Miserere wrote:
I, for one, am excited about this camera, which to my mind is what the X100 should've been from the start.
I agree, except for size. IMO, the X Pro 1 is (so far) the closest thing to a contemporary rangefinder-style system camera and better than the M9, which is too fat and suffers from too heavy heritage constraints. This said, the X Pro 1 is way too bulky for the concept it embodies. I understand the M9 was forced thicker than desirable because of the M-system register distance, combined with the extra thickness required by the sensor assembly + rear LCD components. However, the X Pro 1 is built from scratch and it is APS, hence it had to be mandatory to make it more compact than a M9, especially regarding its body thickness. A modern rangefinder-style camera has to be more compact and especially much slimmer than a comparable SLR camera. Conceived and built as it is, the X Pro 1 is not far from being just a different way to make a K-5.
Dario
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