Recent launches and future of the X-Pro series

Threaded wrote:

It’s not ridiculous, I see uniball’s point. 40mp is enough that you can crop in aggressively and still end up with a high resolution image that would be acceptable for most uses. Fuji are likely to promote the in camera “digital teleconverter” in the next 40mp X100 quite heavily as an alternative to using an ILC at all.

Perhaps they’ll even fit a wider lens and crop in slightly for 23mm? There are some interesting possibilities..

There are two blind spots to this approach, of course: wide angle and shallow depth of field. (Also long tele, but I suspect the X-Pro circle of the Venn diagram doesn’t intersect much with that.)

You could peg the optics at 16-18mm, but that’s a whole redesign of the camera and compromises the reach of a viable crop.

Now, I’ll be honest: I think if there was an X100 style (or smaller) camera with a 16mm lens and a sensor that could be cropped to even just over half its original dimensions (to cover equivalents of 24, 28, 35, 40 and 50mm) then I’d be very happy with it. I’d even be tempted by one based around the 18/2.8 lens from the X70/XF10. But I don’t know that demand for that would be sufficient to migrate the majority of X-Pro users.

That said, the Q2M is the one camera that realistically could tempt me away from Fuji, and I suspect I’m not the only amateur Fuji user in that boat.

To be honest, when it comes to cropping I’m probably more interested in support for more aspect ratios, like the GFX models. I’d love to be able to peg landscape orientation at 3:2 and portrait at 5:4, as well as hoeing able to compose for the 65:24 from the TX-1.