DON'T BUY THE FUJI X100V: Buy THIS instead!

I, ve driven 4 by 4 all my live. I own a fuji x100f. And a nikon z7 with 4 lenses and a hasselblad 1 xd 2. If i could only have one camera it would be the fuji. It has soul.

Your so Spot on built in flash is mega important for all scenario's,I was struggling to find a camera that has all the features and is still small in form factor

what's the iso range in place of using flash?

The best approach to understanding what you really need. Thanks a lot!

Booray hi too you , got to tell you i never NEVER make comments on you tube this is a first , because you explain things perfectly , when i had a box brownie as a child , great fun , as the years went by I brought a canon AT1and went travelling , i look back and i look at those photos as magic color and black and white , in recent years my buys have been digital it has been all fujifilm the XT2 , 3 of them i love it , and with different lenses , and il keep them BUT ! no more digital there is something lacking in digital for myself , its the way i feel , I am now a fit 65 a gardener and found what i like , Ok so i am very much a black and white shooter , so i am going back , i have not brought it yet but i am going to buy THE NEW 2023 Pentax K1000 and will shoot with the black and white film ,T.max 400 mostly , i enjoyed your videos Booray your a breath of fresh air , i can see you enjoy and love getting your points across , and you do it well thank you , Jeremy from the UK👍

I'm thinking of it. Hoped by now, Fuji released an upgrade and I could my hands on this one a lot cheaper.

Just seen this for the first time! Great video and I love your particular take on this camera - I am a keen photographer and have lots of Canon gear. I am looking for a camera for travel and occasional street photography when I force myself to head out of tech cameras to the simplicity of the Fuji ergonomics. Everything you described are features that I will enjoy! Does in camera fill in flash work well I ask ? I have also spent a lot of time comparing reviews of the Leica Q3 ro this camera. Would I become charmed by the Leica look or sadly disappointed I ask? Now we expect a X100V replacement I have decided to wait and see - larger sensor would also provide cropping to give more flexibility and provide at least 50mm or 35mm options with the same lens. Thoughts??

Outstanding video, Booray — and the Jeep analogy is spot on. Well done.

NO, buy the Jeep! 🤣 Never buying any other vehicle. And I can't decide on the Fuji or Nikon. I've always had Nikon.

Ive got a butt load of Fuji stuff, now i need one of these little guys!

I came to your video with a desire for the X 100 V. I got to the end with an even stronger desire, although I'm going to wait a few months to see if it's replacement gets introduced and if it does whether the used price of the V model Will drop.

Me an 18 year old who wants both jeep and a x100v watching this😂

The reason to get a camera like this with a changeable lens is to have a replaceable lens. Say you get a 35mm and something happens to it, you're screwed. A ah unless you get a replicable lens. Simply buy a new 35mm lens and you are all set. If it is a fixed lens......well there goes that.

I got one more reason not to get this camera. Because you can't. It's sold out everywhere. Get something else. Make photos to make photos and not to have a certain camera or look cool. Make cool photos.

I have the X100 and I’m not getting the X100V, I like the density

I had the x100v for about a month and sold it. Didn’t like the focal length and the image quality

This video is only true answer to all my questions

Abruptly stopped watching your video when instead of getting to the point, you started yakking away about your daughter wanting a Jeep. Stop presuming we are interested interested in your personal tales. Just get to the point. You are suffering from that syndrome (common amongst school trackers) called, “Now that I have your attention, I’m going to tell you all about my life.” BTW, it’s pronounced “Fugee”, not “Fooyee”.

🎉 The Leaf 🌿, Flash, and especially the 4 Stop ND Filter...I'm just not willing to 😂 pay for it. And as popular as it is, why stop making it?

how about an Olympus Pen F, the digital one?

I got suggested this video for some reason, never felt the urge to buy an X100V, nor to look into it really. Why? It's hideously UGLY, it's HYPE apparently, and it at least doesn't look like a DSLR - I know nothing about it apart from that some hipsters use it, and it looks like the camera my mom had when I grew up and that I wanted to buy an SLR to never have to touch again. I later got her to upgrade to an Olympus mju which was quite an upgrade in every way and I got to take lots of pictures with, and loved.

I think you positioned your microphone at a wrong angle, the capsule inside that blue yeti is not facing up, its facing sideways. also your gain is too high and audio is clipping.

The YT algorithm insisted that I watch this video. Ha! I didn't expect to like the video, but I do. You've done an excellent job of explaining why someone might want the X100V.

It's a Jeep! Ahahahahahaha...

I bought an X100S a couple-three years ago and played with it for awhile, made some decent captures, but never really got the camera. So it was set aside and I moved on to other things. But, earlier this year I decided to pick up my cameras again and started walking around with the X100S. I also carried my X-T1 now and again.

Then I fell down the FujiXWeekly rabbit hole and figured out one of the things that Fujifilm is all about... the simulations. I also learned that the X-T1 and X100S were "crippled" (in a sense) because they could not fully implement all those fascinating film simulations that Ritchie has curated so carefully. That got my attention.

So I bought an X-T5 (already have plenty of glass) and started looking for a "reasonably" priced X100V. When one came available, I bought it. I know I overpaid.

What I learned is that the X100V is a wonderful walk-around camera. It is light, handles well, and makes wonderful images, especially if using one of the film simulations and a light diffusion filter. These JPGs can look quite filmic, which is what I wanted. (I find the clinical sharpness almost too much for what I like to shoot.) The simplicity of a fixed-lens camera is freeing as well.

Now, I learned a couple of things... or rather think about them differently now that you've done such a good job of illuminating them. I need to learn the use of fill-flash. That will be fun. And, I get the use of the ND filters now.

I can't use a camera that doesn't have an optical finder of EVF. I'm outdoors too much and the screen is too hard to see, plus I have old eyes and have trouble getting my bifocal on the screen when holding the camera for a high angle.

You didn't mention that the X100V is weather resistant when used with a filter. The X-E4 (and others in the X-E* series) are not. I don't know about the X-PRO line. Also, the X-E2 has a built-in (pop-up) flash.

All in all, I'm very happy with the X100V. It is often my grab and go camera. It's simplicity is often the thing I like most about it, even if that limits my choice of lens the the 23mm f/2 it has. It's a very good lens. It's a very good camera. It's also a Jeep!

What's with people NOT wanting an interchangeable lens camera??? Just buy one lens and keep it on there. Are there people actually like that???

This guy is full of, of crap

I find this video odd, to say the least. It's obviously geared to a different sort of photographer or human being than I am, or that I'm used to being around.

Why am I interested in this camera? My first two digital cameras were Fuji - I think 4 and 6MPs! And they both took excellent images, despite their now-ancient file sizes! A friend of mine has one of these cameras, and I am very impressed with her work - and also the look and 'feel' of her images, which is about her vision, but I think also how this Fuji camera captures what she's seeing.

Also, I like the idea of a fixed lens camera, where I don't have the 'options' of fiddling around with interchangeable lenses, which I (and perhaps others) do, hoping that a different lens or setting will give me better images!

I like having one small camera that I can easily carry around and travel with.

Finally, I'm not really convinced this is the camera for me - so I'm going to rent one from Lens Rentals for a week or 10 days and actually use it and see if what I 'think about' this camera is real - or not.

I have daughters too. So, what color Jeep did you wind up buying her?

Honestly i heard "my daughter wants a sheep" and imagined the girl looking at shaun the sheep :)

Fuji X10 has built in flash, even smaller, fixed lens and sic, if you are alright with a 12 year old camera!💚 awesome video!💚

Really nice video 👍

I have this camera and the 28mm wide-angle conversion lens. Works great. I also have the X-T5. This is one pf your best videos, Booray!

I got mine for $1100 B&H open box before the world lost its collective minds over this very decent camera. It's frankly a wonderful 35mm shooter. If one can accept that. I daresay newbies... will not. Personally, I already shoot a Sony A7C with a 16-28 and a 28-200, so I truly don't need the Fuji lens ecosystem (which on average skews just as expensive as Sony's, and almost as heavy -- but is premium crop glass). Those of us who have been around awhile, can appreciate the simplicity that, "I don't need to surround this Fuji with another $2500 of glass."

Part of the X100's secret sauce is that there's a certain freedom and inherent limitation of the 35mm that breeds creativity and inspiration when working with it. It's a feeling you won't find when you've got a bag full of lenses that can address every possible shooting scenario It's a breath of fresh air and a lowered guard to realize "whatever photo I take today, the focal length is not in my control, I can frame only with my feet."

It's not a camera for everyone. The gentle limitations are its genius. If you know, you know.

9Months on, the X100V is selling for £1799 in the UK, very silly money. They may get cheaper if and when Fuji bring out the X100 6! As for the Ricoh, as you said it doesn't have a flash or a viewfinder! So when using it you have your arm out in front of you looking like a Dalek off Dr Who. Oh and it looks bloody awful.

Glad i came to see this video. Was planning on buying this

Great explanation of all the other cameras Fujifilm offers. Now I know why we do want this camera!

I want an X100V for the size and the film sims
So next week-end I'll see if my dealer has an X-T30 with a pancake lens 🙃

I couldn't afford an x100 ten years ago. So I got an x30. I would've liked to have ND filters, but the fill in flash, now that's something I wanted and enjoy.

And yes, the film simulations are a big part of why I have been buying Fuji cameras since before the x30. More basic, yes, but still useful and great to have.

Thanks

Good breakdown of pro/cons of this camera. I will buy it because I’m a viewfinder fan, need a flash, love the leaf shutter, and understand why you need f2 on a sunny day. Thanks again, your advice will save so many people their hard earned cash. And I subscribed, cheers.

Where most people fail when buying a camera is deciding what they want one for in the first place. If you want to learn photography, I would start with a Canon 70D, Chinese flash, and a 24 mm lens, nifty 50, and a zoom to 300 or 400. That along with the lens that comes with the camera sets you up. Add in a few ND filters and your set to start. What's the cost? You will spend about $500. from that price-point you will be happy all the way around. Did I mention that the 70D had a built in flash?

You made a video "not buy this camera" but it just made me want it more and aroused my curiosity about this camera)))

I hate it how I've been priming up to get this camera late 2021 in prep to start travelling after covid, waiting for the price to go just slightly lower... until everybody wanted the idea of having one. Can't a dude just have a compact prime with f2, ND and a COMFORTABLE viewfinder??? :(

The best alternative is a Leica Q2. With how outrageous X100 any model pricing is, you might actually able to find a use Q2 not far off.

If you're completely clueless about photography, get an E-M10 ii, GX85, GX9, E-M5 ii/iii, or even a G9 with current used pricing. Lenses and bodies are much cheaper used relatively speaking with a matured system to pick from. I use MFT as my primary work system with an EM5iii and G9 and travel around all over for photojournalism and have never had a client tell me my gear wasn't good. I've had shots chosen for work that were shot with a Q7/QS-1/MX-1, cameras with tiny sensor relatively speaking. My partner I travel with shoots with a couple Pentax KPs and gets amazing results. Never pay over MSRP for a current X100V or over a used value that's a lot less than that for older models.

Actually there are film recipes with the Ricoh gr 3. In fact, the same guy who publishes Fuji weekly also does a Ricoh recipes site.

ZfC doesnt have flash and its way bigger, and doesnt have an inbuilt lense

XF10

Is this a good travel camera along with street shooting? Will it really fit in the pocket? The 2024 could be the perfect camera for me. Sold my X-T1 and lenses. I want something smaller and easier to handle that is jam packed with features even for auto shooting. Thanks.

Hi ! Thanks a lot for this video. My personal reason to get this camera is that I had a X100S before. I took some pictures in NYC and, at this point, I didn't have a correct screen to really see my pictures. I thought "oh, again more uninterested pictures...", and, I kept these pictures, but, not the camera. Once the camera was sold, I took a look again on these pictures with a correct screen with my computer, and said... Oh my... Now, I'm full of regrets, really sad. I want it back, because it's what I need, I know it, for the excellent reasons you explained in this video. Thanks for this.

For me the Hybrid Viewfinder is the most attractive part of the camera.