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While Kodak lost the plot a long time ago, Fujifilm in recent years has continued to produce some very nice small-sensor cameras. But its DSLR sourcing relationship with Nikon evaporated some five years ago leaving a vacuum for the company at the high end of the market. 
Then last year they released theX-100, and all of sudden Fuji seemed to get their mojo back. The X-100 has been a huge hit for them. Beautiful build quality, innovative technology, and fantastic image quality. Aget-back-on-the-horsetrifecta for any photographic company. Now Fuji has dropped the other shoe (sorry for all the metaphors) and as of late October, 2011 has started shipping the X-10. 

Reading and Waiting. New York, NY. October, 2011
FujiFilm X10 @ ISO 400
There's No Free Lunch
Camera design is the art of compromise. We'd all like something that fits in a pocket, has the image quality of a Phase One IQ 180, the low light performance of a Nikon D3s, and the....well, you get the idea.
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