Wally Billingham
Regular
- Location
- Laurel, MD
Showing my ignorance here but what is so great about a RAW button? Here is their description from their web page:
I don't think there is anything great. You either want to shoot in RAW or you don't, I do not see many people wanting to switch back and forth on a regular basis.
Apparently one can program the Fn button to change the ISO...of course I'd think it would be better to have a dedicated ISO button, rather than a RAW button. I see it's coming with Silkypix. Personally, I pray that Lightroom will be on top of this camera when it comes out.
Even better drop whatever version of RAW they are going to use and just output to DNG.
Truth be told the buzz around this camera reminds me very much about the buzz for the Sigma DP1 before it came out, with that camera we had years of vaporware press releases and websites just like the Fuji, and in the end the press and review sites were underwhelmed.
The main issue I see with this will come down to cost. It will either be an amazing camera and cost $1500+ which will greatly limit it's market, or it will be a good camera that will cost $1,000 and get nitpicked for all that it should have done better.
I ask myself as good as this camera looks on paper is it really going to be 3X better than the current crop of great $400-$500 compacts such as the LX5, EX1, S95 etc? Or 2x better than the DP1x or DP2s?
Or for that matter better than the m4/3 kit you could put together for $1500?