I’m sure the recently-released Fuji X-Pro 2 is superb. Offering as it does a 24 megapixel sensor, top dial ISO input, Acros film simulation, wifi operability, focus joystick and the like, the new camera is guaranteed to have wide appeal.
I’d like to point out that for me, however, the performance of the first iteration, the X-Pro 1, is far from shabby. (When introduced the camera had some focussing issues, but these have been resolved with subsequent software updates.)
More importantly, although launched four years ago, the current X-Pro1 isn’t really that old. I bought mine in September of last year (2015), and discovered recently it was manufactured in the third quarter of the same year (for information on how to find out when your Fuji X-Pro 1 was made, see this excellent Youtube video by photouniverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO73lpQB-VU)
There’s also a number of comments online which say that the original X-Pro1 sensor, the X-Trans CMOS sensor EXR processor — despite having eight megapixels fewer than the X-Pro2 — offers plenty of resolution, and gives images a unique and special film-like 'look.'
As the video points out, the X-Pro I is now excellent value for money, too. I paid £430 for the camera together with the 18mm F2 (and have since acquired a 27mm F2.8, a pancake lens which makes the camera almost invisible).
Anyway, I’m more than happy with my X-Pro 1 and don’t intend to replace it — it delivers great images which I’m more than happy with.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, they say, so here’s a few images from my latest photo walk (taken with the camera and the 27mm):
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| Bird's-eye view |
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| Alfresco dining ... |
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| Disapproving look |
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| Embrace the moment |
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| Sunshine and shadows |
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| Watch the birdie ... |
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| Birdwalk |
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| Wired for sound |
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| Meeting room |
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| Dogged walk |
