There are a few plastic buttons and controls on the X-Pro1, most notably the memory card / battery compartment door and the flap for the HDMI port, both of which wouldn't look or feel out of place on a cheap compact, but other that that the X-Pro1 offers excellent build quality. Measuring 139.5 (W) x 81.8 (H) x 42.5 (D) mm, it's taller, wider and deeper than all other current compact system cameras. At the same time, it's actually much lighter than a first glance might suggest, weighing in at 450g body only with the battery and memory card fitted, amazingly the same weight as the X100 (although of course that has a lens already fitted). The Fujifilm X-Pro1 is another amazingly well-built X-series camera, with absolutely no flex or movement in its chassis thanks to the die-cast magnesium alloy top and base plates and machined control dials. As with the X100, the X-Pro1 will particularly appeal to the street photographer, with the 27mm and 53mm lenses being appealing focal lengths, the oversized optical viewfinder crucially showing the subject before it moves into the frame, and the various dials making it quick and easy to control the camera while it's held up to your eye. For now, though, the X-Pro1 is still something of a niche product, with its prime lenses, comparatively large body, and the emphasis on a manual way of shooting that requires some experience on the part of the user. ![]() Fujifilm have promised that a zoom lens will be released in the near future, and there's also talk of an adapter for Leica-M lens owners. With three lenses available on launch, the X-Pro1 is a more adaptable camera than the X100 with its fixed X100 lens, although it's important to note that all three are also primes, offering focal lengths of 28mm, 50mm and 90mm macro. At the same time Fujifilm have incorporated a lot of modern technologies that help ensure that the X-Pro1 isn't simply a blast from the past. The all-black Fujifilm X-Pro1 is a classically styled interchangeable lens camera that recalls film rangefinders from the past, with a stunning retro design that draws admiring glances from everyone that sees it. Ease of UseĬlearly based upon last year's best-selling X100 fixed-lens compact camera, the new X-Pro1 expands Fujifilm's recently introduced X-series of serious digital cameras, which also includes the XS-1 bridge ultrazoom and the premium X10 zoom compact. The Fujifilm X-Pro1 body-only costs £1399 in the UK and $1699 in the US. The X-Pro1's Hybrid Multi Viewfinder cleverly combines an optical viewfinder and an electronic viewfinder together, with the former similar to those found in rangefinder-type film cameras but overlaid with vital shooting information and with variable magnification built-in to match lenses of any focal length. The new X lens mount has a short flange-back distance of just 17.7mm, with three lenses available on launch - the XF 18mm f2 R, the XF 35mm f/1.4 R and the XF 60mm f/2.4 R Macro - each of which features a traditional aperture ring and an iris diaphragm with rounded aperture blades. ![]() At the heart of the X-Pro1 is the 16.3 megapixel APS-C sized “X-Trans” CMOS sensor, which has a new type of colour filter array that mimics film grain and no optical low-pass filter for higher resolution images. ![]() The Fujifilm X-Pro1 is a new compact system camera featuring a retro design that bears more than a passing resemblance to the Leica M-series.
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