Fujifilm X100F 24.3 MP APS-C Digital Camera-Silver

I have now owned every iteration of the x100. This one is the best by a good margin. I do a little bit of every kind of photography, but mainly street. The x100 is a fantastic general purpose camera. It's fun, it's stylish, it's portable, it's discreet, it makes very good filesAF: There is no doubt this is much better. It's on par with my micro 4/3 in speed and accuracy. It's held back somewhat by the older lens design and struggle some in REALLY low light. But this is the one area where the x100t still lagged a bit and i'm very pleased with the improvement.Lens: This lens is very good for the compromises that have been made to make it a pancake.Ergonomics: The x100 series all are great handlers. Unlike some I really like the iso dial integrated into the shutter speed dial. It operates smoothly. Much more so than the various film cameras i have fought with over the years. However I preferred the button layout on the T. The Q menu button is in a terrible location and it's hard to believe this passed any sort of user testing. As far as the joystick, many have raved about it, but i don't find it much more efficient than using the 4-way buttons as on the T. Also it's hard to manipulate the joystick during one handed operation.VF: The hybrid viewfinder is still a fun and useful novelty. In my early days of using the x100 i almost always used the ovf, but the evf has gotten so good that it is now my favorite method. The live preview is just too useful to pass up.IQ: I think the IQ of all the x100 models is special. Each has its own character but its hard to fault the detailed, punchy images produced by the new sensor. As for the acros simulation, yes all of the hype is justified. As a b&w film purist this is the first b&w digital simulation i've used that has genuine character.I was not going to upgrade any time soon, but my T suffered a fatal accident. In a way I'm almost glad because with the x100f the series has really reached its zenith and is fulfilling the original promise of this camera series. I owned a Leica Q for a few months, and honestly I prefer the x100f as it's more portable, almost as snappy, creates files of similar quality, is a better value, is less conspicuous, and has a more useful focal length (and can add 28mm as well with the wcl)

I've been searching for a digital pocket camera for years. I used to have a little Casio Exilim which took sweet photos, but later models did not hold up. Panasonic Lumix had one good model before becoming hit or miss. Olympus TG series is ok but has already gone downhill. Canon SureShot was a joke despite rave reviews. I continued to be frustrated.I snagged this model without looking at the pricetag and asked myself, What did I just do? Often when I look at the first images from a pocket digital camera I gasp. With the Fuji X100F I gasped for an entirely different reason - the images are spectacular. Hopefully you can see the first image off my camera just messing around in low light of my desk light with the settings on auto-everything. Amazing DOF and color which I describe as romantic. The B&W mode allows me to pump up the shadow and/or highlights for a tailored response.The controls, again, I kept saying "wow." The shutter speed and sensitivity are old school film camera style. Focus modes are a switch on the side like a full DSLR. The lens has an aperture ring with plenty of range. Manual focus mimics a film camera's fine control with focus peaking or digital split image focusing. It is so easy to use this camera. I had to hunt for maybe 6 settings, asking, where did they put THIS one? But, the others were easy to find. Right on the top I can nudge the EV knob with my thumb to tweak in highlights without guessing.Is it perfect? What camera is perfect? Like, if I rest it on its back it rests right on the LCD display so I ordered a screen protector. The neck strap is perfect but no wrist strap was included. Autofocus options are way overkill and I turn off all that face and eye detection. Transferring photos to a Mac? Be prepared to be disappointed as it doesn't show up as a disk drive (even my GPS shows up as a disk drive)... but, you can import using "Photos" app - which is slooooow and painful.It has a real rangefinder viewer with electronic parallax framing aid. Brilliant. Pull your eye away and the LCD snaps back on for accurate composition. Watson appears to have the best third-party batteries if you don't enjoy the Fuji pricetag on batteries.Oh - and it's a fixed "street camera" wide angle lens. This was a big decision. For the money, you could upgrade and just get a mirrorless camera with exchangeable lenses. The "zoom" does zoom in to simulated 50mm and 70mm at the sacrifice of a bit of quality. I would consider those settings to be "toy" settings just for play. If you want a larger image walk closer to your subject. The small lens keeps the profile small for portability.The style of the body is sweet to look at - very retro and doesn't look like a big black brick. There are plenty of overpriced leather cases and half-cases for the model so go nuts.