget for buying it, and went for the X10). Well, after a lot of research, blog reading, etc. I made my mind and bought this limited edition. What can I say except that I feel this was one of my best buys ever! I am "learning" again photography! What's more, I am getting the best results ever! I used several Canon dSLRs, and my other Fuji X10. Although all are different cameras, if I had to stick with one, that's the X100... I had no issues (fast enough for me, good manual focussing for my needs, excellent configuration, no problems at all! At least for my style...) A magnificent manual tool for shooting pictures. Its IQ is the best I've seen, and after much research found that the extra features form the new model would not provide me with anything I would really need. Had this camera for 2 weeks. I don't know if Amazon will lower the price, but believe me, for what you get, £699 is a no brainer! If you are in the same situation I was, just think what you need, and about your shooting style before making a decision. The only thing I can tell you is that If I had to make the choice again, I would take the same again and again. This is a must buy for enthusiast/pro photographers. And just for the limited edition, I must say it is worth for it comes with the lens hood adapter, a protection UV filter and the case. Very good value for the excellent and beautifully made camera and accessories!

I can't recommend this camera highly enough. With one stroke I feel like a 'proper' photographer again, engaged with the craft of photography (apologies if that sounds pompous) rather than complicated modes, menus and features I don't need. But it's not just the traditional shutter speed dial and the aperture ring and the feeling that I'm using a real camera again that impress me - the quality of the images in low light is just astonishing. Indoors, in dim tungsten light, I can hand-hold this little camera and it produces stunning, pin-sharp images with beautiful, neutral skin tones - the auto white balance is just incredible. I've always hated flash, and now I can kiss it goodbye for good. And in daylight, of course, it's pretty much perfect, with great tonal range and amazing sharpness at f2, and lovely, soft, out-of-focus backgrounds. I can't bring myself to utter the word 'Bokeh' - don't know why. Gives me the creeps. I agonised for months about whether to buy the X100 or the X-Pro 1. I was worried about committing to a single, fixed focal length, and with a free-2nd-lens offer on the X-Pro package, I came VERY close to buying the X-pro, but in the end I decided to save some cash and get the little brother with the fixed 35mm lens. And I'm loving it! There's no fussing over which lens to choose; no faffing about trying to protect the sensor from light/dust/rain while changing lenses; no giant bag of kit to carry around - I just get the camera out, focus, compose, and shoot. And for that reason, I'm much more likely to carry the camera more often, and take more pictures. In a nutshell, I'll get much more mileage out of the X100. It's a brilliant thing. I've been watching the progress of the X-E1 closely, and it could well be a perfect compromise between the X100 and the X-Pro1, but as someone else said: 'The X100 is still, IMHO, the greatest camera ever made. It's the scrappy little brother but it still has the most soul.'

A pesar de todos sus posibles problemas de enfoque y menús un tanto liosos esta cámara es una joya. La calidad de imágen es brutal, al nivel de cámaras full frame. Y el flash es una maravilla, simplemente lo activas, sacas una foto y en el 99.99% de los casos habrá expuesto a la perfección. (Además de poder tirar a una sincronización de 1/2000). Igualmente el balance de blancos es casi mágico, Canon y Nikon tienen mucho que aprender de Fuji. Y por supuesto, lo más importante, es pequeña y puedes tirar a 3200 ISO sin problemas, de hecho al tener el sensor X-TRANS donde los pixels están ordenados aleatoriamente, no solo consigues menos ruido, sino que además le da un toque analógico a la imágen. Por poner pegas, la funda con la que viene es un incordio ya que tienes que quitarla entera cada vez que quieres sacar la bateria o la tarjeta de memoria, y no la puedes usar a la vez que el parasol o si tienes un filtro montado. Eso si, es una cámara para usuarios avanzados. Aunque sea compacta no se la regalaría a alguien que no sepa bastante de fotografía.