{"id":11236,"date":"2014-08-26T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11236"},"modified":"2014-08-26T21:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:35:01","slug":"will-i-buy-this-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11236","title":{"rendered":"Will I buy this camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today Fuji announced the new X30 which replaces the X20, which before that, replaced the X10, and all this has happened in only a couple of years!\u00a0 Does it appear to be a good camera?\u00a0 You bet, I started my love affair with Fuji with an X10.\u00a0 It was so good that I made a huge decision based on the care Fuji put into that camera!\u00a0 Of course they didn’t stop there and soon released the X Series with APS-C size sensor and the improvement in quality was enormous.\u00a0 That’s an interesting story, but it does not answer the question, will I buy this camera?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Before you get the wrong idea, I love the idea of what they did with this camera.\u00a0 It is a great leap up from the original X10 and yet keeps all the best things about that first model.\u00a0 So why will I not add it to my system?<\/p>\n

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It appears the camera is going to come in a little under $700. and for $1,295. (which is a lot more),\u00a0 you can buy the Fuji X100s which is an awesome camera in every way!\u00a0 Now $600. is a lot of money, but consider this;\u00a0 You can only practically own a few cameras if you intend to carry them, and if you don’t carry them, they are collectibles, not a photographer’s tool!\u00a0 If you have a budget of only $700. I would order one today, but if you can stretch it a little the X100s is a lot more capable.\u00a0 The X30 has a excellent zoom, advantage X30.\u00a0 The X100s has an APS-C size sensor which is a lot larger than the 2\/3″ sensor in the X30, advantage X100s.\u00a0 The X30 is smaller, not a lot, but smaller, advantage X30.\u00a0 The X100s has both an excellent optical viewfinder and electronic finder as well, the X30 only an electronic finder.\u00a0 Advantage X100s!<\/p>\n

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We could go on, but the answer is simple, buy what you need, nothing more, nothing less!\u00a0 My guess is you will be a very happy camper either way!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Today Fuji announced the new X30 which replaces the X20, which before that, replaced the X10, and all this has happened in only a couple of years!\u00a0 Does it appear to be a good camera?\u00a0 You bet, I started my love affair with Fuji with an X10.\u00a0 It was so good that I made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11236"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11244,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}