Fuji Getting to grips with the X Factor...

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So, I have had the X10 now for a couple of weeks. On the plus side I really like the handling and the performance; everything is logical; I have yet to open the instruction book which to me is the mark of a well-designed camera (plus I am a bloke...) I'm finding that my habitual -1/3 exposure setting is generally not needed (I do it to avoid clipping highlights on small sensor cameras). I'm also finding that AF is not entirely reliable - there have been a few occasions where I have had to re-compose on apparently high contrast subjects - maybe it's just me... It is a wee bit small, so I have a half-case on order - we'll see how that goes. Being used to Leica Ms I find myself regularly trying to hook my thumb on a non-existent wind on lever so that may be part of the problem! I have been carrying it with my GXR over the last weekend and did find that the two, while similar, have different placement of minor controls so there were times when I tried to adjust one as the other and vice-versa - user error, basically, but one to remember in fast-moving situations.

Anyway, here are a few shots from last weekend:

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Hi Bill,

Great shots and was that by any chance the event at Brooklands on Sat? we had some people attend a 40's garden party on Sun who had been at Brooklands Sat and had a great time.

You do realise that now you have the X10 you will soon start to pine for the X100 and then for the XPro-1!! I have the X100 and it is incredible but I am starting to look hungrily at the XPro-1.

Here are 3 of the X100 images I took on Sun:

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Yes it was Brooklands - a place of special significance to me since my Grandfather was Chief Maintenance Electrician at Vickers during WW2. I go there once or twice a year. There is one workshop in particular that just transports me back to my childhood - it looks and smells just like his shed. The "Walmington On Sea Home Guard" were indeed in attendance and managed to round up a Luftwaffe pilot...

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