Bill, you should definitely write reviews. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:21 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/05/2011 6:16 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilmx100/ >> >> They were clearly exasperated with the combination of wonderful camera >> and stupid flaws. I have to admit I'm not that tempted. I would do >> better to buy some nice glass for the E-P1, or get the E-P2 with the >> EVF and then get some nice glass. I'm just not sure I would want to >> drop that much money on a camera with a fixed lens at the >> 35mm-equivalent FL, which is not my favorite. The fact that I'm >> taking so much trouble to explain why I don't want it is suspicious, >> however. I suspect that if $$$ weren't a factor I would buy one and >> use it whenever I could. >> > I got to handle on a couple of weeks ago at the local pusher's trade show. > It is a thing of beauty, but it is small and fiddly. > The viewfinder is very nice in AF mode, but in manual focus mode (EV) it is > the typical pile of dung electronic viewfinder viewfinder that I have come > to abhor. One would think that they could at least try to improve on the > flickery colour TV effect that is reminiscent of a broken 1960s RCA TV with > these things, but apparently they think we will be wowed by garbage > technology because the marketing boffins tell us to be wowed. > I've gone from wanting one enough to trade my pancreas for one to thinking > I'd rather have my pancreas ripped out through my arsehole than be forced to > use one of the things. > > But it sure is pretty. > Think of it as the camera equivalent of Paris Hilton. > > -- > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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