Hey Paul,
Nice writeup. And I agree with just about all of it, save the power down time. I've witnessed a huge delay in power down, especially compared to the X100.
And I don' want to steal ANY of your thunder from your review but please allow me to add a link to my own review I did for Precision Camera back when the X1 was released. Please excuse the weird formatting errors:
Leica X1 â
This review may be of particular interest to Serious Compact members since I relate the X1 to other film and digital compacts.
I just want to state (edit: gloat) for the record that in the review I called for a hybrid optical/EVF viewfinder, never thinking someone would do it so soon! Maybe Fuji was listening ???
Best,
Chad