[UPDATE: The image has been removed]
Is this the X-T1 what fujiXphotographer Ray Ohara is holding in his hands? The lens could be the [shoplink 12889]35mm 1.4[/shoplink] (see the lens hood shape).
The image was spotted by FR-reader jpuser who shared it in the comments to the previous rumor post. MJr retouched it to see it better. See the original image here.
Now, what about this one? Is this the camera that will be announced on January 28th? Yes or no? Feel free to vote the poll drop your thoughts in the comments.
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Patrick
courtesy: eiohara.cocolog-nifty.com (google translated)
74 Responses
If that’s the real thing then I like it. Nice small hump.
Agree. I’m not going near speculating whether that is the actual camera, but if it is – I may end up with both the 56 AND a new body early this year!
That’s it. Wouldn’t be anything else…
We see a blurry picture of it and just preorder it, right?
No.
Looks really cool,
small and not bulky like OMDs
I got news for you, the OM-D cameras are small and NOT bulky. Sheesh!
Are you talking about EOS?
Maybe he’s got massive hands!
I guess that really nice guy in the photo did not think that his most famous photography work would be a selfi…
No future dealt with Fuji for him, bummer…
Japanese with big hands ? š
Looks like the real deal. Anyone want to guesstimate its dimensions if one assumes the 35/1.4 is attached. To my eyes, it actually looks shorter than the X-Pro1… more like an X-M1 with a small hump on top. Hope it isn’t too small.
Traditional SLR cameras are shorter than the X-Pro 1 in the shoulders, with only the hump sticking up. Since the XF lenses are designed to look and act like fly-by-wire SLR lenses, they should look even better attached to an SLR-like body.
The bottom falls lower than the X-E2, and the top, obviously, is taller. But it doesn’t appear quite as bulky as the X-Pro1. So i would guess it is about the same size of the X-E2 with the add-on grip attached plus a little hump for a center-mounted, larger apparent viewfinder similar to the Sony A7 (though it appears to have a slightly less dramatic bump for it).
So between X-E2 and X-Pro1.
Patrick, any word on when this camera will be available or is shipping? Leaving for a trip to Siberia beginning of feb. and this camera would be perfect but I fear it won’t be that soon.
I’d be very surprised if it ships before April.
Siberia in February!!! I can see why you want a weather resistant camera but if announced late January, shipping will be at least a month, perhaps much longer.
I guess we will just have to wait two more weeks to see…Hopefully it is exceptional, well designed, not too small, and not too expensive…
Well, I understand that a “rumor site” has to bring new stuff all the time, but this buzz around new cameras leaves me a bit tired. What is the “next big thing”?
It will be a camera with the same sensor as in the last 2 years. At least basically. So nothing so exciting after all. A camera. It will be announced soon – noone will make better photos with it anyway…
It’s weather-sealed, that is the exciting part of this gear. If you are not interested and”tired” of reading about this camera, you can skip to the next post.
Yes, nice, and what are you going to do with all of xour excellent XF lenses like the 35/23/56 f1,4? None of them is weather sealed. Neither the 18-55/55-200. This was an investment for many. For them, a weather sealed only makes sense if Fuji is going to bring sealed lenses that come along.
But that means we have to start all over again, like a new system…. No thanks.
Next: New EVF is nice, but I would have wanted to see this one in the X-E2 already which was way too small an upgrade to the X-E1 EVF…
Those are all – in my opinion – too obvious strategies to milk the customers as often as possible. No reason for me to get too enthusiastic. I have and keep my 2 E-E1 bodies and a few lenses. All unsealed…
Why are you here, if you aren’t interested in this content? This is the entire point of a site like this.
Exactly Zachery. When all’s said and done, this is just a bit of speculative fun.
I’m actually quite excited about the possibility of not having to carry two full frame DSLRs all day for my job and my back’s quite excited too. If it doesn’t really interest someone, then there’s no need to contribute.
That’s what I guessed, thanks. I’m taking the x-e2 (purchased through this site) and ordered the aqupac 451 bag for weather. Should be interesting, thinking of some basic blog I’ll post when I get going and drop a line here…
I’m waiting eagerly for this camera. Just hope it’s not a disappointment like the Nikon DF.
Camera body seems to be very big?
He said something interesting on his blog about a dial on the left hand side when looking at a Fujica ST – http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://reiohara.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2014/01/post-fd35.html -can’t make heads or tails of it though.
I don’t see the comment about a dial on the left but the Google translation was truly awful this time. I’m a professional Japanese translator, and here’s my version of the blog piece – missing out the new year greetings and page view chat.
I expect 2014 to bring a number of changes to the world of cameras (such as the rise of mirrorless cameras with a dual lens kit for under $500). Fujifilm celebrates its 80th anniversary in January and CP+ follows in February. We hear rumours that Leica is about to bring out a mirrorless autofocus ILC.
There is also talk about minor changes to pro-use SLR models, but the bigger changes are in the mirrorless world: SLRs may now have reached the stage where the only changes are adding new dials or tweaking the design.
I firmly believe 2014 will be the start of a revolution, a changing of the guard among camera manufacturers. We have to have faith this is going to happen. Until last year, there were some photos that a mirrorless camera just couldn’t take, but the gap between mirrorless and SLR is about to virtually disappear. The revolution is waiting to happen.
Curious pro photographers like me started using mirrorless cameras in 2012. Last year’s X-E2 has become popular among journalists, landscape photographers, and female photographers. I anticipate that even more pros will go mirrorless this year.
Once people like me judge that we have the quality and features we need in a mirrorless camera, there will be no going back to SLRs. I certainly don’t want to go back. The revolution is about to begin.
Thanks, paul!
Hi Paul – it was a bit further down in his blog on a post dated January 2 (try the link in my previous comment). It sounded like he was musing about the design of a camera and comparing the dial placement to the Df and a number of other cameras. The photo was of a ST. The Google translation as awful.
Sorry Paul et al – the Google translator seems to messing up the link. Here’s the Japanese version of the page: http://reiohara.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2014/01/post-b04b.html
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the link to the 2 Jan blog piece. To me it reads like pure commentary without any inside knowledge. (Which also suggests to me that he isn’t holding the new Fujifilm camera in his photo, but of course that’s anyone’s guess.) In brief he’s saying “there is lots of speculation about the new Fuji modelā¦rumours say there will be a bigger EVF and styled on the Fujica ST. I’m particularly interested in what function they assign to the film rewinder knob on the left hand side. Sony missed a big opportunity by leaving it empty in the A7/R.” He then complains about how Sony just make menu-based machines and don’t give us enough buttons. Ohara says he’d prefer dials. The OM-D E-M1 has a menu button there. The Df has an ISO dial, which is a good idea but the lack of Auto ISO was a big mistake since even pros use it now. He finishes by saying Fuji need to make good use of the space if it is going to stay true to the SLR styling. The X-E1 and E2 were ok flat because their styling was different but if the new camera is going to have a protruding VF then it would be a shame to replicate the Sony A7 mistake.
One of the replies says Fuji should stick with the basic X-Pro 1 dial array, maybe adding ISO on the left. Ohara agrees but says again that Auto ISO is important.
Hope this helps!
Paul & Dave…our new FR heroes!
(thanks guys!)
Awesome translation – thanks a lot!
Yeah, mirrorless has been proclaiming next year as the year of the Revolution for what, the last 4 or 5 years? Getting a little long in the tooth, watching it never happen, especially since any initial buzz peaked a year or two ago, along with sales.
“ut the bigger changes are in the mirrorless world: SLRs may now have reached the stage where the only changes are adding new dials or tweaking the design.”
Um. They are both cameras, differing only in viewing. What big changes can mirrorless deliver that SLRs can’t? I can think of two:
1) Slicing the prices. You’re right, DSLRs can’t slice much more, since larger format APS DLSRs are already cheaper on a price performance level.
2) Improve the EVF. Which only means they are trying to get the little TV to be as flicker-free, free of tearing and smearing, feature higher resolution- in short, they are trying to be more like SLRs, which have already solved that problem.
To pretend that SLRs will otherwise stand still and not put new features in cameras as they are developed- just as will mirrorless cameras- is to believe that the big corporations are incapable of devising tiny incremental features that will make you with your year old camera feel inadequate, and the brand new model infinitely more capable of taking the same old boring pictures.
@ronin: I kind-of agree with you about the marketing hype, but all camera buyers are victims in that respect, irrespective of their preferred brand – everything is always the next best thing! But you do sound a wee bit prejudiced about EVFs. I was deeply skeptical too, especially because the first one I ever saw was on an X-Pro1 with firmware v1.0, and it was really awful. But I took the plunge when the X-E1 promised a much better experience, and I really am sold on the idea now. Having live preview of exposure in a viewfinder, in low light, is just brilliant. And having no clattering mirror is great too.
Regarding the feature race, in my view there *is* too much of a good thing. I really hope Fuji have grasped this and, in addition to developing the range of super-hi-tech cameras with features to please everyone, they go out on a limb and make one where the overriding philosophy is: “less is more”. It’s what everyone was looking forward to in the Nikon Df, but Nikon got it horribly wrong. HORRIBLY wrong!
There’s always the possibility that this is his 20yr old avatar, and he’s holding an old OM-1 or something.
Thanks Paul for the translation!
Nope, if you look at http://www.reiohara.com/rei.html you’ll see pictures of him in Somalia 22 years ago and he looks a lot younger.
Looks like an OM-D EM-1 to me….he is just holding a fuji hood up to it š
I was going to say that it also looks like a Sony A7/R, even more with the apparent grip but Sony has no lens with such lens hood, something that Fuji has and if he is a Fuji X Photographer, that might be the X-T1.
Whatever that thing is, we know it comes in black.
He has big hands? Or the camera is small?
Hi,
that is great news. Just yesterday I had a walk with my family and the XP1 with the 1.4 23mm and the 14mm lens. The pictures are great.
At the moment I still keep my 5dmkIII for areas where I need really fast AF, longer focal length or a more sophisticated flash system. Everything else I do with X-Pro1, which I have since it is out.
2013 was my first year where I did more pictures with the Fuji-stuff than with the Canon-stuff, plenty more.
I think it is great that this body comes, but I really like the OVF of the X-Pro1. Therefore most likely I wait as there is not much improvement in IQ to be expected with this model. But I feel it will cost me some WILL to not buy it. š
Daniel
One more comment:
To be competitive in the eye of the public, I think beside the flash-system, the AF is the most important area to improve. I just played with the OMD EM-1 and its AF-speed is really ridiculous faster than the one from the XP1 and also than the X-E2. If this is always relevant in real-live usage is a different story, but it is a noticeable fact.
So I think it would help Fuji a lot if this camera will have:
– the announced great EVF
– Real fast AF
– tiltable LCD
– 1/8000 shutter speed
– faster flash sinc – at least 1/250s
– Highspeed sync with a new flash-system, ability to be remote controlled
– splash / dust proof, at OMD EM-1 standard. Not Canon 5dmkIII standard š
It would be great to have in body stabilization, but I don’t think that this will come. The strategy seems different here and more towards OIS in the lenses.
A better sensor can come later, because the one Fuji has now is still really good. Nevertheless, people start to argue that in principle the used Sensor is almost two years old, so it is time to do something here. From my point of view I don’t need a higher resolution, but if would say welcome to improvements in the quality with the given 16mp.
Daniel
Totally agree with all you say, except for the flash control which I don’t use but I understand it can be important to some people.
By the looks of the camera in the photo, assuming the lens on the camera is the 35mm, the body will be somewhere between the X-E1(E2) and X-Pro 1 in size. Hopefully, in my opinion, it is closer to the X-Pro 1 in size – though many people would argue otherwise – as I find my wife’s X-E1 to small and fidgety.
If this camera comes with a very bright, large EVF, has much better AF, and comes with some additional improvements, such as 1/8000 sec shutter speed, faster flash sync speed, etc, it will likely be very popular. If it comes with a newer X-Trans sensor, that would be interesting too.
Jeeze, people have nothing to do these days. Get a damn camera, get out there practice and hone your skill. Why sitting here speculating sth?
Why are you sitting here then Philly?
It looks like a black Df to me.
And fat hands.
I assume you’ve never seen one in hand as it would be about 4 times bigger.
Um, looks like an A7/R he’s holding.
Sure but that camera has lines just like all the older, smaller film SLRs from the 80’s and 90’s, just like the OM-D E-M5 does. It’s a look that pretty much all SLRs copied one way or another for decades.
So while it vaguely resembles an A7, keep in mind, this photographer is officially involved with Fuji as an X-Photographer, and they definitely get early access to new gear. The lens could be some older lens with a narrowed, rectangular hood which this picture seems to have, but, it’s far more likely that this is the next Fuji body with the 35/1.4 attached given the reliability of sources on the rumors of the camera and the circumstances of this photographer’s position related to Fuji.
At any rate, we’ll know in a couple weeks.
Nothing to see here, nothing to see here, everyone go home. Please disperse.
Now to go back to my weather-sealed, 5-axis IBIS, blazing fast AF, multi-featured, magnesium alloy OM-D E-M1 – the 2013 camera-of-the-year.
Really, you wasted your money on that?
^ I think someone has a touch of buyers remorse.
You came all the way to a Fuji rumours blog to say that? Awww…. you shouldn’t have.
What is the point of having a weather-sealed body without weather-sealed lenses?
Now that… is a much better question.
But the sealed lenses are coming! Think.
When? Nobody knows yet. There is no weather-sealed lenses in any roadmap.
Frankly I’m amazed by the apparent frenzy to go out in monsoon conditions to take photographs. And even more amazed by the suggestion that, as soon as ‘weather-sealed’ lenses are produced, people will have to discard all their other lenses because they’re somehow rubbish.
Yes, but if you are a landscape photographer/sports/journalist you WILL get rained on at some stage. You are going to need sealed equipment.
You can get some great photos in changing weather, my camera bag is kind of waterproof but once the rain starts bucketing down there is not much I can do with a Fuji camera.
Also, when it gets cold, the cameras are not so fun to use – design is a bit fiddly. Don’t expect Fuji to fix there ero to suit me but at least not having the battery drain so fast in cold weather would be nice.
You don’t always have a choice of weather when you’re out on a job.
“What is the point of having a weather-sealed body without weather-sealed lenses?”
That is the interesting question!
Guys, I think the camera which he holding in the picture is the Olympus Stylus 1…..
Yeah it sure looks like a Olympus Stylus 1.. Good spot there. I guess no real leak yet of the X-T1
No ISO dial, no dice.
I’d rather have a weather sealed body and a non-weather sealed lens than a non-weather sealed body and a non-weather sealed lens.
I like Democracy and because of that I love votings.
I, just for fun, also like votings wether I would buy this or those camera, what camera Features I want etc..
BUT, a voting about a rumor, if this is the real camera is just too …sorry…. stupid
You run a good site, Patrick, please donĀ“t make yourself a fool.
in democracy you can also choose not to vote. It’s just to see the preference, whether reader prefer a camera with grip or not. Look back at older posts, and you’ll see that this has been discussed before. Same for the tilt screen, yes or no… readers asked me to make a poll whether they prefer an X-T1 with tilt screen or not.
as I said, don’t vote, that’s the best democratic answer you can give.
who is this fat guy?
is it really X-T1?
I heard a several people here accidnetally saw the X-T1 was in test at Shinjuku garden park.
but I did not see it myself , so I was not very sure if it was it.
I think I saw this fat guy in Sinjuku area with XE2 like camera with tiny fake pentaprism.
but I am not sure if it was this guy or someone else, I am sure Fuji is using several or more guys to test it properly.
Of course he could just be holding an XF lens in front of some random black SLR