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Interesting. I was 90% there in my decision to get the XT1, however I'm going to hang on until the X PRO2 comes out...I just hope it's worth it...optical viewfinder with superb electronic overlay, weatherproofing(?), beautiful looks, etc. In the meantime, I'll continue to shoot with all my cameras to produce the kind of results I like, afterall it's all about the image, how ever it was taken...but a new camera ( as in a new anything) always inspires...and that's a good enough reason to spend hard earned cash as I can think.

Hi, I'm new to the Fuji - X - forum, but certainly not new to Fuji. I have used fuji film since I first began my love affair with photography over thirty years ago, when I purchased my first camera - A Zenit ET, and then a Ricoh KR 10, Yaschica AF230, Nikon FM2 and then I fell in love with medium format and invested in a Mamiya 7. But through the years although I used many films from Agfa Scala B&W slide film to Kodachrome 64, Fujifilm was always my favourite, and as a lot of people here have mentioned, it's something about the colour; the saturation, the fuji 'hue' - there's no other film like it. Okay, so I'm digressing a little, but when I went digital, which took some time I have to admit after a bit of a slump in my interest in photography, I actually bought a Ricoh Caplio GX100 and a Nikon D90 - (the Fuji S5 Pro was always in the back of my mind, however) and I fell in love with photography again. I have allways liked to be a little different from my photography peers...using Light Craft's Lightzone instead of Photoshop, and so then, I bought the Fuji X100 and wow, it is stunning...sometimes bloody annoying to use...slow autofocus, awful manual focus, etc, etc, but the colours and the filmic quality of the images ( similar to the Ricoh), were awesome..I've just completed a magazine of family holiday 'snaps' purely taken with the Fuji. Which leads me on to the subject of my first post. One of the main reason for buying this camera was the hybrid EVF/OVF...how do they do that? Any camera had to have a optical viewfinder, because my favourite camera of all time is the Mamiya 7, but digitally I had to have a viewfinder, hence the Ricoh, which had a really bad EVF, but I loved it, and it looked cool, and I could shoot in 1:1 format, in B&W with the EVF at 90 degrees to the camera (I almost bought the new Panasonic GX8 because of this...). I think you can tell a lot about a camera from those images posted on sites like Flickr from those who own them...the Ricoh GX100 still has some of the coolest images on Flickr to date, and so does the Fuji X Pro 1...which is why I cannot wait much longer for the X PRO 2...But why haven't I gone for the XT1? Because it's not got an Optical viewfinder, that's why...BUT, and I hate to admit this, I hardly ever use the optical finder on my Fuji...and I've seen the XT1's viewfinder...it's amazing, as good if not better than the optical finder experiance...So why must I also have an optical finder...whether I use it or not...does anyone else feel like this?