First Impression of X100

Playing with in-camera panorama. It still suffers the ghost effect (look at the weird face of the barista).  

Color is pretty accurate.

Jpeg is ok but image looks much better after raw adjustment.

With 16x9 format, it's exactly the same as my phone camera, with much more details.

With its slow auto-focus, it's almost impossible to photo Miti.

Focus is way too slow, manual focus is even slower. Still, I like its color rendering.

The fun of shooting B&W

Played with X100 this morning. First impression, it has tons of flaws. It's too heavy. Focus is slow (slower even than my D70). Usability sucks (I consider any camera that requires me to read user manual has usability issues). It also has the slowest writing speed to the SD card (slower than any camera I had ever owned). Also, when using raw, the shutter speed cannot be lower than 1/1000 so I got a few over-exposed photos and it took me a while to understand why. In short, my D5100 is a much better buy at half the price.

What's its strength? The 35mm Fujinon is an excellent lens, rendering low distortion and very accurate colors. (Color has always been Fuji's strength since the film days.) It will be a good replacement for my cell phone camera. But will I take it with me all the time? I doubt it. So for now, it's more like a white elephant I have to learn to justify.