Fuji announces interchangeable lens system!

[Joe AC]

I toataly agree that this is a good thing. Also, if Fuji would put a rangefinder patch in the viewfinder...well, let's just say that Leica would be selling a lot fewer digital cameras than they already do.

Joe

 

[gavinlg]

I toataly agree that this is a good thing. Also, if Fuji would put a rangefinder patch in the viewfinder...well, let's just say that Leica would be selling a lot fewer digital cameras than they already do.

Joe

They won't, nor will anyone else besides MAYBE voigtlander or epson with some obscure manual rangefinder digital.

AF is the future (fortunately or unfortunately - depending on your perspective)

 

[semilog]

AF is the future (fortunately or unfortunately - depending on your perspective)

So why did Olympus just release two micro 4/3 AF lenses with hard infinity stops? 😎

 

[claacct]

To those of us who wanted a serious and functional digital RF-type and not some clunky novelty or a piece of jewelry, that camera is finally here, and its cheap, dirt cheap compared to 'competition' if there is any... Goodbye 1950s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2waPaTwM94

 

[gavinlg]

So why did Olympus just release two micro 4/3 AF lenses with hard infinity stops? 😎

I know that's a tongue in cheek comment, but obviously it's a secondary focusing method to the primary - which is the current very fast and very accurate digital pen AF. Hard stops on the rings should be there in the first place anyway...

Also, the 45mm f1.8 doesn't have the hard stops - only the 12mm f2 does unfortunately.

 

[infrequent]

why announce it before they have anything useful to share? some X-10 updates would have been nice.

 

[bwcolor]

They announce to blunt NEX-7 sales.

 

[Wouter]

I'm very attracted to the xpan at the moment. Different from the digirace, different format, less pics, more thinking behind it. I also like my Olympus Om1 a lot at the moment, as well as the Minolta XE-7 I just bought.

 

[jsrockit]

why announce it before they have anything useful to share? some X-10 updates would have been nice.

Maybe they announced it because they know that it is the camera many wanted the X100 to be?

 

[semilog]

Maybe they announced it because they know that it is the camera many wanted the X100 to be?

Given that they still can't keep 'em in stock, it's pretty clear that the X100 is the camera that many wanted the X100 to be. But yes, the point is to build excitement for a new product.

So long as it's not Duke Nukem Forever, that's a perfectly reasonable marketing strategy.

 

[jsrockit]

Given that they still can't keep 'em in stock, it's pretty clear that the X100 is the camera that many wanted the X100 to be. But yes, the point is to build excitement for a new product.

So long as it's not Duke Nukem Forever, that's a perfectly reasonable marketing strategy.

Right, it was for me...and 69,999 others, but not for many others who expected a Fuji "M9" with a perfect manual focus mode and interchangable lenses.

 

[Trius]

This may disrupt my semi-plans to go m4/3 ... I have Fujinon lenses on my 4x5, Fujinon enlarging lenses. Just sayin' ...

 

[noimmunity]

a full frame beating apc sensor

The sensor set-up of the X10 may give some clues as to the way Fuji plans for the new interchangeable system to "beat" full frame. As with the X10, there would be three options: 1) high rez 36 MP; 2) high dynamic range 18MP; 3) high ISO 18 MP. (From the X10: "The 12MP sensor can produce either 12MP images in high resolution mode, under-expose half its pixels to provide 6MP images with greater dynamic range, or combine neighboring pixels for a 6MP high sensitivity mode.")

 

[Archiver]

I think they'd come out and say it was a medium format camera and wouldn't have it associated with the X100 in the pic.

The faux-DSLR X-S1 is also in that product tree. I imagine that a few jaws dropped when that little style blunder was announced. 😀

 

[gavinlg]

The faux-DSLR X-S1 is also in that product tree. I imagine that a few jaws dropped when that little style blunder was announced. 😀

Yeah you're not wrong there - what a hideous little blob.

 

[David Murphy]

I'm very attracted to the xpan at the moment. Different from the digirace, different format, less pics, more thinking behind it. I also like my Olympus Om1 a lot at the moment, as well as the Minolta XE-7 I just bought.

Great cameras!

 

[DougFord]

Second generation of the hybrid VF should be interesting.
Should have some sort of variable mag in the OVF mode depending on the lens attached. I could see this being a very closed system with regards to lens/mount design.
My wild-ass guess is it'll have a square ~30mm2 sensor. 😛

 

[dct]

Second generation of the hybrid VF should be interesting.
Should have some sort of variable mag in the OVF mode depending on the lens attached. I could see this being a very closed system with regards to lens/mount design....

While the X100 is compared mostly to the Hexar AF your suppositions here sound like you characterize a digital Contax G. It would be wonderful if something similar would set on the gear horizon. Of course it should have a better manual focus capability then the X100. An the Contax G.

Regarding the lens mount: Fuji has enough technical knowledge to make a lens line by their own. At the moment I'm not shure if I would like to see a perfect matching proprietary Fujinon lens line coming up. But, if the registration distance and diameter are not small enough, there will be no way to use an adapter for M mount lens on this new body.

Speculation on mount variants:

• Pure M mount (like GXR A12-M)
• Proprietary Fuji mount with enough room for adapters (like m4/3, NEX E mount)
• Proprietary Fuji mount with no room for adapters (like Contax G)

😕

Too much guesswork at the moment 🙂 Better I wait until some specs will leak to the internet

 

[semilog]

Yeah you're not wrong there - what a hideous little blob.

So is the Pana GH series. But those hideous little blobs are great cameras.