Let’s start the week with a small bad news. A couple of months ago Fujifilm, said the new XF10-24mm f/4.0 OIS lens would be available in winter 2013. We were hoping to get this lens right for Christmas but instead we will have to wait til February to get it 🙁
By the way, in February we expect Fuji to launch that OMD alike X-mount camera too! It’s going to be a nice month for X-mount fans. Save your money 🙂
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Bummer! A wide angle zoom is the one lens that landscapers like myself would need to be convinced to buy into the system. Oh well. Perhaps a slighly higher-res and weather-sealed X camera would be announced along with this. THAT would get me to open my wallet.
The SLR-like rumored Fuji camera will have weather sealing. Maybe this wide-zoom will be the first to offer weather sealing and the first zoom with constant aperture.
They need more zooms with those two essential characteristics to have a rival for the E-M1 and the A7. And with competitive prices!
Cheers!
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The Fuji has superior image quality to any mFT and the A7 is even further ahead the E-M1 is a grossly overpriced over featured models with a small noisy sensor.In fact the E-M1 managed to be a little noisier than the already noise E-M5/E-P5 thats progress lol
Only amateurs complain about noise! Real photographers know how to use light and a good tripod is a must!
I don´t mind amateur or pro, as many amateurs can do much better than many pros, but agree about the noise. The fact is GOOD photographers only use high ISO (800-1600) for emergencies. People who really know about photography use only 50-400 ISO.
The Fuji does have superior detail and noise control and the optics are outstanding – mostly. However, the 50mm and even the new 35mm equiv. are both tiresomely slow on AF, even with the new XE2. Why in the world Fuji wouldn’t put the superb AF system from their R zooms in the $900 23mm is beyond me. Will the – likely $1600+ – 84 1.2 also suffer this tragedy?
In addition, even the best X cameras handle slowly in the field. What’s more, the XE1 and XE2 suck for studio work unless the studio is extremely well lit all the time. I used my EX2 yesterday and without tons of modeling light, the camera struggles. Low light is sometimes preferable to see direction, contrast as shadows and here the camera suffers. It will heighten the sensor exposure to help gain focus (w/ a 1.4 lens to boot), but once locked (and that’s a very, very dark AF acquisition btw) the EVF and/or LCD go completely black before strobe firing. You can’t see your subject! If I have several heads with lots of watts in modeling, I’m slightly ok. If not, it’s useless. What about the EM1? It’s faster in every respect, is the best user south of a DSLR (and in some ways even better) and all those “over-features” are sincerely usefully in knowledgable hands. The stabilization system is the best I’ve ever used from any manufacturer, and the construction is second to none. In the studio? The EVF is a tad dim in the lower light, but handles even a single 100 watt modeling light behind diffusion like champ by comparison. I can run a shoot with no problems. So, difficult and slow, if possible, for more detail OR slightly less detail (if you notice) in a camera that can handle the task? I prefer my D800 for serious studio work, but the EM1 is a lot of fun and it’s nice to know it can handle about anything I’d throw at it.
Yes, the sensor’s noisy – in my view about two stops worse than the X-Trans – but it’s better in every other regard. I love the fuji, but it has a ton of shortcomings that too many people overlook because it’s convenient. And likewise, the EM1 gets a lot of flack because it’s noisy. At the end of the day, I decided to sell out of the Fuji camp. The “slow, deliberate and thoughtful picture-taking” honeymoon is over. I now see that type of phraseology as an excuse for poor responsiveness and less for the creative process. I tried them both out for a while and despite the slightly weaker sensor, the EM1 is hands-down a better performer in the all around. Like others have said, if you know what you’re doing, you can easily make it work for you and with more lenses – all stabilized. The release price is a bit steep, but it’s a hell of a camera and there’s nothing else like it. The camera is just a tool and stale red craftsman can make a lot out of a little. Keep clicking away at 6400 on your X and the rest of us will make magic with the impossibly bad…