– If you are used to purchase your gear through Adorama, you can pre-order the 56mm here and the all-black X100S here. The 56mm is listed also at DigitalRev here.
XF 56mm f/1.2 ($999): USA AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama – EUROPE: wexUK / PCHstore / DigitalRev
X100S black ($1299): USA AmazonUS / BHphoto / Adorama – EUROPE: wexUK / PCHstore
– The Fuji guys posted a short video on youtube where they introduce the black X100S. At the beginning Greg says that the X100S was an amazing success, even more than the classic X100 (which sold 130,000 times!).
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Except for the color, is there any difference at all with the usual X100s?
Sorry, I got my reply in the video 🙂
So, no X30 on the horizon?
We need a camera road map, now.
A detailed camera road map makes no sense from a sales perspective. Who would buy an X20 now if they knew the X30 was out in 5 months? A lens road map has the opposite affect as lenses are an accessory (albeit a super important one!) to the camera body. The lens road map shows that your camera investment will improve over time as the new lenses are released.
anyone know when the xf 56mm will be available at adorama? amazon shows theirs in april while b&h shows theirs in february.
Good point Imeasure, but I wish they would make an exception so we would have an estimate on the XP1 successor.
My money is on the new “SLR” style camera … after which most people will forget about the XPro1 successor which makes increasingly less sense the way things are going.
FWIW my next Fuji will be a black and white fixed lens camera … Leica was so successful with theirs that Fuji is sure to make a copy with their x100s 🙂
I don’t follow your reasoning. Why does an XP1 successor make increasingly less sense? Multiple folks at Fuji (at various levels) have mentioned that a successor needs to have a big step forward in technology. You’d expect some sort of sensor innovation or viewfinder innovation.
Unless they manage to bring a hybrid viewfinder to an actual SLR device (mirror and all), an slr form factor is going to be a step back.
The optical viewfinder is very tough tough to beat I think. Unlike SLRs, DSLRs and EVF cameras, your view doesn’t blank out when you take the shot. For this alone, the xpro1 will probably always find a market. It just “feels” like a rangefinder, which makes it close enough to one for many. I went for an x100s over an XE1 or XE2 for the viewfinder (I liked the xpro1, but it was sluggish and who knows when the next one will come around).
As for a BW camera from Fuji… Defeats the purpose of the xtrans, but I would LOVE one. Though xtrans files in bw are among the best out there, so we’re already pretty set.