jsrockit Posted April 19, 2011 Share #41 Â Posted April 19, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Is there any printed magazine/book/or what so ever - which is usually paid for - and which has a content comparable to ReidReviews? I don't know one. Â As far as quality of photographs is concerned I don't find the examples in Reidreviews any worse than those examples in printed media which deal with photographic gear. Â I don't buy gear magazines either. I just mean that reading reviews about every piece of gear out there just leads to G.A.S. ... it's something I'd rather avoid. When I want a review, I can find free ones that work fine. For me, a review can be stellar and I'll find that I don't like the product after using it and the converse as well. Unless there is something truly negative about a camera or lens, I pretty much have to try it myself to know if it is for me or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 19, 2011 Posted April 19, 2011 Hi jsrockit, Take a look here Sean Reid Fuji X100 review - with X1 comparisons. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
h00ligan Posted April 20, 2011 Share #42  Posted April 20, 2011 h00ligan, I agry whit you , I was suscribed and it was a time and money wasted.One question to you, I see you live in Scottsdale, AZ I´ll be in Phoenix next May 28, pickup a Harley in Eagle Riders rentals and cross the country , is there a good place to buy film and some more stuff ??  Best  Photomark is probably the biggest shop here, with the most selection, or tempecamera.com. I think you'll have better luck at photomark. They are off the az51 and McDowell road, easy access in the centralish part of Phoenix. If you're driving cross country, you won't mind a few blocks in the city!  Be careful here, Phoenician drivers have very poor motorcycle awareness, stay extra defensive! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
packlite Posted April 20, 2011 Share #43 Â Posted April 20, 2011 Charles, welcome to the Forum!With an X1 due in two days time and a Fuji X100 also in the offing, you will better placed than most members to form your own conclusions on their relative merits and, perhaps, share them with us. I appreciate your response. I may eventually be equipped better than most members of this forum (as it now seems to be the case) but Sean Reid I doubt very much and that is the OP's original subject matter to which I responded and inquired further. Â thanks, Charles Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted April 20, 2011 Share #44 Â Posted April 20, 2011 Sorry Charles, but I am a little lost with the logic of your final sentence. Â Later: sorry; I forgot you were not the OP! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
packlite Posted April 20, 2011 Share #45 Â Posted April 20, 2011 .......... I do not look to this forum for any kind of aesthetic advice or even interesting photographs. But it is really good if you need to get the dust off your sensor or buy a sexy strap. Â Thank you. I am having difficulty finding an "X1" forum with significant traffic, info and photos. In this forum, in particular I can't find X1 photos. It seems one can't post X1 photos in the X1 forum - strange. The Rangefinder forum has a dedicated forum for the X100 but not the X1. The X100 now has a dedicated forum community in its embryonic stages but not the X1. So I've just been hopping around to the various ones at dpreview, here, flickr, etc. I do hope to land somewhere as a participant (I get a Black X1 this afternoon from J&R and hopefully at least one X100 in the next two weeks). Â Charles Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted April 20, 2011 Share #46 Â Posted April 20, 2011 It takes 32 seconds to activate a camera??? Â No! This was my fault, and you were quicker to read it than me correcting it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted April 20, 2011 Share #47  Posted April 20, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you. I am having difficulty finding an "X1" forum with significant traffic, info and photos. In this forum, in particular I can't find X1 photos. It seems one can't post X1 photos in the X1 forum - strange. The Rangefinder forum has a dedicated forum for the X100 but not the X1. The X100 now has a dedicated forum community in its embryonic stages but not the X1. So I've just been hopping around to the various ones at dpreview, here, flickr, etc. I do hope to land somewhere as a participant (I get a Black X1 this afternoon from J&R and hopefully at least one X100 in the next two weeks). Charles Charles, a suggestion. Start a Search; select Advanced; enter 'X1' in keywords; select 'Photo Forum' to narrow search to picture postings. You will find quite a lot of material to view. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
niarfe Posted April 20, 2011 Share #48 Â Posted April 20, 2011 Thanks h00ligan, good recomendations, ;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogenis Posted April 21, 2011 Share #49  Posted April 21, 2011 It's simple: copyright issues! Writing nowadays is not considered by the majority to be real work and worth paying for. The everything-for-free-internet-culture makes it hard to stay objective, put a lot of work into some project and be able to make a living out of it for a considerable space of time. All those other free websites posting camera comparisons and insights are heavily ad-financed and therefore not objective.  So you have to choose: Cope with Mr Reids suboptimal flash-format or read articles for free where you don't know who paid for.  I wish people would appreciate that and stop beating on him.  Mike  P.S. I know flash is not a real protection against copyright breeches, but it seems to raise the bars enough for most of the average surfers to keep them from copying his writing and putting it to some other webpages and/or forums.  Just by the fact of not allowing ads of any kind into his site is a reason to subscribe: he is very competent and thorough reviewer. However after browsing his reviews the format chosen is also a reason to unsubscribe. I can bet that modern languages (html5) surely solve copyright issues far more efficiently, this is no way to read. He must change it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPerson Posted April 22, 2011 Share #50  Posted April 22, 2011 I stopped going to Sean's site a year or two ago and never renewed my subscription. Mainly down to the fact that I find it rather a punishment wading through his website than a pleasure....bit like jogging through a river of honey...  Each to their own...  Andy  Ditto Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhsimmonds Posted April 24, 2011 Share #51 Â Posted April 24, 2011 It is clear that the disparity of views about Sean's reviews and his web site layout are as diverse as opinions about just about everything else on this forum....that's a healthy sign in my view! Â Sean's review of the X100 are pre the latest firmware updates and he does advise that his review model was a borrowed early camera purchased in Japan. Â I subscribe to Sean's reviews as I like his style and no review is ever free! Mag reviews are heavily subscribed by advertisers and IMHO inevitably biased. The rating of equipment is invariably proportional to the number of paid column inches of advertising. How many times have you seen an ad for the item under review in the same issue from advertisers who might not otherwise advertise? So how does that happen!!!? Â As far as the X100 is concerned I am an interested potential buyer and I prefer to see the camera in the hands of someone who knows photography, so Charles, a lot is falling on your shoulders right now! Â At a recent LUF meeting in the UK, I had a brief opportunity to see an X100, the owner of which had updated it to the latest firmware which he reckoned had transformed his camera to make it faster and much more responsive. We have all done that with Leica digitals (and others) so can appreciate how that works! Â As Sean mentioned in his review which is ongoing, the X100 is a very important camera for serious photographers, breaking new ground in viewfinder technology that can only be good for us photographers, particularly IMHO for the style of photography loved by traditional Leica photographers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted April 24, 2011 Share #52 Â Posted April 24, 2011 So hwo does Sean compare the two cams finally? If you reply that i should subscribe i will believe that this thread is nothing but an ad, which it cannot be needless to say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted April 24, 2011 Share #53  Posted April 24, 2011 So hwo does Sean compare the two cams finally? If you reply that i should subscribe i will believe that this thread is nothing but an ad, which it cannot be needless to say.  There is a 4 page review of the X100 in the May edition of BJP magazine ..but you have to subscribe to obtain it before May  The BJP review will available online in early May FOC British Journal of Photography .. suffice to say the reviewer, Jonathan Eastland, documents the +ve & -ve attributes  dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted April 24, 2011 Share #54 Â Posted April 24, 2011 I read a good review on the French mag Chasseur d'Images as well. I did a little sum-up of it here. What i'd like to know is how Sean compares the two cams. A mere sum-up of his review would be great if this thread is not only an ad as i presume. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted April 24, 2011 Share #55 Â Posted April 24, 2011 I read a good review on the French mag Chasseur d'Images as well. I did a little sum-up of it here. What i'd like to know is how Sean compares the two cams. A mere sum-up of his review would be great if this thread is not only an ad as i presume. Â The subscription to Sean's reviews is not excessive ... works out at 63 cents per week ... Some people spend that every hour on cigarettes . If anyone starts summarising his reviews they would infringe his copyright. Â dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted April 24, 2011 Share #56 Â Posted April 24, 2011 I must have infringed copyrights thousands of times then. Summarizing is not copying fortunately. Why are such arguments put forward in this good forum? Often (always?) about Sean's reviews curiously. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phancj Posted April 25, 2011 Share #57 Â Posted April 25, 2011 Nothing wrong with summarizing. People who subscribe will still do. THose who wont still wont. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhsimmonds Posted April 25, 2011 Share #58 Â Posted April 25, 2011 So hwo does Sean compare the two cams finally? If you reply that i should subscribe i will believe that this thread is nothing but an ad, which it cannot be needless to say. Â As the review is still ongoing as Sean often does with his more serious reviews, I suspect that there is more in the comparison stakes yet to come. He does just point out the obvious differences, ie X100 with it's very special viewfinder and why it's so special to those who can appreciate the subtle nuances of the combined view against the X1 with the add on visual viewfinder or LCD viewer. Â I just hope that he continues with a production X100 and not a beta version, or at least one that is updated to include version 2 of the firmware. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barjohn Posted April 25, 2011 Share #59 Â Posted April 25, 2011 Since I supplied the camera, I can state that it is a production version. However, he returned it just prior to the release of the firmware update to version 1.01 so he did not get to test the latest firmware version and the changes it has made (mostly bug fixes). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhsimmonds Posted April 25, 2011 Share #60 Â Posted April 25, 2011 Thank you John, that clears that up nicely then. Also a great thanks for lending Sean your X100 and I for one look forward to reading the next installment of Sean's review. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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