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"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept" Henri Cartier Bresson

"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept" Henri Cartier Bresson

Hello X-Pro shooters, If there will be a successor of the X-Pro1 is not quite sure, but I hope so.
 
The beautiful camera design must be the same, but a little smaller would be nice for my (like the size of the X-E1/2).
I don’t like an ISO dial at the top. It is not aesthetic for the design of the X-Pro (ISO set per Fn is fast or probably faster).
 
The new X-Pro should have:
- 24MP sensor
- 14-bit RAW
- Expanded exposure compensation (at least +/- 3 EV)
- faster processor (EXR III?)
- weather/dust sealing  
- faster & enhanced AF system (like the X-T1 with firmware ver. 4.0)
- mechanical shutter speed up to 1/8000 of a second
- high-speed electronic shutter up to 1/32000 of a second
- improved OVF with real-time parallax correction 
- improved EVF with high refresh rate (like the X-T1)
- 3 inch TILT LCD monitor with 1.23 million-dot
- Q-menu customization
- interval timer shooting
- face detection
- eye detection
- USB charging and battery charging
- dual slot
- WiFi
 
Not essential for me!
- advanced filters
- movie recording

Regarding the X-Pro, by far the biggest problem for me is the weak AF by less contrast subjects and low light conditions. I would appreciate if FujiFilm would provide again an AF firmware update for the X-Pro. Faster is not really necessary, but an AF that works better in less favorable light conditions. Especially now it seems to takes a longer time before there will be a successor!
It's a PRO, Fuji!!

Hello X-Pro shooters, If there will be a successor of the X-Pro1 is not quite sure, but I hope so.
 
The beautiful camera design must be the same, but a little smaller would be nice for my (like the size of the X-E1/2).
I don’t like an ISO dial at the top. It is not aesthetic for the design of the X-Pro (ISO set per Fn is fast or probably faster).
 
The new X-Pro should have:
- 24MP sensor
- 14-bit RAW
- Expanded exposure compensation (at least +/- 3 EV)
- faster processor (EXR III?)
- weather/dust sealing  
- faster & enhanced AF system (like the X-T1 with firmware ver. 4.0)
- mechanical shutter speed up to 1/8000 of a second
- high-speed electronic shutter up to 1/32000 of a second
- improved OVF with real-time parallax correction 
- improved EVF with high refresh rate (like the X-T1)
- 3 inch TILT LCD monitor with 1.23 million-dot
- Q-menu customization
- interval timer shooting
- face detection
- eye detection
- USB charging and battery charging
- dual slot
- WiFi
 
Not essential for me!
- advanced filters
- movie recording

Regarding the X-Pro, by far the biggest problem for me is the weak AF by less contrast subjects and low light conditions. I would appreciate if FujiFilm would provide again an AF firmware update for the X-Pro. Faster is not really necessary, but an AF that works better in less favorable light conditions. Especially now it seems to takes a longer time before there will be a successor!
It's a PRO, Fuji!!

In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister. (The master shows himself first in restriction)
                                                                                                     Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My only 2 lenses are the 18 & 35mm. I shoot mostly street and portrait. I like the restriction, it forces me to be creative. 
The 18mm is optical not the best Fujinon lens, but light weight, small, fast, relatively inexpensive and for street photography more than good enough.

Hallo Everybody!
 
As long as I follow these kind of discussions, as far out of the most important questions about taking a picture ist seems to seduct.
 
Clearly any focal length has its own, BUT how to use it under which conditions and circumstances AND what should be told or explained with the picture to be made, THESE are at least for me the by far more interesting questions for my personal (and most) photographic goals.
 
Secondly and for my perspective as important as the above is, to really proof Yourself - BEFORE You start "shooting" - which is YOUR OWN inner approach to Your motive and are You shure and honest with the way to go  and as well Your REAL capability to handle this particular focal length properly, not to "zoom and fool arround".
 
If these aspects are not of any interest, I doubt she or he will feel a real difference between a zoom and a prime and a 23 or 27 or a 35.
 
This does not mean, there won't be taken good pictures by those photographing people, but my quite long experience with myself, my rather often quite shaky learning-curve and the people I teach once in a while, showed me more often than not: one good lens and two good hearted eys are by far better and more important for taking really good pictures than two or even more lenses and two or "even more blind eyes".
 
A good picture of what or whom or where ever one can only "smell", "feel", "sense" or however one will call that - and it will be mostly generated inside Yourself. The camera and lens "just do the job then".
 
So in my opinion one should let your inner eye tell You THE LENS and maybe one for the contrast scenarios .... and that´s it.
 
.... and in our times, especially with nowadays FUJI the quality of lenses is out of discussion - the quality of taken pictures not at all .... and the digital age has not improved that a single millimeter ......
 
Apart from that I myself do love the digital cameras I used (Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad, Mamiya-Leaf and Fuji) but far more important was how close I could come to my lens to frame my subject/object properly for my goal - not if to take it with a Leica or a Hasselblad (the question of MF vs. FX vs. APS-C is here not to be addressed)
 
So I´d like to state: We all have to get our "inner eye" honestly close an "in artistic love" at least to ONE prime lens before we even think and experiment to much around with anything more - if not so, the quality of our work and/or joy won't develop anyhow!
 
Loving Fuji, the lenses, the sensor, the colors, the size, the weight and the fun, joy and perfection I feel with these great tools   !!
 
Good Night 
Wolfbastien 
 
 
attached a pic (with just the banal 35/1.4 sooc on a sunday afternoon - just so .... and of course a bit cropped to square   )
 

Hi
 
I've had my X-Pro1 for over 2 years and I am very happy with it.
 
I'm generally in agreement with the wish lists noted here, though I am really hoping for minimal changes. I'd like to see updated control layout based on lessons learned from other X series, faster operation, colour focus peaking and a few software tweaks. More mp are OK as long as this doesn't reduce the outstanding quality and feel of the sensor.
 
The one thing I do not want is a smaller camera. I don't see any advantage, and some strong disadvantages. The X-Pro1 is small and yet not cramped. I do not have large hands, but I find that the obsession over size has produced cramped cameras. I like a small and light system too, but it's the overall system (camera and lens) that matters to me and a few mm shaved from the camera won't make much difference.
 
But, if they make it smaller without compromising the feel and action, I'll be fine.
 
I won't rush to upgrade. I have zero issues with my X-Pro1.

I have a contraption on my face called “nose”, so… All other things being equal – I vote for a viewfinder in the corner.

Hello X-Pro shooters, If there will be a successor of the X-Pro1 is not quite sure, but I hope so.
 
The beautiful camera design must be the same, but a little smaller would be nice for my (like the size of the X-E1/2).
I don’t like an ISO dial at the top. It is not aesthetic for the design of the X-Pro (ISO set per Fn is fast or probably faster).
 
The new X-Pro should have:
- 24MP sensor
- 14-bit RAW
- Expanded exposure compensation (at least +/- 3 EV)
- faster processor (EXR III?)
- weather/dust sealing  
- faster & enhanced AF system (like the X-T1 with firmware ver. 4.0)
- mechanical shutter speed up to 1/8000 of a second
- high-speed electronic shutter up to 1/32000 of a second
- improved OVF with real-time parallax correction 
- improved EVF with high refresh rate (like the X-T1)
- 3 inch TILT LCD monitor with 1.23 million-dot
- Q-menu customization
- interval timer shooting
- face detection
- eye detection
- USB charging and battery charging
- dual slot
- WiFi
 
Not essential for me!
- advanced filters
- movie recording