Leica M3 vs Fuji X-Pro1 Speed?

[honozooloo]

I agree with others who have replied; it boils down to the preferences of the user. Personally, the X system frustrated me because of the lack of confirmation of focus; that is, even if the X camera shows focus lock, does that mean it's locked on the subject or the busy background behind them? Coming from the M-platform, with its RF patch providing constant, consistent focus confirmation (you always know you have focus on an M), the X cameras can drive one nuts because the camera telling me it's got focus lock doesn't necessarily indicate a lock on the right object in the frame. And yeah there's the option for a distance scale on the bottom of the viewfinder but having to frame up, get focus lock then stop, glance and the distance scale, and then mentally calculate whether that meant I was focused on the right thing slowed me down even more.

But it does boil down to user preference.

I can tell you hands-down where the X Pro is like 100X faster than the M3 though...film changes. 😀

 

[nongfuspring]

I find the continuous autofocus "cross" decent for knowing what I get in focus with reasonable accuracy. Single shot autofocus not so much.

With film I don't care all that much wether something is 100% in focus since grain gives a fair margin of error, but the X trans and 35mm are so damn crisp just being slightly off tends be very obvious.

 

[gavinlg]

I find the continuous autofocus "cross" decent for knowing what I get in focus with reasonable accuracy. Single shot autofocus not so much.

With film I don't care all that much wether something is 100% in focus since grain gives a fair margin of error, but the X trans and 35mm are so damn crisp just being slightly off tends be very obvious.

AF correction mode - ON.


That is all I will say. If you are shooting an OVF X camera without that mode on, you are doing it all wrong.