Fuji X PRO price and release announced in Japan (+ one more ISO test!).
Finally Fuji Japan announced the price of the new Fuji X PRo 1 and X lenses (via Fujirumors). It’s in yen, we still don’t know what’s the price in Euro or Dollar for example:
1) The X PRo 1 camera will be released on February 18 and cost 150.000 Yen. By using the current conversion rate this means 1475 Euro or 1930 Dollars. But I am sure the price will be less in USA (probably $1799) and a bit more in Europe (almost 1.600 Euro).
2) The 18mm f/2.0 lens and the 35mm f/1.4 will cost 55.oo0 Yen each (540 Euro or 708 Dollars).
3) The 60mm f/2.4 macro will cost 60.000 Yen (590 Euro or 773 Dollars).
Just my two cent. It’s an expensive camera, so I am going to wait to see real tests before to decide if I buy it or not. Right now no big website posted any preview or test of the camera. Only Romanian photographers are doing that job right now! 
Look at the latest ISO test by F64 (Click here).They compared the X PRO 1 with the Fuji X100 and Nikon D3. His conclusions in short:
1) At high ISO the X PRO 1 beats both the e X100 and D3 cameras.
2) Shutter noise is similar to that of the Zeiss Ikon (nice M-mount camera you can see here on eBay).
3) The 18mm lens suffers from some purple fringing (but Fuji could add an automatic lens correction once finalized the firmware).
4) manual focusing has been improved over the X100 but the reviewer is still not completely satisfied with the performance. Also auto-focus isn’t really fast.
5) What matters: Image quality is spectacular.
Fuji X PRO 1 preorders and notification services:
Preorder: Expansys USA (Click here), Expansys Canada (Click here), Henrys Canada (Click here) .
Notification: Amazon US (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
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Rich Rich
4 weeks ago |1. Price:
$1200 for the body, $1500-$1600 for one body + lens is a reasonable price for Fuji. Above $1500 for the body, $2000+ for one body and one lens then it would have much smaller market. Just think of Olympus E5, a great camera, should have priced at $1200-$1400 for the body, instead priced at $1799 that turned off by the market. Most potential E5 buyers are still on the sideline or have defected to the Canon Nikon offerings.
2. Size
People love the Fuji X100 size, so the cute factor has made X100 a success. However, the X-pro size will turn off a lot of potential buyers. Just think of Leica M5.
3. Do you really want a RF camera when it it not small? Fuji should go for DSLR if it is a real Pro grade.
People go for RF camera
is for portability. Those count on taking photos for money would go for DSLR.
Optical finder is still the best. Otherwise Nikon F would not defeat Leica M3 Rollei 2.8F Canon-7 of early 1960′s.
Just my thought
Rich
mat
4 weeks ago |Not small? It’s bigger than the X100 for sure, and bigger than m43 cameras, but it’s no bigger than the M8 or M9.
Gringo
4 weeks ago |in fact it is same size as M8/M9 which is basically quite large comparing to mirror less offering.
Richard_K
4 weeks ago |It is the same size as M9
Antoine
4 weeks ago |It’s called the “X-PRO 1″. This camera size is just right for work. Small enough for the Pro, big enough in the eyes of his clients.
Gringo
4 weeks ago |Do you think a Pro need a camera like this? no.
There is no fast zoom.
AF is slow.
There is no flash.
What Pro would need that?
Richard_K
4 weeks ago |and MF is useless.
Cyclopedia Brown
4 weeks ago |Happy to hear the release is right around the corner. Hope the U.S. price isn’t a killer. I dont know where the Japanese price is coming from. I have looked at the press release from Fuji and in the column under price it says “OPEN” (http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/corporate/news/articleffnr_0606.html use google to translate). To me that says that they still havent even settled on a price for the Japanese market. So until I see it from Fuji, all these numbers are speculative…
As far as the size is concerned. If you got to CameraSize.com you will see that the X-Pro1 is only slightly larger than the X100 in height and length. Where it really shows is in the width which is shown in the lenses. Without the lenses the width is basically the same or less actually. However, if one were so inclined they could use a pancake lens either coming soon from Fuji or using old M-mount glass. That would make the camera similar in width to the X100.
fh
4 weeks ago |It’s 150,000yen MSRP (open price). That basically means that the price is “set”, but retail stores are free to sell at a higher or lower price as they want.
Will
4 weeks ago |I don’t want to go backwards with my autofocus speed, what a complete pity, it has everything but the essential ability to feel in control of focus.
I’ll wait 2 years for the next model, not like my current cam can’t take pics, or the OM-D might be a good stop gap.
Richard_K
4 weeks ago |Yeas I’m very disapppointed with its focus ability (both AF and MF). Really disappointed.
pancanikonpusamy
4 weeks ago |that is reality in today imaging device! i yet see 1st camera in each cetegories which is never complaint by consumer. i unsure who will be the 1st of these camera.. sony? panasonic? nikon? canon? fuji? samsung? pentax? olympus? ricoh?
-price-fullproof features-iq-iso
RK
4 weeks ago |Interesting – I can’t read Japanese, but Amazon.jp appears to list the X-Pro 1 for ￥ 135,000…
Credit to the following site that came up on Google News
http://myona.com/2012/01/27/fuji-xpro-1-price-announced/
kk
4 weeks ago |Looks like a toy camera; Holga. Quality may be good, but not digging the look.
hugo
4 weeks ago |Looking at prices listed on kakaku.com, a price aggregator for online shops in Japan, the cheapest body is 135000円 currently.
Lenses are at 49000円 + 4000円 for the 60mm.
http://kakaku.com/item/K0000336431/
http://kakaku.com/item/K0000336432/
http://kakaku.com/item/K0000336433/
http://kakaku.com/item/K0000336434/