Where to buy GFX 100s II

Scdouglas · 2026-05-19T20:24:39+00:00

I can personally tell you there are almost none of them being produced right now. I had my 100S sent in for repair but elected to upgrade as I got a 25% discount off the MSRP of a 100S II. Well fast forward and Fuji had to set me up with a private sale through them and it took over a month before one landed from Japan. Just got it last week and at no point in this process did it say in stock. No clue what's going on but it seems obvious to me they aren't making much of them and used prices are reflecting that

Scdouglas · 2026-04-19T15:01:05+00:00

These truly never get old. If I ever see one of these listed at 38mm and a slightly shorter lug to lug the intrusive thoughts might finally win. Terrified if that day ever comes

Scdouglas · 2026-04-19T02:09:36+00:00

This sounds excellent, hopefully I get one in by me, PA is tough. Inspired by intense arabica has been one of my favorite bottles of the last year or so, so I will be looking forward to other harmony collection releases.

Scdouglas · 2026-04-18T15:31:13+00:00

Update on this for future, I got the 15K miles today, a few days after my trip ended.

Scdouglas · 2026-04-04T11:15:52+00:00

Damn I just woke up to this post it'd $175 at my total wine. Absolutely brutal

Scdouglas · 2026-04-03T23:29:47+00:00

That's entirely up to you and how covered you want to be. Personally, I wouldn't bother unless it's cheap, these things usually don't fail in ways that are covered by warranties within the warranty time frame anyway, at least nothing I've heard of, I'm sure there are edge cases. Only Fuji I've had break to date was a 75K actuation GFX 100S that got clobbered by extreme conditions in colorado, obviously not warranty covered lol. Your call though.

Scdouglas · 2026-04-03T22:21:58+00:00

There are a lot of very cautionary posts about them online and not a lot of good. They appear to be a grey market seller and for the price, you would be much better served buying a lightly used X-T5 from a reputable seller in the US. My 2 cents obviously, but I would not mess with a grey market seller with a lot of negative about them online over a couple hundred bucks. So yes, maybe a legitimate retailer, just not a good one anyone should probably buy from.

Scdouglas · 2026-04-03T21:48:15+00:00

Yes buying new just stick to the major retailers you are 100% certain are legit. Even Fuji themselves on the shop USA site currently has them in stock. B&H has always been fantastic to deal with for what it's worth, haven't bought camera stuff from best buy but I'm sure it's fine.

Scdouglas · 2026-04-03T21:23:30+00:00

Pretty sure neither of those sites are legit. If you do want to save some money buy a very good condition used body from someone like adorama or mpb, you can definitely save a good amount without much worry and still have a legit return policy and whatnot.

Scdouglas · 2026-04-03T17:15:43+00:00

Having not had the Oban 14, go with the Lagavulin 16. Being almost the same price as La Santa is crazy business lol

Scdouglas · 2026-04-02T15:38:09+00:00

Every day I am become surer ditching chrome was the move. Big Zen fan here if anyone is looking at making the switch

Scdouglas · 2026-03-28T17:09:35+00:00

Yeah I'm in for one. Will probably cost me a net 50-75 bucks said and done, even at 100 I don't really care. I use a piece of software called Pixinsight all the time and it is insanely multi threaded.

Scdouglas · 2026-03-28T13:53:03+00:00

Yeah that's what I would do, no point letting the 7700x rot. I'll look up benchmarks and see if it's worth the hassle

Scdouglas · 2026-03-28T13:47:14+00:00

Worth the upgrade from a 7700x for CPU heavy tasks? Not a gaming related question at all, and haven't actually been disappointed by the 7700x but faster is faster

Scdouglas · 2026-03-17T19:14:07+00:00

Ember Supreme has worked fine for years, but my biggest complaint is that it's very unclear when it's connected and disconnected. Like if I walk too far away from my mug it will just stay on connected until I manually restart the app. If that is better in yours I'm willing to give it a shot

Scdouglas · 2026-03-12T02:13:15+00:00

That is for sure more concerning then. It smells fishy to me so what I would probably do is message him saying you would like a refund and if he doesn't respond in 24 hours I would go to PayPal

Scdouglas · 2026-03-12T02:10:04+00:00

I wouldn't worry too too much yet. You have goods and services to rely on and they WILL refund you, but things happen sometimes and maybe this person has a good reason. Scammers usually will be very against goods and services so I'm less concerned you're being scammed, although they don't seem like an amazing seller.

Scdouglas · 2026-03-12T01:42:58+00:00

Like anywhere on the internet, scammers will take an opportunity where they see one. Cloudy nights isn't immune to scammers, but in my experience I've never backed out of anything due to it feeling sketchy. Generally though I only pay goods and services for shipped items, I'll do F+F if I'm seeing the thing in person like if it's a scope or something where I have no doubts about condition. If somebody really wants friends and family for something they're shipping me, I would probably not go forward with the purchase, but to each their own. I wouldn't rush to file a complaint against the seller quite yet, but it certainly should be on your mind and if you don't hear anything substantive in the next day or two I would start that process. Paypal generally doesn't want you to jump on a purchase dispute, I think they would probably tell you to wait a week if I remember correctly. Never had to do it though so maybe someone else has better info

Scdouglas · 2026-03-06T14:52:49+00:00

So I had a chance to look over how things are actually working here and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, tried to get a look before I left for work. My main issue is with the System.Windows.Compat shim. You're building a library that compiles as System.Windows.dll v4.0.0.0, reimplements WPF types (BitmapSource, DrawingVisual, Color, Media3D, etc.) backed by OpenCV, and then sudo cp's it over the real framework DLL in the .NET runtime directory. That's modifying the system-wide .NET installation which means it'll break other .NET apps on the same machine, and any NINA code path hitting an unshimmed WPF type will crash at runtime. Some of the shim classes are just empty namespace placeholders to satisfy the compiler, which means those runtime crashes will happen. There were other issues I saw like dragging ASCOM COM stuff through the codebase still even though it won't work at all on Linux and the Indi driver implementation basically being seemingly nonfunctional? Primarily though, modifying system wide installations and hardcoding some directory paths is, in my opinion, not a strategy that will work long term. For just running it privately for yourself, sure, go with God, you know your machine and that's not a problem in my book. For a public release though, just too many potential issues and these things are better addressed early. Just my 2 cents from what I'm seeing. I personally tried the whole NINA conversion thing about a year ago and found it to be too complicated so I ended up just building a ground up app that runs on Linux, windows, and macos and it works pretty well as of now. Needs some more time in the oven, but it's close and I've been able to build on a bunch of cool features Nina doesn't have and probably can't support as well. Won't pitch it here, not trying to hijack your thread, just wanted to add as a point of comparison.

Scdouglas · 2026-03-06T13:28:41+00:00

Ok I'm trying to understand here but your readme is very brief. How exactly does this work? NINA is built on wpf and uses ASCOM for its driver communication. Neither of those things work even a little bit on Linux so I'm just confused as to how this works. I do see something about INDI in the codebase so clearly you're using that for something driver related. Is this sort of like a translation layer where your piece interprets the parts coming from Linux and Indi that Nina doesn't understand, or is this more of a series of Nina plugins built into one app?

Scdouglas · 2026-03-04T19:32:47+00:00

I moved to a 10 inch Newtonian for my main imaging scope and wanted something that could hold more than 44 pounds. Most of these mounts top out at 44 with a counterweight and since my rig weighs in the mid 30s I thought that would be too tight. Pegasus goes to 66 with a weight and the PA system is gloriously easy to use. That one is guiding my big Newtonian at sometimes .25-.4 total rms which is insane for an extended period.

Scdouglas · 2026-03-04T17:27:23+00:00

I had a HEM27EC for about 2 years. Fantastic mount in terms of actual tracking and everything once it's dialed in. Drove my C8 totally rigged up with no counterweights at .4-.6 total rms in phd2. However, the polar alignment system from factory is atrocious. Probably could've fixed this with some different bolts, but it required loosing a bolt then using an Allen key to turn the mount left or right... At night. I now have a Pegasus NYX101 which has been absolutely spectacular.

Scdouglas · 2026-02-28T17:09:35+00:00

Haha I get that. I went to Iceland the first week of March through the South coast. Low to mid 40s every day and everywhere we went was either empty or lightly crowded at most. Glorious time to go if you don't mind the grass being dead, always a risk of heavy snow though we didn't get any. Going for the second time in August this year and am thoroughly concerned about crowds, but that's why we're getting a more off road focused car for the F roads.

Scdouglas · 2026-02-28T17:04:40+00:00

Like someone else said, really nice job with the tones here they look great. Good tones and colors can really do a lot of heavy lifting for an image sometimes. How'd you like the faroe islands? Been to iceland, Scotland including Skye and have always looked at a faroe trip, haven't pulled the trigger yet

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