Fujifilm X100F 24.3 MP APS-C Digital Camera-Silver

Fantastic camera all around.I’ve used DSLR’s for over 15 years now as an amateur photographer and always enjoyed the flexibility of being able to manually adjust aperture, shutter, iso, etc. But for me, at a certain point lugging around the camera and lenses to different locations becomes a pain if photography is not the sole purpose (i.e. family outing).When it was time to upgrade the Canon 7D, I started looking at something more compact and was initially going to go with a model in the Sony RX100 line. But, I couldn’t get past having to dive into menus to adjust settings that I had adjusted with a physical button for years. And that is where the Fuji comes into play.It has the smaller form factor of a point and shoot, physical buttons to adjust almost everything you would want to adjust on the fly, and functions more like a DSLR than a point and shoot. The picture profiles are beautiful and I find myself shooting in BW Acros more than color. Photo quality is good, not great, but that could be a separate review. I will say, most importantly to me, the skin tones are exceptionally pleasing. And it has internal ND filters!!The one HUGE caveat is the fixed 23mm lens. If you’re coming from digital zooms, this might be a bit much to handle. If you’re coming from DSLR’s, not so much. I know there are lenses to expand the range of this camera, but it kind of defeats the point of what it is. Personally, I don’t plan on ever doing that and it’s been an extremely fun challenge making the 23mm work in any situation. You’re not going to be able to capture the classic portrait shot that an 85mm would get you, but that’s the trade off you’re making for everything else the x100f gets you.All in all, very happy with this purchase and if you have a photography background, you’ll be extremely pleased. It excels as a family camera for us due to its form factor, but I still get to dial in manual settings for the perfect shot.

I've been searching for a digital pocket camera for years. I used to have a little Casio Exilim which took sweet photos, but later models did not hold up. Panasonic Lumix had one good model before becoming hit or miss. Olympus TG series is ok but has already gone downhill. Canon SureShot was a joke despite rave reviews. I continued to be frustrated.I snagged this model without looking at the pricetag and asked myself, What did I just do? Often when I look at the first images from a pocket digital camera I gasp. With the Fuji X100F I gasped for an entirely different reason - the images are spectacular. Hopefully you can see the first image off my camera just messing around in low light of my desk light with the settings on auto-everything. Amazing DOF and color which I describe as romantic. The B&W mode allows me to pump up the shadow and/or highlights for a tailored response.The controls, again, I kept saying "wow." The shutter speed and sensitivity are old school film camera style. Focus modes are a switch on the side like a full DSLR. The lens has an aperture ring with plenty of range. Manual focus mimics a film camera's fine control with focus peaking or digital split image focusing. It is so easy to use this camera. I had to hunt for maybe 6 settings, asking, where did they put THIS one? But, the others were easy to find. Right on the top I can nudge the EV knob with my thumb to tweak in highlights without guessing.Is it perfect? What camera is perfect? Like, if I rest it on its back it rests right on the LCD display so I ordered a screen protector. The neck strap is perfect but no wrist strap was included. Autofocus options are way overkill and I turn off all that face and eye detection. Transferring photos to a Mac? Be prepared to be disappointed as it doesn't show up as a disk drive (even my GPS shows up as a disk drive)... but, you can import using "Photos" app - which is slooooow and painful.It has a real rangefinder viewer with electronic parallax framing aid. Brilliant. Pull your eye away and the LCD snaps back on for accurate composition. Watson appears to have the best third-party batteries if you don't enjoy the Fuji pricetag on batteries.Oh - and it's a fixed "street camera" wide angle lens. This was a big decision. For the money, you could upgrade and just get a mirrorless camera with exchangeable lenses. The "zoom" does zoom in to simulated 50mm and 70mm at the sacrifice of a bit of quality. I would consider those settings to be "toy" settings just for play. If you want a larger image walk closer to your subject. The small lens keeps the profile small for portability.The style of the body is sweet to look at - very retro and doesn't look like a big black brick. There are plenty of overpriced leather cases and half-cases for the model so go nuts.