That super nice picture has been published by DC.watch (Click here) which just posted the X PRO 1 and Zeiss Biogon 21mm lens review. It’s written in Japanese and google translation tool is making a messy work (as usual). But it’s worth to check their website just to see the pictures 🙂
They used the new KIpon G to X mount adapter () to fit the super 21mm Biogon () on the X PRO 1.
One more Fuji news….the X100 firmware update is out: http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/x/finepix_x100/. With following improvements:
“When checking focus point by pushing AE-L/AF-L button in MF mode, following phenomena can be observed in relation to focus area settings. These phenomena are improved.
- 1.When the focus area is set to bottom right end position, the camera may hang up.
- 2.Even when the focus area is set to other area than above, focus may be hard to be established.“
Meanwhile the Fuji X PRO 1 got dethroned by the NEX.7 at the Amazon sales ranking (Click here to see).
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look at those corners 🙁 Fuji is NOT a digital back for expensive rangefinder glass we’ve been waiting for 🙁
As Steve Huff said, he didn’t see how adapting manual focus lenses was going to be much good if you had to focus by zooming in on the view. I’m not a Fuji hater and like what they are doing but I wonder sometimes if anyone at Fuji actually takes any pictures at all. Doesn’t anyone in the chain of events leading up to the release of a cameras say, hey, this is stupid! Do it over.
Maybe they had in mind people actually buying their products, instead of adapting legacy lenses onto their camera?
admin, please dont link to google translate, it never works
what a sexy strap. anyone further details? can’t find anything on this darn page…
It’s at the top of the page: “Strap: HOPE FReCS PRO (vic2)”
Seems like it’s available in Japan only.
That’s not Fuji’s fault. The way rangefinder glass directs the light is optimized for film, not the digital sensor. Read up about m43’s rangefinder glass edge softness and you’ll see what I mean.
some cameras deal better with the issue. nex5n corner performance is better than nex7 (for some reason)
by the way, im not saying m43 is ideal for adapting rf lenses but with the 4/3 ratio and the sensor size, its handling corners better than most. 2x crop is the issue there.
O know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder – but can someone please tell me what is the least bit sexy about this.
It looks awful.
The only mirrorless camera that produces good corners with legacy lenses is the Sony NEX 5N due to its offset microlenses.
and ricoh a12 module
Anyone know who makes that camera strap?
I am curious to know how this camera performs with manual focus and how the user can adjust the camera for manual focus, particularly how the evf ovf is used with non native lenses.
I’me sorry but I think you made a mistake.
The Carl Zeiss 21mm lens mounted on the Fuji is a Carl Zeiss lens for the Contax G models.
First I thougt “Nice, I still have those lenses’ but when you take a look a the sample pictures, you’re
no longer happy.
But still, nice strap
xpro-1 is definitely leica for poles
at least for this guy: I don’t see any reason to use external viewfinder if EVF is available
Charles Babbage once said, “If you speak to [a man] of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.”
And that’s you lot.
Do you have Babbage’s differential engine on desk in place of pocket calculator?
Or ENIAC in place of PC? Or Roman Empire era horse wagon in place of car?
If you answered no to any of those then why are you disparaging people stating the fact that analog mechanical era design made to comply with limitations of that ancient tech isn’t any ultimate goal.
I think it is very ugly.
Lol after all this trouble and VF pains we still have to attach a external viewer for a lens… Even though its 2012, and technology is there.
To bad for this expensive body. I expected it to be more future proof.
Just wait. Next year they will start leaking new HQ body with only OLED evf and zoom lenses…
They will just milk their customers for as much as they can… X100fixed, X1pro silly hybrid VF, works ok just for a few primes, X???? silver body, great evf only, new sensor, works for any lens any time. …$2000!
No matter how much I like the X Pro, I’ve decided it’s not the camera I will go for. The deal breaker is the poor MF assist. It seems that the hybrid VF is not really designed for MF. MF still has to rely on the magnification on the EVF which is not the best in the market. No need to say there is no focus peaking.
Fuji mentioned that they would release an entry level X Pro mount camera at the later stage. I wish they would dump the expensive and bulky hybrid VF and replace it with an much improved EVF with focus peaking.
EVF makes much better sense on the X Pro system as zoom and tele lenses are on the way to the system.
I wish we could see a smaller and cheaper version of the X Pro soon. Meanwhile I will keep my Nex5n with my Contax G lenses.
I have sample photos with an M mount Zeiss 21 on the Fuji – incredible, in every possible way.
Jesus Christ on a crutch! Do ANY of you people actually shut up with the complaining long enought to go out and MAKE IMAGES?
I’ve seldom heard so much bitching and moaning in my life. ‘The Fuji can’t run 30 year old glass well’, ‘the corner sharpness is poor’, ‘the Sony NEX 5 is…’ blah, blah, blah. You people carry on as though you could actually design and create a cutting edge digital camera! You don’t, you can’t and you never will. It appears to me that you can’t, won’t and never will create anything of value. Even your opinions are re-hashed crap.
I could make better images with a bloody pin hole camera than the lot of you. You know why? BECAUSE I GO OUT AND MAKE IMAGES.
In fact, I don’t even know why I’m reading this; it’s abberant behaviour for me. No wonder I seldom read blog comments… looks like I’m still not missing much.