Fuji Fuji X-Pro 1 hands on and samples

Ray said:
Agreed, good to have 'em all in one place. OTOH, if ISO 6400 and 12,800 shots start showing up looking as good as I'm afraid they may look, I probably don't want to see them!

-Ray
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Your wish is my command!:hail: I've just moved everything in here. Flysurfer, please feel free to start a new thread when you feel the time is ripe.:drinks:

Bob, that's very nice of you to offer up one of your pre-orders for someone who's looking.:th_salute:
 
So far, I am quite pleased with the X-Pro1.

It's cool that one can still shoot while the camera is still saving previous shots. As usual, there's a catch: When you are shooting in one of the bracketing modes (exposure, ISO, DR, film simulation...), you'll have to wait until the camera has finished saving all 3 shots. So get the fastest SD card possible, 95 MB/s is basically a must. You will shoot RAW+JPEG (size L, fine), of course, which means each shot will set you back 26 MB for the RAW and at least 4 MB for the JPEG.
 
flysurfer said:
You will shoot RAW+JPEG (size L, fine), of course, which means each shot will set you back 26 MB for the RAW and at least 4 MB for the JPEG.
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I hope the Adobe DNG converter can bring the RAW file size down for storage, although that won't help much in the field. What is going into RAW files these days? Traditionally I always found the rule of thumb to be about 1Mb per megapixel.
 
As Leica.. partnered Fuji in the early years of digital photography.... and the XP1 is soooooo Leica'esque..... do you think Leica might take up where it left off.... and re-badge this model as a run-in to a new market...:rolleyes:

Especially with Panasonics announcement that its sticking with the GX M4/3 line and just improving on its lenses...Food for thought....... :D
 
Since pre-production samples of the X-Pro1 keep getting better, we can finally say a bit more about its image quality.

As I have been in possession of such a camera and a lens kit for almost a week, I was happy for the opportunity so test the X-Pro1 on a professional set in Poland: the Railroad Museum in Warsaw.

However, we are still talking pre-production with several known and documented hard- and software problems that will be corrected in the final for-sale cameras and lenses.

These samples are OOC JPEGs that I uploaded on Flickr via iPhoto. Except for some cropping, angle leveling and very minor brightness adjustments, there was no JPEG post processing. The color settings remained entirely untouched.

The Railway Museum is obviously located next to some railroad tracks. So there was an opportunity to take a snapshot from the bridge with Velvia film simulation:

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35mm, ISO 800 (DR400), f16, 1/420

As you can see from the Auto-ISO values, the camera chose DR400 dynamic range expansion for this shot.

On the set, I had several opportunities to test the skin tone reproduction of the X-Pro1. IMHO, the new negative film simulations come in handy here, especially "Pro Neg. Hi".

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60 mm, ISO 400 (DR200), f3.6, 1/1400, +0.3 EV

As you can see, there's no moiré, even though the camera lacks a low pass filter. Resolution and sharpness are pretty impressive.

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60 mm, ISO 400 (DR200), f3.6, 1/1500, +0.7 EV

Dynamic range is quite terrific, as illustrated by the following shot that also featured critical white balance. Lighting was 5500 K outside and 3300 K inside, so I manually set the X-Pro1 to 4000 K when developing the JPEG in-camera.

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18 mm, ISO 800 (DR400), f5.6, 1/150

Here are a few portrait shots with the 35/52 mm standard lens, slightly stopped down to f1.8:

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35 mm, ISO 800 (DR400), f1.8, 1/1000, -0.3 EV

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35 mm, ISO 800 (DR400), f1.8, 1/1200, -0.3 EV

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35 mm, ISO 800, (DR400), f1.8, 1/1400, -0.7 EV

Last but not least a shot with the 60 mm portrait/macro lens:

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60 mm, ISO 400 (DR200), f3.6, 1/140, -0.3 EV
 
Let's continue with some close-ups of railway miniatures. For these shot, I resorted back to my proven Astia film simulation:

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35 mm, ISO 200 (DR100), f1.8, 1/160, -0.7 EV

Manually forced DR100 renders saturated colors, but also shows burned-out lights. In this case, this is quite tolerable, though.

Here's the same motive shot with the 60 mm macro lens:

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60 mm, ISO 800 (DR400), f3.2, 1/140

Again the 35 mm prime:

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35 mm, ISO 800 (DR400), f3.2, 1/80, -0.3 EV

Here are a few details from this motive shot with the 60 mm lens. The first shot is stopped a bit more, but needs ISO 3200 in return:

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60 mm, ISO 3200 (DR400), f6.4, 1/40

As you can see, a barely managed to hold 1/40s w/o IS.

Here's the same train with open aperture:

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60 mm, ISO 800 (DR400), f2.4, 1/160

Let's conclude with a snapshot of the miniature railway:

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60 mm, ISO 2000 (DR200), f.2.4, 1/90
 
Wow.

I also didn't realize you were shooting with a pre-production model, flysurfer.

Well, I'm blown away, especially by the interior shot of the young lady with her veiled hat, applying her lipstick! Things are looking mighty good. Can't thank you enough for sharing your experiences with us all here.
 
Well, it's a supposed to be a pretty good pre-production model, and so far, I am quite pleased with the results. Judging from other photos from colleagues on the same set that are popping up on the net, I suppose there also were some older versions (or even broken ones). Luckily, I brought my own, and even more luckily, I have plenty of experience with the X100 and now the X-Pro1, so I can actually think about taking a nice picture instead of how to set and operate the camera.
 

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