Singapore Streets (8 Feb '12)

For my February trip to Singapore, I decided to bring my X100 along. I thought it'll be a good few days of shooting to test out the camera and see how it does in various conditions.

The X100 is so quiet even when I don't turn on silent mode I managed to get quite close to people. I don't think I can manage to get these shots on a DSLR. The weather has been hot lately so many people take mid-day naps. Probably big lunches haha.

Fujifilm X100 | 1/550 sec, f/2, ISO 200 | 1/400 sec, f/2, ISO 200
| 1/950 sec, f/2, ISO 200 | 1/300 sec, f/2, ISO 200 | 1/250 sec, f/2, ISO 200

The AF on the X100 is not as fast as my 60D but it's quite adequate even at small apertures. Adjusting aperture using the lens barrel lever is quite fun although it means I can't operate the camera totally one-handed.

Fujifilm X100 | 1/30 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 | 1/550 sec, f/8, ISO 200
| 1/180 sec, f/8, ISO 200 | 1/300 sec, f/2, ISO 200 | 1/40 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200

Fujifilm X100 | 1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200
| 1/420 sec, f/1, ISO 200 | 1/30 sec, f/8, ISO 200 

As previously mentioned, the X100 produces very nice colors. I don't do much post processing for the colored shots.

Fujifilm X100 | 1/180 sec, f/3.2, ISO 200 | 1/210 sec, f/3.6, ISO 200

In the evening, I decided to test out the X100 for night shots. First up, cliche shots with the help of the Gorillapod Zoom. The quality's very good, but it was a PITA to switch settings between nightscape and 'normal' shooting. For ISO, I have to dive into 2 separate menus: first to turn off auto ISO and maximum ISO limit and then a separate menu to set ISO at 200. Then I have to undo these settings when I want to switch back to normal shooting. Yeesh...

As for the Gorillapod, it's finally useful again. It works perfectly with the X100. :)

Fujifilm X100 | 8 sec, f/8, ISO 200 | 11 sec, f/11, ISO 200

With the AF assist light off, focus hunts somewhat and is slow. However, ISO 3200 was still perfectly acceptable. AF also misses focus from time to time. Still fast enough to catch the 'moments' though.

Fujifilm X100 | 1/30 sec, f/2, ISO 1600 | 1/13 sec, f/2, ISO 3200| 1/12 sec, f/2, ISO 3200 | 1/80 sec, f/2, ISO 3200

Day 2 shots coming soon

> Full set of pictures on Flickr