Fujifilm X100VI support

Surprisingly well. I’ve owned two. The first one I got on the release day. Fujifilm released it before firmware was usable and the AF sucked bad for a long time. I sold it. Got it again after I tried a friend’s X100 with the latest firmware. Lost money on Fujifilm selling me an unfinished product (kaizen is apparently what they called it). I have the limited edition black one now.

There’s not much room for cropping of course. The X100VI 50 mm crop mode at 5472x3648 px is an extra ~1500 pixels on the longest side compared to the native resolution of the FinePix X100. I’d like that. Also, darktable makes it very apparent how limited the dynamic range is compared to A7 III dynamic range monster. sigmoid has made it easier to get a gentle roll-off in the highlights. That’s usually more important than having no clipped highlights.

FinePix X100, A7 III, A7S III and M200 (with 22 mm f/2.0). Me and the X100 go way back, I know that I’d like it. :slight_smile:

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Thanks! Interesting… definitely a classic camera (or will be).

I’m not sure if @jjbraun’s question was for me - that would be a long list for this thread. But my main cameras are, in order of most used, Nikon D750, Sony Nex5R, Pentax K10d and Olympus EM5ii.
A very varied bunch… :sweat_smile:

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maybe I’m old fashioned, but I don’t think IBIS in a camera with a fixed 23mm lens is going to be particularly useful… maybe for video, but there are much better platforms for that, even with the addition of a flippy screen.

I still have my X100S, the image quality is still lovely obviously, but the auto focus is a bit of a joke. It works, but meh - it would be alright if the manual focus ring wasn’t garbage as well.

Still has a part to play with the leaf shutter and built-in ND. The whole series is a wonderful idea, it’s just a shame they didn’t put more time into the manual focus, makes me prefer an X-T or X-Pro setup with old rangefinder lenses instead.

An X-Pro1 or even an X-E2 would probably be more functional picks IMO.

edit: and just to add onto the camera journey stuff, I got started with a D3200, went to an X100S, then a D700, and now an X-T3. The D3200 is the only one I got rid of. I absolutely love my chunky D700, but the X-T3 is just so much easier to take out and get a shot with.

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Thanks for the input!

Maybe for subject-motion blur without a tripod? Not sure tbh.

Agree!

For stills, I agree.

About there being better platforms for video… For some things video — yes (I use the A7S III for that). For the documentation of my everyday life and those around me, it looks like a dream. I mean, I will already be carrying it for stills wherever I go (like I do with the FinePix X100 or M200). IBIS could be a game changer here. BUT! We’ll see about that in practice. Current crop of “reviews” consists of Fujifilm influencers spewing out their unapologetic praise for this camera. It’s a small space to cram in IBIS, so I’m cautiously optimistic.

It means you’ll be able to hand hold a pretty slow shutter speed. If it has 5 stops of ibis, you should be able to hand hold a half second shuttler speed and still get a good image.

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true, I have to admit it would be good to have a camera with me all the time again… I wonder how well it eats batteries? I like having two spares with my X-T3.

I guess, perhaps it’s just a failure of imagination to assume I’m never actually going to need that.

You might not, but easy to see why others would :man_shrugging:

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well that’s exactly what I meant, yeah.

Having just recently replaced my X-T3 with a new X-T5, I tend to agree. My main lens is the 23 f/1.4, which is bright enough to keep the shutter spreed high, and my subjects are typically too mobile to let it drop anyway.

It’s a bit early to tell, but the IBIS does not appear to have made an appreciable impact on my keeper rate. I didn’t loose many pictures to camera motion anyway.

The new human face/eye tracking on the other hand, has already impacted my keeper rate significantly. It’s just that much more confident at holding on to my subjects, and needs a bit less active effort on my part with focus point movements. I wonder how that interacts with the OVF, though. Do the tracking-AF modes engage at all in OVF mode?

The 40 MP, I have not been impressed by, yet. I suppose it’s nice to have, but at the end of the day, it’s a mere 25% increase in linear resolution, which is barely even noticeable.

Speaking of my journey, I went from a Nikon D3000 to D7000, then Fuji X-E1 to X-E3, then X-T2 to X-T3 to X-T5. As a sidekick, I tried every compact under the moon, including the RX1, X100T, and LX100, but didn’t get along with any of them. If they’re too big for pockets, I might as well take an ILC. What stuck was the Ricoh GR III, because it does fit into pockets.

Is that the 23mm f/1.4 LM WR or 23mm f/1.4 R?

If the latter, have you tried a lens that Fuji says can resolve the full 40mpx?

Every lens can resolve 40 MP. Stopped down, in the center of the frame, at middling focal lengths. My (old) 23mm sure isn’t critically sharp in the corners wide open. But I don’t tend to put my subjects there.

Also, I find sharpness way overrated as a measure of quality. What counts is the emotional impact of an image. I value a smooth focus transition, a pleasing, uniform bokeh. Good ergonomics and handling. All modern lenses are sharp enough for me.

Perhaps I’m weird.

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That’s a lot of words to say “no.” But I guess you can carry on being unimpressed by the sensor.

I got my fujifilm x100vi last week and I could contribute many raw files to https://raw.pixls.us/ (in fact I already did). Happy to keep contributing specific files that can help people know more about this model. Right now darktable basically tells me that this camera is not supported (obviously) and the raw files look washed out with generic viewers.

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In what ways were you hoping to be impressed by it? I find it very similar in terms of quality to my X-S10 26MP sensor, but it gives me extra cropping room, especially for wildlife. So, there’s no real downside to it for me as I was wanting an X-T camera anyway.

I think a lot of people were expecting much better “detail” from it, but I’m not really sure that’s something you can really see until you zoom right in and compare it to a lower resolution sensor.

Frankly, I wasn’t. It’s only a 25% increase in linear resolution, after all. But some places on the internet have made quite the hay about it.

To be clear, I’m not disappointed. The additional megapixels are nice to have for sure. Resolution is just not something I care much about.

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I have a X100VI here for testing. Now I changed the cameras.xml to open the files in darktable.
Its fine, but I see a slim black bar in every picture on the right side.
My X-T5 does not have this “problem”. I think they have the same sensor.
Is there anything I can do?

Thanks!

Did you copy the xml from a 24 MP fuji, perchance? You should probably take the one from the X-S20.

I took this one:
https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/blob/develop/data/cameras.xml

hm, here is one line more inside:

Crop x=“0” y=“12” width=“-120” height=“-12”/

I think this is the solution of my problem…
On new opened pictures everything is fine.

On the first batch of imported pictures you just need to hit the reset button on the “raw black/white point” module.

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