D-Lux 8 vs Fuji X100VI. Which one?

[starcolony]

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13 hours ago, XMan said:

In 2024 I travelled for 2 months with the Fuji X100V1 and it was a great camera BUT I could not live with that fixed focal length, so I traded it as soon as I returned, and now have a D-Lux8 with which I am totally happy EXCEPT for the lack of a tilt screen.  I am now too old to do the contortions necessary to shoot from a low position.  One of my solutions to this is to face away from the subject and shoot back through my legs with the camera at about knee height.  Puzzles passers by but I get my shot.😜

I too am at that point where low angle shots without a tilt screen elude me.  I need to try your innovative technique of "XMan backwards squat-shot". 😉

And I'm too old to care what passers-by think of my photographic yoga stylings.

[XMan]

Thanks starcolony, it is a pragmatic approach, works and to hell with with the puzzled onlookers. Cheers

[Dazzajl]

I picked up a 100vi this week and it’s a fantastic camera. Amazing spec sheet, fabulous image quality, good ISO performance for the sensor size and nicely customisable too. 
 

BUT…. I can’t quite get past feeling it should be a bit more premium than it is. It doesn’t have as much quality in hand feel as the 100V does. The dials feel a little too light and need a bit more substance to them. I appreciate that it shouldn’t matter if does it a great job and is robust enough but to me, it does a bit. Maybe this will change as we get to know each other??

[colonel]

On 6/28/2025 at 9:10 AM, Dazzajl said:

I picked up a 100vi this week and it’s a fantastic camera. Amazing spec sheet, fabulous image quality, good ISO performance for the sensor size and nicely customisable too. 
 

BUT…. I can’t quite get past feeling it should be a bit more premium than it is. It doesn’t have as much quality in hand feel as the 100V does. The dials feel a little too light and need a bit more substance to them. I appreciate that it shouldn’t matter if does it a great job and is robust enough but to me, it does a bit. Maybe this will change as we get to know each other??

I could never get over the nipple on the x100 series. If you can splash out, the GFX100RF actually has a much nicer one.

[MikeD70]

Having had all of the Q's, ( now on the 3/28) and all of the Fuji X100's, I recently sold my X100 VI and got a D-lux 8.  At least for me,(Old) the combination of image quality, and menu navigation were enough to make me switch, when the D-8 came out.  The 8 is my second D-Lux model, and this time around, it's a great little all around shooter that goes anywhere.  That extra reach is a big plus also.

My vote, D-Lux 8 hands down. 

[Einst_Stein]

Can't compare DL8 with X100VI, but I have DL8 and X 113. To me X113 and X100VI are similar in the sense of focal length, though X100VI has higher MP and more useful features. X100VI is also more cute and more Leica-ish in outlook. I am also drag my biased expereience of Leica TL/CL vs Fujifilm XH2.

After using S3 64MP, Sony A7RII 47MP, Contax 645 39MP, M240 24MP, M9 18MP, X 16MP, Sony R1 10MP, etc. I am not impressed by the high MP. I can still impress people around me with photos taken by Leica Digilux 4.3 (2MP).

What makes the most difference is the color rendering (the color science of the vendor) and the smoothness or roundness of the image  (I guess this is the characteristics of the impulse/point response or the Green function of the optical system, analog to the sound coloring and smoothness of HIFI). 

I am much preferred Leica TL/CL to Fujifilm XH2 due to the color rendering and image roundness. This is very subjective. You have to see both to decide which is more perferred for your own, but for Leica DL8 vs. Leica X, if limited to the same equivalent focla length, X 113 wins hands down. However, DL8's FL flexibility cannot be ignored. In most cases, I would take DL8 if I cannot take them both.

I guess for most people, DL8 vs X100VI would probably end as Zoom vs Prime comparison.  

[RSH-Photo]

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On 7/31/2024 at 8:14 AM, leicas_boyfriend said:

Would be interesting to me if Leica has done something against the problem with dust coming on the sensor through the lens tube.

A problem that seems to affect the D-Lux 109 as well as the 7 (my 7 not yet affected, but I always try treating it like a raw egg...😀).

I’ve owned a D-Lux 7 for five years and most days take it with me on my daily walk along recreational trails in dusty central Texas and I’ve never had a problem with sensor dust. I’ve read in posts here and on the D-Lux Facebook page about worries about dust reaching the sensor through the lens housing. I think the problem is exaggerated. The D-Lux 7 is a robust camera that I carry with me everywhere without worry about it being fragile or a magnet for dust. 

 

[RSH-Photo]

I like Fujifilm cameras. My first one was an X10 compact for travel. It was a wonderful camera and would eventually lead me to the outstanding rangefinder-style X-E series. I still use my X-E3 a lot. I bought a used X100s for travel. It was a nice camera, beautifully styled. But I found the hybrid viewfinder a waste of money, I rarely used the optical viewfinder. I sold it and got a Sony RX100vi. It was a nice camera but I wanted something with a larger sensor and I wanted to return to a Leica product (I sold my M6 years ago when Leica said there wouldn’t be a digital M camera, only to soon realize it had to adapt to the digital age). I’m super satisfied with the D-Lux 7. I wouldn’t upgrade to the D-Lux 8 because it doesn’t have the D-Lux 7’s ability to use the lens ring for zooming or to use it and the toggle switch for a stepped zoom.

[davidzvi]

I've been going back and forth between systems for the last decade plus for fun*. The two systems I predominantly go between are m43 and Fuji.  I've owned the X70 (3 times), the X100v, X100vi, the X-E3, and have the X-E5 on pre-order. I've also owned 2 LX100's.

The Fujis produce wonderful image. But yes the menus can be overly complicated. Their AF configuration and options can be particularly annoying.

But where the Fujis where complicated and annoying, the Panasonic menus and controls just pissed me off. There are 3 different control options between hard function buttons, screen function buttons, and the Q-Menu. I was never able to configure the options I wanted using just one.  And the fact that you have to cycle through 5 screens when hit the display button seems stupid. Especially when two are just duplicates of two others with the level gauge, something you can program on and off with a command button. 

The D-Lux 8 is breath of fresh air from the stand point of controls and menus. Yes I would love a tilt screen and manual zoom lens, but you can't have everything. I'll have to see how it compares when the X-E5 comes in.

 

* Former event shooter, for work I shot Nikon. But fun I like to try different things.