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What have we here? Exactly the camera I have been waiting to test! And no-one told me it was lurking in the Fujifilm cabinet. Luckily I peer everywhere in the Camera Electronic shops and always have done. I would recommend it to all the readers. You can discover more in Stirling and Murray Street than you can wading through a steamy jungle. The new Fujifilm X-100V is here in silver with the black version set to arrive in a few months. You can decide yourself which looks best to you, but I must say the silver is elegant. If you are an Adobe user you'll be restricted at present to the jpeg settings - ACR on lightroom doesn't open its RAW files yet. I daresay this is coming soon. No matter- the Fujifilm jpegs are excellent and the camera seems to cope very will with exposures under varying lighting conditions. The two front views of the camera show it to be very similar to the basic outline of the previous X-100 series cameras. You'll be hard pressed to see the subtle casing differences that do exist. Turn it round and the changes become more evident. Yes, it's the screen we wanted. Two-way tilt and touch-screen capability. Folds neatly into the outline of the back with a finger catch to pull it out. No D-pad. The joy (!) stick does all the shifting and popping you need. The menu and playback buttons have a solid feel to them and you cannot accidentally go into Delete mode by slipping a finger - you have to deliberately go up to an upper button to do it. The office is admirably straightforward. The ISO dial concentric with the shutter speed is accessed by pulling up on the knurled ring, and it will stay up until you deliberately click it down. The knob is great because you can mount an external Fujifilm flash on the camera hot shoe and still access that shutter speed dial. As it reports all the settings on the rear screen, you needn't see the top face of the dial. The menu is reminiscent of that on my X-T3. This may confuse and irritate Ken Rockwell, but I find it an admirably clear presentation of the controls. The "Q" panel is really all you need to deal with small changes in your settings and if you take the time to make custom channel sets of adjustments, you may never have to menu-dive ever after. Yes, the finder works as it did before, but far better than the original X-100. I set it to give a red highlight for the manual focusing and to show an enlarged view of the AF point at other times. The shutter synchs at all speeds and is as silent as before. We are told that the sensor and processor inside are new...as is the formulation of the 23mm lens. So lt's see tomorrow how well they actually do... PS: It's made in...