X-T1 Graphite Silver + 56mm @ f1.2, 1/10,500, ISO 200, Classic Chrome
[UDPATE: more samples taken with the electoronic shutter also here at neillsoden]
I’ve read and heard several times, that no picture on the web does justice to the beauty of the graphite Fujifilm X-T1. And Michael R. Cruz confirms it in his review here:
“I have to admit, if I haven’t own the black X-T1, I would definitely go with this one. I might even sell my black X-T1 and get this one, that’s how much I like the Graphite Silver, but that’s purely subjective. This color is so much sleeker and it gives the X-T1 a more retro look. I felt like the black one is not “retro” enough, compared to X-Pro1 or X100s, but the “graphite silver” color gives the X-T1 that retro kick it lacks. To me, it is gorgeous! I was never a fan of how the X-T1 look/form, I much prefer the rangefinder style, but I think, the Graphite Edition changed that.”
He tested a pre-production graphite X-T1, and posted also some samples taken with the new electronic shutter (which, I remind you, also black Fujifilm X-T1 owners will get in December via firmware update). I’ve posted a sample above, for more, check out michaelrcruz’s review here.
Graphite Silver X-T1: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro
X100T: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro
XF 56mm f/1.2 APD: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro
XF 50-140 f/2.8 WR: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama / EUROPE: WexUK / WexDE / AUSTRALIA: CameraPro
X-T1 + XF 18-135 WR: USA: BHphoto / AmazonUS / Adorama /
49 Responses
It i sad, Fujifilm force for lat 2-3 months X-E2 users to move for X-T1 that’s why they resigned from bringing important improvements and new features to X-E2 that X-T1 is going to get and X-100T have got, and now this next marketing hype “I much prefer the rangefinder style but X-T1 graphite changed that”. I just put on sale X-E2 and XF lenses because I do not see my future with this company that changed Kaizen philosophy and do not listen to users needs any more and now favours only buyers of X-T1/X100T though X-E2 was released almost the same time as X-T1. Lost trust to it.
Agreed, this blog post is a bunch of fanboy bs.
… that’s true, and it cares more about fujifilm profits than its users.
Ok, so go to another manufacturer that releases feature upgrades for all of their cameras. Oh wait, they don’t.
It’s been said that the X-E2 will be receiving a firmware upgrade in December with a number of features of the X-T1 (although not all – let’s be fair, Fuji want to sell some X-T1s). @Patrick: care to comment?
Nothing like throwing the baby out with the bath water eh… Oh, and I have an X-E2, so would obviously love some new features.
As for the article itself, I agree it’s marketing hype, nothing more.
It’s correct, both cameras will get a nice firmware update in December, worth of the definition “kaizen”, although I think the X-E2 won’t get electronic shutter (but I’m not sure for now).
Thanks Patrick. Really looking forward to this update – particularly for the remote app.
Me too 🙂
If the X-E2 got the electronic shutter then that would make it a much better documentary camera and a bit smaller than XT1, and a roughly USD $700 difference as well
Nonsense, Nikon has certainly released firmware updates for discontinued models… and the low end Coolpix line at that. Ricoh/Pentax as well.
I didn’t say that no camera manufacturer had ever released firmware upgrades – of course they have. I said “all of their cameras” and I specifically said “feature upgrades”. Show me a manufacturer that has done that.
Also, I was highlighting the fact that no manufacturer can possibly upgrade all of their cameras for every new feature. The X-E2 has already had several upgrades.
Given all the praise Fujifilm has got from the X-E2 firmware updates, that’s surprising me. Speaks volumes about how high Fujifilm set the bar and how it may even hurt them, with the expectations from them.
Some comments from past X-E2 updates:
– “Absolutely no complaints here. I have come from Canon! It’s nice that Fuji looks after its customers.”
– “Good job Fuji. I specifically asked Fujiguys for ability to assign Face Recognition to one of the buttons, as even cheaper and earlier XM1 and XA1 had that ability, yet it was removed from later and more expensive XE2. And Fujiguys told me they would pass it along to Fuji Engineers. And, Voila!!!!”
– “wow, fuji certainly knows how to treat its customers. Unlike samsung, that did NOT add the remote viewfinder pro features to NX300, despite having the SAME hardware as NX30 (a camera that has the new feature).”
I hope you’ll enjoy your new camera system though, but I do believe Fujifilm ranks in the top even despite this decision and that it is easy to forget the level at which they’re supporting their users. I’m coming from Nikon and during the entire lifetime of my product, it didn’t receive even one significant update.
Oh well, if you sell the X-E2, someone else will have to make the Kaizen update on it in December.
I’m a happy X-E2 shooter, and I don’t feel “forced to change”. It takes the same wonderful images of a year ago. And soon I’ll be able to take them also using my iPhone 😉
Sam and Joe… right… Canon reps? Olympus?
LOL I just switched to Fuji with the x100s after reading the ‘X Photographers’ Reviews’ over the past six months. I love the camera and the sensor but it’s too slow for what I need, it’s really a fun camera with great high iso capability but I need it to work for me not the other way around. My earlier comment about the fanboy review was about the blog mentioned today, the guy is changing his view because he likes the color?! Seriously???? Paint the freaking thing if color matters that much to you. I’d be happy to drop a few hundred extra $ for a working AF-C but if that guy thinks the color is enough to switch then I’m sorry, that is pure BS IMO.
I’m sending my x100s back and I’ll wait for the x-pro 2. If the AF blows on that one then I’ll pick up x100t later on and it’ll complement my Ricoh GR.
Fuji has a great sensor but I don’t need to be patronized by so called ‘pros’ that get free cameras to write about on their blogs. Let me be clear that I never said anything poor about Patrick or this blog, which has been great. My comment was for the ‘pro photog’ that likes when his cameras change colors.
nice
[sigh] So much Fuji enthusiasm seems ultimately to come down to looks. Sometimes it makes me wonder how much I can trust pundits’ more substantive observations; they seem willing to overlook a lot of “character flaws” (e.g. weird control logic, primitive flash system) because they’re smitten by a “pretty face.”
I own one Fuji body and two lenses, so I’ve bought into the system… but I don’t buy into the hype.
Fuji “pundits” don’t shoot brick walls or test charts, that’s for sure.
When the girl is pretty and smart, you tend to naturally overlook the fact that she stutters a bit when singing the national anthem.
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Lol you should have said it’s to support your growing family
ugh, the photo that accompanies this story looks so unnatural. There seems to be no gradation in the OOF area; just one big area of evenly distributed mush. I’m hoping this is an edited shot to explain the rendering and the vignetting in the corners.
otoh the whole background is at a fairly long and even distance, so it does not seem so unatural to me. except for the window blinds on the left of the image Patrick selected. there you see an oof gradation; this is what you get for taking a picture wide open at a fairly long distance from the background, it does not look unatural to me.
Well, I just entered the X-system with a black X-T1 and XF23 & XF56.
In short, the picture quality is great and unique.
BUT I cannot use it in real conditions e.g kids running, people feeling, brides getting nervous.
AF-C is my worst nightmare
My other camera is a D800 and it just works perfectly, I never missed a shot.
With X-T1 I have to re-examine the percentage of lost shots.
Keep practicing. I also have owned Nikon d800 and Canon 5dm3 so I know what good af is. I have zero issues with my xt1 keeping up with my very fast 2 year old running at me when shooting with 56/1.2@1.2. I get shit after shot in focus. By the way when you are shooting it may seem like you are not getting focus but check on computer later and it is a nailed shot one after another. I have examples.
Put ur xt1 in continuous af mode high speed and put ur 56mm lens on and try again but make sure that your subject is somewhere near central portion of ur display as xt1 has phase detection points only around center. It does work!
nice reminder, I will give it more time
(although it shouldn’t be that hard, no excuses for a pro level camera)
And, enable “performance mode”, disabled by default (?).
well lets be honest though. My Fuji XT1 is purely my recreational camera. I’ve had most Fujis since the first X100 but if I was a working wedding photographer, would I rely on, lets say, XT1, as my only or main camera? of course not. When you are in a nerve wracking high pace environment and every shot counts, do you want to worry about Autofocus? Of course not. If I was a wedding photog, there are plenty choices… just look at the new Nikon D750 that commentators all over the net from photographylife.com are salivating about, after shooting several weddings with, the af system is going to nail every shot every time and you are not going to even think about it, worrying about something else. However, as a second Wedding camera (or third) or, a camera for other purposes, I think Fuji is great, it is very small and lenses are relatively small, and it is a pleasure to use.
You wrote “I get shit after shot in focus.”
I know Shit happens, but I would be very happy ! LOL.
Sorry, couldn’t resist
sorry was typing from my cell phone lol
Humorous, love it. @David, I didnt know, thanks for your advice!
come on, if you’re shooting at 1.2 pretty much any moving target will move out of the zone of focus long before the autofocus has caught up. I doubt the D800 could keep up at 1.2 on a 85mm lens. Maybe the D4s but certainly not the little fuji. Im sure you do get shit after shot.
Apart from these beautifull women, I love these Fuji colors. It is for me almost the primary reason to choose Fuji. The Fuji colors are way better than Samsung NX1 !! (Samsung colors seems like oversaturated popping television colors, very unnatural), better than SONY A6000 and in lesser extent from E-M1.
The best colors are from Olympus, but some people prefer Fuji unnatural blueish/greenish extra-saturation, but can be adjusted to be done with Olympus too.
So if wanted best colors, perfect white balance, get the Olympus. If wanted to get special limited experience and little possibilities, but hashle with white balance get the Fuji. Still Fuji is far a head others than Olympus.
Now that samples of this camera are in the wild has anyone confirmed that the electronic shutter can be used at all speeds for situations where silence is golden?
D’oh! I did the typical internet thing of asking questions first and reading later. The linked review answers my question although none of the image samples use electronic shutter for less than 1/4000.
By “rangefinder style” I think he means any film camera body in which the film winds horizontally and doesn’t have a prism finder on stop.
The very first rangefinder camera came out in 1916, the Kodak 3A. This
camera had vertically traveling film and a huge drop-bed bellows coming
out. While being the very first real life “rangefinder style” camera,
it looks nothing like any Fuji digital camera (actually, it’s more
reminiscent of the Fuji GS645 medium format camera of the early 80s).
The very first Leicas sported the horizontal rectangular box body, yet did not have rangefinders. Therefore, they were not ‘rangefinder style.’
Millions of Kodak Instamatics were made with this box body format and no rangefinder. Over 50 million Instamatics were sold, not counting dozens of clones. Far more units than the Leica M series.
If anything, then, this should be called an Instamatic style body, not a rangefinder body.
This is called “direct optical viewfinder”, or “Galilean viewfinder” to be exact. It has nothing to do with the rangefinder (and in many RF cameras, rangefinder is a separate thing from the viewfinder altogether). I have no idea how this “rangefinder style” misconception started. Maybe with Zack Arias’es “Fuji is the new Leica”?…
“rangefinder style” isn’t implying it’s got a rangefinder, it just means without pentaprism.
Most instamatics did in fact have a viewfinder.
It’s actually Reverse Galilean, not that it matters, in photography everyone just calls it a rangefinder.
“…in photography everyone just calls it a rangefinder.”
Cool! How do I get into photography?
you first stop trying to be a smartarse all the time here and go out and take photos.
Projections, projections…
You are correct, as old cameras required to use range finder either on hand or mounted to hotshoe to get the range, then photographer adjusted the camera focus ring to given range.
I still have few of those hotshoe range finders and two handhold with light meter build in.
Maybe my favorite is a range finder that is small “pistol” that includes spot meter and range finder.
But later they even got integrated to cameras viewfinder itself and that is one reason why they are called (misbelieve) as rangefinders while most cameras viewfinders doesn’t have rangefinder in them.
I even have old large format range finder somewhere stored, it is 30cm by length and has nice camera manufacturer brand carved to whole body. That is real beast as it can scale range up to 1500m range.
what do we need samples for?? It’s got the same sensor as the black model, I don’t get the whole “testing pre-production model” – it’s just a different color people with some software tweaks that don’t effect the raw pixels one iota.
Patrick will the classic chrome come for the xe2 in the december update? I do not care about remote control, electronic shutter.
I don’t know
Silly and superficial emphasis on how a camera looks. At least Cruz passes along some idea of how the electronic shutter performs. Frankly, Fuji’s decision veer into aspirational advertising with this “limited edition” malarkey(boosted price+artifical scarcity = sucker bait) suggests to me they’re possibly running out of rabbits to pull from the hat with the X series.
There is a load of Photoshop in the picture above.
Do black XT-1’s have clicky back buttons now? Or still have the mushy ones people weren’t liking?
Yes, and so what? I still claim that Fuji’s reluctance to replace the X-Pro1 by a mature concept killed the believe of many that thought Fuji to be a new breeze in the rangefinder market, say, the ultimate Leica killer. They own us first wave adopters a very serious discount on any new model we ever buy next seen the AF-disasters and other FW-misery we’ve gone through. Just to discover a dozen FW updates later that the X-series can be fairly competent if fate is on a bank holiday and LR doesn’t reveal too much artifacts. The graphite is for the toys for boys league – I only want a real tool that works all the time.