{"id":13224,"date":"2011-09-01T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=13224"},"modified":"2012-12-31T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:59:39","slug":"fuji-disappoints-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/09\/01\/fuji-disappoints-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuji disappoints – again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good try, no cigar.<\/i><\/p>\n

Having flipped<\/a> my Fuji X100 for a quick profit, sight unseen, box unopened a while back, predicated on the realization that its software made even Microsoft Windows ’95 look good, I was excited to read about their latest offering, the X10.<\/p>\n

Everything about it at first glance looks right. A fast f\/2-2.8, 28-112 zoom lens, a real optical zooming finder (you know, like the Olympus C5050 had a century ago), and an ergonomic design that just screams ‘hold me’. Then you get to the sensor.<\/p>\n

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The Fuji X10.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

APS-C? Nope.<\/p>\n

OK then, MFT? Nope.<\/p>\n

How about (get the barf bag) a 6.8mm x 8.8mm (euphemistically called a 2\/3″ in the trade to fool buyers – last I checked 2\/3″ was around 17mm) piece of doo-doo? That’s all of 58 sq. mm., compared with 225 for MFT, 329 for APS-C and 864 for full frame. So the area of the crappy little sensor in this largish body is but one quarter of that in the G1, and the latter struggles with noise above ISO 400 or in poor light. No need to say more.<\/p>\n

There is a fortune waiting for the manufacturer who can make a body just like this and implant a proper sensor for, goodness knows, there’s enough room in there. Price it as a premium compact, sell it for $750 (15 of these gets you an obsolete Leica M9), and you clean up. How hard can that be?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I continue to wait on Amazon to ship my G1 upgrade, the G3<\/a>, an event I now expect to occur when the US balances its budget.<\/p>\n

Here’s the X10 superimposed on the outline of the Panasonic G3 – think there’s room for a proper sensor in the X10?<\/p>\n

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X10 with G3 profile in red.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

The extra height of the G3 results from the flash in the ‘prism’ hump, easily moved to the side, as the X10 does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good try, no cigar. Having flipped my Fuji X100 for a quick profit, sight unseen, box unopened a while back, predicated on the realization that its software made even Microsoft Windows ’95 look good, I was excited to read about their latest offering, the X10. Everything about it at first glance looks right. A fast … Continue reading Fuji disappoints – again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20954,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions\/20954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}