So to summarise my little experience with the X100s, overall this is a fantastic camera. Sure there’s a few niggly bits like the short battery life, soft images when shooting wide open and weird skin smoothing at high iso when shooting jpegs. But nothing that would seriously put me off this camera. All the important things are there, high iso performance, fast lens, image quality is excellent once stopped down beyond f4, the images are sharp and its a devilishly good looking camera. Fuji have done a great job at making this a great everyday walk around camera. Some would say its the perfect camera for street photography, not being a street photography I cant really say. When I first got it I was worried the 35mm lens wouldn’t be wide enough but soon found taking 2 extra steps backwards solved this. In some ways shooting with this is like shooting with an iphone, you never hear anyone complain the lens isn’t wide enough or long enough – they just get on and move their feet. Of course Fuji has released a couple of screw on lens adapters for those that *really* need the extra width. Personally I’m more intrigued by the telephoto adapter but the size of it kind of negates the point of the X100. As a friend once said, as soon as you have to carry a camera which doesn’t fit in a pocket you may as well take your slr. I think I have to agree, yes you could get a small interchangeable system like the XE-2 but the whole point of the X100s is its size, its a light highly capable camera that can just be there in your bag or coat ready to go. After spending some time with it and allowing the excitement to wear off, would I consider getting one? Absolutely. I can see this fitting in nicely as one of my travel cameras. All thats left now is to convince the wife I need to add one in my camera bag!

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Fuji X100s Matt Evans reviews