I braved outside into chilly early winter weather, with gusts of wind.
I just wanted to stretch my legs and make a shallow test run so I took both G80 and X100 with me.
While inside in the dark the X100's EVF might have looked fine, it was right away clear that the panel can't really reproduce any sort of highlights. I will have to figure out if I can set up blinkies in pic review or at least the histogram.
The lens, sharp as ever. This camera supposedly has the OLPF but it doesn't show in the least. f/5.6 gets you in any situation, no need to close down further unless for DOF reasons.
Thanks to the lens, oh my Barnack, the files. I was worried the old tech lead to very bad DR and clipping of every bit of sky and everything. But the files look really swell.
The camera also did not feel sluggish in operation, not in the slightest. It's not a camera for action I grant you. But due to the FL-eq of 35mm you could use it for it as well. Easy to prefocus and time the shot.
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While the pics may look totally clipped on the camera's aged displays, on raw developer there's plenty leeway about it.
And the lens is certainly sharp enough for the 12 MP chip. f/2 at 2 meters and up is perfectly usable. This is performance I should have expected but I am still surprised.
What was often criticized of Fuji 10 years ago, how it decided to close down the aperture if the metering resulted in too much exposure, I think it's a fine idea and it doesn't really matter. At f/2 the leaf shutter is limited to 1/1000. Shooting wide open outside, the limits of this are easily met. I get a nice warning flash in the OVF and the camear closes the aperture down enough so that it can take the shot it had metered for me. f/2.2 most often. Do I care about a 1/3 stop difference? Not really.