I picked up my X30 yesterday afternoon
A few questions please.
What's the RAW situation?
I have LR4 and probably need to upgrade, but is the X30 already included in LR5 or are we still holding our breath?
Driving the camera over WiFi seems very hit and miss; what am I doing wrong?
I initially loaded the Fuji Camera Application, it didn't work and I suspect does not support the X30.
The Fuji Camera Remote seems to talk the the X30, but it never seems straight forward to make the connection and whenever I try firing up a different part of the app (remote, receive, browse, geotagging) then the connection is lost and I cannot reconnect without re-launching the app.
It sort of works, but I feel I'm missing something important...
Initial impressions...
The X30 looks HUGE, but compared to the max dimensions of the X10 the changes are insignificant. It's something about the styling. The X30 manages to fit in the same minimalist bag that I used with the X10
, a Lowepro Apex 60, so that's great!
The X30 is noticeably heavier than the X10 (and X20), far more than can be accounted for by the bigger battery. The X30 will be more noticeable to carry around clipped to my waist and will probably rub my leg quite a bit more (an occasional problem with the X10 on a long walk).
The grip is lush - a definite improvement.
Compared to the X10, the IS is amazing! Full zoom at arms length and the image is rock solid. It is a completely different league to the X10 and feels more like my old LX3 which was good enough to produce acceptable 2s exposures hand held.
The LCD writing is smaller than both the X10 and X20. This is great as the info obscures the image far less, but I can see it may give some people problems reading it.
The viewfinder is fantastic and I can see I will be using it a lot (never used it on the X10). Easy to do just about everything in the viewfinder except for the placement of the Play button makes it really hard to review your images.
Manual focus works extremely well, the control ring is smooth and precise and the focus peaking is very intuitive. I think I'll be using MF quite a lot (unlike the X10 which the MF was horrible).
In summary - the X30 and I are going to get on just fine