Hi
Federico Frugoli sent me an email with his first X-E1 impressions. Here is his review (see his website here).
Hello
I’m Federico Frugoli, an Italian photographer, and I wanted to share with you my first impressions of the X-E1. I’ve passed my first week end with it in the mountains. So I woke up early, and climbed the beautiful mountains. There was a lot of fresh snow, and I tested the X-E1. Here are my first impressions:
-Body and lens built quality are very good, surely superior to my micro43 Lumix!
–Excellent ergonomics, even for my big hands (I’m 2 meter high). There are no problems with too small buttons or buttons you could press inadvertently.
-The EVF is perfect. I read about a lag, but I didn’t noticed it.
–The 18-55 is impressive to what belongs the lens flares. I’ve never possessed something like this. The Fujinon lens is almost perfect!
-The AF is not as good as the micro4/3 Lumix. Also my 3 years old GF1 is faster and in bad light conditions the X-E1 is sometimes hunting for the focus for too long. It’s not a problem for my needs, but for someone else this could be a problem. Fuji has to improve this!
-What belongs the focus, I’m working slower with the X-E1 than with the Lumix. And I can’t change the exposure comp once that the focus is locked! With the Lumix exposure is always calculated in real time and visible in the LCD/EVF. With the Fuji you have to half press the shutter button to do metering calculation.
-Out-of-cam JPEG quality is impressive!
-High ISO performance is great
-The “Q” button is very useful
-Good battery life. I’ve read about a bad battery life, but it’s quite good to me… and batteries cost less than Panasonic batteries
-The live histogram is quite difficult to read. I was used to that of the Panasonic, where you could also change the position of the live histogram on the LCD/EVF
-The exposure comp dial is not resistant enough. You risk to move it inadvertently.
-Impressive dynamic range!
That’s it for now,
keep up your good work
ciao, Federico
To see his first snow-walk in the mountains and read his impressions and see his gallery, click here! (click here for the translated version) For the film simulation pics click here!
So, keep on writing at fujirumor@gmail.com
