Many thanks again everyone. It really does help to get advice and recommendations based on experience and be able to sharpen the search in what is a bewildering market
Not to mention learning lots if a very short space of time/posts
Trouble is one (me that is) starts out with wished for/imagined criteria and then gets tempted by further stuff
And as we all know there is never no ONE camera.
If the Fuji X100 was 28mm equivalent, it would be a no brainer (I think?) - to start off with any road up. Maybe it's just a matter of adapting to a 35mm (equivalent) focal length lens?
Still going through all the suggestions and doing the cons and pros weighing + changing minds etc
(Anyone want to buy a mint, boxed Contax 167MT - bought new in the 90s and probably only had half a dozen rolls of film through it?)