Nope.
See my post of 23rd Feb on supply to the UK.
Fujifilm is talking nonsense and lying through its hat.
There is no way a multinational company hyperinflates the hysteria round its flagship product, then coincidentally drags its heels over production for best part of a year, then forgets to have any mention of its firmware or lens until 6 weeks before its release date, unless it knows darn well what it is doing.
And what it is evidently doing, if it's half a brain(as opposed to half a conscience), is knowing exactly how many units its made, stockpiling them, then like the Harkonnens on the Planet Dune with the Spice Melange, sits on the pile, ratcheting up demand, having already known exactly how many to supply.
As I said in February, a mere 200 units were tagged for the first wave of retail in the UK, distributed throughout a mere 10 "platinum dealerships" (more arcane bollox designed to ascribe an air or hermetic mysticism to the whole panting-match).
You're not telling me that Fuji has suddenly been struck with an inverse and chronic autism that strikes them with immediate mathematical blindness here, like, "Oh dear, Company-Director-San: even though this is such an ace camera, we suddenly had an attack of market-agoraphobia, leading us to underestimate the demand of the cunning westerners; consequently, we only thought 200 people in the whole of the UK would actually buy it. The price is a bit steep, old son..."
" Arggh, yes you're right...I shall ritually disembowel myself immediately. Looks like our world domination, I mean market share, is shafted then, Grasshopper."
I mean, come on. They've got stockpiles of X-100s racked up to the rafters. They've purposefully trickled out a small smidge of these just so as to get us all slathering in a frenzy and making sure we get one too.
You see, they also know darn well they were really too late with this camera and have shafted themselves on pricing because of "economic downturn" and all that....they are relying on their woven and purposeful illusion of "short" supply, so as to keep emotion and heart ruling the head. Because if we wake up and see what else there is to buy for a grand,or more if you add on the lens filter adapter, we might just go for something else.
Nope. Fuji restricting supply is purposeful, with aforethought and actually fed by panic and greed.
I reckon a few UK punters will score one this time around...I mean, there's bound to be a cancellation when you've got 37 pre-orders taken for 20 units, right?
And of course, when are the new ones coming in?....because you'd expect,
IF Fuji were caught out as they lie about, for supply not to catch up for a few months. Er...well, most odd: by May the second lot wil be in the shops.
My, they must have really worked then...
...yeahright...just unlocked the storeroom where they've all been sitting for a few months more like.
Of course, all this will be forgotten, as all the fanboys fall out of the woodwork in a month or two, about how it's the best thing since sliced sushi, and how it's "worth" all the money in the world because " you just can't put a price on IQ, you know..."
Well, Fuji can, and it's a thousand quid.
Still might get one mind....
No, I'm delighted that folks are getting hands-on, as now we can start to weigh things up.