Mirrorless Rumors

I disagree Bob. Those images are sharp. Not over-sharpened in PP as we use to see over the net these days. Download full-res samples from their site and look at them at 100% (YES, PIXEL PEEPING), good example is the image with a book and stones. You can clearly see the texture of the material hard cover (blue-ish one)is made from and also texture of the paint. There’s so much detail captured in that photo, smooth colour transitions, no banding, no fake contrast, just smooth.

Just resize any of the downloaded full-res images to whatever resolution you use for web/presentation (1600×1200 for example) and you’ll see that these images are very sharp.

Your web conversions – if you use Lightroom it sharpens them for screen by default.

One thing I noticed though are the CAs on the 18mm lens images (the one with the stone, look at the leafs, one of them has purple fringes)

The x100 takes razor sharp images. The sample images on Fujis site are nowhere near what the x100 does. I expect the same happening to the X-Pro 1.

Just look at the x100 launch and the comments people made. They are the same as yours. Sample images are not sharp etc. etc. etc.

When the cameras got out and the first real reviews started rolling in nobody had anything bad to say about the image quality and the sharpness of the x100.

This camera costs double what the x100 costs and thats without lens. Do you really think that fuji would boost about their new sensor if it wasn’t that great?

hexx…thanks for the info on more images…..I will check them out…although from what I could see of the photographer on the flickr site…I need someone with more skill. (I am demanding..LOL).
Also…as far as your buddy goes with the 5DMkII…I have all L glass, primes and zooms, EXCEPT a Zeiss 21mm AND a Sigma 50mm f/1.4. Most Sigma lenses I would stay away from…but this lens (my copy anyway) is extremely sharp…if a little quirky with the focus at times. I really do like that one Sigma lens.

@ Bob, he’s had various problems, back focusing and so on, already on 2nd Sigma lens (wide one but don’t remember exactly which one). Camera was in the service centre twice but I still believe it’s that Sigma lens. He does have L lenses, (70-200 and 24-70(?)) and he’s not experiencing any of the problems with those 2 lenses.