Thread: Borrowed a X100 from work...WOW it's good!!

Andy, in all seriousness...if you can get a good deal on the camera....grab it!
There is nothing that compares to the X100. It is a very important camera in the history of cameras.
You will enjoy it for sure. I know I joke around a lot but not on this one...
Anyone that pays attention to your work would agree....
Don

Originally Posted by Streetshooter

Andy, in all seriousness...if you can get a good deal on the camera....grab it!
There is nothing that compares to the X100. It is a very important camera in the history of cameras.
You will enjoy it for sure. I know I joke around a lot but not on this one...
Anyone that pays attention to your work would agree....
Don

Don

I really do appreciate your input and consider you as a bit of a Godfather fugure in this mad world of photography, probably because I love your work! I will probably be able to get a good deal from work so knowing me I'll be a proud owner of a X100 by this time tomorrow. I'll keep you all in informed as to what happens.

Thanks

You'll love it Andy - you're off to a great start already. Use it VERY well!

I recently bought an X-Pro while in NYC because I like the focal lengths more than the X-100 and there are some very real improvements in the interface. I sent the GXR and X100 home with my wife and shot just with the X-Pro 1 and my m43 gear. The plan was to sell the X100 and the GXR. But a funny thing happened when I got home and picked up the X100 again - I don't know if I can sell it. There's just something about the feel of that camera that is just so RIGHT! The X-Pro IQ is at least as good, a bit better in some ways, and the interface really IS much improved. But I'm not sure what I'm gonna do now. I'm likely to take a beating selling the GXR, which may force me to sell the X100. Realistically I'm not going to actually USE both the X100 and X-Pro enough to justify keeping both. But I'm actually emotionally torn over selling the X100. This doesn't happen to me - I loved my EPL3 and I just sold that and shipped it off without a thought. But the X100 is killing me - I've evidently bonded with that camera in a serious way. ARRRGGGHHHH! What to do?!?!?!?

Which is not your problem Andy - just another testimonial to the wonderfulness of the X100. Anybody want to pay waaaaay too much for a GXR and 28???? Didn't think so.

-Ray

I'm glad it's you with that problem!!

Originally Posted by Ray

You'll love it Andy - you're off to a great start already. Use it VERY well!

I recently bought an X-Pro while in NYC because I like the focal lengths more than the X-100 and there are some very real improvements in the interface. I sent the GXR and X100 home with my wife and shot just with the X-Pro 1 and my m43 gear. The plan was to sell the X100 and the GXR. But a funny thing happened when I got home and picked up the X100 again - I don't know if I can sell it. There's just something about the feel of that camera that is just so RIGHT! The X-Pro IQ is at least as good, a bit better in some ways, and the interface really IS much improved. But I'm not sure what I'm gonna do now. I'm likely to take a beating selling the GXR, which may force me to sell the X100. Realistically I'm not going to actually USE both the X100 and X-Pro enough to justify keeping both. But I'm actually emotionally torn over selling the X100. This doesn't happen to me - I loved my EPL3 and I just sold that and shipped it off without a thought. But the X100 is killing me - I've evidently bonded with that camera in a serious way. ARRRGGGHHHH! What to do?!?!?!?

Which is not your problem Andy - just another testimonial to the wonderfulness of the X100. Anybody want to pay waaaaay too much for a GXR and 28???? Didn't think so.

-Ray

I was going to ask you what you were going to do with the X100. It would seem like a great companion for the XPro1 - you would have compact option, but then also the 35 FoV (until there is an X option).

Originally Posted by krugorg

I was going to ask you what you were going to do with the X100. It would seem like a great companion for the XPro1 - you would have compact option, but then also the 35 FoV (until there is an X option).

I'm actually not that huge on the 35mm - I much prefer the 28 and the wider lenses to come (and that I already have covered in m43 anyhow). And the OMD is the compact option (and also vastly useful in ways that neither of the Fuji's are). I don't really have a place or a role for the X100, but it just feels so right in the hand that to sell it somehow feels wrong. The X-Pro doesn't feel too big too me on its own, but then when I pick up the X100 and it back to back, it feels HUGE. I've often said that the X-100 was probably my favorite camera even if it was my least used camera. I still sort of feel that way, and now it'll be used even less. But what to do? I don't have a clue. If I manage to sell the GXR, I'll probably just keep it for a while and see if I shoot with it at all. And if I don't, THEN I'll sell it. But if I can't get anything to speak of for the GXR, a much tougher problem... The GXR in retrospect was a mistake. I like it just fine, but I sort of bought it to help talk myself out of the "need" for the X-Pro, being a good low light option at 28mm - that obviously didn't work! And now its probably my least re-sellable camera but its got no role in my shooting now - both the X-Pro and the OMD are as good or better in low light. I've generally made really good decisions on cameras and have only taken significant resale losses on camera's I'd wrung a huge amount of use out of. But I have a feeling I'm gonna take bath on that one. Oh well, live and learn...

-Ray

donating the GXR and writing it off might be the best way

Andy, I got nothing but love for ya, you know that.
I always enjoyed your photos, especially the garden & workshop series.
The X100 will show you a new way of seeing and thinking.
With only one focal length, you have no choice but to see more clearly without diversion.
Good luck.... Don

Ray, post the GXR on eBay. It should sell fast as there is never any used stuff there.
Don

I'm kind of in the same boat as Ray. The x100 is a wonderful camera, amazing image quality. I love mine, it has me interested in photography again as I feel I'm "thinking" about it much more, maybe more involved. But I missed having different focal lengths so I picked up the XPro1 and I love it as well, but when they're sitting side by side, the x100 almost beckons me to pick it up and take it out. Since getting the xpro, the x100 doesn't get used at all but I'm having a hard time deciding what to do with it. I really want to keep things simple and only want to own one camera, but I don't know if I can let go of the x100. It's an odd little beast, but with the latest firmware it's really improving.
If you get the x100, you'll love it, just be aware of it's limitations.

Kris

Uh-oh. I should not have read this thread. I have been resisting the X100.