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This is stupid, the things that cause most of these cards to fail would impact both sides. This is marketing gimmickry at it's finest

Great!  New firmware for a vaporware camera (in the US)!

If noise at ISO 400 and higher is an important consideration for you, the XTRANS sensor in the Fuji will blow away anything that Panasonic currently makes.  If out of camera JPEGs are importnat,...

Yup, one that doesn't cost three times as much as a pseudo equivalent camera from anyone else.

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lenstip.com actually does the sharpest aperture test as part of their test suite, even on the pro primes, it is rarely one stop down where they are sharpest.  Often it is a lot more.  For example...

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/03/the-requested-80-400-af-s-vs-70-200-vr-ii-and-2x-comparison

At the 70mm setting and infinity focus you would need 70mm of extension.  At minimum focus and the 70mm setting, probably about 50mm of extension would get you ery close to 1:1.  At 200mm you would...

Assuming I was shooting landscapes on the trip - my Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 T* Distagon and my Nikkor 35mm f/1.4GIf it were wildlife, my 500 f/4G VR and my 300 f/4D

I like this kind of camera but the lens is just way too bulky for what it is. Personally, I'm looking forward to trying an X100s - takes e back to my first serious camera in 1972 - the Yashica...

It's smaller and weighs less.

Have you ever taken apart a Canon 70-200 f/4L IS?  I have!  It's plastic on the inside in key structural areas and there are actually major stress points where you simply have 4 micro screws...

Zeiss lenses with F mount solve that problem ;)