Fujifilm X10 review

Care to comment on the pure white discs visible on the shots from the Millennium bridge?

A wonderful compact(ish) camera. A bit of a learning curve with the exr but once learned well rewarded. Very good i.q. from a small sensor and truly amazing high iso performance. Dave.

Are you shure you have seen this fotos with open eyes? What for a explenation have you for all this white dot's in the Night Foto with the river?

My god the rendering on those lights on the night shot is horrific :L

What's with all those HUGE globe lamps in the last sample photo? ;-) Is it really like that or are they photoshopped? The one near the centre is on pole in the background but the globe is in front of part of the bridge.

What about the white dot problem on the bridge and previous picture? There are several;perfectly round. I have never seen anything like this on another camera;A Fuji design defect?

There is a major problem with the X10 - white blobs on highlights. Read the comments at dpreview. It's a disgrace that the X10 is on sale with such a major problem...

I had already paid for this camera to complement my X100, but the horrid IQ issue (white discs) forced me to cancel. Now I can't find any other camera like this I would like to buy. It's a huge shame. After the silly problems with X100 (it has a manual focusing ring that doesn't work in low light), I would have thought Fuji engineers would be more careful, but this problem is worse than anything I've encountered with the X100.

Nic & Paul - They're just lights - nothing to worry about.

Additional comment regarding the lights in the last bridge image: Apparently this image was shot in Velvia film mode which, if its like the one on the Fuji S5, increases saturation and reduces DR - especially at the highlight end, and so gives abruptly clipped highlights.

seriously, white dots? who cares? Clearly people have nothing else to do than pixel peeping instead of going out taking pictures

Trying it out in a shop, it seems that turning off the monitor (to enable viewfinder only use), is a very long winded process....and the shop staff couldn't work it out either. Has anyone noticed this....or even better know how it can be quickly achieved?

Simon, Take a look at the examples on dpreview - just search for WDS (white dot syndrome). If these are nothing to worry about you have unusually low standards about your photo expectations. Photos of water with reflected sunlight look like the water is covered in ping pong balls. This camera would be useless in its current state for any summer vacation photography.

see fujitalk forum on dpreview..plenty of samples of how the white discs can destroy an image,and they cannot be fixed yet,no workaround!!

Unfortunately I have also experienced the white discs in many images. They can quite literally ruin the shot, especially with long exposure. I've tried all combinations of f stop, iso and shutter speed. It is a real problem, but hopefully fuji will release a fix.

Charlie, There are a number of states where you can't turn it off. e.g Continuous Focus or Macro mode. Try one-shot focus and press the Display button repeatedly and it will cycle through the various display modes. You will see Off as one of the modes when you are in a compatible state.

Do the white disks appear in RAW or only JPEG?

Actually a lot of people care about white dots in night and landscape photos. This issue will prevent me from buying x10

The white disks are even present in the image gallery here. Completly put me off buying what otherwise seemed a great camera.

We've been in touch with Fujifilm about this issue and as soon as we hear anything, we'll let you know.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2011/12/07/fujifilmplansfirmware

Jeez...look at the picture 8/8 in the X10 gallery. Horrible.

I was going to buy this camera, but will now wait and see!

I really like the manufacturer and their retro designs, but would not be willing to pay extra for that! Price and function are my foremost evaluation criteria, and I think this camera is about £100 too expensive for the tad of extra functionality! The sample pics IQ really isn't that impressive either.

Jerry, picture 8/8 is pretty good considering this is a late 2011 small sensor compact. Get your facts right before you make emotive comments. The picture appears to have a surprisingly high Dynamic Range.

except for the Orbs on 7&8 they are very good for this type of camera

I bought an X10 the day of it's release as I wanted a 'go anywhere' camera (my other cameras are a Nikon D7000 and D700). I think it is an excellent piece of kit. I have taken shots in a range of lighting conditions and haven't noticed any of the white spots mentioned here. The only downside I've found is the optical viewfinder, where I have cropped pictures unintentionally when using it.

White spots or orbs are going to be addressed in a software release in early Feb. Otherwise I agree with the review. It's pocketable, it IQ is super, it's built to last and the biggest problem I have had (it looks much better in the metal than in pix) is that people want to play with it so much, it's hard to keep it in you hands in a crowd.

Firmware does nothing to address White disc issue, pity, must be a faulty sensor i guess, gonna be difficult to address the problem with firmware... Fuji, the silence ain't helping!

Fuji have not done anything to reduce the white orbs although reading the notes to firmware 1.03 you might think that they had. Read all Fuji words very very carefully

Firmware update makes no diff - FUJI tech in NJ advises that in FUJI's opinion "the camera is not faulty, so there will be no recall." I think everyone who bought an X10 should submit a petition to FUJI demanding a recall to replace these faulty sensors. What does everyone else think?

I've been using my X10 for over 2 weeks shorting in all kinds of environment including shooting directly into the sun, I have not discovered the white orbs problem mentioned above. Am I the only lucky one?

Stop wining and start shooting photos. i think all the people who are complaning about firmware don't care about making photo's. They will allways no matter what kind of camera there will be complaning about something.

there's an excellent post on the x10 flickr group, where people share photos from all cameras, including the new canon 5D Mk III...and show how many of these cameras are also affected by the blooming 'orbs' problem. its not just the x10, and i dont know why people make such a big deal out of it. fuji is replacing the sensor anyway.. i dont own it yet, but im buying one asap..regardless of the sensor change. have u seen the photos this camera takes?!?!

I bought one and returned it next day. It had loads of problems.