It’s hard to keep up with all those X PRO 1 reviews. There are already three new full tests! Overall all reviewers are extremely happy with the delivered image quality and all do agree that the major “weakness” is the autofocus and the high price for the body:
1) Trustedreviews (Click here): “While it doesn’t come cheap, the X-Pro1 is a serious bit of kit that is sure to reward those who invest in one.” The camera earns 10/10 points!
2) Techradar (Click here): “The images from the Fuji X-Pro1 are superb. They may not have quite the detail that some full-frame cameras are capable of capturing, but they can beat these bigger beasts for dynamic range and noise control.“
3) Photographyblog (Click here): “It’s great to see another manufacturer join the compact system camera revolution and bring something truly innovative to the party, so if the Fujifilm X-Pro1 suits your way of shooting and your budget, we have no hesitation at all in highly recommending it.“
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The Fuji X PRO 1 camera can be preordered:
in USA/Canada at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here), Epxansys US (Click here) and Expansys Canada (Click here).
in Europe at Jessops UK (Click here), eBay Italy (Click here) and Expansys UK (Click here).
in Asia at Amazon Japan (Click here) and eBay Japan (Click here).
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It just goes to show that you cannot trust a lot of online reviews for cameras anymore. Just visit user forums instead. There’s no hidden agenda from real users.
Here is another review:
Teenage reviewers have no clue and this camera sucks dicks.
For the love of God, why on earth do Photography Blog take such crappy sample pictures?
I do not care what the image quality looks like at F16 and ISO 800 in daylight.
Not one helpful sample in that whole series to me.
Show me the F5.6 shots at base ISO and we can tell what the camera can do.
Extraordinary that professional reviewers are so clueless.
Photography Blog, like many other reviewers, are for the most part gear heads to happen to take photos, not photographers who like to review gear. So yea the photos are going to be more snapshots than photos.
Wow, alot of people seem they want this camera to fail. The more good reviews it gets, the more people seem to hate.
Haha looking at the way people describe the autofocus or lack there of auto focus success is hilarious. I own a d700 d7000 and x100 and i still dont get why everyone is so insultated by the x100s auto focus capabilities. Yeah its slower. And super slow in macro. But ill take its size, controls ovf and image quality any day over carrying around my slrs or medium format cameras for MOST of what i like to shoot.
Everyone has a pref for what they want in a camera. Example- nex7….. Great camera but way to small in my hands, dont like the dial set up, feels like im holding a gadget not a camera. However, great pictures , lots of lenses and adapters fast focus speeds and focus peaking blah blah blah…. Not interested.
I still carry a fuji gw690 around with me sometimes…. 8 shots a roll. No meter.
Ill take it over a mamiya 7…. Why!?? Its not that i dont think the mamiya 7 is wonderful… Its is! Awesome glass, great features! …… But its not a 6×9.
And how many of these reviewers do you need to tell you the image quality is amazing to actually believe it.
So many people seem so black andwhite on its auto focus….. It sucks and thats it for most part …..
When has it been so hard to say… Its adequate for most shots unless your 3d tracking a freaking dog running up about to bite your face off for trolling around the interenet complaining about a camera u have no interest in.
O wait…. Someone will say the price is way way too much? I so wish people understood the r and d processes better to get why a product like the x100 or x pro 1 costs more.
The lenses from the tests available seem like a bargain.
People need to chill.
fully agree with what you said regarding X100 – yes it’s slower than dSLR but I don’t shoot action that’s why X100 replaced my dSLR kit. I can carry it all day and I don’t feel it, it’s discrete, IQ is excellent and if the light isn’t good enough I switch to MF and use AF-L/AE-L button to pre-focus and problem solved.
I believe that quite a lot of users of X100 (those who are complaining) haven’t given it enough time and haven’t given enough time to themselves to find how to use it properly. Once you master it, it’s joy to use, quick, discrete with excellent results – but it’s not camera for fast action like sports and so on.
@Eric : +1
It’s right that many review just don’t worth to be linked.
Serious one proved that this camera is a good one, with stunning image quality. Not the perfect camera.
Depending the way we are practicing photography, this camera an be an amazing tool.
I’m convinced about this and will certainely buy it.
Now, i remain convinced that we must love our camera to make good pictures, even this camera is far from perfect. I used to work 20 years with a Mamyia RZ67, heavy, manual, with just 3 lenses. But I really enjoyed these 20 years photography.
The Fuji X-Pro 1 is an amazing IQ camera, with very correct AF despite the comments from Olympus and Sony fanboys. Easy set up. Amazing results in high iso, starting with high quality lenses (not like the Nex-7, unfortunately). That’s a really good start.
I am starting to get frustrated. All I see is reviews!! where is my camera Fuji???? At least give us some date yea? you said end of February. My camera store (name omitted to protect the innocent) says that you won’t ship til April. Are you serious???!!!!!
Impressive IQ measures here. This camera is super for people like me. IQ and manual controls, no toggle here andd there, menu-diving only for setup (almost).
The only question is AF, probably no problem for me 95% of time. But I do not shots sports, nor have children….
The camera is on sale in Asia, saw on ebay.de offers from HongKong and Taiwan.
where are you based Kylberg? I’ve seen tweet from Redboxcameras (UK) that they will have it in shop any time soon – surely I’ll go for a trip to Tunbridge Wells to check it out 🙂
I sit in Sweden, no signs of X-pro1 here and Fuji recommended price very high compared to US.
still waiting for the damn camera to be availble in north america
i was hoping for the price to drop but seeing the price trends of the X10 and X100, i doubt that the x pro 1 price would budge between now and the end of 2012
I had considered the Pro 1 as an alternative to the coming E-M5, but as I went through reviews I realised that the choice depends whether you want state of the art AF, or less noise at 6400 ISO and above.
There is also a different philosophy. Built in filters give you the colour signatures of past Fuji films, but I couldn’t care less. Art Filters are far more interesting and modern.
So Fuji gives high performance but is culturally stuck past in time. Let’s see when they’ll issue a cheaper camera, and will have no excuse, if they want mass sales.
To have a full blown range of system lenses, you can’t really only deal with film nostalgia.
If I wanted Art filters I would just do it in PP. If there is a marketing gimmick out there it´s Art filters. What does culturally stuck in past time even mean in a camera? Thinks like “modern” and “old fashioned” are essentially meaningless labels which simply mean “something I approve of” and “something I don´t approve of”. Those semantically empty terms don´t really add any extra meaningful information other than you don´t like something. I´ve used Oly cameras – I like them but the art filters for me are useless and a waste of dial space.
I too am deciding between the new Oly and the Fuji but veering towards the Fuji. The m43 does have more lenses but really how many top class lenses does the m43 system really have? the Oly 12mm, the voigtlander and panaleica 25mms, the macro lenses and the oly 45mm portrait in the 45-50mm and the panasonic and oly wide angle zooms. That´s it. The rest of the lenses are either very niche like fisheyes or one of the five thousand variations on the kit zooms. At the moment if I was mostly focussed on quality primes I wouldn´t have much more choice with m43. Sure there are new lenses annouced but then within 2 years the Fuji roadmap will have filled in all the gaps with the stabilised zooms and the 14mm prime etc. So is there a huge practical difference in lens selection? I´d rather have the 24mm equivalent of the Oly than the 28mm equivalent of the Fuji personally but c´est la vie….
It boils down if you want a viewfinder which offers to advantages of the rangefinder and EVF type approaches in one and higher image quality versus top of the range AF and weatherproofing. I wish the Fuji had weatherproofing but in terms of ultrafast AF I can´t think of a single image I´ve taken in the past which really required AF faster than the Fuji will offer. It´s horses for courses.
I find a lot of the hostility directed towards the Fuji psychologically interesting. Some people can´t accept that it´s possible for different cameras to be better for different people without those people somehow being deluded. I guess its an existential thing – some folk found the idea that their own preferences are arbitrary to be psychologically threatening. Me, I just get on with it.
It’s not just noise, it’s also dynamic range and detail. Both look like great cameras, not sure why people feel the need to take sides either.
Rather than about the cameras the reply above shows how some elect cameras as a fetish to protect their uncertain egos.
In the end, instead of cameras, we are discussing systems and their usefulness.
I am very aware that there are other needs than mine. Perhaps one should always make a list of needs and expectations and see which ones are ticked by a certain camera, instead of denying the unavodable limitations of each one by denying them.
Sheesh!…
isn’t that what you do when you’re deciding which camera to get? jus asking 😉
Love this camera, can’t believe the iq it deliveres, the design , handling, even the slow af didn’t spoil it for me.
hey andy, seems like you’re already an owner of this camera… did you buy it in your region or you ordered from japan (or maybe you live in japan?)
i’d like to know the stock situation for this camera… i didn’t put in a preorder, just because it is an expensive camera and i’d like to play with it in store before i make the purchase.
i doubt that the price will drop given the price history of the X10 and X100, so might as well get it as soon as i can 🙂
slow AF, slow AF, it seems we began to make good picture when AF appeared… We actually talk about some hundredth second difference between the last cameras launched on the market… guys ! Come back on earth !
It depends your own criteria when you consider a camera. AF is basically the fundamental of having a good picture. Right? The great IQ is probably helpless if your camera is not fast enough.
And, of course, it’s not hundredth second difference if you that 60mm lens.
Then how did we make good picture before the AF ?!?! I spent my life to work and to sucessfully earn money with photography without any AF. But IQ definitively a fundamental.
Not if you shoot, landscapes, cityscapes, macro, still life, architecture, there are many situations where fast AF isn´t remotely important. I do and I couldn´t really care, or at least it´s not as important as other factors. There are many styles of photography. The best photos I´ve ever taken were with film rangefinders – I like being forced to shoot in a deliberate fashion. It works for me. If I need speed, its actually quite achievable through zone focus and anticipation.
Equally, I can imagine just as many situations where fast AF might be important but I never do that sort of photography. It entirely depends on the individual, there are no hard and fast rules.
There are many different kinds of “speed” in photography. For example I use an Oly m43 camera at the moment (I´m waiting for either a OM5 or an Xpro depending on how much cash I scrape together and reviews) nad I waste a lot of time fiddling with the controls and settings. With traditional rangefinder type controls – shutter and aperture dials , I can set it up very quickly and just nail the shot. There have times when my Oly has been slower in actualy operation than a Hasselblad Xpan if I´ve preset the focus on the latter. I have no doubt though that the OM5 with it´s extra control dials will be much quicker though.
The 60mm is supposedly fast enough outside of macro type situations, where I would never shoot without a tripod and MF anyway. I´m trying to think of a macro lens I ever used that had fast AF. None spring to mind.
The angst on internet forums about essentially minor performance differences is incredible. You would think that millions of people didn´t take good photos before about 2 years ago (hint they did, and it wasn´t actually much harder than it is now, in fact the basics of photography, focus and exposure have ALWAYS been the easy part compared to timing and composition) and there are very few serious cameras on the market nowadays that seriously limit the photographer rather than vice versa.
I´d be happy with either the Fuji or the new Oly personally. I just think that Fuji should be applauded for doing something different – something which judging from the early reviews seems to work fine – and sure, it´s not a camera for everyone, but then isn´t the beauty of choice?
keven hey
I ordered it from japan , though i had to buy the battery locally in New Zealand, sice they had to remove the battery at customs, lots of problems ordering from Japan.
New Zealand and Oz already have the camera for sale.
@Nat
100% agree with you. To me, focuse (both AF and MF) is a root of capturing a good moment.
I’m cameraman and I’m a stupid pooh pooh head. Evjenij is right…Samsung cameras are truly the best. Iam a sad person with a sad life. Once again, Iam cameraman and I’am a pooh pooh head. Evjenij would never stoop as low as me, i was wrong, he was right.Once again, iam cameraman, not Evjenij.
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