Why did you buy an X series???

David V wrote:

For me the X-E1 gave me the ability to lighten the load from my D800 and f/2.8 glass with unbelievable image quality and sharp contrasty lenses that are on par with the bigger pro level stuff I also shoot. I was and continue to be floored (not to be mistaken with flawed) over the image quality I am getting out of this little rig. Just blown away with the color, depth, and sharpness of the images.

For me, this is a landscape, street, vacation, candid, portrait camera and will do the job perfectly well for what I am pointing it at. It is a camera system that I can use for 90+% of what I shoot. For that reason, I was willing to sacrifice a little in AF speed, as I am not shooting sports, or birds in flight (unless they get in my way).

While the AF is slower, I think it's way over exaggerated by the gear heads that need to measure every statistic from every angle, in every light condition and at every aperture setting while measuring the exact effectiveness of the distance meter and disputing the ISO scale that Fuji has employed.

While the viewfinder is a bit quirky and slightly laggy, it is super hi-res, bright and razor sharp, which gives me a good accurate representation of what I'm going to get out of the capture and allows me to chimp the images just as I would see them on my Macbook Pro Retina. I am not running from an extremely dark room to a overly lit bright room in order to see how quickly the VF refreshes and re-calibrates itself, and I am not whipping around and firing off rapid shots with wildly varying light sources where this would be a problem either.

While there are some issues with RAW conversion today, the JPEGS that come out of the camera are just ridiculously good and the camera really nails exposure and WB, so I see little need to extensively work the RAW files at this point, but when I do, I use Silkpix and it's working out fine for now. Do I want to continue to use LR? Of course, but I'm sure Fuji will resolve this issue and we will no longer have to look at the water color effects of JPEGS that are blown up 400%, in case we need to print those billboards.

What I do have is the most incredible small camera system that I have seen to date, and while many are measuring/documenting/bemoaning every flaw and statistic, I am enjoying it immensely as a creative tool. I take it out more than my DSLR, because it's small/light enough and gives me great joy in shooting with it. Most importantly, it delivers image quality on par with my high end DSLR rig!

Don't get me wrong, I want to see the issues addressed as well, but I am also enjoying the journey!