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Had my X Pro 1 for all of 3 days now and been on line for a seminar all day each of the days I’ve had it. I’m still playing with the features and settings. I’m having a blast and my images are so much better to my eye than ever I achieved with the E-M5. Haven’t had a problem with the autofocus. Have taken pictures in a lamp lit living room without flash that looks like it was daytime. Even managed a pretty good attempt at getting crisp images of my 4-year-old at a full run.

Love the colors, love the feel, and love the controls. Yes, Ladies and Gentleman, I’m in love with a camera and I want the world to know.:D
 
congrats! thats how i felt when i first got my x100. i also have the omd. it appears you go against the grain in not quite liking its IQ enough that you wanted to try the xpro? tbh, i'm feeling also like i'm 'leaving something on the table' with the omd in terms of IQ. i dont know if its depth or clarity throughout the frame, but something.

is that how you felt about it? are you comparing both cams using native AF lenses? my personal setup is using the omd with RF lenses, and would use the xpro the same way...
thanks
tony
 
I think I would have liked the OM-D and never looked back had it not been for the AF issue. I think it had to be a bad example of lens or body to miss AF that much in all modes and with and without flash. If I’d been able to get another OM-D I probably would have got it. I even had a Panny G3 in my cart for a bit to stay in M43 land.

However, now that I have the X Pro 1 I don’t think I’d ever go back to the OM-D (knocks wood.). It’s a great camera, IMHO, but the X Pro 1 is a special camera (at least to me). I really don’t want to shoot anything else right now and my Leica-lust is at bay for the the moment.

Here’s an example:
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Not a perfect photo but I know it’s my fault. To use to the slow lenses I’ve been using and didn’t hit the DOF preview button (even though I have it set on the Fn button).
 
I couldn't agree more on the X-Pro1. I own several cameras - film and digital (ok - more than several). Full frame Canon, m4/3rds, Leica M8, etc. And of all of them, the best is the X-Pro1. The AF is fine. To me, the wide dynamic range of this camera's sensor is the most amazing feature of the camera. I carry it everywhere. The others get little use.
I am eager for more X lenses to appear soon.
 
Love my X-Pro1 as well... only wish it had fast AF (ala a DSLR), was full frame, and had a first class EVF. However, nothing in the camera world is perfect, so I'm happy with it. I'm just saying, if it had the aforementioned, I wouldn't use anything else.
 
I have had the camera for five days, and the first two days I was struggling with the focus (issues, etc.). But, something clicked in when I tried the EVF... Also some tonality tweaks in the shooting menu have produced much better results.. I'm really enjoying the output.
 
Don’t go there jsrockit. I’m shooting both but I’ve got a bunch of raw files building up waiting for aperture to get on board. I don’t really want to have to get LR or PS but will if Apple doesn’t get on the ball soon.
 
That was meant towards Jeff tex, whom I personally know. Inside joke... kind of. In reality, people should use whatever fulfills their needs. :)
 
Good to see you're getting along with it. The X series fujis are seriously no-where near as complex or quirky as people insist they are!
 
jsrockit said:
Complex? No. Quirky, yes.
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Want quirky? Any current nikon DSLR. Autofocus illuminator lamp wouldn't work unless the AF was set to the center point. Doesn't work on any other point. Took us like 2 hours to figure that out at work today. And despite there being AF/MF switches on the lenses, theres also one on the body, which does nothing with the AF-S lenses attached. Oh and the dials spin the wrong way. Spin one left and the adjustment in the finder goes right - spin it right and it goes left. Just utterly backward.
 
gavinlg said:
Want quirky? Any current nikon DSLR. Autofocus illuminator lamp wouldn't work unless the AF was set to the center point. Doesn't work on any other point. Took us like 2 hours to figure that out at work today. And despite there being AF/MF switches on the lenses, theres also one on the body, which does nothing with the AF-S lenses attached. Oh and the dials spin the wrong way. Spin one left and the adjustment in the finder goes right - spin it right and it goes left. Just utterly backward.
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No doubt about that, that's why I use a Canon 5d MKII. ;) That said, most of the X-Pro1's (and X100) quirkiness comes from the hybrid VF and not from other aspects of the camera.
 
jsrockit said:
No doubt about that, that's why I use a Canon 5d MKII. ;) That said, most of the X-Pro1's (and X100) quirkiness comes from the hybrid VF and not from other aspects of the camera.
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Agreed - the features determine that it must be quite different in use to an SLR, thats for sure!
 
I must be quirky as I don't see the quirks in operation at all. Maybe because I read/watched a lot of different sources to see how people had found to use it.
 
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