Love is the Fuji 35mm 1.4

The 35mm 1.4 and hood

Ok so from the title of the blog you can probably surmise that I have a bit of a thing for the 35mm 1.4 from Fuji, guess I'd better tell you why.

I've had the 35mm (53mm equivalent.) since late November 2014 when Fuji UK sent me a demo model and it's given me the chance to put it through it's paces as a portrait lens on the X-T1.

35mm on the X-T1

Love the size and feel of this combo

The lens like all of the Fuji range is very well made and to compliment the lens construction Fuji provides a metal hood that with it's rectangular shape has divided opinion - personally I love it, I think it makes the setup very cool looking with a nod to the kind of design that were available on vintage Leica & Voightlander glass.

The aperture ring has a nice click to it and the manual focus is smooth, however being one of the elder statesman of the Fuji lens lineup it can when used in autofocus mode hunt around now and again and sometimes fail to achieve focus in very low light conditions. However for the vast majority of normal shooting it is fast and silent.

Being a 1.4 lens it achieves a very shallow depth of field, which is something us crop sensor shooters are always after and stopped down to F2.8 the lens is sharp and provides excellent results.

Dave Fulton

Above is the photo that made fall in love with the 35mm, it is of American Comedian and Actor Dave Fulton, currently staring in the Comedy Central sitcom I Live With Models.  It was taken at my usual portrait spot on the balcony at the Glee Club in Cardiff with a Yongnuo 560ii speedlight at about 1/32nd, shot through a white brolly.

The colour rendition, detail and that Fuji.......something jumped out of the LCD at me and from that moment on the 35mm has become my main portrait lens combined with the 23mm on the X100 (the 23mm XF being next on my hit-list.)

So far all of my portraits have been done at night with similar lighting setups but from reading other blogs and reviews around the net it's clear that I'm not the only Photographer that feels this way about the quality of the pictures this little gem produces.

Jack Dee

I'm really looking forward to getting some environmental portraits with the 35mm in the paddock and on track as soon as the 2015 Motorsport season kicks off and I'll also be using it on a new project that I am working on that I'll document over the next few months.

Kevin Bridges

Having a close focus distance of 28cm makes this lens extremely versatile and enables quite intimate portraiture, distortion is minimal with no real chromatic aberrations that I can see and nothing that could not be easily remedied Photoshop/Lightroom.

Ian Cognito

Fuji made some of the best films and paper available, we now have the film simulations loaded into our X cameras. They made lenses for Hasselblad and we now have them for out X bodies.

I can't recommend this lens enough it is tack sharp with beautiful bokeh, great build quality and sprinkled with Fuji magic it's also available for about £399GBP a snip when compared to its DSLR equivalents.

Andy Robinson

I'm afraid there is not much more I can say about the Fuji 35mm 1.4 apart from this, if your a fuji X-Series shooter then this lens should be on your camera or in you camera bag - Highly recommended.

Dave Johns

Fuji X-T1 Review

To cut a long story short, I never thought that mirrorless cameras would be up to much after years of being conditioned to use and live with massive DSLR’s that only seemed to get bigger and heavier with lenses to match, as that’s what ‘Professional Photographers’ use isn't it?

Well stuff that and with good reason - if you think back at what cameras were used by photojournalists over the years they were things like Rolleiflex TLR’s for sports and that includes Formula 1, Leica’s for news work and SLR’s in the real sense such as Don McCullin and his famous yet diminutive Nikon F & Olympus OM-1's.

A couple of shoots around Silverstone for the Formula 1 and Touring cars last year, taught me that after getting together a fine array of L lenses and a 5DMK3, all I had really gotten myself was a very real pain in the neck.

My 5DMK3’s were about as reliable as a chocolate teapot and I was already on my third body in twelve months (and yes I do look after my kit.) perhaps I was just really unlucky, but it was getting to the point that I couldn't go to a shoot with the confidence in my gear that I needed.

Time for a major change then as after fifteen years of being a Canon user the poor run of luck with the kit coupled with the stellar UK service gave me the kick in the behind that I needed to start looking around for an alternative.

Followers of my blog and work will know that I have a soft spot for the Fuji X100, so when I found out about and read up on the X-T1 I got very excited indeed.

I fired off an email to Fuji UK to see if they had any X-T1 demo kit that I might be able to test run, it was a long shot, they didn't know me but I included a link to my website www.richardwoodphotographer.com and crossed my fingers.

Within 24 hours I had a reply, they did indeed have some cameras and would be happy to send one out to me, they just wanted to know what lenses I fancied taking for spin and they would send it all out for me next day.

The end result of this is that I am now a Fuji shooter, The 5DMK3 and all the lenses are gone I only have a 550D the nifty 50mm and a 75-300mm left, I use them for making videos for youtube and that’s about it.

The XT-1 is the kit I use every day for my professional work, it is quite simply a beautiful camera - friends in the know have commented that it looks like a ‘real’ camera compared to the comedy sized DSLR’s and to top it off I no longer have a pain in the neck!

The Camera

My current X-T1 setup, it consists of 2 x X-T1 bodies, 14mm XF, 35mm XF, 55-200mm XF, 10-24mm XF - I'd like to also get the 23mm XF and 56mm XF but as it stands this kit covers almost all eventualities.

I will publish individual lens reviews over the coming weeks and months but this review will focus on the functionality of the X-T1.


The construction of the X-T1 is to a very high standard, with a magnesium alloy body that is weatherproofed. Fuji have already started to launch lenses that are weatherproofed but as yet I have not had the chance to try any of them.

All of the dials are metal and click and turn very nicely. The only exception to this is the shutter button that is made from plastic. I would have really liked a threaded metal shutter release on the X-T1.

The size of the X-T1 fits nicely in the hand and has an extended grip on the reverse of the camera, this coupled with the moulded front grip makes it a very comfortable camera to use. Anyone who has used the X100 range will have a good idea what to expect in terms of body size.

For people with bigger hands or those who want longer battery life a standard grip and a battery grip are both available. The X-T1 is capable of taking around 350 shots with a single charge, not a great deal when it is compared to it's DSLR counterparts that will happily churn out a couple of thousand between charges. The X-T1 uses the now standard Fuji NP-W126 batteries and these can be found online for peanuts.

The X-T1 features six programmable custom buttons that can be customised for several options however since firmware 3.0 has been released it would have been nice to have the option added to assign one to natural view on the EVF.

To conclude on the X-T1's build quality it really is a very nice camera and for me it's the perfect size and weight. As I have already mentioned it is like picking up a classic Nikon F or similar.

The electronic viewfinder (EVF) was something that I was a little worried about as up until now and across all manufacturers they have left a lot to be desired. Honestly the EVF on the X-T1 blew me away it is by far the nicest, biggest, brightest most useable viewfinder I've ever used. It's ginaggerous, bigger than the 5DMK3 with pretty much zero lag and as for quality of picture it sports a 2.3 million pixel OLED.

I got used to it very quickly and I don't miss an optical viewfinder at all.

The display inside the EVF is so big that you can actually look around the scene. You also have the option for making it standard sized so it's on par with a normal cameras view or (and here is the party trick.) you can switch the camera to manual focus and have a split view that will give you the option to peak or split focus with centre point of the camera magnified to 100% in it's own little screen to the right of the main image, it works very well.

If you ever get tired of looking through the eyepiece at the beautiful EVF then you have the option of using the very nice rear screen that is also articulated.

X-T1 Front View

X-T1 Top View

SD Slot

HDMI, USB, Mic & Cable Release

The menus on the X-T1 can at times be a little long winded but in reality if your thinking of getting the X-T1 your not getting it for menu screens, the true beauty of this camera is that everything you actually need is to hand via real dials and switches that after a short amount of use become completely intuitive and a delight to use.

I really can't speak highly enough of how nice it is to use the camera, main functionality like shutter speed, exposure compensation & ISO are on the top plate with aperture settings placed on the lens.

The only issue I have is with the drive dial as it's not logically laid out. I would expect the first option to be single shot not BKT and as for the ADV mode that in real terms means camera filters such as miniature and toy camera I would drop these from the camera all together.

It would be a smart move to put the Movie mode on the drive dial and free up the current movie button for something else.

Current Drive Layout

Rich Wood Special Frankendial, but you get the idea

The X-T1 comes with WiFi and has a free app available on Apple and Android, the app works well and is responsive, giving a live view of what the camera is seeing. It works in movie and still mode.

Talking of movie mode the Fuji cameras get a lot of stick for the video side of things but I've shot a live stand up show at a theatre for a comedian and the quality at 30FPS and 60FPS was very good - with the just released firmware update Fuji have added 50, 25 & 24FPS and I have already lined up some very special interviews to shoot with them. As a side note the onboard microphone really is not that bad at all and it knocks the mic on the 5DMK3 out of the water, so if your in a pinch it's a good reserve but if your shooting anything worthwhile you'll want to use an external mic.

A bit of a gripe but I have no idea why Fuji opted for the fiddly 2.5mm input instead of a standard 3.5mm input?

Bundled with the X-T1 is the EF-X8 flash that is powered by the extra pin on the XT-1's hot shoe, so no need for AA's.
It's a much nicer alternative to a built in flash and it sits quite high on the camera to provide a good fill flash. When not in use the little flash unit is easily pocketable until needed.

A number of reviews have mentioned that one of the main downsides to the camera is the poor and hard to use D-pad, I have been able to compare the test body sent to me by Fuji with the later model that I now own and can confirm that it has been greatly improved to the point that this is no longer and issue. The D-pad now is easy to operate and works as nicely as the rest of the camera. I have also noticed that the overall finish is ever so slightly tweaked for the better.

The Results

The photographs the X-T1 takes are not just good, they are in fact stunning.

I have been a fan of the 'Fuji look' for a long time now, ever since I got my X100 and the X-T1 builds on that. The skin tones and overall colours produced by the camera are beautiful. Combine this with a range of lenses that in my opinion are hands down L glass beaters then you have a very special combination.

The X-T1 sports the now familiar range of film simulations from the Fuji stable, they are Provia, Astia, Velvia, Pro Neg STD/HI, B&W (Ye, G, R, Filter.) and Sepia. The advent of the 
latest firmware brings with it the Chrome simulation.

The option to shoot RAW + JPEG is available plus the option to bracket exposure in film simulation mode, for instance a single shot will be processed as a Chrome, B&W and Velvia.

I was getting used to the way the camera worked and took it out for my first shoot at a Neville Staple (The Specials) gig and was wowed by the 8FPS burst rate, the swift and accurate autofocus and the responsiveness of the camera.

Several view options are available with an eye sensor that shuts off the LCD in favour of the EVF when you bring your eye up to the eyepiece. I have my X-T1 set up to have no display at all until I bring the camera up to my eye, this enables a bit of power saving turning all displays off until they are in use and the sensor response is so quick that there is no waiting around to frame the shot.

The EVF has a very cool little trick, when you use the camera in portrait mode the display flips so you don't have to read the information the wrong way up. One small request though Fuji can we have the option to change the colour of the needle on the light meter from white to green as it would make it easier to read quickly?

Neville Staple 56mm 1.2

I was really happy with the results at the X-T1's first outing as the lighting was terrible and this was shot at around iso 5000.

However the first portrait proper I did was of US Comedian Dave Fulton, this was the shot that made me pack up the Canon and wave it goodbye.

Dave Fulton, 35mm 1.4 200 iso

This photo is actually a crop, and the 16MP X-Trans sensor just screams quality - this is pretty much untouched JPEG straight out of the camera.

A lot has been said about the benefits of a full frame sensor over an APSC etc, etc - when it boils down to it, who cares, it's really not worth worrying about - your 52inch television has a around 2MP so 16MP is more than enough for any print size.

JPEG 55-200mm 1/250th, 128mm F4.4

Conclusion

I did have a lot more things I was going to complain about on the X-T1 but Fuji beat me to it and released the latest firmware version 3.0 and fixed pretty much all of the issues I had. None of them were major things, but as a left eye shooter I was hoping for a way to swap the AF/AE buttons around........oh that's fixed then.

The rest of the Firmware update is so extensive it borders on what's a firmware update and what's a viable X-T2?

The support and response from Fuji is something to behold and a breath of fresh air.

The camera for me is near perfect. I am at this moment in time in a very happy place camera wise and it might sound silly but the Fuji cameras that I now own have really revived my passion for photography.

The X-T1 has 'it', whatever 'it' is.

The DSLR for me is now a thing of the past, I can't wait for the weather to pick up and for the new 2015 race season to start - I also can't wait to see the looks on the faces of the other press photographers as they cart around ten tonnes of kit.

For the first time in a long time I feel like I'm Peter Parker again.

Am I Fuji fan? Oh yes, you better believe I am.

I'll be posting more images from each of the lenses as and when I get a chance to review them all so don't forget to subscribe to be notified of new content.

Machine Guns At The Ready!

Before I get started I'd like to point out that I have and still do shoot sports photography, I have shot everything from Golf to Formula One and have used a variety of equipment from prosumer DSLR’s to the latest main brand monsters and all the usual lenses that go along with it.

My topic of debate for this blog is where does photography end and filming begin most top end cameras these days such as the Canon 1DX shoot 10 frames per second that's a crazy amount of frames per second, movies are shot with 24 frames a second, after a bit of a dig around on Google I found out that a lot of stop motion animation is done at 10 frames per second like a lot of the stuff you used to see on Sesame Street.

My point being (and I know I'm likely to get a bit of a kicking over this.) With such high frame rates, Autofocus, Image stabilisation is there any skill left of the photographer to display?

No I'm not some kind of all fuddy-duddy purist who requires everything to be shot on a 10 x 8 Glass plate with a gunpowder flash and a sheet over my head and I know that a lot of photographers don't even use the autofocus when shooting things such as motorsport and they instead focus on a fixed point and wait the action to come into that area of prefect focus.

After my recent switch from Canon to Fuji it has for me re-awoken the manual aspect of photography again, the thought before a shot. Don’t get me wrong the X-T1 can knock out 8FPS with tracking focus etc. but it’s unlikely your buying that particular model for that reason. I'm starting to sound like a bit of a tit but go with me on this one as I think there is a valid point in here somewhere.

From my point of view manual photography can be anything from using full manual set up where you're in control of the aperture and shutter speed and the ISO and the focus to a simple state where are you might just be in Aperture mode with a preset ISO and autofocus all variations of all of these things that we are all familiar with when using a camera.

Is there any difference between holding the shutter button down and getting 10 frames per second than there is to cranking a handle to allow 35mm film through to capture Charlie Chaplin upsetting a wedding party or running a dubious window fitting outfit?

I like it when not everything works out perfectly and i’m stuck with a blurred image of an event, especially when it’s a fast moving sport like Formula 1 as a lot of the shots are done by one guy (at least I think that’s the case.) as he seems to really love shooting the car parked up on an apex with the driver sitting in it, you know the ones that guy does - head on stuff from about a mile away on a 600 mm lens, maybe a dash of F2.8 and good for him after all he’s built a career out of it and clearly goes to all the races.

It’s so nice having someone like Darren Heath around who is a man after my own heart, he tries to inject a bit creativeness into it, to capture the atmosphere, colour and emotion into the shots and not just a technically perfect pixel peeping shot - although from watching various interviews on YouTube I have learned that Darren is a Canon 1DX user and I'm not sure why as he does state that he doesn't tend to use autofocus or use the high burst right? I’m sure he has his reasons, if it were me it would be down to peer pressure as I have myself been the subject of sneers for using a 5DMK3 and a 200mm F2.8 - not exactly consumer grade kit.

It’s pretty dismaying when you get asked to shoot an event and they specifically ask you for the shot described above ‘oh make sure they are all head on with nothing more than F5.6.’ - I mean they all look the same and might as well be a still from a video feed.

Ah I jumped the gun there, video feeds nothing against them, brilliant! means I get to watch the race at home with a Gin &Tonic and not just what happens to be going on at the wind swept corner I’m standing at. But I can see that in a couple of years time with tighter and tighter restrictions on entry to track for up and coming photographers things might take a turn for the worse.

FIA rules state that to the effect: you can not become a race photographer unless you have a proven track record and examples of work published from previous FIA events, however you are not allowed as a member of the public to take track images with a view to them being published - Chicken/Egg anyone?

So with that gem in mind and the press looking for that apex shot what’s to stop the FIA banning all track photography with some excuse such as it’s safer for all involved blah blah and just issuing a media pack with a bunch of stills taken from the live feed of the events and while they are at it charge the newspapers and other media a fee for the privilege?

Within the next few years formula One and top sporting events will all be found in HD or even 4K giving a huge advantage to the promoters in terms of stills pack sales to the press.

So does machine gun photography have a place at sports events, yes it always will from the motor drives of old to the 10FPS of today but is it as a result photography and photographers signing their own death warrant? What happens to the Canon 1DX’s and Nikon DXXX then? Will that be the end of it in terms of mass production of elitist bazookas and the apparel, who knows? I guess we will have to wait until one of the big two release a DSLR that bangs out 15 or 20 FPS in what I imagine will be their answer to continuing development.

Where else do they have to go in terms of camera development the ISO is already stupid good, focus is pretty much done but think of it two or three flagship models down the road they have little left to sell the new camera - 4K?and FPS? that’s about it.

You know in the 1960’s they used TLR’s like the Rolleiflex and it depended on you cranking a handle and you got twelve shots out of a roll of 120 film.

Is the development of cameras in purely saleable points with them creeping ever towards practically filming a flicker book of action and in doing so slowly ending traditional photography a good or a bad move, it can’t be good can it?

I'd like to hear your opinions so feel free to leave a comment below.

The Fuji X100 Long Term Review

First lets get the groundwork done: -

Here are a couple of shots of my favourite film cameras - the Olympus Trip was bought from a charity shop and the Olympus 35RC rangefinder was from a mad Russian vintage camera dealer based in my home town at the famous Jacobs market in Cardiff.

I loved them both, the cameras that is not the Russian and the 35RC was always with me wherever I went.

 The 42mm E.Zuiko F2.8 lens gave some beautiful images and the overall tiny size of the rangefinder camera with it’s simple shutter speed, and lens mounted aperture ring was a dream to use and during my Documentary Photography B.A got more than a few knowing nods from the tutors. Actually it also got a lot of sneers from my fellow Leica rich students, I however was on a budget of zero so I used what I was able to get and if it happened to be a 1970’s fixed lens rangefinder so be it - the jibes stopped once they had a look at the prints.

The 35RC is a lovely little camera that can still be had on eBay for around £20 in good condition and is well worth a look.

If I have time I’ll run a roll of 35mm through it and do a review soon.

Olympus Trip ( Who do you think you are David Bailey?)

So fast forward to 2012 and I have to be honest Photography as a job was starting to get me down, I was sick of lugging huge DSLR’s all over the place and I was longing to have a small simple walk about camera that I could have on me all the time and would blow my iPhone out of the water.

I started to search the internet for something to satisfy my requirements and then I saw it the Fuji X100.

I honestly got a tingle down my spine it looked exactly like my 70’s rangefinders, was it too good to be true?

I ran over the spec sheets, a million reviews and sample images and decided that this was the camera I wanted, desired no damn it - This was the camera I needed to be happy.

So when a bit of cash came in it went out again very quickly and in came the X100 - I know it sounds silly but this was the first time in years that I had been genuinely excited opening the packaging of a new piece of kit.

Fuji did not disappoint, the ritual of opening the outer box and then the two inner boxes one filled with all the gubbins and the other that housed the X100, it was like the best Kinder egg you’ve ever had.

I thought I’d better add this little disclaimer in here - I’m not paid by Fuji and I’m not affiliated with them in any way, I’m just a Photographer who has fallen in love with them.

Right so onto using the X100, it’s brilliant - right thanks for reading be sure to check out my next review……………..oh you want more? OK then here we go.

Looks:

Firstly the X100 looks the part, it’s very well made and feels just about perfect in the hand. If you have used rangefinder style cameras in the past then this will be like coming home.

It’s built like a brick outhouse, trust me on this one as my X100 lives on a strap slung around a shoulder it’s had it’s share of bumps and scrapes and only looks better for it.

Fuji X100

If I have to raise one point with Fuji on the camera it’s the optional accessories. To be able to use the optional lens hood you have to unscrew the front of the lens and add a supplied with the hood adapter and then the hood bayonet fits onto that - all very cool and exactly as over engineered as you could hope for but the bloody thing costs about £150, OK it’s metal but it ain’t gold.

So I took a gamble (you wont like this Fuji) and got a metal hood and adapter from eBay, it fitted perfectly and the only thing that’s wrong with it is that the silver paint is peeling away from the cast aluminium, making it look very battle hardened and cool in my opinion.

To protect the lens I forked out for a B+W UV filter and it is a very nice filter indeed, optically delightful in as much as you forget it’s even there and when you have the hood in place it’s hidden anyway.

Demon Drome Wall Of Death

Manual mode 1/15th sec at F2

A nice leather strap was added as well and for the price point of the camera really should be part of the kit, still the Fuji strap is still much nicer than the horrible sweat necks that Canon put out.

Last bit of cosmetic fettling was to add a soft release to the screw thread shutter release as it’s nicer to use it with one on and looks pretty good too. A real shame that the X-T1 does not have the same threaded shutter release as it would have looked the business with a dark green (Fuji colour) soft release.

Image quality:

OK so at this point your thinking I’m a bit of superficial hipster type, I’m not honest.

The main point of any interest of any camera I have had is the quality of the lens and subsequently the quality of the outputted image.

Comedian/Author David O'Doherty F2.8 60th Sec

The X100 sports a Fujinon aspherical Lens, Super EBC 23mm (34.5mm with 1.5X crop) F2 lens - it is simply to die for dhhhharrrlings - This lens packs a punch the colour, the contrast, the bite the back of your hand sharpness. I can’t tell you how much this lens and it’s output has changed my photography, it’s wonderful for street and reportage work and for me a killer portrait lens.

Don’t let the cameras 12.3MP pt you off, you can print large images with the files and see no discernible pixelation.

I tend to use the JPEG modes as they are superb and if you really must shoot RAW then they have as much push/pull in them as you could wish for. I have a 64GB in my camera and happily shoot RAW+Fine(Jpeg) all day with the thing.

X100 - simple, perfect

Focus: 

This camera is not a DSLR, it does not pretend to be and if your buying this with 1DX speed in mind you will be sorely disappointed.

Comedian Lee Evans F2.8 3200iso

When the X100 came out it was terrible, the firmware was not up to the job and put a lot of people off, I stuck with it and we are now on firmware version 2.10 the camera is fast to focus and the focus by wire is very fast and useable compared to when it first came out when it was so slow you could witness the birth, life and death of a person before your X100 managed to manual focus.

Fuji really seem to value the input they get from photographers and make the changes in a firmware update that the other manufacturers would save for a new model.

Functionality:

Once you have set up your menus as you like you tend to just leave them alone.

The FN button on my X100 is like most users set to ISO and then everything is operated by the shutter dial and the aperture ring, by the way the clicks on the aperture ring are perfect, Fuji please make all of your lenses from now on feel like this and put the F stops on all of them too please.

The OVF & EVF:

No not two militant groups but in fact the optical view finder and the electronic view finder

So firstly the OVF which is large, bright and clear with bright framing lines and exposure information, the OVF display can be customised and contain everything you could ask for including grid lines and horizon line but I like to keep it simple and just have my light meter, battery status and framing line.

Comedian Craig Campbell 200iso F2.8

By pulling on the front timer style switch you get the pop up EVF and yes compared to newer models etc it suffers from quite a bit of lag but it is still infinitely useable and when in EVF mode you do not have to select macro mode for close up shots.

A really cool feature of the X100 is that if you are using the OVF and take a shot the EVF pops up for about a second showing a preview of your taken shot without having to look at the rear screen on the camera - I love this feature, it just works so well.

Ok so that’s the main points of the camera out of the way it also has several film simulations available like Astia, Provia, Velvia and Standard, it has some really cool and useable Black & White presets with red, green and yellow filter (I’m a green filter kind of guy.)

Another thoughtful touch from the house of Fuji is the inclusion of a built in switchable ND filter.

Comedian Richard Herring 200iso F2.8

If I had to nit pick the camera does not make it easy to use flash as the inbuilt flash gets cut in half by the lens hood and in my opinion it is the worst visual element on a near perfect camera body - I would much prefer it if the X100? did away with it all together and either came with an external flash much like the X-T1 or nothing at all.

Oh and can Fuji please fix it so the centre pin on the flash shoe fires no matter what, it would make it much better when working.

I have never ever been stopped taking a picture with the X100, I’ve had people make fun of me for using an old camera and how the camera on their phone is better etc - then I show them the pictures and they are blown away.

I’ve had people stop me to have a look at the camera and nobody has ever come away from having a look at it without writing the model number down or cooing.

The camera is unimposing and frankly cool, people want to be seen having a picture taken with it.

I’ve had no qualms in recommending the camera to friends when they ask what to get for shooting big trips and if they want something a bit more point and shoot to the X100 I show them towards the X20.

Comedian Alistair Barrie 400iso F2.8

I know it sounds corny but this camera really has a soul and has reignited my passion for photography and for that Fuji I thank you. The colours, the lens the way it just works it is utterly delightful. It has become my go to lens.camera and when I can’t use it as the reach is not long enough and I have to resort to a 5DMK3 with a 200mm etc I wish I was using the X100, it really is that good.

I’m never going to sell it I know that there are now two revisions of the model and I have the granddad of the set but I’m happy with it.

And one day when it finally gives up the ghost and decides to become a paperweight I’ll just go and get another one.

Comedian Simon Clayton, that's Fuji colour 200iso F2.8