The french website Focus Numerique (Click here) posted his first short X PRO 1 ISO test. Keep in mind that they used a pre-production camera with non finalized firmware. The conclusion from the reviewer is that up to ISO 1.600 noise is almost invisible. At 3.200 ISO grain is very fine and there is a just a little color noise. A larger chromatic noise is only visible starting from 12.800 ISO. Focus Numerique writes that they are truly impressed by that result!
A couple of days ago another french website Zone Numérique (Click here) said the price for the Fuji X PRO 1 body would be 1590 Euro. Now a Belgium store (Click here) is causing me a light heart attack by taking preorders at 1850 Euro! Hope this is not the real final price! Other preorder options are actually asking you for ZERO money while waiting for the final price info: Expansys USA (Click here), Expansys Canada (Click here), Henrys Canada (Click here) .
And after Amazon US (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) als Adorama (Click here) is offering a pure notification service.
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1850 Euros is not far off from the ones quoted by the French site, especially if it involves a premium for the early birds who would get only the worms. 😉
Wow! It sounds like the prices are in a bidding war. At some point and that could be now they are going to get to high for a lot of serous shooters.
the high iso shots look so nice that I do not want to touch my nikon D7000 ever again.
The high ISO noise isn’t there and the details are also not there.
The ISO1600 shot, the reflected person’s face is a blobby mush when viewed large.
What is so impressive about it???
Do you not notice that the glass is textured itself? Nothing to do with the noise at all.
also worth mentioning – all shot with NR on standard setting
I’ll take it if it comes with French Fries…. 😛
These prices are just getting silly now…
It’s interesting how that price includes a 21% VAT. Europe has higher taxes than North America. I’m not an economist or anything, but if you take the VAT away, you’d get a price of about 1460 euros. With the exchange to dollars and a bit more for taxes, you get the body at close to $2000, which I think is reasonable compared to a 5D, especially if its quality will match or exceed it. Add in the kit lens with a bit of a discount, you’d be probably around $2500. Just some food for thought…
The VAT is even higher where I live, 25%. If you are a photographer though, and have your own company (most photographer are self employed, like myself) you actually don’t pay VAT if you live in Europe. (Well, you do pay when you buy stuff for your company, but the VAT is reduced from your tax later on). In the US I don’t think the VAT is reduced from your tax even if you run a business!?
dunno, guys, these samples just don’t reveal anything conclusive, but the price does, I guess I will pass, this is getting insane
£1,349.00 in the UK http://www.calumetphoto.co.uk/eng/product/fujifilm_x_pro_1_body_only/331-777a
oh noooooo!!!! I was still hoping for £1000 price as mentioned by Fuji’s rep in Amateur Photographer video
Who knows, maybe Fuji hasn’t decided yet of their definitive prices and companies are putting a high price in order to decrease it instead of increase it when the final day arrives.
Ranger 9, with all the respect…Ze french te pissent à la raie with a pleasure non dissimulé…
Response from the Fujiguys on Youtube regarding price:
@skcuspmcr The X-Pro1 will be available in March, 2012. Pricing is not yet confirmed from Tokyo but would definitely be under $2000 CDN/US (body only). High quality prime lens will be offered first. There are plans for a high quality zoom? len of course.
fujiguys 2 days ago
Well at least we know the ceiling 😛
So, should i still buy the Contax G2? Im sixteen and i wanna be a photojournalist f*** Yeah!
What a stupid test. It’s in daylight, and it’s showing a dirty window at an angle, lots of stuff is simply out of focus, other stuff is behind dirty glass.
Plus high ISO shots should be made in difficult lighting conditions, not in daylight.
+1000
It is not the real price. The true price is….
K5 looks the same at high iso, costs the half, and it has a 18 months old sensor.
What’s impressive in this Fuji sensor?
I think they just did a good exterior design to capture wannabe “Leica-ers” (but at least Leica has a rangefinder to manual focus…)
+1
Yesterday they sold us cameras with always more megapixels, today they change marketing for high iso performance, which is for most of us completely useless…. Seriously, I never shoot above 3200 iso and even this is very rare !…
Even if it’s a nice looking body, it’s nothing but a mirrorless with APS-C sensor with AF by contrast and a “small” x0.60 optical finder, really too expensive !
My digital camera is a D200. I rarely, if ever, shoot at or above ISO800, and then only when really stretched and someone says, “Quick, snap me in front of this spidery temple!”
I’m unimpressed by all the negative comments here. All of you must have the latest and greatest cameras and turn around at every new product to buy the next thing if you are dismissive of the results up there.
I’m impressed, though without a simulated rangefinder, I won’t invest in the Xpro as my glass is all old LTM.
How does the K-5 look the same? To my subjective eyes, the K-5 isn’t even as good as the X100. And the X100 is beaten by the XP1 from the look of it.
That said, I’m also in the “don’t care too much about high ISO boat.” The XP1 will be made or broken on RAW pixel-level sharpness for me.
It is a good result, but I still cancelled my lens pre-orders. I just don’t have the funds they want for a pure CDAF system.
Humor me, how many Fuji execs does it take to determine an official price for the Xpro?
Come on!
the X100 is looking better and better with each new X-Pro announcement
Never forget that the european price almost always include the VAT. In Belgium it is, if I remember, 22%. More than in the UK, Germany or even France.
This one is in another language and google does a bad job translating but the results look good nonetheless
http://translate.google.ro/translate?sl=ro&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=ro&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f64.ro%2Fblog%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2Ftest-fuji-x-pro1%2F
Where is Vlad to translate this for us? 🙂 found this on steve huff’s blog.
digicamshop.be is not taking preorders. You can only opt to be notified when it becomes available. I know them, they tend to be one of the most competitive online stores in Belgium. But for such new items they tend to set the price about 10-20% higher and then drop it as soon as it becomes available.
thank you Wim, very helpful. That would explain also differences in prices here in the UK, there are 2 shops offering it for £1399 – £1499 but other shops take a deposit of £10-£20 instead and will inform you about final price.
The comparison with D3 is flawed. Not the same shutter speed.