A chance to bring film cameras out of retirement

If you’re not using it, you might like to consider popping the X100V on eBay - they are in huge demand from the hipster crowd, are perpetually out of stock at retailers.

List price on WEX (out of stock) is £1349 - MPB are selling used ones for up to £1739!!

Well, yes.

Pixels certainly don’t tell the whole story - optics remain hugely important even though it is now convenient to fix many optical problems in software.

That said modern pixels are (or at any rate can be) more performant, than the now 13+ years old sensor in the X100 - today’s CMOS sensors have lower noise, increased sensitivity and improved dynamic range compared with devices of that era - it’s one of the reasons that phone cameras have come on in such leaps and bounds over the same time period.

There’s an old adage that the best camera is the one in your pocket - which for most people, most of the time these days is your phone.

To be honest though a modern flagship phone can produce mages of high enough quality to rival all but the best film SLRs

I also have a spare one that bought to repair as it needs either new battery contacts or is having software problems with version 3.0 software, the problems started after the owner upgraded from 2.14, it’s on my to do/fix list, seeing as they are making good money it might move up that list :yum: