© Fujifilm

The FinePix team is fully aware about the hype on the X100, and they don’t want to let us down, indeed.

Interesting key feature:

• Optics will be an auto-focus 49mm ring, fixed lens 35mm ƒ/2.0. No Image Stabilization.
• The cam­era will have a ded­i­cated RAW but­ton that allows instant tog­gle to shoot RAW+JPEG, with in-camera RAW devel­op­ment mechanism.
• 3-mode auto focus — with user-selectable focus points — will be intro­duced: AF-S, for sta­tic and AF-C for con­tin­u­ous, mov­ing objects and nat­u­rally a man­ual focus with 1) dis­tance indi­ca­tion for pre-focus, 2) elec­tronic viewfinder from the lens-barrel ring.
• The APS-C CMOS sen­sor is capa­ble of ISO extended to 100–12800 from the stan­dard 200‑6400.

Even more details (geek mode on):

• Shutter lag will be around 0.01 sec­onds, I’m not sure if that’s the ball­park fig­ure for DSLRs, but Fuji claims it to be comparable.
• It will have dig­i­tal film sim­u­la­tion (Provia, Velvia, Astia lovers rejoiced!)
• The 3-stop inte­gral ND fil­ter can be switched ON/OFF manually

Despite the obvi­ous inspi­ra­tion and design sim­i­lar­ity, Fuji con­firms that the X100 is not a rangefinder cam­era, and insists that ‘MADE IN JAPAN’ to be etched at the cam­era back-plate, not the bottom.