New full Fuji X PRO 1 review by Ken Rockwell

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Ken Rockwell (Click here) the most famous photography blogger posted his final X PRO 1 review: “The Fuji X-Pro1 is an amazing one-of-a-kind camera. It has image quality and lenses more like my LEICA M9 than any DSLR, and it’s smaller and lighter than any DSLR — or LEICA. The X-Pro1 does what the LEICA M9 does well, even better than the M9 does it!”

Overall he is pretty impressed by the Fuji and recommends it to anyone that doesn’t shoot mainly landscapes (for that FF cameras are still better).

Brandon Remler (Click here) is testing the 60mm macro lens which is also the best of all three X lenses: “The sharpness is great and it’s a terrific lens to own.“

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Great shots from John Smith with the X PRO and a 40 years old Leica lens!

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Image from John Smith

Our reader John Smith (Click here) posted a set of X PRO 1 pictures taken with the “old” Leica Tele Elmarit lens. I hope to see more tests with third party lenses. I think they will work better than on other mirrorless cameras. The NEX-7 for example has terrible corner issues on many lenses. But I hope Fuji will “steal” the peaking mode idea from Sony. That would help us a lot to focus with manual lenses!

More  X PRO 1 news: A new leather case for the X PRO 1 (DCwatch). A new gallery by Pfflynn….what a name ;) The Fuji at the Madison Square Garden (Brandon Remler).

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New Fuji X PRO 1 firmware released!!!

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Fuji Japan (Click here) just announced the release of the new 1.01 firmware for the X PRO 1. It brings following improvements:

  • 1.Reduction of chattering noise from iris of lenses in shooting mode.
  • 2.Improvement of phenomenon that parallax compensation does not work under condition of manual focus with OVF bright frame mode.
  • 3.Improvement of phenomenon that OVF quality as low visibility due to too bright OVF under the condition of power save mode during pressing the shutter button halfway.
  • 4.Improvement of phenomenon that delete function does not work after viewing continues shooting mode images.

Also the X PRO 1 RAW converter has been improved (now version 3.2.9.1) and imrpoves the image quality.

 

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Fuji about to increase the price of film in May :(

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Don’t know you guys but I am still a film camera user. And after Kodak dropping his slide film production I have another bad news to report. Fuji Japan announced that they will introduce a worldwide price increase for all(!) films. It will increase more than 10% starting from May. Oh guys, I am going to buy a big Stock of Velvia films tomorrow!

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Ken Rockwell: X PRO 1 beats the M9 as best digital camera ever.

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The video on top has been made by Kai form Digitalrev and compares the three hottest cameras of the moment, the Fuji (of course), the Olympus E-M5 and Sony NEX-7. All three are on top of the Amazon sales rankings (here it is).

Of course this is a very personal statement made by Ken Rockwell (Click here) made it’s nice to read it anyway: “World’s Best Digital Camera? It’s been the LEICA M9 since 2009, and the X-Pro1 just might take that crown away from the M9. We’ll see. The M9 wins because it makes great images and handles well, even if the M9 is noisy and klunky compared to a real LEICA, but the X-Pro1 seems to offer the same or better image quality, with the same brilliant simplicity, with a body design that’s 60 years ahead of the primitive LEICA M9.”

Mike Kobal (Click here) made a short NEX-7 versus Fuji X PRO 1 comparison.

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