+1. I admit that I likely would have never gone with Leica if Fuji made at least one FF-based MLC with manual camera options. It remains still a mystery to me why Fuji let this market niche with full-frame go untapped to date. If Fuji made such FF based MLC with exchangeable lens mount plus offering some high quality smaller lenses, I am convinced many more would stick with Fuji instead of Leica.
The FF market is saturated. The APS-C market is practically ignored by Canikony, more or less. Also consider that only with the most recent models does Fuji have cameras that can compete on a fairly even basis against the mainstream FF options with respect to AF performance. Had they started with a FF mirrorless line back when Sony did, but without the benefit Sony had of making their own sensors, Fuji would have basically been like Panasonic was with CDAF competing against more competent DSLR AF systems and the early half-decent PDAF based mirrorless bodies, of which the first good one (for action related AF performance) was the a9 in 2017.
With APS-C Fuji has a niche practically to themselves for those who want and can benefit from a more compact system and could accept some of the AF performance tradeoffs that were necessary until recently.
But if you don't need that level of AF performance, then sure, a Fuji FF body would have been interesting and certainly usable. I just think Fuji wouldn't have been evaluated as kindly by the general market and would have suffered because of it.
Actually Leica's M9 released in 2009 could be considered the first full frame mirrorless digital camera. Sony didn't release the A7 until 2013. Leica didn't use Sony sensors untill the current generation.
Only Andreas Kaufmann would say that... Mirrorless and EVF go kind of hand in hand, at least for me...
Well it is digital, it is full frame, and it is mirroless. It is can be used both through the range finder ot TTL with the rear screen. Having an EVF is not integral to the mirrorless definition.
Jun 24, 2026 at 02:26 PM
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Mirrorless and EVF go kind of hand in hand, at least for me...