Fujifilm X100F Mirrorless Digital Camera, Silver

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Of course to be fair, these are not the subjects the X100 series was designed to shoot. It’s more of a street camera, aimed at snapping individual moments rather than an action sequence. As such it’s not a major complaint, more of an observation, but for a fifth generation – or indeed a new line – I’d like to see a lens that focuses faster and does justice to the sensors behind it. If you want a Fuji sensor in a smaller body, there’s the X70, although it employs the previous 16 Megapixel X-Trans II sensor. The obvious question then is whether it’ll be updated to an ‘X80’ in the future with the latest 24 Megapixel X-Trans III, but I’m told the sensor and processor are too power-hungry for the smaller battery and form factor of the X70. So right now if you want a Fuji sensor in the smallest possible body, it’ll be the older X70 for X-Trans II or the X100F if you want the latest X-Trans III.

Above: Fujifilm X100F (left) next to the Panasonic Lumix GX800 / GX850 (right). The Lumix has a slightly smaller sensor and no viewfinder, but is a full interchangeable lens camera with an articulated touchscreen and 4k video. It feels like a high end product through and through and is versatile enough to be recommended as one of the best travel cameras. Like other X-Trans III bodies, you can apply any of the Film Simulations to movies, including the high contrast ACROS monochrome. There’s no flat profile for subsequent grading, but the Astia simulation is fairly muted.Above are 100% crops showing, from left to right, no grain, weak grain and strong grain. The original image was shot at 200 ISO with the ACROS simulation. Below is a colour shot with the Provia simulation at 200 ISO, followed by three more crops presented at 100% to show the grain effect on a colour image. The Fujifilm X100F's maximum shutter speed is 30 seconds in the Manual mode, and there's a Bulb mode which allows exposures up to 60 minutes long, which is excellent news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 30 seconds at ISO 200. Images are extremely detailed, with the overall impression of detail at normal printing and web sizes being very impressive. Examining at 100% reveals lots of fine detail across the frame, especially at the lower sensitivities (up to around ISO 800). From ISO 1600, the impression of detail is still fantastic at normal printing sizes, but you can start to see some parts of the image becoming a little painterly and smudgy when examining at 100%. It’s a similar story at ISO 3200, where the overall impression is fantastic - but examine closely and some areas have lost detail. Both ISO 6400 and ISO 12800 are more than useable at prints up to around A4 size, while the expansion setting of 25600 is there if you need it. The second expansion setting of ISO 51200 could be useful in some extreme circumstances, but it’s best to avoid it if at all possible. Considering the lens offers a maximum aperture of f/2, it’s likely to be the case that you seldom need such a high ISO speed. Announced on 19 January, the new X100F is the fourth generation model in Fujifilm's compact, fixed lens camera that began in 2010 with the original X100, which we reviewed in April 2011. The new camera features the same 24.3-megapixel X-Trans CMOS III sensor and X-Processor Pro image processor as the X-T20 and comes with an Advanced Hybrid Viewfinder with changeable magnification and Real Time Parallax Correction. Improvements have been made to overall handling and battery capacity.

The Xiaomi 12T Pro offers a whopping 200MP main camera, but how does this perform, and do the other cameras deliver? Joshua Waller puts it through its paces. The mechanical shutter provides speeds of 30-1/4000sec, although with some limitations
on combining speeds faster than 1/1000sec with large apertures. However a fully electronic shutter option allows the top speed to be extended to 1/32,000sec, regardless of the aperture selected. While the mechanical shutter is extremely quiet, the electronic option is completely silent. However, enabling it disables the extended ISOs. An alternative means of shooting with large apertures in bright light is to engage the lens’s built-in 3-stop neutral-density filter. Exposures are generally well-exposed when using the general “photometry” setting, with the exposure compensation dial only desperately needed in scenes with particularly high contrast. Last week I bought a Nikon D500 and I was about to buy a fast 24mm Prime. My good friend who manages our local camera store suggested the X100F as it was in the same price range as a Prime. ... Done! (We had discussed this option since the first X100.)The X100F offers the same mechanical shutter speed range as its predecessors, from 30 seconds to 1/4000. You can select shutter speeds between one second and 1/4000 directly from the dedicated dial in 1EV increments, and use the rear thumb dial to fine-tune by +/-0.6EV in 0.3EV increments. If you set the shutter speed dial to T, you can use the rear thumb dial to choose from the entire shutter speed range of 1/4000 to 30 seconds in 0.3EV increments.