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fuji stopped being a leader and became a follower -- of olympus... sad day for fuji fan-man-boys
Is it my understanding that this camera will also have the X-Trans sensor (part deux 🙂 ) ?
How much different is the II from the original X-Trans?
Cheers,
Dave
fuji stopped being a leader and became a follower -- of olympus... sad day for fuji fan-man-boys
fuji stopped being a leader and became a follower -- of olympus... sad day for fuji fan-man-boys
AFAIK the only difference is on-sensor phase detection.
fuji saw the success of Om-d and followed. at the same time it copied some over sized dials from Nikon DF
is there anything to be happy about?
In my dad's case, he bought a Konica camera at the Post Exchange in Japan sometime in 1949 or 1950. I still have it. I still use it. The rangefinder/viewfinder is a match for my mint condition Leica M5. The Hexar 50mm/3.5 lens is a joy to use. The leaf shutter is silent. Literally. Silent. Even quieter than the leaf shutters in my large format lenses.Maybe it's always been this way, but why do people want a new camera with minor, evolutionary changes, every year? People quote "specs" and such, and play right into the consumerism that runs the world's economies. Moore's Law is great and all, but it implies you have to stay on the buying train with computers, each year getting the slightly faster one, with slightly more memory and hard drives. The same with digital cameras for 20 years. "Buy, buy, buy, mine is 8MP, mine is 12MP, the new one is BLACK! The newer one is GREY! The newer one has "Organic Sensor!" The new one looks retro!
Our fathers and grandfathers didn't buy 5 cameras, and get a new one every few months, and spend hours on forums discussing every little problem or niggle of every design, even the ones they didn't buy. They bought a Canon P or Leica IIIC or Argus in 1950, and kept it until they died. Today, tomorrow, and probably for years ahead I'm going to shoot my "OLD" XE-1!
Maybe it's always been this way, but why do people want a new camera with minor, evolutionary changes, every year? People quote "specs" and such, and play right into the consumerism that runs the world's economies. Moore's Law is great and all, but it implies you have to stay on the buying train with computers, each year getting the slightly faster one, with slightly more memory and hard drives. The same with digital cameras for 20 years. "Buy, buy, buy, mine is 8MP, mine is 12MP, the new one is BLACK! The newer one is GREY! The newer one has "Organic Sensor!" The new one looks retro!
Our fathers and grandfathers didn't buy 5 cameras, and get a new one every few months, and spend hours on forums discussing every little problem or niggle of every design, even the ones they didn't buy. They bought a Canon P or Leica IIIC or Argus in 1950, and kept it until they died. Today, tomorrow, and probably for years ahead I'm going to shoot my "OLD" XE-1!
perfect sentiment. folks can talk themselves into anything. all the same folks who just a month ago decried 'slr' vs 'rf' styling in the sony A7s and the nikon df suddenly think its now awesome. and they can still find much fault with those cameras, even though both were actually groundbreaking in their own ways. go figure. unless its FF with an ovf and has a different sensor, its really a big yawn. where is the company that put out the original x100 and xp1?