And here it is all in black: the Fujifilm X30. Control ring and tilt screen… everything as rumored until now. The camera should be announced on Tuesday, August 26… and there is an excellent reason to read Fujirumors on that day 😉
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And here it is all in black: the Fujifilm X30. Control ring and tilt screen… everything as rumored until now. The camera should be announced on Tuesday, August 26… and there is an excellent reason to read Fujirumors on that day 😉
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Awesome in black color !
Yup, it looks better in black than grey, unlike the x20 :p
If it only had 24mm on the wide side…. Nice looking camera anyways!
Agreed. Or wider.
Yes!
Looking for a compact camera featuring a 21mm equivalent…
Slick. Love the all black version. Wish that the X30 badge wasn’t on the front, though.
But I’d been trying to figure out why this looks just a little less sexy to me than the X20. Then it hit me: the OVF window! Just like I prefer the looks of the X100 and XPro to the XE. It’s the OVF!
Still a beauty. Someone pop a lens hood on there!
X30 badge? You might be able to push the paint out with a wooden toothpick. I did that with a Leica M9 and it was perfect.
Thanks for the tip! 🙂
Dr. Kauffman may have gotten wind of your tweak. The new Leica MP is perfectly discreet.
Looks very nice! But with the same sensor no reason to upgrade for me.
Based on the photo and most of the rumors, it looks like they kept a lot of the best from the X10/X20 and upgraded to move the camera ahead. Hopefully the rumor about the NP-95 battery is true (share with the X100/S). And I think now we’ll see +3/-3 exposure compensation for all the new X-cameras.
+3/-3 exposure compensation is on the picture
looks cool I think with the competition and stuff $300 should be a fair price. But we will know for sure soon.
Nice design and features.
But the sensor is still nothing special… and I already own an RX100M3.
if it only had a bigger APS sensor…
Kind of hoped the X70 rumoured a while ago would be like this, smaller cheaper X100 with no hybrid VF.
Like many others, I wish it had a larger sensor. Not looking for APS-C-sized, but at least a modern 1″ sensor.
Indeed, it looks like it deserves at least 1 inch.
No OVF is a big step back. Why not taking away the LCD or the battery or the flash shoe?
There’s a rumor of a Leica digital M without an LCD. I’d gladly give up the LCD to save $ and weight. I’d trade the LCD for a great hybrid VF, dual cards and true ruggedization. I’m sure it would appeal to a more limited market, however. And at massive scale, the “savings” would likely be much smaller than the damage done to the addressable market. Maybe Leica could pull it off since they sell far fewer cameras and limited editions are common.
Without a big lcd-screen the screen in the viewfinder would be enough, could actually work great to review images in viewfinder and save some room or include many other features.
Agreed
Leica would remove the rear LCD and charge you more for it. Thier reason would be Nostalgia.
LOL. There would be a nostalgia tax.
Silver. But with the same sensor as my X20, I see no reason to buy it.
Excuse my rant on material quality, but really hope the top part is metal.
What is the reason to do plastic on X-E1? E2? Do plastic and pain it with silver finish to make it look like metal is the cheesiest thing ever. Fuji, a key approach on any timeless industrial design (which you seem to be heading to, but not there yet) is to be TRUE to the materials you are using. If it’s plastic, let it look like plastic. If metal, even better. If metal adds 5% cost and weight, so be it. I see the metal cover on the 18-55 lens which I opened is really paper thin, I see barely any weight and cost increase if using metal as cover plate on everything. Please do metal consistently, and you have my money plus 5% premium. Do plastic, no buy.
X10 has much much better build than entry level X-ILCs. See no reason for this to be any different.
XE1 and XE2 have the top and bottom plates made of metal
X-E1 is plastic. I have it.
Once the metallic paint wears off, you start seeing white plastic.
Cheesy job Fuji.
I hate that white plastic that is appearing after some wear on the X-E1. I wish The X-cameras would have a brass-top and bottom plate, and even brass dial-wheels, just like the Pentax mx-1. That camera looks great, if not even better after some use and dings here and there! And so does my Nikon FM2 by the way…
A pointless upgrade I think. Should be a 1″ sensor to compete.
Absolutely. This camera is an epic fail for fujifilm and will be half price in 6 months.
You misspelled ‘3 months’
And then, it will sell like nuts. I can hardly wait …
This is a very powerful and complex upgrade of the X20, now it will be a much more usable camera – but with the same sensor, against the new 1 inch competition? It won´t be easy to sell some, maybe some loyal X20 users will upgrade, but with modern competitors new users won´t have any rational need to buy this camera. I really liked my X20, but I would not buy the X30 even for a half of the price – the new features are very good, and the black version looks pretty, but I know that the sensor won´t give me anything interesting except the Fuji colors. And now when I can get the smaller and more powerful RX100 (first version) for $400, the X30 will have a hard life (even when it is very possibly a complex, well equipped and modern camera). Maybe when the price will fall, after some time, but it´s a bit too late – when the X20 would be like this when announced, it would be a bestseller.
Who knows, maybe Fuji prepares another compact camera line with a 1 inch sensor, and anybody will be lucky.
Nice look and some interesting new features but not worth upgrading from my XQ1.
It sounds like Fuji has not develop yet a compact camera innovative enough to compete with RX100 mk3 or NX-mini, and is trying to get something new from an old product to keep a little part of the cake at least…
Hope to see a compact camera really new and challenging from Fuji very soon !
now even canon is doing it…
http://www.canonrumors.com/2014/08/new-large-sensor-powershot-rumor-cr2/
With a smaller sensor than 1″, the camera is just a joke. Sony Rx100, and hopefully the comming Panasonic LX 8, is a far better choice.
The LX8 I” sensor was a miscommunication.
http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-panasonic-lx8-comes-with-same-1-inch-sensor-as-the-fz1000-specs-roundup/
Nothing in that article implies that it won’t be 1″ only that it isn’tthe same one as the FZ1000.
Exactly, a 4/3 sensor is likely for the LX8.
I’ve changed my mind, i think i could get used to this look. Looks very nicely industrial in black, at least from this angle. It looks very Batmobile.
Now i wonder if it will feel as sturdy as it looks.
It looks very good to me, but there must be just one incredible spec not published yet to overcome the 2/3″ sensor (instead of 1 inch) to get my real interest.
Look at the size if that sensor! It’s hu… Ehm tiny!
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/4131403/
This shot was picked for one of the recent National Geographic Your Shot Assignments. It was selected out of over 15,000 shots. Among the “printed” photos, some were taken with FF and APS-C. This was taken with a Fuji HS20EXR with a 1/2″ sensor. I doubt few if any who saw it thought, “wow, that’s a good shot, but I really wish it was made with a bigger sensor.”
A lot of happy customers are going to take a lot of great pictures with this camera. It’s ironic that some of the best pictures I see often come from photographers using “obsolete” or “entry level” gear.
Yeah, we know one can take good pictures with tiny sensors. But this is (almost) 2015 we are talking about. Cameras with tiny sensors are called iPhones. There is no market for the in between anymore. Yes, there is a tiny market but for $200-300. Not for the 600 euro Fuji wants in Europe!
If that were true, Fuji wouldn’t still be selling so many X20’s still and wouldn’t bother to offer X30.
and the rest of the best pictures come from people using bigger sensors…who cares? dont overgeneralize. we know that this little camera has more to offer than its technical attributes.
Sensor size discussions apart… I wonder what that button on front is for…
Customizable Fn button, like on the X-T1.
The X30 and surrounding texture look photoshopped to me. This could be the actual camera, but the image used is obviously not from a final model. Or, if it is, it has been very poorly put together.
I see lots of compression but that’s about it. All official product images are photoshopped, often for seemingly no reason.
Example from Leica:
Leica M http://us.leica-camera.com/content/download/105878/964267/version/1/file/Leica+M+black.jpg
Leica M-P http://us.leica-camera.com/content/download/119263/1194962/version/1/file/Leica+M-P_black.jpg
Notice how the 50mm Summilux is EXACTly the same? (even though the angle of the camera is slightly different) That’s how it’s done.. Photoshop.
I should have been clearer: the X30 portion and its surroundings have a different texture.
I do this sort of photography for a living so I know what sort of photoshopping is essential. Overall, Fujifilm’s advertising photography is a cut below. Sony have the best lighting and editing, Hasselblad are a half step below that. Nikon/Canon are a cut below that and Fujifilm a cut below that again. Their angles, level of editing, etc., is quite poor for advertising photography. Leica is also hit and miss.
But the textures differences seen in the preview image are poor. It could just be a strange problem with internet compression. I don’t know.
Yes i’ve seen your work here and there. I believe Sony uses mostly renderings, that’s how they’re so clean and perfect. Funny how they make themselves obsolete in the product photography business by not using cameras. 😉
I traveled through Mongolia with x10 and a GoPro, coming back with hundreds of amazing pictures and not destroying my back carrying all the pro gear. Last weekend I got to play with x20, and as far as small cameras go, I preferred it over Sony RX100II and Olympus ZX-2 & Stylus 1 which I also got a chance to test out for weeks. It wasn’t the tech, it was the way it felt, the way it made me feel while taking pictures ( and isn’t that what really maters), The only thing it was missing was:
– aperture ring on the Fuji lens,
– wifi, that I am now used to from XE2
– evf 30% of the time
– and maybe the tiltable built-in flash like XE2 or XM1
and guess what, they have added 3 out of 4 missing features to X30. so next time i am travelling light, x30 will be my top consideration if XE2 or Xpro are too big or are likely to get damaged (beach or cycling, drunk nights out, being carried in gf’s hand bag, etc)
Point being that it is great the way it is. Wish it was cheaper, but it is the same price as Olympus junk, so no contest there.
and now stop complaining about sensor size and go take pictures!!!!!
Fuji’s design getting closer to Olympus… hm