That Fuji X100 got me thinking

[agorabasta]

Well, OK, that's a nice and prolly quite expensive gadget. Hopefully they'll have some wide and tele adapters available later on. But they would lose the ability of rangefinder-type MF with any adapter. (I don't even know if they used that opportunity at all.)

But then we have a Nex pancake with some adapters available now... I know for sure that there are no physical limitations to prohibit a zoom adapter in principle. But then why not try and make a whole interchangeable adapter system instead of ILS? Maybe there are considerable cost limitations to that?
Otherwise, I could envision a system with a top quality 'base' lens having the focusing/aperture and the OSS and the ability to adapt to the adapter type attached and then quite a few adapters to go with it, all of varying properties/quality/price. That would be an 'interchangeable adapter system', sorta...

Any thoughts?

[bfitzgerald]

Thoughts..? Yeah

I was completely blown away came from nowhere. I spent half an hour with my jaw hanging down. That's after I fell off my chair too!
I've never actually been into deep camera love..but honestly I wept for almost an hour with joy

Ok it's pricey..and I'm not a big spender. I have to say right now I have to have this..and I will get it!

p.s.

I never get blown away so something has to be going on here and big time. I am in love with a camera!

[InTheSky]

I can admit that the camera look very sexy. One of my coworker told me why the camera is ugly like this and looks like an old station wagon with wood on the side ... I told him that this camera for Camera lover is more like Chrysler working to recreate the old Challenger .

Real Fujinon lens looks really great (has it should be).

Well ... I will pass my turn on this one ... but if it was not that I already bought a Sony NEX (and that this NEX camera never exist) that will for sure be on the thing I want in my pocket.

Regards,

Frank

[Dr. Harout]

It's a beauty.

[agorabasta]

Mee droooling tooooo.....

I may even choose to upgrade my primary dust-collector cam from Lx3 to X100. Much classier that is for sure!

More seriously, though, a bit less vanity in styling while coupled with a 16mm lens and an about 20Mp APS sensor would make tons of sense to me.

[bfitzgerald]

I bet Greg will love this puppy too!

How can you not be charmed by it? It's traditional shooters dream come true..
Now I have to find some bits to sell

[Birma]

What ever floats your boat guys . I prefer the looks of the Nex 5 and 16 mm. The Nex won Channel 5's Gadget Show best small system camera review tonight and so it is confirmed as the Philistine's choice

[bfitzgerald]

The gadget show is fun I watch it at times..but only because I like the legs not the other presenters lol

NEX could be great if only the let a photographer work on the handling.

[Greg Beetham]

Finally a camera co. with someone in the design team that actually does photography. Yeah wow that baby will sell too photographers for sure, check the f-stop ring on the lens, the shutter speed dial, (it's even got a quaint self timer) you can see what the camera is set at without even turning it on, truly lovely. AND they sensibly put a lens on the APS-C format sensor that delivers 1X perspective just like I would want, (remember when you bought an SLR and they mostly had a 50mm standard lens that gave approx 1X natural perspecive). The only limiting factor is, it looks as though it's a fixed lens camera, (I haven't read the whole reveiw yet).
Greg

ps. Uh oh I was just re-reading it, it's actually a 23mm lens, not a 35mm lens, hmm maybe I'd have second thoughts after all with a fixed lens camera that's not 1X perspective.

[tom power 53]

Very cool looking camera without a doubt. So is a Porsche a very cool looking car.

Very limited focally as no interchangeable lenses and very expensive - reported at about US$1500.

Would be fun to have this camera just like it would be fun to have a Porsche.

I bet it will be an awesome camera to own but you certainly don't want it as your only camera. This is the fun Sunday afternoon version I think.

[KevinBarrett]

Would be fun to have this camera just like it would be fun to have a Porsche.

I have a Mazda MX-5 (accounting for my impractical purchases allowance for a while), and my kit already has a 24mm prime lens. So, I think I can pass on the little X100, but don't get me wrong--it's still an object of lust, just like a Porsche. It just makes me happy to know that somebody's making a real photographer's camera with so much analog appeal.

[David Kilpatrick]

About £1200 UK, and sometime (uncertain) in 2011. A lot of journos are saying it looks like a Leica - well, it looks more like any one of a number of leaf shutter rangefinders from the 1950s-60s, than it does like a Leica. But it stil looks good. I'm wondering where this has come from. Fuji generally does not manufacture its own specialist cameras and for many years has relied on the company which made Rittreck, Norita and Horseman cameras to do the actually body work. This camera looks as if a small specialist factory devised it - much the way the Hasselblad XPan ('made' by Fuji but really a Horseman design) was created.

No hands-in product, I gather, though something may emerge later in photokina.

David

[bossel]

It's not as cool as the X100, but you could get a NEX5 plus the just reveiled (for 2011) CZ wide angle prime for the E-mount

[douglasf13]

Assuming the IQ checks out, I am not going to able to resist adding this camera to my NEX and Alpha gear. $1000 seems very reasonable.

[bfitzgerald]

I watched this video

http://vimeo.com/15154318

How nice to hear a company get photographers involved in a product and to clearly state it's "for photographers"
Shame we can't get some of the folks in Alpha land to do the same.

Sony would never release a product like this in a million years. I hope it's a huge hit..the price is fair, and they've worked on off set micro lenses too. Lots of thought gone into this one.