Musings about the X100VI, probable april launch?

Threaded wrote:

I’ve said this before, but I think the single biggest and most useful upgrade they could make to the X100 line is the 40mp sensor.

Why? Because suddenly the fixed lens would be much less of a limitation. You’d be able to crop in quite aggressively in camera using the “digital teleconverter” and still end up with very acceptable, high resolution images, that equal what previous gen cameras were serving up as standard.

Let’s go further then…

The 40MP sensor allows Fuji to sit up and take notice of the commercial success of the Q2. It makes a 28mm-equivalent lens croppable to 35 and 50mm equivalents at acceptable pixel counts.

If Fuji can take what they learned in producing the Mark II lens for the X100V and apply the same improvements to the lens on the X70/XF10 then maybe we also have a super-compact lens (even more compact than the X100’s lens as far as I can see) that’s good enough for the 40MP sensor and the 50mm crop.

Stick that in an X100 style body with a viewfinder, make it a touch smaller thanks to the smaller lens and the sort of consumer feedback that shrunk the X-T4 to the T5, and you’ve got quite the appeal. It works as a 25MP X100 at 35mm. It’s a usable 12MP at 50mm. And the big deal is that it pulls in the 28mm fans: the X70/XF10 fans who have been wanting something new, the Ricoh users who want a viewfinder, and the folks who want a Q2 but don’t have the silver for it. Being “the poor man’s Leica” never worked out too bad for Fuji, and if they can steal some of Ricoh’s market as well—not by trying to beat them at their own game and failing again, but by being in more ways than before a genuine alternative—then why not?

I mean… I’d buy that rather than an X100 any day. All the classic street shooting focal lengths are covered with one bit of glass. 25MP at 35mm? Sure! I bought an X100V after all. 40MP at 28mm with a viewfinder? You just beat Ricoh: take my money! Conversion lens for 40MP at 21mm? It’s a pocket-sized landscape dream as well: take all of my money!