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X100 Pro

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
enigmatico Contributing Member • Posts: 548
Re: X100 Pro

GSharp87 wrote:

It would be awesome if Fuji would start developing a Pro version of the X100 series with the following features

- 18mm f1.4 lens

- New high MP sensor rumoured for the X-H2

- X-Pro body ergonomics and build quality

- NP-W235 battery

- IBIS

- Priced around $2.5k

Would anybody else be interested in such camera? I’d take that over something like a Leica Q2 every time. It’d be the ultimate street/documentary camera.

Fuji found a niche with the X-100 series and developed it over the years up to (so far) the X-100V, which in my view is beauty and function combined to achieve excellence. 
Leica have achieved a similar level of excellence with the Q series. 
If research shows there to be a market for an X100V wide version with an 18mm lens, then Fuji should make it without changing anything else at all. Just like Ricoh with their GR3 and GR3x. (I cannot see Fuji doing this. 28mm equivalent and 35mm equivalent are too close). 
Some GFX lovers have a GFX100 on their wish list. Whilst I doubt it will ever be produced, (because it will be too big and expensive for a fixed lens camera), I think it will make more sense than an upsized APSC X100 with a PRO tag added.

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