Our friends over at Photorumors found other two images of the Fuji X Pro 1 camera. It’s really a poor man’s Leica camera 🙂
And I am so surprised to see that Amazon didn’t remove the lens preorder links. Is that all part of a “rumor” startegy?
Click here to see the 35mm f/1.4 lens at Amazon: 8 Elements in 6 Groups (Inc. 1 Asph. Element), Angle of view – 44.2 Degrees, Filter Size 52mm.
Click here to see the 18mm f/2.0 lens at Amazon. 8 Elements in 7 Groups (Inc. 2 Asph. Elements), Angle of view – 76.5 Degree, Filter Size 52mm
Click here to see the 60mm macro lens at Amazon. 10 Elements in 8 Groups (Inc. 1 Asph. Element & 1 abnormal disp. element), Angle of view – 26.6 Degree, Filter Size 39mm
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looks like these lenses could be used on other mirorrless systems. That makes it more appealing to buy this Fuji as a second (or first) system among several
Except that the only mirrorless system that might be able to adapt them today is the Pentax Q system…
is the flange distance for this system so short? How would it use the M lenses then?
Having a shorter flange distance makes it easier to adapt for other systems as adapters can be fitted between the the native mount and the mount you are adapting for. However the reverse is also true meaning lenses designed for rangefinders or mirrorless cameras are difficult to adapt to cameras with long flange distances.
OMG! It is looking hot!
Thank you Fuji!
I love the design!
Finally: Aperture Rings, metall bodys, black!
Oh boy, where can I preorder it?
White hot!!!!
this have to be my next camera
+1
So nice. As soon as they have a 35mm (23mm) lens, I’ll go all in and buy the body and 3 lenses. It’s done!
I love the looks! And a 35mm 1.4 lens for that price… Wow! 🙂
Any idea on the sync speed? No indication from the shutter speed dial. One nice looking camera, interested in the specs.
Wish I was a poor man so that I could shell out 1300 € for that poor man’s Leica camera 😉
WOW!
I just realized, that there is an “A” mark on the aperture ring also. So this is my favorite control setup, like the Panasonic L1:
You put the camera in “A” mode, choose the aperture on the lens – A mode
You put the camera + lens in “A” mode – P mode 😉
You just put the lens in “A” mode and choose the time on the camera dial – “S” mode.
You choose aperture on the lens and speed on the camera – “M” mode.
So easy, so classic, why do not all cameras work like that?
Anybody else noticed the 60 mm is f2.4? Or was that known?
You know i prefer to think of these cameras as a middle income mans leica. Mainly because i can’t afford this one either and if thats the poor mans Leica where is the destitute mans leica?
The Adorama’s link to the pre-order seems to be off now.
Awesomely familiar to us old dinosaurs.
Just hope they don’t screw up the firmware.
This is going to do wonders for the whole MILC scene.
Good things come to those who wait.
Fuji listening, developing, delivering!
You’ve unleashed a beauty on the world.
Fantastic body & three killer primes from the start… of what will probably become one of the most “affordable” and cherished systems to date.
Like most of you, I can’t wait for the official annoucement/full specs.
So far I like what’s been “leaked” but, many unknowns still.
Perhaps a roadmap in fall (Photokina) for future primes and short/fast street zoom?
Despite all my Fuji love, there is still the very real near-term possibility of Olympus dropping a Pen Pro bomb on all of us!
Weatherproofed retro Pen body?
Crazy built-in viewfinder with unheard of tech?
New Sensor tech?
Could be the “mirroless spring” we’ve been waiting for?
Oly? no way. Maybe Sigma or Pentax.
Body on amazon!! =]
http://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-X-Pro-Digital-Camera-Body/dp/B006UV6YMQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326053156&sr=8-1
This is not back to basics, it’s back to functionality – this is how a camera should be configured for shooter rather than a peeper or geek. Finally, someone gets it! I’ll take two bodies and one of each lens with a side of fries please.
Thank you Fuji, for actually listening to shooters when everyone else was just yammering on about stuff that has not helped shooters.
This is like holding a winning ticket and just waiting for the last number to be drawn!!
Definitely not for the poor man $2000 with a lens is definitely upper middle class or wife and girl friendless photo geek :). I think I’ll give this one time to mature Fuji has a way of fading in and out hate to buy into something that may not stand the test of time. Otherwise looks nice wish I had crazy money to toss around.
The M-mount adapters are confirmed…
Are Fuji branded C-mount adapters far behind?
Will older cine glass (Kern, Angeniuex, Century) work with such a short flange/focal plane distance?
Can Metabones/Kipon/etc. develop this stuff early, without Fuji’s approval?
I bet the body even won’t have the price of the Nex-7.
I used to buy Fujinon large format lenses for my Sinar few years ago : excellent lenses.
I won’t feel confuse to to use an all-electronic menu, using traditionnal setting (aperture ring on the lens, etc…) then it’s great, simply great. Feels solid. Without to know anything preciselly about this camera, I like it very much. I’m so frustrated not to be able to use M-Mount lenses on the Nex-7, to wait for a possibly expectable Nex-6 (Nex-7 body with Nex-5N sensor), this camera seems perfect for what I need. Great job Fuji !
What a beauty. Too bad I probably won’t be able to afford it.
From the first information the camera looks really and the Fuji lenses are out of question. Everybody who worked with a X-Pan, GX67 or 617 knows, that Fuji could build perfect lenses.
BUT: This camera is a great tool for travel, street and journalism. A cheaper Leica M. But there are no super wideangle lenses. A 27mm (FF equiv.) is ok, but nothing special.
I bought a G3 this summer and I don´t want to miss the 9-18 (FF 18-36) anymore. If Fuji can provide a FF20 or FF17 we can talk again, but until then, no chance…
This would be the perfect camera if it has a fully electronic viewfinder capability. Does it have the switchable hybrid viewfinder of the X100? The changing of viewfinder optical magnification only works for fixed focal length lenses of a rather narrow range. For zoom lenses, super wide angle, and long telephoto, the optical viewfinder does not work. It will have same limitations as a Leica if it does not have the hybrid viewfinder with full EVF capability.
And we all know how badly Leica suffered with such a limitation..
Honestly, this is what the world of photography needs, it’s basically a more up to date Leica with no doubt more functions, probably better IQ and cheaper, i’ll give it a month or two but considering 3 months ago I was about to put down $12,000 on a Leica M9 and 2 lens’s, this is just… perfect, it’s like a camera company totally listened to us instead of getting a bit of the idea and then running with it.
Can.not.wait.
This will go down in the history list of Good but not good enough!
why? if what Fuji say about the sensor is true it will be quite something.
The above comments amaze me. Fuji does everything right giving us exactly what we’ve been asking for, and nobody has anything but negativity and skepticism. Very sad. Personally after shooting for 30 years Leica is still way out of my justified price range. Epson never updated the RD1, Contax failed to release a digital G3, Sony’s NEX camers’s are pretty sweet, but who wants to Plunk a big, ugly silver lens on their NEX 7 and the M lenses suffer from corner color shift, Nikon failed to give us what we want, Samsung makes refrigerators (C’ mon), Canon is dragging their feet and Leica costs as much as a car! Seriously, this Fuji camera is a miracle, and if it performs, I’m getting one and all the lenses regardless of the cost. I lugged a huge case of DSLR gear to Southeast Asia not too long ago and never again. WAKE UP people, it won’t get any better than this!
Sure it will, when Fuji will come out with a FF one, next year. If their current prices are an indication, it will cost about $2,500 and it will indeed be an M9 killer.