The Fuji Guys (here via Twitter) just shared the first pictures of two of the upcoming new X lenses. Just click on the pictures to see the full size images and specs! My only concern is the huge size of the 14mm lens. Hoped for something less big. Anyway, image quality is what matters and let’s just hope this is a sign that the lens will rule!
via PR.
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huge size of the 14mm?! I think the size is ok and not at all huge, what bothers me is the huge size of the camera. it’s as big as a leica m.
+1
Exactly. Smaller body needed.
you always comment that X-Pro1 is big – go get a smaller camera and enjoy it
But if it wasn’t that “big” it wouldn’t be compared to Leica.. and that’s Fuji’s point. They don’t want to be compared to GF5 or Pen cams.
Any guess as to when the 14mm will be available in Japan? (Yodobashi)
Am I the only one to note that, unlike its siblings, the 14mm has focus distance on the barrel? If the 23mm and the other coming lenses have this, I may really switch to Fuji (easier manual focus with an apparent either non fly by wire or revolutionized fly by wire)
Honestly man…stop bitching about lenses size! worry about the image quality!!
DAMN!
I agree. The focusing scale is a big deal. If they have worked out beer manual focusing, this system might eventually get my business (at least at the point when it translates into 35 and 50mm equiv lenses).
Well, excellent biogon 21/2.8 is smaller. So, wider angle still needs larger sensor.
I am encouraged by the size of the 14mm… better that than something small that is soft in the corners.
With Fuji, I finally see a manufacturer that offers products tailored to the needs of photographers: an ergonomic and well thought out camera, and especially this 21mm eq. lens, which is absent from the M43 offer.
18-55mm lens: “superb portability thanks to compact size” ???
65mm diameter and 70.4mm length can only look compact on that camera. NEX 18– 55mm has 62mm diameter and 60mm length, albeit is almost a stop slower. So Fuji lens may be nice because it’s fast for a standard zoom, but small it is not.
those are interesting lenses indeed… looking for a manual override for the AF with a turn of the MF ring (the nikon AF-S lenses have this which i found really useful)
yuck, looks like your average run-of-the-mill DSLR lenses
Obviously there aren’t mechanically many ways to design lenses when you want them to do same things.
And for colour black lenses fit perfectly with black body.
Should it be shiny like some car you want people to look at?
Or maybe you would have preferred some neon red and yellow striped paint job on lenses…
no, i’d prefer something similar to m-mount lenses
small, full frame image circle, exceptional image and build quality
Here again, obsession of people against X-Pro 1 is fantastic, surprise me every time.
Actually is becoming very funny, comical.
Everyone who loves photography should be happy when a new lens, a new system, a new competitor appears in the market. Here is people who is not.
Happy Fuji keeps satisfying needs of people who love photography, and not fat cellphones lovers.
Yeah… competitor in going back into past and existing typical designs.
So far all mirrorless system cameras have been far less innovative in using freedom from analog mechanical limits for maximizing ergonomy than highest end fixed lens prosumer digicams before cheap consumer DSLRs.
For fairness I have to say that X-Pro 1 has rights size display for body size unlike in other mirrorless bodies spoiled by way too big displays for their size.
Panasonic/Sony putting 50″ screen into back of their next camera would be perfectly in line with fashion design goal of maximal unergonomics.
I love my x pro 1 , throw out the science the arguments I love it. I love the ergonomics the image quality the lenses . I can now walk around for a day and have it around my neck without breaking a sweat. The lenses will just add to my creative pallet . I considered the OMD for about a second but its just to gimmicky with touch screen and the like . I see a zoom and another wide angle prime in my future probably the 14mm..