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Not directly related, but Fujufilm recently announced that one of their popular digital point and shoot cameras (X100V) will no longer be available for some time. It's been in exceptionally high demand this year and they're having trouble sourcing parts. The camera blew up on TikTok and had been pretty hard to find in stock. The X100V has digital film simulation so you can select the same 'look' that you would get with various Fujifilm 35mm films. The simulation capability isn't half bad.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/2895882637/fujifilm-japan-is-t...

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Fuji has had the film simulations since the original first-gen X100. Every generation gets faster, has better AF and an added film sim or two. The first and second generation are slow by today's standards and AF is not fast or reliable, but generation three ("X100T") and four ("X100F") are quite good and available used. Generation five ("X100V") did get a new lens that's somewhat sharper as well, but it's probably not why you buy an X100.

And the slow AF for the the X100 and X100S wasn’t too much of a problem because the vast majority of the buyers for those two were already film rangefinder enthusiasts who knew how to manual focus/zone focus.

I find it a little interesting that the X100V is blowing up the way it is given that the X100 line is known for its learning curve, but if it means more people learning how to manual focus/zone focus/manual exposure, I’m all for it.

You can shoot these cameras fully automatic still

The X100V's autofocus is good enough that you don't need to zone focus. I doubt most people use it to zone focus tbh.

Is there a reason to prefer that the camera applies these effects at capture time, rather than doing it later in a photo management program like Lightroom or Apple Photos?

Not op, but experience mostly.

Shooting jpeg and using the out of camera images is a different workflow from shooting raw and fiddling with them in post.

This is a good question and I was actually thinking about this today. The filters are on camera but you can actually get some filters for the X100V on Lightroom a well. I think the on-camera filters and the filters you can use w/ Lightroom are specifically meant for the RAW files off of the X100V. I am not sure you can apply them to let's say Canon's RAW files, but I haven't tried.

They're also likely repurposing the factory/component capacity to start manufacturing the next generation using their new XTrans V sensor (the X100V uses an XTrans IV). I'm an X100V owner and the camera lives up to the hype. I'll probably preorder the next one.

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