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Your post must have invoked good karma – my X100vi arrived unannounced and unexpected a couple of days ago. What a surprise. I’m quite happy with it. I really appreciate the size, image quality, and mechanical feel. I’m not really into setting up in-camera film emulations/presets and shooting JPEGs, but if you are it’s another great reason to buy this camera.
That’s great. What a camera. Do you recall the out-the-door price?
Beautiful camera. Looking forward to seeing some pictures.
I’m interested in a pocketable fixed lens camera for hiking. What made you choose this over say a Ricoh GRIII ? I never owned a 35mm lens. Mostly wide angle primes and then up to 50,85,105 mm in addition to zoom lenses.
Thank you. The Fugi is unquestionably a lot more reasonable than my previous Canon 5D and lens, etc. and much easier to transport. It has an amazing set of features. Glad you received yours
What drew me to the X100vi (and the X100f, which I owned previously) over other smaller cameras is the shooting experience. It is a very tactile camera, with mechanical controls and an optical viewfinder (there is also an EVF). In all honesty, most of the pictures I take with this camera could just as easily be taken with my phone, but the X100vi offers better image quality and is much more enjoyable to use.
For me, the 35mm equivalent focal length is fine for how I use the camera. If you want a zoom or more focal length it’s not the right camera, and I have an OM-1 for those situations.
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Memories of a trip York Railway museum in 2009,the Flying Scotsman was in the early stages of a rebuild…
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Incredible machines.
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If you enjoyed the Railway Museum at York, you will also find the Locomotion Museum at Shildon near Darlington in County Durham well worth a visit.
Shildon was the part of the original Stockton-Darlington Railway and was where Timothy Hackworth set up his engineering works and built San Parail (which came second to Stevenson’s Rocket at the Rainhill Trials) and was later the site of a major wagon works (which survived until the 1980s).
Many people in the north think that San Parail was sabotaged at the trials but in truth, while San Parail was the summit of the older boiler technology, Rocket was responsible for introducing multi-tube boilers and other innovations that became the basis of steam engine design for the next 120 years.
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It looks very attractive (& I’ve never visited Durham) but unfortunately it’s nearly 400 miles from my home which is a driving slog of 7-8 hours. That said, now it’s on the radar maybe the opportunity will arise…
Agreed, Mallard was the big attraction for me but all of the locos were a treat…
These are photos I took from the Shildon Locomotion Museum last September:
The Flying Scotsman is in a slightly different state in my picture 
I found this one interesting:
It’s a ‘fireless’ locomotive used to service paper mills (where an engine with a firebox would have been exceedingly high risk). The ‘boiler’ is not a boiler at all. It is just a high pressure steam reservoir which would allow the locomotive to run for a few hours and then the steam reservoir had to be refilled.
Finally, both the original Rocket (in it’s evolved state) and a replica Rocket (in its original state) can be seen. It’s interesting to see how it was modified:
Note the lowered cylinders on the evolved original. This was apparently done to improve ride comfort. The firebox was also enlarged and the chimney at the front was removed and replaced with a smokebox for easy cleaning.
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I also find the Napier Deltic engine in the Deltic locomotive (Blue engine pictured above) facinating. It is an 18 cylinder/36 piston design with each cylinder having two opposed pistons that producd a lot of power from a relatively compact engine.
It was, however, somewhat difficult to service. Engines initially had to removed and returned to Napier for repair and servicing.
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I’m convinced, next time I’m visiting family (with a car) I’ll have to head further north…
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I have actually had a ride in the cab of a Deltic (circa 1963), admittedly I wasn’t aware of the engine or configuration but the machine was massive and it was an exciting experience…
Also managed rides in castle & pacific class engines (and numerous shunting engine) as well in the same period, ahhhh! the joys of train spotting…
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Mallard was 60022 and blue when I saw it
As long as you didn’t see The Flying Scotsman when it was number 1472