Ken Rockwell analiza la Fuji X100F: solo para complementar lo que ya sabemos.

Una compacta muy chula, la 4ª ya, pero no para todo el mundo.

Muy breve:

Es simplemente el análisis del supergurú Ken Rockwell sobre la Fuji X100T.

No creo que nos diga nada que no sepamos ya, pero como este hombre pone las imágenes tan grandes, le podréis ver todos los poros a la maquinita.

También hay bastantes muestras, algunas con un color, a mi parecer, un tanto surrealista, como de dibujo animado.

Por poner algo os pongo aquí sus típicos apartados al que ha añadido uno de «lo nuevo desde la X100T.

New since X100T

The X100F is the 2017 version of 2014’s superb X100T. It’s the same great camera with tweaks to many details. It looks, feels and shoots just like the X100T; it’s just many small details that have changed:

• 24 MP sensor, up from 16 MP.
• New, smart «Digital Teleconverter» mode lets me turn the lens ring with the shutter unpressed for 50mm- and 70mm-equivalant angles of view. It’s smart enough that the smaller resolution settings work with no loss of sharpness or resolution— exactly as if you had 35mm, 50mm and 70mm lenses on a LEICA. With the shutter half-pressed, this same ring gives manual focus.
• New front control dial.
• New thumb nubbin, called a «focus lever» by Fuji, is an AF-point selector, menu navigator and playback controller. AF is so good you rarely need to use it for AF; its real benefit is that it makes playback so much faster and easier. It’s a better way to do what you also can do on the existing rear multi controller.
• New ISO dial inside the shutter-speed dial, just like 1970s SLRs. Lift the shutter dial and turn to set ISO.
• New Fn 2 button: press-in the front viewfinder control lever. It usually selects what the lens ring does but you can program it otherwise.
• Battery gauge now has five segments which makes it useful; the old X100T had a relatively worthless three segment indicator that only let you know when the battery was almost dead.
• Rear buttons all moved to the right side, or at least reachable with the right thumb, for one-handed shooting. This also means that your thumb no longer pokes you in the eye when you hit PLAY, since the play button is no linger under the eyepiece, thank goodness.
• The shutter dial now rotates through 360.º
• «C» position on the exposure compensation dial covers ±5 stops with the front command dial in case the directly selected ±3 stop range of the dial clicks isn’t enough.
• Silent electronic shutter now can expose as long as 30 seconds, up from 1 second in X100T. It also works from ISO 200 ~ 12,800, up from ISO 200 ~ 6,400 in the X100T. Neither of these electronic shutters work at ISO 100 and neither works with flash; you have to use the nearly silent leaf shutter for that.
• 8 FPS versus 6 FPS of X100T, but still only in a goofy locked-focus and exposure mode.
• 60 frame buffer at 8 FPS versus 25 frame buffer at 6 FPS of X100T in JPG; similar gains in raw.
• Now uses the larger NP-W126S battery and BC-W126 charger common to most other Fuji cameras.
• The AF illuminator LED is now behind a small window in the top cover to make this camera look more like a LEICA’s classic optomechanical rangefinder system.
• New ACROS B&W film simulation mode, in addition to the usual B&W modes. Both these have three additional options to simulate the use of a Yellow, Green or Red filter.
• New anti-scratch tape on the top cover near the strap lugs.

Extra

• WiFi for use with Fuji’s app for transferring images and controlling the X100F remotely.

Bad

• Changed, but still no real improvement in Fuji’s obtuse menu structure. For instance, Format Card is hidden at Menu > Wrench > User Setting > Format.
• No easy way to select between ISO 25,600 and ISO 51,200. You have to program the H setting of the ISO dial to be one or the other at Menu > Wrench > Button/Dial Setting > ISO Dial Setting (H) > (set 25,600 or 51,200).
• Recorded audio sounds like mono; the two well-separated stereo mics of the X100T have been reduced to either one mono mic, or two mics separated by only a half inch (1 cm) and sound the same as mono with little to no separation.

Missing

Nothing serious, just fluff I don’t need:

• No AF Lock. Yes, there is an AFL button, but I’ve never been able to get it to work on any of my Fuji X100 series cameras. No worries, I just flick the X100F’s AF Mode slide switch to M and I’m locked even better. A tap of the AFL button will make the camera focus once and lock when in Manual focus mode.
• No GPS.
• No flip screen.
• No 4K video.
• No headphone jack, but does have a 2.5mm Mic In jack.
• There’s a level for tilting (a.k.a. Dutching or roll), but no display for up/down (pitch).
• No flash ON/OFF slide switch; instead you have to fiddle with flash modes with a control button and dial that takes too many clicks just to turn the flash ON or OFF.
• No more internal memory for image storage. Older models used to have about 10 MB of spare internal storage so you could take just a few photos if you forgot to put in a card, but now you always need a card to take pictures.
• While there is a new thumb nubbin, new Fn 2 button and a new front control dial, gone is the left-side Fn (Wi-FI) button, and the dedicated DRIVE MODE button has now moved to take up the top button of the four-way rear controller. While we still have a DRIVE MODE button, we’ve lost the programmable top rear-controlled button that I never used anyway.

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