The video on top is a X PRo 1 Focal Plane Shutter Demo.
Fujiguys posted two new video you see here on top and at the bottom of the post. The first video shows the focal plane shutter and the second video the aperture blade. And there is a new set of image samples on Fuji’s website (Click here to see). Meanwhile if you are Japanese you can preorder the camera at Amazon.co.jp (Click here).
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Pretty quiet shutter for a focal
Crikey, that’s one big honkin’ camera body! Looks as big as my Epson R-D 1 if not larger! (Although I guess that makes sense as they are both APS-C size.)
And it’s weird that it needs an auto-stop-down aperture mechanism, just like a DSLR. That’s bound to increase “shutter lag,” as the camera will need to wait for the blades to reach the set aperture before triggering. Probably adds a bit to the level of operating noise as well. I guess these are part of the price you pay for emulating traditional all-mechanical cameras.
Question I’m still waiting to see answered: How useful, really, is that teensy 0.37x optical viewfinder?
Not that big.
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Is it just me? It seems that the fuji suffers some big time shutter lag.
Nice find, and thanks for posting! Camera is still out of my price range, but it’s very interesting camera to follow.
Interesting camera to follow, but are those videos boring or what? I mean wow look at how the aperture works and is round on our 1700€ body! lol
Well, brother for 1700 its not round enough…
surely you meant to say lens 😉
Agree on the shutter lag. Seems astonishingly long…
+1
And is it me or the shutter lag doesn’t seems constant between the first and the following release at the same speed !???…
Actually, you are right, it looks as if the shutter is okay on the first press in his series of presses. Only after his first press in a group did they seem? a bit laggy. I have no idea what that means though.
Correct.
I was having mild panic attacks thinking about the possibility that this camera which would be my saving grace, would have a slower shutter lag then the M6. Obviously I want to see one in my hand, but if its good Im down for two of them.
I’m not really impressed by the amount of noise on the sample photos.
Yea it seems to be missing. Where’d it go ?
nice one 😉
LOL! Yeah i really haven’t seen much noise at all from the Xp1 files.
Maybe it’s cashed… Maybe the shutter command gets cached after the first time you start up the camera and shoot it once. Like a web browser caches web pages. 🙂
That would explain slower wake up time from sleep state than from OFF state. From sleep the camera must reload all the settings and cache back to RAM.
LOL! Just j/k, but that would mean one slow computer in this camera… 😉
$2500.00 US now with a lens?
Can’t see paying up to go backwards on shutter lag & auto focus. 😡
sorry but the camera looks cheap… in my opinion.
It seems to be a very good camera. I read all the comments since the lauching of the XP1, and nobody is talking about the barrel distorsion with the 18mm. A short flange distance allows symmetrical design that produces less distorsion images. Fuji seemed to decide to put the priority to edge-to-edge sharpness, what they actually obtain. They argue that their lens design avoids vignetting. The correction of vignetting is possible by increasing the ISO of the corner pixels. Since the XP-1 has an excellent performance in high ISO, it seems to me that it would have been easier to correct it automatically, and to avoid the distorsion.
The automatic distorsion correction seems to be available on JPEG and not in RAW. With Raw files, we must correct it with LightRoom. But I’m still thinking that to correct distorsion is, in some way, to make square pixels rectangular… I would like to see 100% crop image to compare before and after distorsion correction to see if that affects the image quality.
Except that, even the camera put the emphasis on different things than on the Nex-7, this camera is really good. Strong feeling in hands. I used to work with Fujinon lenses in large format camera for 20 years, Fuji has a really good experience of well made lenses and professional cameras in 6×12, 6×17 which are very close to the XP-1 aspects.
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Unfortunately its shutter sound is not attractive and powerful like DLSR.
OMG since when a “powerful” shutter is good??? Do you want to take pictures or scare people away??? Good lord! 🙂
Seemingly very slow response, but I haven’t seen a camera in the last 5 years that slow so perhaps it’s a pre-release without latest firmware??
Why would they cripple the system with bad AF/MF and now lots of shutter lag… version 2 around the corner? (12 months)
They may make these mistakes because they’re so confident about the reaction to the new sensor.
Billy just doesn’t sound confident.
LOL!
Run Billy’s voice through a FBI Lie Detector.
I think the shutter lag everyone is talking about is when the shutter reopens after the actual exposure happens.
Just like the GF1, when the shutter button is pressed, the follow sequence will happen:
1) the shutter closes
2) the shutter opens again. The sensor begins collecting exposure
3) the shutter closes after the prescribed exposure time. The sensor is shut off.
—all these three steps happen rather quickly —
4) then the shutter reopens to its default position and provides preview and get ready for the next exposure.
With this choppy youtube video, I think we are only seeing step 4, which is unrelated to shutter lag. Step 1 to 3 will be too quick to be seen here.
MMMM, i don’t think so.
how so? Can you elaborate?
No, i just think there is a lot of lag. Future tests will show us the truth.
Horrible and inconsistent shutter lag. Boy, what a letdown. First they can not manage a fast AF and than this. Welcome to the beginning of point and shoot cameras … I dont buy a system just for a good chip but for overall performance.
fuking ugly….
Its loook and design is so charming. However I will absolutely not invest almost $2000 USD as long as the focus remains an issue. They will have to resolve or upgrade the focus performance. Currently its focus is not much different from general compact cameras.
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