On 8/1/12, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >Cotty got the Fuji X10 raved how wonderful it was. It piqued my >interest because the combination of a manually controlled zoom with a >zooming optical finder seemed intriguing. I bought one. My sum up ...
You sly dog!!! > >- I never saw any of the saturation blobs in my photographs that >people seem to be so upset about. Just didn't find anything that >created them, I guess. +1 > >- Overall, the picture quality was excellent but somehow lacking to my >eye. Maybe I've gotten spoiled, but even my partner who isn't a >photographer at all said, "They look nice. But they're flat, they >don't seem to have the look that your other pictures do." Find this a bit odd. I have mine set to the Velvia setting and the tone and colours jump out at me and grab me by the throat! I absolutely love it! But surely this is to do with post-processing for printing? > >- I find several niggles with the control layout: confusing menus and >options, buttons that don't fit my hands or where I expect to reach to >use them, an overall feel of too many bits and buttons in too little >space for my comfort. It's a very small camera - on the borderline for my big hands but that's also why I love it - I can carry it one-handed with no strap and it can't be easily seen until brought up to the eye. I thought that I would like it a little bigger when I first got it but now in retrospect I realise I was wrong - it is the perfect size for me. I have no issues with buttons or placement. If you want eclectic, I reckon you can't beat an EOS 1D series! > >- The manual zoom control and matched, zooming optical viewfinder are >certainly very nice. And the viewfinder is pretty good quality. The >focusing speed and shot to shot response is very good. Lots of fun >imaging effects in it too. It packs a lot in - and some might think it tries to be too much - but actually if I had to take one camera around the world with me, traveling light - I would have no hesitation in choosing the X10. > >- The 2/3" sensor is very good for providing lots of DoF, but that's >also the negative side of the X10 for me: such a small sensor means >too little focus zone control for my preferences. Agreed. That said, I wouldn't choose any camera with a small sensor for such work. >- Not Fuji's fault, but the fancy sensor dynamics seemed to cause no >end of problems in processing raw files with Lightroom v3.6. I'm back to jpegs I'm afraid - the dynamic range feature gives amazing latitude - plenty for my needs. I'm happy-snapping my way :) > >In the end, I couldn't think of a reason why I'd prefer to carry the >Fuji X10 instead of my Ricoh GXR other than the availability of a >short zoom lens with matched optical finder. That was just not enough. >It's a good camera, just not for me. Back to the dealer it went. Fair enough! I am so glad I got one - it's just what I wanted! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- 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.
