Glen Barrington
Rookie
- Location
- Reading, PA, USA
I was in NY yesterday for the CloudForce meeting at the Javits convention center.(A computer geek thing, don't worry about it), and son of a gun! This mid-western boy found himself actually walking by B&H! The place he has sent money to so many times on faith alone!
Convention be damned! My shoes actually forced me into their building. So Cool! I never saw a camera shop with roped off waiting lines in front of sales clerks who waited like priests waiting to take confession before. (Forgive me, Canon, I had impure thoughts about Olympus) But to the point. I got to actually hold both "X"s there.
I really liked both of them very much. The X10 felt VERY good in my hand as a compact. I had been wanting a Canon G12, but I'm pretty certain now that X10 is the way to go for me. . .
BUT! The X100 felt like a camera of substance and means. I want one of them too!
I loved the OVF, the size and the 'heft'. Curiously, I felt the EVF option, while cool, was kind of redundant. Considering the sort of things I like to shoot and how I like to shoot them, combined with the single lens option, the electronic viewscreen would seem to be more comfortable and as likely to be used by me when I need a TTL view.
To me, the EVF option should be in an ILC type camera, not a fixed lens camera. I wonder why Fuji seems to be distancing itself from the dual VF concept? At any rate, I suspect I will be buying an X10 in February and wait and see what the Fuji ILC camera is like in 2013.
Convention be damned! My shoes actually forced me into their building. So Cool! I never saw a camera shop with roped off waiting lines in front of sales clerks who waited like priests waiting to take confession before. (Forgive me, Canon, I had impure thoughts about Olympus) But to the point. I got to actually hold both "X"s there.
I really liked both of them very much. The X10 felt VERY good in my hand as a compact. I had been wanting a Canon G12, but I'm pretty certain now that X10 is the way to go for me. . .
BUT! The X100 felt like a camera of substance and means. I want one of them too!
I loved the OVF, the size and the 'heft'. Curiously, I felt the EVF option, while cool, was kind of redundant. Considering the sort of things I like to shoot and how I like to shoot them, combined with the single lens option, the electronic viewscreen would seem to be more comfortable and as likely to be used by me when I need a TTL view.
To me, the EVF option should be in an ILC type camera, not a fixed lens camera. I wonder why Fuji seems to be distancing itself from the dual VF concept? At any rate, I suspect I will be buying an X10 in February and wait and see what the Fuji ILC camera is like in 2013.