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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Thanks for this Miguel. I mostly ask because although I really enjoy my x100f with the OVF (even with film sims), and I do like the 35mm equivalent length, 28mm is really my favorite length and I often wished the x100f was slighter wider on my last trip with it. I’m wondering if an xpro3 and this lens can essentially replace my x100f and get me the experience I’m looking for without entertaining a Leica q. Plus my time with the Fuji has proved that I enjoy Fuji enough to perhaps warrant an interchangeable lens body, and the xpro3 seems like it would fit my style the most. I’ll keep mulling. Thanks again!
I'm fairly certain that an X-Pro3 + an 18mm lens, would be significantly less costly than a Leica Q. The Q body is shorter than the X-Pro3 (about 10mm shorter I think) and slightly narrower, but its fixed lens sticks out considerably more than an 18mm protrudes from the XPro body, so weirdly I'm guessing both cameras have a similar size feel. The other obvious downside of the Xpro's OVF with the 18mm lens is having the protruding lens cut off part of your visible frame. I'm guessing it could replace your X100f, and give you the wider 28mm FOV, though you would lose the smaller 'pocketability' of the x100.
The shooting style is something else. I number myself among those who love it, but I know there are also haters, who truly dislike the lack of a rear-screen, and many of its detractors seem to prefer the XPro2. Being a former old-school analog film photographer, the XPro3 feels truly natural and enjoyable to me. Additionally, I continue to be fascinated by Fuji's internal film simulations - and the fact that the XPro3 has the newer 'Classic Neg' sim, while its currently less exprensive predecessor, the XPro-2, does not, was definitely another factor that made me seek the newer camera out.
One other point. A number of smarter people than me have written and commented extensively about the viewfinder differences between the EVF's and OVF's on the XPro3 vs the XPro2. Many reviewers opined that the EVF of the newer Xpro was 'better' than that of the older one, but that their OVF's were very similar (and some preferred the OVF of the XPro2 to that of the XPro3). So if you enjoy and appreciate Fuji's OVF style of shooting, a lightly used X-Pro2 might be a real bargain. Whereas for myself, being basically a hardcore EVF user, I have to say that the EVF of the X-Pro3 has to be one of the 'best' I've ever used. By 'best' I mean 'subjectively satisfying'. (Another of my former favorite digitial mirrorless EVF's was the one on the Pen F, which I really appreciated, though if I had to compare them I prefer that of my current X-Pro3.)