Big surprise folks!
Rico just told me that he is preparing a first look to a “new X-mount camera“. It will be complete and ready to go online at 11:30 New York Time (04:30 GMT).
And I suppose you know what this means, don’t you? You can (and should) look for every information about this mysterious “new X-mount camera” on the web (I’ll do appositely a live blogging session for you here on FR), but you will hardly find a better initial report than Rico’s one.
One more (and excellent) reason to stay tuned on FR in a couple of hours.
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In a couple of hours?
No. Tonight.
In the Netherlands Tuesday 28/1 @ 05:30 in the morning !
Thanks Patrick. That will be 10:30PM in the midwestern US for me. It’s been fun reading the rumors and comments leading up to this.
Does this mean that Rico has a copy of this camera already ?!?
seems so
i hope dpreview has a preview ready for us by tomorrow morning 🙂
Rico is a trusted source
that would be awesome, but our agreement is: I don’t ask, and doesn’t tell! I even didn’t know that he will write a first look today until 2 hours ago!
I kind of think all the FUJI photographers have played with one. They are the testers.
Cool – looking forward to the big launch (and saving my $). Any word if the 10-24mm is weather sealed? The X-T1 or X-E2 + a 10-24mm would be my preferred starting combo.
I don’t think it will be weather sealed. It has been announced in December, but in the specs there is no word about weather sealing.
And thanks for all your hard work Patrick!
Does this mean there is a copy of this camera here near my franconian hometown??? 🙂
Can’t wait to read the review tomorrow!
Keep up the good work on this website, Patrick!
Allmächd! 😉
All very exciting stuff!!
it look like any tom, dick and harry DSLR to me. What is the big fuss about? They copy the design from olympus OM-D. I hope fujifilm is proud of their design team.
@Stephen787,
Stop trolling!
I haven’t seen one other dslr or OM-D with ISO, Shutter, & Exposure dials, and Apeture ring except the Nikon DF, but even that camera is in another class as it is not mirrorless.
Can you please provide me the Tom & Harry versions of these cameras you speak of? You’ve already provided the Dick.
I have used & currently use (for paid work) Sony, Nikon, Canon (both film and digital) and I don’t go bashing other camera manufactuers I dont use.
I don’t have a Fuji but will def buy one tomorrow at launch as it reminds me of an old Nikon I had in college, and I think Fuji is on to something with the X series.
Exactly…
We’re all very hungry here, but not biting your BS sandwich…
LOL “…copy the design…”? and that was an original design from Olympus based on nothing ever seen before!!?!?!?!??
Try harder next time troll, that was the lamest troll attempt ever.
Why don’t you stop complaining about stupid stuff? :-/ If you prefer a rangefinder-style camera, Fujifilm has the X-E2, etc. If you want a more traditional DSLR-style camera, Fujifilm is bringing out the X-T1 soon.
I’ve waited for Fujifilm to release a mirrorless camera like this. I was going to get a X-E2, but I’d rather have a X-T1 due to the weather-sealing (important to me).
If they copied anything, it’s their own Fujica from the ’70s.
Copied the OM-D? Compare the specs and let us know what was copied.
I’m sure this camera has been in design since before the OM-D.
Oh, and one last thing … copied? I think not – have you ever heard of Fujica?
Actually, X-T1 is more like a hybrid of Fujica + Contax N1 sort of thing, and of course you can also see Nikon-like elements on it.
But come on, Olympus OMD?? Next time, do some homework before you comment on cameras.
We are very lucky to have Rico associated with this site.
Amen!!!!!!!!!
Patrick and Rico – you guys are awesome. Thanks for all your hard work.
And 2nd amen!!!!
The other thing which has confined my choice of Fuji cameras is the fact that Sony’s debt has been relegated to junk status by a notable ratings agency. Fuji on the other hand is a financially sound company which is not only producing new cameras and lenses but also has the financial capacity to continue to do so. However, Fuji are not a charity and the x series has to be profitable but at least the rest of the company is very sound unlike sony.
Sony’s TV division is hemorrhaging money because they can not compete on cost with the likes of the Korean giants to Chinese knock-offs.
There other divisions are doing alright (iirc) and their insurance arm is making shed loads of money.
The Junk status is not a new thing, ratings agencies and high profile investors have been banging on at Sony dump their TV and change their consumer electronics strategy for a while because it doesn’t work.
The downgrade I suspect is from Sony not abandoning their losing market in TV and consumer devices but it doesn’t mean Sony is going broke.
So there will be two cameras announced? God I hope so, would love to see a real surprise after all this leaking
No, just the one
You sure though?
The quote “First look at Fuji’s new X-mount camera” sounds a little cryptic to me.
As if there are 2 bodies to be announced? Why not “First look at the X-T1”?
I’m a little skeptical too about the message from one of the key sources,
“the list of X-T1 specifications is half right”. Anyways, we’ll all know tomorrow!
Thanks for all the hard work Patrick!
Rico has to be careful what his name associated with. The name of the camera has not been officially released so a quote from anyone that has a copy before release would not bode well with Fuji.
I also got to say well done to Fuji Rumors on your coverage, which has been spellbinding for me. Very exciting build up to a launch event. Fuji already basically has my money for the X-T1, so long as there’s no bad surprises in the reveal… like they decided to leave out the color red or something… lol
Thanks so much again Patrick… when I buy my X-T1 (red capable version), I’ll use one of your affiliate links as a real thank you for all your hard work covering this stuff.
Thanks for putting some excitement in my January.
p.s. I also don’t think Full Frame is the way to go, Fuji is doing the right thing by sticking with what they are doing… maybe the X-Pro2 will have the irregular-sized color filter thing they just patented, and maybe a megapixel boost to 20-24… although that’s debatable.
The problem with FF or no FF for the XPRO2 is the price. one year from now, i am not sure many people would be willing to pay anything Btw 1,500 to 1,800$/€ for a crop sensor camera body. Below that price would be impossible if they want to retain it as the flagship camera.
Looking forward to Rico’s review, and hopefully, he already started the book to accompany this beauty.
He’ll start typing soon, and will write the whole night/morning. Sure, I think he’s the right guy for an X-T1 book… but I need his X-E2 book before 😉
Well, I might sell my kidney on evil bay for the beautiful XT-1 once if Rico got nice impression.
for some of us slow and old, who is Rico? Website?
Rico PFirstinger is the author of the X-pert corner here on Fujirumors. Check the right sidebar and you’ll see a dedicated box. He wirtes articles with useful photography tips, reviews gear, and especially writes books like “mastering the X-PRO1 and X-E1“. He is currently working on the X-E2 book and will hopefully also write an X-T1 book. To get a taste of Rico’s first looks, check the X-E2 one here.
Ok, thanks. Looking forward to reading his insights.
Rico rocks! 🙂
The XT-1 is so sexy!! I am selling my XE-2 that I just bought!!!
Looking forward to finding out what the new EVF manual focus features are (I’ve got an old fashioned split-prism circle stuck in my mind) and how well it performs – size isn’t everything, it’s got to display smoothly and with accurate colours.
Well done Patrick – you’ve got everyone frothing at the mouth with excitement!
Either the new xt1 has new hard ware. Or id expect a majot FW update for the xe2.
So looking forward to clicking on the “buy” button (through this website of course).
wish it was out now, then i could read about it right now. 3 and half hours feels like a week.
So, WHERE — specifically, as in URI — should we be looking for Rico’s 11:30pm EST posting?
HERE…
im sure it will be linked here asap is it time yet?
I would love to know why everyone gets so excited by this. It’s not really that much different than the x-pro1 released 2 years ago. I love my fuji camera but will not get excited and buy something new until the sensor actually changes and the pictures it takes are better quality. Right now a full frame Bayer x-pro2 is all that would get me waiting for announcements.
I have a quick question, I couldn’t find any info online about this as I assume it is probably a dumb question. The split prism focus assist built into the xe-2. Does that work with manual lenses? I don’t think it does but I am not entirely sure how the phase detect photosites work.
I would also like to know this.
It does
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&key=97d261bd2f52b70f84443815d6cbd90e&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fujix-forum.com%2F&v=1&libId=df02d6bd-7497-41ca-9fbc-73472d611023&out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2F8iy0v29ebmpdu9z%2FX-T1_spec.pdf&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fujix-forum.com%2Findex.php%2Ftopic%2F17322-x-t1-launch-party%2F&title=Portal%20-%20Fuji%20X%20Forum&txt=Link%20to%20pdf&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13908777117208
Thanks!
So single SD and 51200 ISO is confirmed.
04:30 GMT already past and Rico is nowhere man. What the..
In London (GMT) it’s still 03:48 now
40 minutes away man.
I can’t throw my money at my screen any harder to make this come out faster 🙁
I feel a tremor in the Gear Lust Force coming soon, as if a whole group of people will cry out in joy and anticipation, only to be snuffed out when they hear it’ll be another few months until release.
Why is it so hard to improve the video?
Are you kidding me? Don’t the think that people shoot/like HDR? Bracketing +-1EV??? Can’t believe it… 🙁
I’m right there with you.
I hear you. Although this would be easy to fix in post production, here we go, the product isn’t even announced yet, and we’re already talking about obvious firmware updates. I think it’s still a great camera, despite the 1EV bracketing.
This would be a logical/minimal feature to be since the first X series camera, or at least for the first firmware update of it… but it has never been fixed! Don’t they use their cameras? Somethings so basic and simple and probably easy to fix via firmware… but til now no X camera has fixed this.
so looking at the specs, what is different or better when compared to the XE-2 other than the dials and a better EVF?
Perhaps Af performance or ergonomics?
Accessories included: Shoe mounted flash unit EF-X8. Interesting. 🙂
Where’s this live-blogging thing?
starts in 5 minutes 🙂
Now?
Now!
Glad to see camera control from wireless.
Ummmm
Now!
There it is! Go to DPReview right now!
No touch screen, damn. I was really hoping for one.
Wait never mind! Get a load of this from dpreview: “The X-T1 is almost exactly the same size as its closest competitor, the Olympus OM-D E-M1. Both cameras are weather-sealed, feature hybrid AF, and have large EVFs and touchscreens.”
I don’t believe the T1 has a touchscreen. I think that’s wrong. But I would love to be the one that is wrong about this.
Everything looks great. No need to waste time reading every post, I sure the fun ones from the OLY clan will show at some point good night.
Well actually I have both Oly and Fuji cameras. The T1 would look really good sitting next to my E-M1.
Why on earth do you need an em1 and xt1. They are virtually the same!