I like to think all that cheering is for the X100 taking the photograph… That’s me on the right with some incredible company from a brief holiday into Washington’s San Juan Islands this past weekend The X100 had to go back to Borrow Lenses on Tuesday and this post will conclude the few posts I’ve [...]

Into Day 4 now and that means my week with this camera is half over. I’m already preparing myself for the eventual loss of this camera… so I guess I better take a picture of me with it, for nostalgic purposes – Today’s featured image is me holding the X100 on the street – doing [...]

Moving into day three with the X100 finding its place in the bag… and rightfully so. Before I get more into that, I want to address some points on carrying around a compact camera, since that is one distinct purpose of this little experiment. I want a compact camera that takes high quality photographs, that [...]

In case this is the first time you’re seeing this post, this is the first in a series of posts detailing my experiments with a compact SLR-like camera suited purely to function as a high quality camera that can be with me everywhere. As portable as an iPhone and as high-quality as the upper end [...]

Fresh off the FedEx truck and opened near immediately – the X100 has arrived. I’m very hopeful that this camera will become the camera that I will carry everywhere with me. The camera has a fresh 16gb SD card ready to go and right now, the battery is charging up to full. While that’s happening, [...]

The X100 is scheduled for delivery today. To say that I’m excited is a pretty big understatement. One effective way to measure this excitement could be the refresh rate on the FedEx package tracking site – they’ve probably seen a bump in traffic this morning All going to plan, I’ll be able to get out [...]

When I first began learning photography, I carried my SLR with me everywhere. It was simultaneously both awesome and annoying. Why? I was able to capture high resolution images all the time… but the damn camera was way too heavy, bulky, and awkward to fit inside my day-to-day messenger bag to be practical. It just [...]