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This is the new Fuji X100S and while it might look the same as the X100, the manufacturer
has made 70 improvements for the new camera.
The big news is that the X100S’s sensor is an upgrade on the one in the X100 and it
now has the same design as the sensor in the superb X-Pro1.
This means that 16.3-million-pixel APS-C format device uses a 6x6 RGGB filter array pattern
with a random arrangement of the filters in the block. As a result Fuji has left off the
usual anti-aliasing filter because the risk of images suffering from moiré patterning
is reduced.
The benefit of this is that the camera should be able to produce sharper, more detailed
images than the X100.
A new processing engine also enables the X100S to have a maximum continuous shooting rate
of 6fps and shutterlag of just 0.01sec. Plus raw files are now recorded in 14-bit and videos
can be shot in Full HD rather than 720p.
Fuji is also claiming that the X100S produces images that are significantly cleaner than
the X100 and, thanks to a new hybrid AF system, autofocusing is much faster than before.
So far we’ve only been able to see this early pre-production sample of the X100S,
we’ll be testing a production model as soon as possible, so watch this space for a full
review.