Bitter/sweet X100!
April 15, 2019
Bought 6 month ago and still raging at the tip of my fingers. This camera is made for a cyber robot or a lab. The only way to make this camera become friendly usable is sleeping with it, intensivily training yourself morning, noon and night by fighting, raging and sweating against mystery, bogs and hidden access menu. App is a joke and at that price you dont even have time lapse. If you want time lapse you have to fight with the app that does not work. I waste all my two times 5 weeks vacation in Thailand in the last 6 months fighting with this camera. Automatic mode give you less result than a cell phone because it pump ISO instead of reducing speed. screen is impossible to see under the sun or just daylight so you have to use the visor to be able to use that camera and it's infinite labyrinte scatered menu. I have to constently tell the camera what to do in every angle to make sure it's not under of over exposed, but under daylight or sun this task is impossible. ISO limit is 800 after that it's practicaly useless. Still this camera is pacted with goodies but you can't make any good of it if the cockpit is in the camera and you are outside trying to figure out whats going on inside. The result is lots of frustration when download at home. My cell phone do much more then that. At the end the experience is just a pure frustration. the camera close all the time while you try to set up menu when it's not the battery that die or the camera that over heat.... Read More
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