Guess which camera is on top of the mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon (Click here to see the ranking)? Despite the high price the Fuji X PRO 1 (click to preorder now) sells like hotcakes! A wonder how sales will be in Europe were preorders didn’t start yet. I guess Fuji was serious when they told us months ago that they want to become the number three of the digital camera market!
All preorder links (all USA):
Body: Amazon (Click here!!!), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
18mm f/2.0 lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
35mm f/1.4 lens Amazon (Click here), Adorama too (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
60mm f/2.4 macro at Amazon (Click here), Adorama too (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here)
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Very good news, indeed!
This means there will be a lot of them in the used market soon! 🙂
Nothing special. It is just a novelty. It will be interesting to see these stats after say 6 months 😉
did you miss the part about how that other fad the X100 sold 100,00 cameras…
… but we will never now how many would cancel the preorders upon reading first in-depth hands-ons and reviews.
Or people are just buying it up to sell on Ebay like what they are doing with NEX-7
A fool and his money are soon parted. Not if he is going to eBay it.
I think you have to be crazy to lay out that kind of cash for a VERY unproven product. Its kind of funny how impulsive so many people are.
+1
And everything has been done on the web for that… 😉
I want to buy it! But no way I’m doing it before there are more (or Any for that matter) in-depth reviews and more images. Half a dozen landscape or fruit pictures are not nearly enough to convince me to buy into a new (new) system!!
What about handling, messing with the controls, using it!!! Come on Fuji, give the review people a chance to tell us more about it and rush those other lenses while you are at it!!!
well admin you really have no clue how things work….
Ouch, $1700 bucks! For that price, I’d expect every system in that camera be be good. But the auto focus, which it depends on, is just so-so. They think it’s “not that kind of camera” but they are wrong, dead wrong.
Yeah…the kind of camera that focuses after action is gone…lol
I hear the orbs are beautiful 😉
That’s good. This means that I will hear a lot of comments from actual users. At this time, I will not absolutely invest $1700-$2000 in an unproven system.
“an unproven system” ???? Well… This camera is a quantum leap as far as X100 is concerned. Have you tried X100? Is X100 not proven enough? There are many previews over Internet that confirm that X-PRO1 is much better than both APS-C and FF DLSR on the market now. X-PRO1 is the future.
Actually, full pre-order books is a good thing.
It tells the likes of Olympus, Panasonic, etc that people are willing to pay for better spec gear.
I don’t know about you lot, but I’m sick of hearing about some great new better than ever Oly/Panasonic only to be met with another also ran out of date sensor dressed up in a new body. If they spent half as much improving their sensor tech as they did engineering new camera bodies, we’d all be a lot better off.
Look at the Oly E-M5. $1200. Same sensor as a G3 or GX1 at 50% premium. The sensor is the foundation of a camera.
Well, considering that it took three (3!!!) generations of bodies to arrive to a semi-pro portable m43 (Pana GX1 and Oly new OME dunno the name-yet) I would say that ALSO on the body side they slept on the lauriels of being the first “compact” system for too long.
Nikon 1 system has better AF and comparable IQ than any of the old Oly cameras. And the only Oly camera with decent manual controls are the Ep2 – Ep3 models, way overpriced for the market they aimed at…
(I would add: good sensor, IQ etc., is the most important aspect of the camera; but quite useless if AF is slow and does not allow you to take the pic you want, or the UI is so bad you waste time going through it any time you shoot; alas, so far m43 was lacking in all there sides…)
lorenzino,
Agree with that. Note that Olympus should have led the m43 crew, yet they lagged Panasonic in important areas. In the process, they gradually killed off development of the E Series, leaving a heap of people in the wilderness. I can only guess they are hoping they will fork out for the new OM. As long as they don’t compare results against the latest competitors from Pentax, Fuji and Sony, they might be happy, but I doubt it.
The promise of 4/3 and m4/3 was not to be also-ran. Its nice gear, but if you show your competitors a market in which you are getting away with selling easily beaten and average spec gear, you are inviting them to take your lunch.
The question is, will Olympus and Panasonic retain enough of their lunch to save them from starving?
Tosser!
I want to see full raw image files with good sharpness. So far I’ve seen nice ISO and images that don’t look as sharp as the X100.
Good luck. Been sitting on a Sony NEX-7 preorder from Amazon since last August. That’s right, going on half a year, for all the good it’s done.
Has everyone seen the Fuji official samples? Is it just me or are they really nothing to write home about? I mean there is *no* dynamic range, very little fine detail? Maybe I was just expecting too much?
And no any proof for such info. Amazon can say EVERYTHING….How to prove?
Don’t you think it’s marketing move to attract the interest to X-Pro 1
Pay attention
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Compact-System-Cameras/zgbs/electronics/3109924011
GE Power Pro X500-BK – first place….
Do you know such camera? Try to find somebody here who tried this GE?
And…Amason is not special photo shop….