Andy Westlake on Fuji’s upcom­ing X100:

Overall the X100 has an unusu­ally con­sis­tent design phi­los­o­phy, and it’s refresh­ing to see a cam­era that’s so firmly ded­i­cated to the process of sim­ply cap­tur­ing images, with­out unnec­es­sary frip­peries. The fixed-lens design has a attracted a degree of debate, but it’s clear that this is fun­da­men­tal to the over­all approach. It enables the cam­era to remain rel­a­tively slim despite the fast lens, and through the use of an in-lens shut­ter, be almost silent in oper­a­tion while offer­ing flash sync at high shut­ter speeds with­out a loss of flash power.