The X-Pro 1, Fujifilm’s retro, rugged, lens-swapping shooter, finally got the high quality reveal it deserves: big, detailed photos. Let your eyes enjoy them.
The 16MP mirrorless cam, with its heavy duty metal lenses and rubberised grippy form, will definitely be a photog lust item. We’re excited to get our mitts on it at CES this week. Until then, stare at these. [Photo Rumors]
Pies
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:29 AMI don’t understand why all these manufacturers keep making cameras like these. They’re more bulky than a pocket camera, typically come with lenses that have no zoom and in all honesty aren’t that much better than the pocket cameras (think Panasonic Lumix). If you’re on the move, you want a small camera, and the more compact the better; if you’re at home or have no luggage problems you might as well go the whole hog and get a canon 60D or whatever.
burp
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:53 AMYou really need to know something about photography, sensors and optics before saying things like that. It would take two thousand words to point out everything that is wrong with that statement.
Joe93444
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:20 AMI can only speak for myself…but in the ’80s I enjoyed owning a couple of Leica M4 RFs and several lenses…and I miss using them. If these new 1.5 FOVs can provide good performance especially in low light conditions at high ISO…they will be worth the expense. When you spend years lugging a Canon 1-series and L-class lenses…particularly f/2.8 zooms….these are about as compact as you could want. Many pocket cameras run out of gas at ISO 400- 800 (I have a G-11) . Zooms are convenient on pocket cameras but they often suffer at the extreme ends, have very narrow aperture ranges beyond the wide ends, and no control of DOF at normal distances. Those restrictions would mostly be offset in these Fujinon lenses…all of which combined would be lighter and smaller than any EF f/2.8 zoom. They will allow a waist pack that is perhaps 1/5th of the weight and bulk of a FF body…3 primes and the flash that I now carry (on my back)…but they will be f/2s, not f/1.4.s and there will be some loss of DOF control in portrait shooting. Even if Canon came up with a EVIL 1.5 FOV body and EF adapters…who would want to buy new glass…just use the EFs that you have and you only minimized the bulk of the body.. It’s all a guessing game…who knows how the Fuji X1 will perform…but you might be surprised at the interest amongst a lot of experienced shooters.
John Smith
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:42 AMYou really don’t know much about photography, Pies. I wondered why camera companies kept on with the SLR system with its bulkiness, noise dark viewer and general clumsiness. This camera is a welcome addition, an ergonomic delight, it seems. And it only promises to get better and better.
fy
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mich
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 7:56 AMMay be Pies “does’nt know much about photography” but after 35 years of professional photography and filmmaking I arrived at the same
conclusion:Products like this X-Pro 1 are excellent cameras but they offer very little in relationship to their ratio quality/price to… “people who know about photography” and who know to take the full advantage of the possibilities of their material (of any kind).You should wait the 3th, maybe 4th generation of a new technology to have decisive upgrade on quality.
Nads
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:18 AMhow much$?
Joe93444
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:37 AMI’m a bit confused by the posings so far but it looks like the lenses are each in the $ USD 500-600 range…and the body around $ USD 1300. The flash looks like something out of the 1970s…possibly not even a bounce head…no price was given. Just a guess…about $ USD 3000 for body/3 lenses. Case is not necessary.
Conor M
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:43 AMHow is this $1600 for the body alone? For a 16 MP micro 4/3, there are comparable performing cameras for half that price. Am I missing something?
scott white
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 4:38 PMConorM. This is not a M4/3 sensor but an APS-C sensor, same size that you would find in a Nikon DX SLR. Also, they have a completely re-designed sensor which they claim will have similar qualities to a full frame (35mm) sensor (think 5dmII or D700)
For all of you who think that this is unnecessary because it’s too bulky compared to a point and shoot you need to realize that the camera market is changing where point and shoot will be dead in 2 years, replaced with high megapixel camera phones (think iPhone 4S vs most pns). for serious photogs SLR and high end mirrorless will never be replaced.
I for one will be buying this, I’ve have an X100 for about 6 months and am absolutely hooked. The X-Pro1 is basically a Leica M9, with a better sensor at 1/5th the price.
JF Cuylits
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:00 PMYes it sounds the perfect camera.
Less heavy than full frame like D700 but IQ should be near or equal and with such fast lenses we should be able to get shallow depth of field (what’s really missing in compact models).
And more good news is that it will come without anti aliasing system which should improve the sharpness.
I’m so impatient now.
Max
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:26 PMOK. I seriously want this. My only gripe is I’d rather they put an ISO dial where the shutter speed dial is. I’d like an EV dial stacked on that – similar to Canon G12.
I’d like the shutter speed dial where the EV dial is. I’m more likely to move that with the camera to my eye than the EV dial. I also hope they have dispensed with the RAW button as on the other X model cameras. I don’t quite get that. I only shoot RAW.
Can somebody please explain the ‘organic’ sensor thing. I’m a bit ignorant on what that actually means.
I’m sure other lenses will become available.
I have a pocket camera it’s called a phone. It’s actually a camera that you can make calls with. I don’t need a pocket camera.
This will give my DSLR a serious run for it’s money. Lets see where the street pricing settles. I guess by the time you’ve got a body, 3 lenses, a flash a couple of cards, lens hoods and some filters about $3500 for camera that is half the price of a Leica body is pretty good.