Fujifilm X100

"classical" look image by Tony_Roman_Photography (Image rights)

image by Carlos Santisteban (Image rights)

A surprise 2010 announcement from Fujifilm became the most recognized innovation shown at the Photokina 2011 and one of the most hotly-anticipated cameras of 2011. The FinePix X100's styling evokes traditional film rangefinder cameras, but at its heart it carries a 12-megapixel APS-C digital sensor. Omitting the zoom lens which most manufacturers thought obligatory, the Fuji has a fixed, semi-wide lens of fast f/2.0 aperture and high quality. Most unusual is the viewfinder system, which has both straight-through optical viewing and an switchable EVF which can display either the live electronic image or supplementary shooting information.