Excellent condition and includes the Fujifilm carry bag.
A compact camera with an SLR-size APS-C sensor and traditional analogue control dials, that hides ground-breaking technology inside a retro-styled body with looks to die for. The build quality is superb. The top and base plates are die-cast using lightweight, high-strength magnesium alloy, and all the controls and dials are milled from solid metal. Some plastic makes an appearance on the back, of course, for the buttons and four-way controller/rear dial, and it’s also used for the battery/SD compartment door, but overall the X100 gives a rare impression of solidity. Indeed of all current digital cameras, arguably only the Leica M9 can challenge the X100 for its sheer build quality and beauty as an object.
The X100 uses a distinctly traditional control layout, clearly inspired by fully-mechanical compacts from the 1960s and '70s, with top-plate dials for shutter speed and exposure compensation, plus aperture and manual focus rings around the lens barrel. The shutter button is even threaded for a good old-fashioned mechanical cable release, and the rangefinder-esque layout is completed by the big, bright finder at the top corner of the body. Of course these controls aren't at all the same as those on a Leica M6 (for example), because they're electronic rather than manual, but on the whole the illusion works pretty well.
What's perhaps most impressive about the X100, however, is the way Fujifilm has managed to build a high quality EVF into a relatively compact body. This is by itself is an achievement, that's all-too-easy to overlook in the excitement of the finder being 'hybrid'. But it gives the lie, once and for all, to the idea that cameras with built-in EVFs need to look like miniature SLRs, complete with faux pentaprism 'hump'. It would be nice to see the manufacturers of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras following this direction, 'folding' an EVF's optical path within a slimline body design.
Key features
•12 megapixel APS-C sized CMOS sensor
•Fixed 23mm F2 lens (field of view equivalent to a 35mm lens on full frame)
•2.8" LCD screen, 4:3 aspect ratio, 460,000 dots
•Hybrid optical / electronic viewfinder
•OVF with 0.5x magnification, projected framelines indicate approx 90% of field of view
•EVF with ca 0.5x magnification, 1,440,000 dots
•Traditional-style control dials for shutter speed, aperture and exposure compensation
•ISO 100 (L), 200-6400, 12800 (H)
•Flash hot shoe and built-in flash
•Built-in neutral density filter (3 stops)
•1280x720 HD movie recording with stereo sound
**Collection in Johannesburg area
