If you still haven’t decided if you should go for the new Olympus E-M5 or the Fuji X PRO 1 here is the fully loaded review roundup! Of course instead of spending hours on pixel fighting and ISO charts you can also spend some minutes in your local store to hold both cameras in your hands. That helped me in the past to pickup the right camera! 🙂
Olympus E-M5: Federico Cabrera, Lesnumeriques (Click here for the translation), Focusmedia (Click here for the translation), DSLRcheck, Cnet US, Digitalrev, Digitalkamera (Click here for the translation), DC.view (Click here for the translation), Itmedia (Click here for the translation), Photogenicweekend (Click here for the translation), Damian Mc Gillicuddy and Phototravelasia.
Fuji X PRO 1: Cnet, Pfflynn, Nikkei, Lesnumerique, DigitalJournalOfPhotography, Digitalkamera (Click here to read the google translation), Photoscala (Click here for the translation), Brandon Remler, Outbackphoto (Click here), Uniquephoto (Click here), RonMartBlog (Click here), SonyAlphaLab (Click here).
Goof Luck!
P.S.: My next camera should be a Full Frame Mirrorless. let’s see who will be the first to fulfill my dream!
Check price and specs by clicking these search links:
Fuji X PRO 1 at [shopcountry 100018].
Sony NEX-7 at .
Olympus E-M5 at [shopcountry 100170].
18 Responses
All this talk about full frame.. WHY???
…and it is available since 2009. From Leitz Camera AG.
Well, I wouldn’t mind having a mirrorless from Nikon with the sensor of the D800 (or D800E without AA filter), a compact body (no bigger than X-Pro 1) and 3 small primes (24mm f/4, 50mm f/2.8, 85mm f/2.8).
But since that’s not going to happen, I might get an EM-5 instead.
So we can use decades of beautiful (and quirky) existing lenses. Lenses truly aren’t built the same these days like they used to be.
So a 50mm is a 50mm lens, with the same optical DOF many of are used to when shooting 35mm film.
So the dynamic range and iso performance is at the cutting edge, not a crop (cheaper) version of sensor technology.
+ 1, especially the dof and the real focal lengths of objectives.
I did spend a few minutes last weekend trying out an X-Pro 1, and hope to try an E-M 5 as soon as they come in. Handling the X-Pro did tell me some important things not covered in reviews — for example, I found that I can’t see clearly through the viewfinder with the glasses I normally wear (yikes!)
But the kind of casual handling one can do in a camera store can’t tell me such things as how the AF performs under a wide range of conditions, so this assembly of reviews is still very helpful.
That thing with viewfinder: I have a Fuji broschure that says X-pro1 has a “diopter adjustment lens”. – But the camera lacks that! I was lucky to have no problem with it wearing my glasses. But this is a show-stopper for many!
I wonder why the planned diopter lens disappeared from the camera but stayed in the broschure?
-The m43 is a more mature concept compared to Fuji.
-Looking at images i have seen from theese two cameras, the Fuji IQ with better tonal range fits me best. (I know some sites has measured DR with a different result, but I trust my eyes more than sites that wants/need publicity)
– Ergonomy and build quality of Fuji is great and makes me remember the days I had the Contax G1. They are not the same, but the feeling is the same – great!
– Have not handeled, nor seen a Oly in real life
– Know that I think my Pana G3 is a very good camera – but:
Too small, especially in gloves-temperatures
My photography would benefit from better tonal range and even better resolution.
For me the print is the final product. Knowing that a high megapixel image downsampled to smaller size will have better quality compared to an image with the smaller size as original. (True on screen too) Then I should consider NEX-7 and use MF lenses + the 24mm Zeiss – or even the Nikon D800
“P.S.: My next camera should be a Full Frame Mirrorless.”
Full of what?
If you are one of those who cling to the notion that there’s some mystical virtue in the “nostalgia format” dimensions of 36 x 24mm, Leica has a mirrorless camera for you already.
IQ is not comparable …
hibernating until Photokina…
Can camera’s of different origins mate???
Admin I found some sample of comparison Picts between Fuji X-PRO1 + 35mm f1.4 >VS< OM-D + 20mm f1.7 here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soelin/
But…but…
That can’t be! There is this “super serious” site that says the E-M5 has over 13 stop of DR and even the forum guy with sunglasses says they are serious and he looks cool and serious cause you know he has sunglasses.
Seriously E-M5 wins on usability and versatility big time, X-Pro1 wins on IQ big time, not even a hint of doubt. I have no clue how techradar really did their testing or how they interpreted the result but I am sure they are full of shit or have no skill in measurement whatsoever.
Funny part is even though X-Pro1 has supposedly slow focus most reviews say the focus is pretty much dead on, except in low light where it sometimes miss. The E-M5 has super fast focus but only with certain lenses and misses a lot, especially with their “3D tracking”. I am excited with the IBIS because I shake, I hate it but I do, I love the touch screen, touch shutter is an extremelly cool feature that drastically help in “capturing the moment” but IQ-wise it falls short compared to the Fuji, the fanboys can say what they want the Olympus just isn’t close.
At a local exhibition I could hold and compare both cameras. At the end I would say, that both can produce stunning pictures. Today I would go with the Olympus for 2 reasons:
1. The firmware of the Fuji looks in some points a little bit “unmature”, hopefully this will change in the future.
2. The selection of lenses! Actually you can buy quite nice lenses from Oly, Pana and others for the MFT system. Fuji says, that there will be a lot of lenses in the future, but that´s not helpfull today. For me the missing of a real super wide angle (<20FF) is today the showstopper. Maybe for other photographers the three lenses are fine, but that is my conclusion…
Posted in wrong thread… sorry, my post was for the message above, corrected.
the Xpro is not even stabilized!!