Well, so is the newly announced Fujifilm X100... Its great (on paper), with a fix lens (means you can't take it off and switch lenses) of f2.0 with an equivalent field of view of 35mm on a full frame 35mm camera. This could mean cheaper construction of the lens and body.
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Wait, there's more... Its hybrid viewfinder, ala Rangefinder system which is sorta like a fake Leica with magical electronic viewfinder to line up with the optical viewfinder. Means its small, and compact. Packs an APS-C sensor too, means that it will be cheaper.
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Until they mentioned the launching price of $1000 USD, or RM3300!!! WTH!??!!! It is RM1300 way overpriced for this piece of shit, I mean work of fake Leica rangefinder. Too bad though, cause it would have destroyed those crappy NEXs, PENs and GF1 crap. Heck, we need proper dials and buttons to use the cameras, and an Optical Viewfinder is helpful, either that or make it so that it is able to shoot 1500++ pictures on 40% battery life =), and the AUTO setting is still not smart enough. Menu system are stupid, means that the designer is too lazy to think of how to put in buttons and dials in the correct place, so they just put it in the menu. Heck, even Nikon does this, but it has buttons for more important stuff. Hmmm...
More to the reason is that digital is too complex.For that amount of money, a Leica M3? Though, would need to self develop the B/W negatives by yourself to get the same amount of savings.
Though, going into Leica is sorta like... Well, you can figure that out yourself...
Well, the Canon S95 is just shy of RM1000 today, passable ISO performance, and is a good price. But its not a X100.. LOLX!!!
In the end? A D90 with a 24mm f2.8D... Either that, I heard that those newfangled camera phones are still crap... WAKAKAKAKAKA!!!
PS: Thanks to fujifilm.com for the press release.
