Fuji X100

86JR · 30 May 2014 at 04:50

Thinking of buying a secondhand X100, mainly for taking pictures of my dog and car, and hopefully some candid street work too. Just for fun, and depending how much I can get the camera for.

Is this good? All I have seen are some reviews online and loads of awesome pictures on Google Images.

Can you change lenses if so which is best? Will it fit on my Red Snapper Tripod?

I don't really want a big bulky DSLR anymore.

Thanks

Beepcake · 30 May 2014 at 08:44

You are thinking of spending around £300 on a camera, have read the reviews, but don't know that it's a fixed lens? Hmmm

So, no, you can't change the lens - if you want that there's other cameras in their range. It has a standard tripod connector on the bottom, so should fit your tripod just fine.

It's sort of range-finder-like, in so much as it's a bit quirky to use and you have parallaxing between the viewfinder and the actual shot (assuming you don't use the electronic viewfinder, but that's kinda defeating the whole point of the camera) - I have one and I love it, but there's no way I'd have it as my only camera.

CGrieves · 30 May 2014 at 11:57

There are tele (TCL-X100, 50mm equivalent) and wide (WCL-X100, 28mm equivalent) conversion lenses available from Fuji, they slot on though rather than replace the existing lens.

For £250 you could pick up a used X-E1, but you'd still need a couple of hundred for a lens. You'd end up with a more flexible system that could potentially replace a DSLR- as Beepcake implies, the X100 isn't really intended for that purpose anyway.

If you want something compact, flexible and with decent IQ, maybe consider the X20- an inbuilt fast aperture zoom lens, optical viewfinder with an overlay (no EVF though), and similar funky styling to the X100, but a smaller sensor.

Beepcake · 30 May 2014 at 12:25

I also have an XF1 alongside my X100 (and my SLR obviously) .. tbh, the XF1 gets more use, although I haven't had the X100 that long, and partly bought it for the sync speed.

CGrieves · 30 May 2014 at 13:06

Beepcake said:
I also have an XF1 alongside my X100 (and my SLR obviously) .. tbh, the XF1 gets more use, although I haven't had the X100 that long, and partly bought it for the sync speed.

Yep, I had an XF1 and loved it, an absolute bargain of a camera.

My only problem with it was that every time I took a pic I held the damn thing up to my eye, and then had to try to nonchalantly recover, missing the shot in the process

The X-E2 solved my need for an eyepiece....