The one I played with at WPPI was horrendous as far as autofocus is concerned. Possibly that it was user error, but I feel pretty comfortable saying I know my way around a camera.
Either way, cool camera, and I love the direction they're taking. But it's no Leica competitor. I'm happy with my X10 and M9.
Good find! Don't know how good it will be yet. The older X100 battery was widely used by many cameras, including Ricoh, so there were many tested/ proven inexpensive alternatives. Hopefully, this one will prove to be reliable.
New review from LL by Nick Devlin. I think he really should be more clear that the X-Pro 1 is NOT a rangefinder camera. He spends the entire first paragraph making it sound as if it is.
Tariq Gibran wrote:
New review from LL by Nick Devlin. I think he really should be more clear that the X-Pro 1 is NOT a rangefinder camera. He spends the entire first paragraph making it sound as if it is.
The EVF will become much more important later this year and in 2013 when Fuji introduces a series of promised zoom lenses. That’s right…zoom lenses for a rangefinder camera.
The EVF will become much more important later this year and in 2013 when Fuji introduces a series of promised zoom lenses. That’s right…zoom lenses for a rangefinder camera.
Well, it isn't a rangefinder camera, because there is no rangefinder. It is a compact camera with a large sensor and interchangeable lenses which sort of looks like a rangefinder
The takeaway from the digitalrev hands-on: "A fun camera to use - to be honest it's not all that bad, you just have to learn to live with it and adapt to it. It's about offering something unique. It's interesting to look at and play with, but not everyone will be willing to live with it."
rscheffler wrote:
...- to be honest it's not all that bad, you just have to learn to live with it and adapt to it. It's about offering something unique. It's interesting to look at and play with, but not everyone will be willing to live with it."
I still think this camera could prove to be something pretty unique/ special with adapted lenses. I ordered the Kipon M adapter, now available on the auction site, just in case.
Fujifilm X pro looks like a solid camera. Flimsy Nex5 is a disposable toy. It will fall apart in one or two years. Not worth investment no matter how good / bad it performs with Zeiss/ Leica lenses. Waste of money.
douglasf13 wrote:
Well, the Zeiss could very well perform better than the Fuji 18 on the X-Pro1, but who knows? Either way, the official Fuji M adapter won't matter much. Nex has become one of the most widely adapted systems out there, and Sony hasn't made any adapters for other brand's lenses. I anticipate that we'll see adapters from China for the Fuji pretty soon.
vovkinson wrote:
Fujifilm X pro looks like a solid camera. Flimsy Nex5 is a disposable toy. It will fall apart in one or two years. Not worth investment no matter how good / bad it performs with Zeiss/ Leica lenses. Waste of money.
That's absurd. There are barely any moving parts in a Nex camera, and I've already owned one of them for a year and a half. If anything, the complexity of the Fuji viewfinder is a bigger point of failure, and the build isnt what some had hoped, but just about any camera these days lasts quite a while...although most of us end up upgrading every few years at minimum, anyway.
NEX cameras certainly feel much better made than any Canon camera I've owned or handled. Not quite as nice as Nikons but feel more solid than the E-P2 I used to own.
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The EVF will become much more important later this year and in 2013 when Fuji introduces a series of promised zoom lenses. That’s right…zoom lenses for a rangefinder camera. 
That's absurd. There are barely any moving parts in a Nex camera, and I've already owned one of them for a year and a half. If anything, the complexity of the Fuji viewfinder is a bigger point of failure, and the build isnt what some had hoped, but just about any camera these days lasts quite a while...although most of us end up upgrading every few years at minimum, anyway.