Here they are, the X-superdeals. At the moments the biggest savings are at AmazonUS, BHphoto and Pictureline.
BHphoto: Fuji X-E1 / Fuji X-PRO1 – save $ 1,150 and get also 4% reward. Click on “Buy Together & Save“. Also in this case, get the X-camera with the 18-55 kit lens and then add the 4 primes to save as much as possible!
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Adorama: Fuji X-E1 / Fuji X-PRO1 – there are different bundles available: buy a body with a lens and save up to $300 or bundles as the X-PRO1 with 18/35/60 and save $700.
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Pictureline: Fuji X-E1 / Fuji X-PRO1 – save up to $1,150 for a body+18-55 bundled with all lenses in the offer (until the 31 of August you can also save $30 on Adobe Lightroom 5).
At pictureline the easiest way to see all the savings is to click the “purchase together and save” button under add to cart. It will show you how much each lens has off, and you can add it to the cart all at once.
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Any sign of these deals coming to the UK?
I’m seriously considering downsizing to the Fuji system but it bugs me when I have to pay extra.
I’d like to know about deals outside of US too.
If the Fuji warranty is international, then we could still buy via Amazon?
Call me ungrateful :-(. I had a full kit sitting in my cart at both the big US houses, but I only got approval for two lenses and that would have been the 18-55 and 14. However, the 14 was pulled from the offer so I the way pricing has been running in the US, the XE1/18-55 remains at the long time offer of $1199 and with no deal on the 14mm, there’s no hurry to pull this trigger.
For your 14mm problem, I did read some _good_ things about the 15mm voigtlander on the X system. Now its manual focus but with super wide angle lenses you don’t really need auto focus.
Cost new from BH is 600, + adapter at 200, makes for 800. Thats a 100 saving over the 14mm without really looking hard. Sure they can be had for less.
Its also a much smaller lens … no good for FF digital unfortunately which is the reason I did not get one.
14mm is in completely different league from 12mm/15mm from Voigtlander. Voigtlanders are slow (f/4.5 or f/5.6 vs f/2.8), have really soft corners until f/11, are prone to color shifts and CA and don’t have af. I’ve tried going cheap route and just wasted time and money instead of just getting 14mm straight away.
Yes, you are probably right. Fuji gives great results without too much effort, ability or time. My attraction to this lens is its small size … but its no good on a FF Digital sensor (at the moment, that could change with the next generation of sensors).
One can google on “voigtlander fujifilm 14mm” to see some samples where these phenomena are present.
IIRC the warranty is international. You can buy from Amazon, although they might not ship to a non US address, and therefore you may need to use a mail forwarder. I’ve done this in the past and it works OK.
Only need to consider import duty, VAT and other taxes that might apply in your country. Most of the time its not worth it … just buy good second hand, I have a 35mm lens I don’t seem to use anymore ….
anyone know how long they offer this deal?
I don’t know but the price can’t stay as high as it used to,
the sensor was old tech when they released it 1.5 years ago.
Now it is clear that the only advantage it gives is the fact that it’s raw image cannot be benchmarked because it is not supported well enough.
All the other manufacturers have come up with new tech since then.
Soon, Sony will release it’s new line of cameras and then they might agree to upgrade the sensors they make for Fuji to a tech which is only 2 years old.
Anyway, Fuji image division is bleeding money, I guess they have the worst sales record in the business, they can’t hold the prices high much longer.
Trolling much Mr. Sonyfanboi?
The NEX-6 is more expensive that the X-E1. It has far fewer robust manual controls, with its settings hidden behind PASM and menus. Each to their own.
Also find automatic plastic zooms quite awkward. Would much rather the solid 18-55mm with its manual controls.
Not sure why sonyfanboi thinks Fuji isn’t researching the X-Pro2 or X-E2.
nex-6 with the kit lens costs 400$ less than the Fuji with the kit lens…
Professional photographers all over the world buy Nex cameras.
You should know that no one buys Fuji, their sales numbers are so low, they don’t get into the annual cameras sales charts.
This forum needs some moderation clearly……sigh…
Nobody buys Fuji cameras?
Nobody?
Ha.
We want Fuji to survive. Seems to me there is an upcoming battle between the major vendors. And Fuji, while not the Justin Beiber of camera makers, do have far bigger point of difference between, say, a Sony PASM and a Olympus PASM.
No deals if you just want to buy say… a couple lenses? and you already have an XP1?