Recent launches and future of the X-Pro series

bowportes wrote:

Pocket Lint wrote:

rla1022 wrote:

yayatosorus wrote:

John Gellings wrote:

There is no way they aren’t rethinking the X-Pro3 screen. It’s been failing too often for them not to. It will also certainly have IBIS. It will be 2023 and Fuji is not Leica. They cannot get away with it again.

Thanks for chiming in. I know you've got plenty of experience with the X-Pro. What do you think would be preferable? Something like a 2-way tilt screen?

A thing I noticed that no 1 has picked up yet is the explicit call out of shutter button design change. I know there was conflicting information about the failures or the button on xpro3.

I almost forgot about this, but this is a very good point. That and the controversial rear screen both need to designed better in the next generation.

Do you own an X-Pro3? What has been your experience with the shitter button and rear screen?

I do own an Xpro3. I have had a very unusual experience with the Xpro3 since I first got it about 2 year ago.

1. Issue with frameline screen burn in. I don’t think this is a camera defect, but I found the camera was too easy to turn on while in a camera bag. Often times I would pull my camera out only to discover it was already on, possibly for hours, or overnight. This caused some slight screen burn in of the framelines temporarily. The issue self-resolved months later but it was a little discouraging.
2. The shutter release button felt a little sticky at times when I first got it. Sometimes I’d press down on the shutter release button and nothing would happen for a second or two, then suddenly it would fire off a few frames in rapid succession. This was very frustrating to the point I considered returning my Xpro3 multiple times. However I stuck with it and oddly enough, this too seemed to self-resolve. I’ve not had this occur since. 
3. Rear flip down screen, while I have not had any bad experience with this, others have, where the apparent issue is with the electronic ribbon failing rendering the rear screen inoperable. 
   

So, clearly Fujifilm needs to address some hardware issues with this camera and improve it to make it more robust and reliable, after all, they are marketing it as their premium luxury camera. I expect nothing less then refined perfection in this camera!

This would be Fujifilms equivalent to the Leica MP, in my opinion.