This stupid screen design (both big and small) is Fujis bigest fault with X-line ever made. Is says a lot about what direction Fuji has choosen receantly for its future... to fulfill hipsters needs… removing D-Pad (4 fn buttins) is also this sign. And what they did with AF-L button positioning it even futher from the thum then it was in X-Po2 that was already almost uselles? Now it's complately useless for back AF focusing! What a stupidity.
They even spoiled OVF with magnificivation and framing lines.
What and absurd Fuji move. I am affraid we wil not see X-Pro4 because of small sale of this nonsencial brick.
Chris is right, in video review, X-T30 is better choice, for that porice you have extra a few lenses.

Drop that screen, charge $100 less and this will sell like hotcakes.

The sensor in the camera is a good generation better than what Sony put in their "flagship" A6600 (that sensor and the processor are from 2014 according to reports). Less rolling shutter, faster readout, and so much more.
This Fuji even has a 200Mbps bit rate for video compared to Sony's 100Mbps, so there will be less macro blocking and more detail if there is movement in the frame (which for video is always).

I really want the camera, but Fuji, YUNoIBIS?

I really love the look of this camera. I love rangefinders. The design takes me back to the 60s-70s. But I think it's overpriced for an APSC sensor camera. I have the XE3 which I love and think it's great at the right price range. I will stick to the XE3 or XE4 when it comes out, maybe... Just my opinion.

I like Carey Rose's eye. Is her black and white photos from some kind of mode in the camera or are they done in post?

silly little rear lcd

Flip down only rear LCD killed the XP3 for me. It would have been perfect if they had just left the LCD as is. Or made it fully articulated so that those who don't want the LCD can just close it. In my opinion, the XP series has become even more niche and will this have less buyers. If the XP is being targeted at film camera users, it is a misguided strategy.

The LCD for me would be perfect.

I HATE LCDs that cannot flipped around for protection. This one comes that way as the default so for me is ideal.

I've owned several Sony cameras and suffered through their "true black" coating issues, and not just use the EVF most of the time and protect the LCD.
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4349156

I am still waiting Fuji Managers will say "We made a joke. We will anounce it tomorrow." I use fuji x-t3.I love my camera I like the brand I like the innvation. Sorry but this is totally disaster. No one tell me about lcd is good. We are in 2019 and I believe that there are much much good articulated screen designs. Why video 4k 30flps why ? Are you kidding ? If You don't like video so you can't take video. If you have a chance please make a new design. People can wait some months.

Having to flip down the LCD to make menu changes is a deal killer for me.

Looks like a great new camera. Cannot wait to try it out.

The X-Pro’s (and Fuji primes) have always attracted me immensely. The style, the looks. But I’ve always feared they wouldn’t feel very practical in actual use, compared to my D8xx’s.

One little detail caught me by surprise: The OVF only goes to 23mm. Fuji left out the dual magnification viewfinder, thus forcing users into the EVF for anything wider.

The LCD implementation successfully diverts blames on the lack of IBIS, which I would like this iteration to have.

Though the LCD implementation may appeal to some (e.g., shooters with film nostalgia), I'm afraid it will reduce the X-Pro's already small customer base given how much digital cameras have evolved in the past decade.

I have to give it up to their chief of design ... very bold move...

I am actually very interested in how it will do. I am sure Fuji has some data to support this. This can’t be just some random thoughts they “think” people will buy into it. Let’s see ....

And me that was hoping to get a second-hand x-pro2 after the release of this brick! Now x-pro2 price will sky-rocket! I've never seen so many design errors as in this camera! pretentious hipster idiots will love it

Fujifilm X-Pro3:
- not a very good OVF/rangefinder
- LCD impossible to use at the eye level, forcing users to use inferior OVF
- physically larger APS-C camera than the FF Leica M10

How does this compare to Leica M10?
- which has an excellent rangefinder,
- offers Visoflex, and
- does not botch the back LCD functionality in the majority of M models; use it at the eye level.

I am puzzled. What kind of "users experience" Fujifilm wanted to deliver with X-Pro3 when it fails in every single aspect of the rangefinder-style photography, even below its predecessors (X-Pro2)?

Hm, I'd prefer a camera that adopts to my habbits and not the other way round... but good luck Fuji.

Many x-pro2 owners like me won't buy his successor: how many non-x-pro2 owners will buy an x-pro3? Fuji betrays his own customers with this absurd move.

For Fuji's sake I hope there are enough hipsters out there willing to compromise on features and price to have an X-Pro with the newer 26 MP sensor, otherwise this will be DOA.

Its simplicity is appealing. As someone who has a PEN F, it does appeal to me, but only slightly. Just too darn big in my opinion, and just not a nice looking Camera, subjective I know. I thought the XPRO2 was too big, and just not a nice design, and this doesn't improve on that at all. I do like the mini screen in the back, but not at the expense of only having the rear LCD flip down, why place such a limitation? Give the photographer to have the flexibility to use the camera how they wish, while appeasing those who want to use this in the most traditional way?

Also, while it is not surprising that there is no IBIS, it is the main thing stopping me from coming to Fujifilm as I want my Camera to have good video capabilities with good AF while having excellent JPEG options. The PEN F satisfies me with the JPEGS, but not the video implementation. I hold on to it because its the best looking Camera I have ever seen & the most fun camera to use!

Fuji just jumped the shark.

This release is a step in a wrong (and weird) direction:
1. Imposed limits to functionality (why?):
* Probably the least convenient possible design of a 'flip screen' (should they have made it monochrome to please hipsters more?);
* No 4k 60p and other video limitations compared to x-t3, which has the same internal components!
2. Downgraded features compared to x-pro2:
* No D-pad (that is minus 4 function buttons), yet the size remains the same!
* Magnification of optical viewfinder (the key selling point of pro line) is no longer adjustable.
* Front wheel is no longer clickable.
3. More expensive:
* Did we really need these titanium plates? Please shout out if anybody's X-Pro2 magnesium alloy body became corroded!
4. All reviews of X-Pro2 have been pointing to the same flaws and missing features, which could be improved in the next gen, yet X-Pro3 still has:
* No IBIS;
* The same Impractical ISO dial design.

All I wanted is for it to be smaller, but it got bigger (few mm though), added a colorful tie to hide its fat of overthinking. Took away the ability to change magnification. Hide the LCD, but improved the EVF... its like hitting yourself with insulin while going on a cake-eating marathon. Its a DIGITAL camera! Stop pretending it is not. EVF is another monitor just closer to your eye.

If they made a film-version of it - now we are talking! lol Fuji, eat your pride and give us film simulation for all existing films... now thats courage. Lets not pretend we all so much loved fuji films, that were mostly used in dentist rooms.(btw I am still using those ;)
Id rather they spend their time innovating and upgrading there fuji remote app.I am afraid they will add another monitor-frame into app, so that I could see their "digital simulation" of an analogue stuff, that would probably will show me an animation of developing process in a dark room while importing files via still unstable wi-fi.

why dont they do a REAL rangefinder OVF when switched from EVF to OVF in MF mode? please stop faking the rangefinder style without having a REAL one.

I want to see the rangefinder patch and the 2 blurely images moving when I’m turning the focal ring on the lense. Come’on, Fuji!!!

This sounds like a killer APS-C camera, Fujifilm really pushing that format here. But wow, that sub monitor came out of the blue. What the...

Edit: And the small set of controls on the back? Are they going after Leica fans with this one? Or trying to ship a cheaper option than Leicas with similar appeal? I wonder if this model will work out well for them. It's a bold step in... some... direction at least.

I'm in love! Aesthetic at its finest. Price is reasonable too, in my country it will cost around 1600 eur and it's only few hundreds euro more than X-T3 cost.

Olympus should learn from Fuji how to make a camera light without making it cheap, also how to make it last and strong. Use Titanium, not plastic!

X-Pro2s are gong up in price as I type this. I thought the X-Pro1 was a very interesting camera, but lack of an adjustable diopter for the VF made it a non-starter for me. X-Pro2 seemed to get most things right. This is just weird for the sake of being weird. A simple titling LCD would have been fine.

Even I am not a fun of gimicky things like film simulations, this camera makes sense to me.
No matter you shoot old DSLR, or just brand new A7rIV, We just must appreciate products like this, only way how can pure photography as we all love survive that smartphone pressure.

I guess I was never in the target market for this body. I've always thought that first class EVFs with WYSIWYG viewing are one of the great advantages of mirror-less viewing. (And yes, there are a few very occasional disadvantages). I'll be sticking with the XT line.

There doesn't appear to be a long line of "pre-orders" among the commenters this morning.

This camera reminds me of the middle-aged person one encounters in the street sporting the latest fashions cut for someone in a 20ish body. It is more silly than stylish and paying a ridiculous prices to do so. The "rear submonitor" is the case in point. .

Looks silly next to the X-Pro2--a device with some style and plenty of substance.

This is the nostalgic camera for those who like how it was done in the 50s and 60s. It's a time when photos were taken carefully, before the age of spray and pray, chimping and everything automated. A fixed 35 or 50mm lens was all one had, nothing else.
No LCD then. The back of the camera just showed the film speed and type (a small square holder for the part torn from the film box), ...

Don't complain, kid. It's not the camera for you. It's like a modern version of a Morgan car. I think it's great Fuji tries to make such a camera.

crazy price for a crop camera
just stick with A6100/A6400, u will save lots of money and have basically the same thing

Maybe I'm just not cool enough for Fuji (and i should send my XT-2 back)., but i just don't get this camera. I just don't understand the reasoning of deliberately limiting usability to force a particular mode of operation. its a bit like buying a car and finding that the steering wheel only turns right because the designer felt that you should only go to one district.

Any device should, apart from safety and security reasons, allow its user to form the workflow that suits them rather than one the designer feels is mot appropriate

FF for the price

They could have at least added Tetris...

Hopefully in a firmware update they can bring back the two magnification options for the OVF, if not, their customer base for this camera is going to be very upset at the limitations this puts on the usability of lenses(wide angle especially) with the OVF.
I own two Fuji cameras which I love, but the "XPro" line was never my thing, the trade offs of using the OVF were not worth it-for me(emphasis that). But I think they've gone way too far in making this a very niche line with this new release. Want a purist shooting experience with the other Fuji cameras-just turn off the LCD. I have a eye cup( I don't always use it) for my X-E3 which blocks the eye sensor and therefore blacks out the LCD and I've become very good at changing settings, using the "Q" menu etc through the EVF, in fact I like it. But the LCD is still there if I need it. But let people have the option, it's rather arrogant to take features away in the name of pushing a purist experience.

Wow, this is unbelievably absurd. They hide the LCD to encourage the use of the viewfinder, but they also make the viewfinder comically small. And the OVF can't be used with anything wider than 35mm eq.? And then they put that hideous frankenscreen on the back. D-pad is replaced by swipes on the touchscreen, which is, unfortunately, hidden. Magnesium is replaced by easy-to-scratch titanium, but you can pay $200 for a more resistant finish.

Didn't like the fact that gimmicks are considered to be features. In a market where FF camera prices become more and more competitive, this camera should have come up with features that distinguish it (especially at this price range). They could at least match XT3's video features and give IBIS.

Fujifilm, among all camera makers, is in a difficult position because it must guess how often and in which way a person uses the screen in each model.
Contrarily, the smartphone makers are collecting and studying user data and know how people are using their products.

Time for Kodak to get into the game - what about a made in U.S.A. micro 4/3 I.L.C. to begin with ?

This would be a great camera if it has a FF sensor and fixed lens...

I'll buy a X Pro in a heartbeat, if it has a non x-trans state of the art aps-c sensor, ibis, a fully articulating screen and is priced competitively. You can do it, Fuji!

So disappointed with Fuji as usual.
No good video features (compared to xt3) and no IBIS for a 2k camera.

For some reason, they tell you that if you like and want this camera (the design and to shoot like an analog camera) you are not supposed to like or make video.
WHY? Who knows!! But the best part is seeing hundreds of people here commenting that "this is not the camera for you" because you also want to shoot video in your 2k camera..." just buy another camera, there are hundreds in the market" YOU buy another camera, b****, I want this LEICA lookalike camera to shoot decent video, I don't want to keep my 4 years old a6300 who shoots much better videos than this.
And why no IBIS? Because old cameras don't have IBIS? INSANE!!