You may have to wait a bit to get the hands on your Fuji X PRO 1 but meantime you can already buy the first adapters on eBay! They are made and shipped by Kipon:
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If we wait until the camera is available, there will also cheaper variety and better quality adapters available.;)
I had expected to use only Fuji X native glass on this camera, But reviews like this are making me question that limitation: http://www.f8photography.com.hk/blog/2012/03/hyperprime1/
EOS-HD has a very negative X-pro1 “first look”
@ there will also cheaper variety and better quality adapters available.;)
I wasted a lot of money on cheap adapters and almost 90% of them were badly manufactured. Due to the small size of the sensor any cheaply made adapter with only some micrometer tolarances on mount-to-mout alignment – will cause unsharp pictures.
I had unsharp areas sometime on the left or right side. On some adapters the mount got loose or the focusing went over infinity.
I sold all the cheap adapters and got me some Kipon und one Metabone. Wow…what a difference in quality. So the lesson I learned…if you have a TOP Grade Lens dont be cheap on the adapter! Its like you buy an 5dmk2 for 1500-2000 bucks and then mount a crappy russian lens for 20 bucks on it…where even a cheap Pentax SMC 50mm F1.7 will be sharper than any “so-claimed” good russian photo lens.
I spent 50 Dollars on my Kipon m43 adapter and 100 bucks on my metabone. Expensive but still cheaper than Novoflex and Voigtländer-m43. I am not rich only a student but I will never get an 10-25 Dollar adapter….it will be not durable and it will decrase in many cases your image quality. Read the m43 whitepaper about the sensor….in the document they state that only a missalignment of 0,02mm can cause issues with sharpness.
My friend tried to fix his cheap adapter by using little pieces of paper glued to the mount surface to correct the misalignment….well….looks very “quick&dirty” and very much “trial-error”.
This also counts for 4/3, APS-C size DSLR or Nikon 1