As a full-time landscape photographer, the idea of buying the Fujifilm X100VI, which costs over $1,500, was unbelievable. It's a fixed lens camera that is arguably much worse than something like my Canon R5. On top of that, there are plenty of other options out there with better specs, so why on earth is everyone buying this camera?
The answer came to me after using it, and that is experience. This camera has defined a completely new generation of photography over the last several years. It's actually less about this camera, the Fujifilm X100VI, and more about what it represents: a camera that exists for the experience. You could lump it into the resurgence of film, an upswing in street photography, or simply a camera many people are looking to use with no editing required.
In the video, I show you over 70 images with no editing—no, seriously, I didn't even fix horizon lines. I've never shot in JPEG my entire career, and I approached using this camera in a completely different way than I have in the past. It was honestly such a joy to use and genuinely revitalized my enjoyment of photography in many ways.
I love my X100VI cause I can take it into concert venues. Fixed lens magic. :)
Sophia is lucky! I ordered it on February 23, 2024 and I've just been told not to expect till Dec/Jan.
:( im sorry Gary
Its just a camera. Its the photographer whos important. This camera does nothing other cameras can't. Sounds like you were just myopic before
So what you’re saying is using this camera is more like using a phone in that the internal software produces nice looking jpgs. The thing is if a camera suits you, it suits you and that’s that. People such as yourself then try to extrapolate their own personal experience and apply it to the world in general. Saying its release has changed photography is just plan silly click bait nonsense. It’s a APSC camera with a 35mm equivalent fixed lens which immediately precludes it from use for a whole range of genres and situations. Could I shoot portraits with it? Yes up to a point. Wildlife? Big wildlife I suppose. Macro, not really. It’s a camera with a fixed lens ergo it has limitations. The fact that it is sold out means little. Are the manufactures using restricted production to generate a false supply problem enhanced by articles like this. Do I smell a scam?
All you can say is you like the camera but please don’t enter the world of silly by claiming it has changed photography as it’s not and it won’t. There again you could prove me wrong by supplying hard evidence to back your claim. Though in this post truth world we live in it appears anyone can make any claim they wish and present it as a truth!
I shoot raw+jpeg in every camera I own. I edit raw like less than 1% of the time. Even with my R6II, I'm just getting it right in camera, and printing. You are free to focus on the front end of the photography experience because you don't need to spend time fiddling sliders on the back end to get back to zero. It's pretty liberating.
Plus, you don't need a compact aps-c camera to do this. You can do it with any camera. I'd recommend a Nikon Z30 with the compact 24f1.7 prime lens to do it at a third of the cost. Or even pick up a second hand Canon M50 with the 22f2 if you want an EVF and better AF than the Fujifilm. 😉
Like the X100V before it, Fuji strikes a balance between size, performance and style in their fixed lens cameras that no one else does at the price point - which contributes largely to the bonkers prices on the resale market.
First many do not know the Fuji cameras have a different sensor type has more Green than others with standard RGB so, I think better color true to eye seen. I started with film back in early 70's with what I call simi automatic Canon Ftb with a bult-in Light Meter and a needle that the more light the higher the needle and another with a circle for aperture adjustment as well as a dial on top for ISO of film with internal circuitry to make things good output, so simple!! All you did was send to develop no editing. Again back to the future and again just people not so much photographers want memories of the past with out much effort. If we look at the 2000 to 2010 digital cameras it was about point and shoot and the better had telephoto added with digital added telephoto so the ability to get close to a subject far away and after like the film days take a SD card to a photo store or big box store for a print.
As mentioned this camera has many film types to chose when capture, an all in one!!!
I can understand NOT EVERYONE wants to edit an image but just get a print or maybe a digital today, no effort.
The one thing missing from digital and film is the print you can write who, what, where and when on the back of a print. This one thing drew me to capture the present for the future, how better to show others your roots and to show how living was as well as travel in those big tank cars.
1. Wife and I on one of our first camping trips with off the ground tent popup Apache popup 1987
2. Vivitar ViviCam 8300s 2006
4. a digital image of a film image of my wife when we were dating on a trip to the Bahamas where I paid for her to fly to our port of call Paradise Island before she became a Navy Wife of 30 years later.
Look every three years you get a new computer so HD photos have to be saved and every couple years also a new phone also photos need to be saved but where??? another HD or SSD? The best is DVD's like movies were on, Where you can add a who, what, where and when document or do prints with all on the back kept in a safe not a carboard box in an attic.
Think were will those photos be 20 or 30 years beyond. For me getting prints from all the saved negatives with info on the back. I have images of my Great Uncles travels while serving in the U.S. OSS of WWII where they wrote the W, W, W, W on the back and a daily dairy... INFO no guessing!
Ever see middle east photos of women with no clothes covering all, what happened - men in charge of life. Ever go to France and see a group of women outside a restaurant with no clothes not even a bikini just in the raw (ha! ha! RAW) a photo is proof to show shipmates.....