Recent launches and future of the X-Pro series

Iuvenis wrote:

I think it's a given there will always be an X-Pro line. The hybrid OVF is unique and can command a price premium. Also, every X-Pro model they sell helps them amortise the cost of the hybrid OVF, which they need for the (extremely successful) X100 line.

However, with the X-T5 pitched as a photographer's camera, that does make positioning the X-Pro line a tricky business.

In my view, Fuji should move the X-Pro to a smaller size category, losing the X-E line in the process. For me, the X-Pro line has always been a tiny bit too large for its style, more like the doomed Leica M5 than the successful M6. While I loved the X-E2 I used to have, I wouldn't have minded something slightly larger if it gave me weather resistance and a more premium feel. A smaller X-Pro gives Fuji the chance to upsell to people who want a compact rangefinder option.

A smaller X-Pro can't have a larger battery, but the X-T5 example suggests that ibis may still be an option. The X100vi really needs ibis in my opinion, so they need to find a way to fit it into smaller bodies. Add the X100v style screen, and they could have a decent seller on their hands, that uses a lot of the X100 line's parts and simplifies their line-up.

Better yet, just keep the XE series and do not make it any larger.

No interest from me in a premium xpro, but i do like a small rangefinder style to augment my XT3 when i want to go small.