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Nice one. They did a good job setting this one up.
nplanet: The Sony RX1 is such a big step forward that no other company is even close to releasing something similar.
If thats what you need, One on the market is all thats needed.
I Have this Camera and being an older guy that remembers MF and having Canon FD lenses its great to shoot them and the files I get are great. Is this camera for you? I don't care. The DP review is 90% on the mark, Maybe a bit to negative. After they come out with a X Pro 1s and X E 1s AF will be right up there with the DSLR's. but isn't bad now at all.
Hugo808: I cannot, for the life of me, see that these pics are technically any better than ones from any other make of camera. In fact they look much worse, pale and soft. And I've looked all over the place (including the Fuji site) for better ones but they all have the same washed out look. Must be what people prefer. Go figure.
I don't like the trend towards EVFs either, most horrid things. Still, it's another market segment everyone can aim cameras at.
You can change that, The camera has 5 color presets Chang to Veliva for eye popping colors. For the price $999.00 it shoots photos that look as good as Canon's 5Dmk3 to me.
Like mine and I only had it 2 hours, Doing night shots after 3 AM. I will find out a lot in the next 12 hours! I may even post a link.
panpen: Where did you guys find it in stock in USA?
XE1 and 18-55 is in stock at B&H for the last 2 days
jj74e: the problem for me with this camera is that it is fuji's budget camera, but it still costs as much as panasonic's flagship, the gh2, which arguably will probably do a lot of things much better- weather sealed, AF, the plethora of video features, OLED screen and EVF, and more.
the x-e1 sure looks nice...but if they had to use a low spec LCD just to keep the costs down, you have to wonder what else is making it so expensive compared to so many other great cameras around the same price point.
sure its sensor is unique and it looks pretty...but uniqueness doesn't command 100% superior IQ, and looks only go so far. it's a good camera until you look at the prices for other great cameras.
I disagree with all your points. Compare photos its worth the cost. Fuji didn't make it for everyone but for shooters like me that wanted a old stile shooters camera, Not a computer and lens only.
Petka: I found an annoying bug in the X-E1: RAW files open slightly cropped from the long sides in Lightroom 4.2. Pressing RESET in LR 4.2 reveals the whole frame, or using the crop tool and unlocking the file and choosing "original". This is strange as there is no possibility of adjusting the aspect ratio when shooting RAW only. EXIF data says: Dimensions - 3264 x 4896, Cropped - 2760 x 4896.
If the camera is set to shoot both RAW and JPEG, the RAW file behaves normally.
Fuji, please take note...
Ok, Still hoping my camera shows up with the zoom soon. Till then seeing what you guys are saying.
gachsan: Greetings all. I'm a Canon 7D user for quite sometime and happy about its performance overall. I have 17-55 f/2.8, 70-200 f/2.8, 10-22 and 50 f/1.4 lenses. I also bought a Fuji X10 as my pocket cam and have been impressed with its EXR and lowlight capability. Tempted to get the X-E1 (available next month in Jakarta) but yesterday I attended a Canon wshop and tried the pre-production EOS-M (available also next month with the price about the same with X-E1, maybe even a bit cheaper) and fell also for it since I can use all my lenses and it can act as my wide lens camera whenever I have my tele attached to my 7D. Now, should I go for X-E1 and invest more in X lenses or just go on get the EOS-M. Gosh, that X-E1 retro looks is really gorgeous!
I think the M is good if you shoot on P, S, A a lot M looks like a pain to work fast???
Petka: I found an annoying bug in the X-E1: RAW files open slightly cropped from the long sides in Lightroom 4.2. Pressing RESET in LR 4.2 reveals the whole frame, or using the crop tool and unlocking the file and choosing "original". This is strange as there is no possibility of adjusting the aspect ratio when shooting RAW only. EXIF data says: Dimensions - 3264 x 4896, Cropped - 2760 x 4896.
If the camera is set to shoot both RAW and JPEG, the RAW file behaves normally.
Fuji, please take note...
Page 69 Aspect ratio, Think yours is set to 16:9 and want 3:2. If you have RAW only this is just showing what it thinks you want? I would try setting to 3:2 and see if that fixs it. add more Your Lucky is still 2 weeks + before my X E-1 shows?
JoeDaBassPlayer: Looks like an expensive K 01.
A there's lot more to it
abi170845: for the size with aps-c sensor, it is a pretty good price. Still waiting for the 10mmzoom, next year maybe I'll look into Fuji.
Me to I want all 3 Zooms
marcuz: I've a question about the release button, since it appears to have a threaded hole, but I'm not sure about it from the pictures I've seen: does it accept traditional cable releases?
Yes
andrew turner: I don't mind an EVF - my first digital camera, a Dimage 7, had one (arguable far inferior compared to what's out there now) but I liked it.
Which leads me to my question - can I preview IR through it?
The Dimage 7i added an IR filter which killed this functionality. I'd hope that I'd be able to preview IR in something like this.
Anyone know?
thanks,
Andrew
Most cameras have a IR blocking filter
Muus: i see no mentioning of any kind of lens hood for the 18-55mm zoom at all. unavoidably a lens hood would block more of the OVF image than the lens itself does, but i still think a little, nifty lens hood (with length wise 'see through' sides like the one on the X-100) would be nice. especially at the tele end, where there is more reason to restrict the bundle of light reaching the lens to the light that actually reaches the sensor and less blockage of the OVF within the framelines.
I sure hope it comes with one, Likely they didn't have one to show yet?
Absolutic: why not make it right from the get go? Fuji had to do firmware upgrade to fix something in every X camera now. Are they rushing products?
Making a new camera system has to be costly and likely Fuji just need to sell cameras and unforeseen the software wasn't 100% Fuji isn't Canon or Nikon size wise and I see the X line as a risky endeavor at concept. I don't think they planed it this way, Who would? needing coffee!
PortlandOR: I was curious about the EVF so went to the local photo store and demo'd the Sony NEX 7 which allegedly has the same EVF specs as the X-E1. It was definitely higher res than the X-Pro EVF but there's still no way I could use it. Feels very disconnected from the scene, and unnatural. That makes the X-E1 a non-starter for me unfortunately. Everything else in the specs looks sweet, however. I prefer the OVF on the X Pro but the frameline inaccuracies bother me quite a bit (anyone find a good workaround here?).
BTW, AF lag on the X Pro didn't bother me as much as the shutter lag. Hopefully the firmware update will correct this, but it wasn't directly addressed in the PR. We'll see.
You just like seeing 125% not to seeing 100%? I need zooms as I can't move forward or back I will like it as I will have longer lens's on it. I often shot a bit wider for cropping later.
Astaindasy: Well. It seems that all of my friends give it an attention. It's a beautiful camera. Only problem is price. I hope it sells in good price.
$999.00 US 1400. with zoom Thats getting the zoom 18-55 for $300.00 off whats not to like??
Bruce Crossan: They still call their company "Fujifilm". . . what is "film"?
Dropping film from the name would cost a lot and lawers would be the only ones making cash from it. And they still make Film.
forpetessake: Let's see. I bought Kiron 28-85/2.8-3.8 full frame lens, reasonable quality, size, weight. Porting this lens to APS-C image circle would produce 18-55/1.8-2.5, and porting it to micro4/3 would produce 14-42/1.4-1.9 lens. I paid $15 for Kiron, I'm sure many people would be willing to pay 100x more for a modern lens, so why are the manufacturers still producing ridiculously slow lenses for ridiculously high prices? Has the industry degraded so much since 80-s?
That lens is a 42-127 on an APS-C camera. X1.5=, X2= on an M4/3's.