X-Pro 2: any news?

About 50% of my photos are at least 2/3-th stop underexposed and that in fairly normal light. Nothing special, sunny day with some clouds outside, latest firmware, exp comp on 0, whatever metering mode.
 
Got ya Spanik, yes I agree that Fuji has some of the worst in camera metering I've seen in a digital. I use RAW and just underexpose to preserve my highlights... more so than any other camera I have. But I do understand.
 
Hate to say it but I gotta +1 you guys on the metering.
I just use the histogram and exposure pre-view in the evf.
It's a real buzz kill for ovf use in changing light.
The original x100 did not have this issue.
Maybe the Xtrans firmware could be adjusted for a more accurate standard.
 
A few months back I got an X100T to try out as a carry/travel camera (considered an XE2, but didn't want to expose my weak self to the possibility of getting into another system). I like the X100T so much that now I think an XPro-2 might be a good idea, if the OVF/EVF is like the T (looks like it will be). So much for planning.
Any speculation as to the price for the XPro-2?
 
PeterAM said:
A few months back I got an X100T to try out as a carry/travel camera (considered an XE2, but didn't want to expose my weak self to the possibility of getting into another system). I like the X100T so much that now I think an XPro-2 might be a good idea, if the OVF/EVF is like the T (looks like it will be). So much for planning.
Any speculation as to the price for the XPro-2?
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Planning? You know how many Fuji cameras I have gone through just to replicate the feeling that R-D1 left behind? I started with the original X100 but its operation was too slow. Then I got the XT1 but even with its amazing EVF it was no much for the OVF experience. I tried the XPro1, but it was very hard to use adapted lenses with the OVF. I got the X100T and while the hybrid OVF was amazing, the MF implementation was still far away from a true manual lens, and the delay from the shutter closing was too annoying. So I am waiting for the XPro2 as well. I just hope they fix the blotchy color noise at high ISOs.

Current rumors suggest a price tag of ~$1500-1900.
 
go back to the rd1! no reason not to do so, except ones own predisposition to be 'cutting edge'. i still love my rd1! of course i have an x100 and an xt1 for situations where the rd1 simply doesnt work. NOTHING is everything.
 
rbelyell said:
go back to the rd1! no reason not to do so, except ones own predisposition to be 'cutting edge'. i still love my rd1! of course i have an x100 and an xt1 for situations where the rd1 simply doesnt work. NOTHING is everything.
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I would love to rbelyell but most of my shooting nowadays is indoors and I need the sensitivity for deeper DoF.

But if XPro2 does not fill that gap, I might end up buying one again.
 
olakiril said:
Planning? You know how many Fuji cameras I have gone through just to replicate the feeling that R-D1 left behind? I started with the original X100 but its operation was too slow. Then I got the XT1 but even with its amazing EVF it was no much for the OVF experience. I tried the XPro1, but it was very hard to use adapted lenses with the OVF. I got the X100T and while the hybrid OVF was amazing, the MF implementation was still far away from a true manual lens, and the delay from the shutter closing was too annoying. So I am waiting for the XPro2 as well. I just hope they fix the blotchy color noise at high ISOs.

Current rumors suggest a price tag of ~$1500-1900.
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There's no shutter lag on an x100t. You might be talking about af time - in which case turn 'high performance AF' in the menu ON, and the AF till most likely be quicker than you can half press the shutter and recompose.

Why would you wanna use adapted lenses when the fujinons are the best in the Biz?

x-trans sensors have almost zilch color or chroma noise. Far Far less than any other digital camera at high ISO.
 
gavinlg said:
There's no shutter lag on an x100t. You might be talking about af time - in which case turn 'high performance AF' in the menu ON, and the AF till most likely be quicker than you can half press the shutter and recompose.
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No I don't take AF time into account since I use MF most of the time. I am talking about the time it takes to close the aperture. It worked great for f/2 but anything else has too much lag for me. Half pressing works, but I would like not to have that step that also takes time. So when I use manual mode, I don't get why it doesn't set the correct physical aperture without half pressing.

gavinlg said:
Why would you wanna use adapted lenses when the fujinons are the best in the Biz?
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Glass is indeed very good but for two reasons I don't want to. One is the already mentioned aperture delay, and the second is the MF implementation which for most fuji lenses is fly-by-wire. That would still could work if there where specific distance marks on the lens, but the variable-speed-focus that Fuji implemented does not work for my style of shooting.

gavinlg said:
x-trans sensors have almost zilch color or chroma noise. Far Far less than any other digital camera at high ISO.
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Yes in single pixel level it might look like that, but in my experience Fuji performs noise reduction even in its RAW files and that's why you are not seeing the color noise. But what I am talking about is the larger scale color patches of noise probably from the X-trans array. And that is much more color noise than many cameras that I have used and almost impossible to remove.

I do like Fuji's philosophy but the X-trans has been one of the things that keeps me away from that system. Bad color noise, watercolor artifacts, bad video quality and bad compatibility with many programs. A 24MP bayer sensor without an AA filter would be amazing for x-pro2. The other is MF implementation.
 
Just noticed:
"1/8000 of a second mechanical shutter speed"

How could that be? At last a digital camera that can operate at least on one speed without batteries? 🙂
 
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