Surprise: The real NEX competition is coming from Fuji!!!
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I first read this! Fuji announced a new mirrorless system with interchangeable lens system that will use a very large sensor. Exact size of the sensor has not been unveiled but Fuji said it is the highest resolution and lowest noise sensor ever used and it will beat any current full frame sensor! That’s probably the first real competitor for the NEX system and probably also of the future full frame NEX camera! Amazing Fuji. You did what Nikon and Canon where not able to do for now!
Press release and pictures at: DC.watch.
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shigzeo
8 months ago |I’m a Nikon user who is fed up with size of SLR systems in order to get TTL metering with old(er) lenses that don’t weigh a tonne and grab precious bag real estate. I’m eyeing NEX FF OR Fuji’s next move. If Fuji can keep it nice looking ala X100, small, good performing, and able to take a slew of fine lenses like the NEX system has, I’ll jump.
Forget D800 and my awfully heavy D200.
Nick
8 months ago |Yeah me too – I have a D2H – a F100 – and an old FA – and a bunch of lenses that are more for full frame.
Not many options I can afford at Nikon for that kit, and like you I’m looking for something smaller.
… and I’m fed up waiting. Nikon have utterly failed on the compact travel front for enthuiasts,
so as soon as the first wave of Nex 7 reviews and bug-fixes passes, I’ll buy one.
I’ve already bought the Nikon adapter ring so I’m comitted
For me a camera without a viewfinder is just unuseable.
Nex 7 really seems to be the answer – there’s nothing else like it.
And in fact – its not much smaller than the Nikon FA, yet people call it compact.
Shows how silly things have become – people lugging around huge amounts of kit.
Nex 7 is a return to sanity with full spec and control.
(definitely not waiting for Fuji either – that’ll be expensive too !).
shigzeo
8 months ago |We’re obviously thinking along the same lines. My FE is the perfect size, and after it, using the D200 is very hard. I came from the FM2, which, according to Nikon, is the same quality and position as the D200 is in the current line up, but it is HUGE! Even the D7000 is huge.
Since buying DSLR in 2007, I’ve been scratching my head when comparing it to my FM and FE system. Nikon won’t go back to compact, quality, TTL cameras, and that is their prerogative, but they’ve lost me except for their older lenses, which are excellent.
Hiking is simply not on the field of any Nikon engineer.
matgay
8 months ago |great news!!! if sony doesnt give us a full frame nex9 – someone else will beat them to it.
acolyte
8 months ago |+1. Time to move Sony, you’re not the only one out there now. (FF MILC)
Maxwell
8 months ago |Hmmm the translation did not work in my browser so I don’t know.
The Fujifilm X10 is a “advanced compact camera”, I am a bit interested
in this camera. As a “pocket camera”.
But if that X-51 og X-S1 is the new camera it looks more like a A77
or something. More a DSLR size body, so maybe more in competition with A77?
donald
8 months ago |The mirrorless camera is the top-most branch in the picture. It says “X-mirrorless ‘something’”. I can only read the simple Japanese characters.
Ben
8 months ago |If you mean the bit which says “X ミラーレス一眼” it basically means “X Mirrorless Interchangeable” in this context. Basically their version of Sony’s “E” mount.
NEXfive
8 months ago |Well, so far we don’t know about Canon’s mirrorless concept or if there isn’t one at all, but nice to see Fuji is bringing some competition to the market of cameras to put behind my old manual full frame lenses…
Chris
8 months ago |which one..?? x100 or x10..????
tatkor
8 months ago |Cool. Price won’t be cheap I think based on the X100 price.
Ben
8 months ago |Here is a proper translation of the text in question:
加えて、2012年春に「最高級のミラーレスシステム一眼を投入する」と明言。 35mmフルサイズセンサーをしのぐ解像度や低ノイズを実現予定と話した。 本来は2012年のInternational CES（PMA併催）で発表予定だったというが、それまでの日本での発表機会を考慮し、ミラーレス市場への参入表明を行なった。
In addition, CEO Shigetaka Komori delcared Fuji’s intention to launch a mirrorless interchangeable lens system of the highest caliber, noting that the company intended to achieve a resolution and low-noise performance surpassing that of 35mm full-frame sensors. While Fuji had originally planned to announce this as the International CES in 2012, considering its opportunities for making announcements in Japan in the lead-up to this, it made a clear statement of its intention to enter the mirrorless market.
同社が「Xミラーレス一眼」と呼ぶ同システムについて、現時点ではモックアップやイメージ写真などは一切なく、詳細は2012 International CESで明らかになるとしていた。
The company has no mock-ups or reference images whatsoever for the system it dubs the “X mirrorless interchangeable,” and said that it would clarify the details of the system at 2012 International CES.
Joe
8 months ago |“…the company intended to achieve a resolution and low-noise performance surpassing that of 35mm full-frame sensors.”
That is a bold statement. It either translates into a very pricey camera with a >= 35mm sensor size, or just pure marketing. Either way, I’m looking forward to this. I’m glad that Fuji is taking this direction, instead of settling with the m4/3 size. Currently, all m4/3 can offer is a little smaller in size and a decent lens line-up (pricing is not competitive enough atm). This move from Fuji would push Canon and Sony further to develop their own FF mirrorless. And I’m extremely happy about that.
Ben
8 months ago |It bears mentioning that they were referring to the resolution and low-noise performance that exceeds FF, and not specifically sensor size. It is a strange choice of words because FF sensors have various resolutions, so I assume they are referring to resolving power (=sharpness and general image quality) as opposed to megapixels.
Joe
8 months ago |Well, in order to have a higher MP and better ISO performance than the current 35mm sensor, this sensor has to be at the same size or larger. Otherwise, it’s such a quantum leap for a smaller sensor. So far, there is no indication that Fuji actually has their own in-house sensor production.
joel
8 months ago |Actually they do. The SuperCCD was original Fuji tech and I loved it (back then). There was a paper floating around (wish I still had the link) where they were using some kind of full color CMOS derived technology (as opposed to B/W with color filters). They had a crude but working sample with VERY promising results and that was 2009 I believe. Again, I’m shaky on the details but Fuji has the chops here. This makes me almost second guess getting a NEX-7 . . . although in any case the Fuji will be much, much more.
Carl
8 months ago |Back in the early 00s, Fuji’s 6MP APS size SuperCCD really did have the highest resolution and ISO, or at least close thereto, for a short period. Of course, technology has marched forward since those days.
gamagama
8 months ago |//cough cough… maybe it’s just implying a brand new Fuji SuperCCD sensor.. maybe the sensor has a great leap forward in terms of resolution or noise reduction…
Mr M
8 months ago |My sentiments too . Fuji is nowhere near being at the top of the game in sensor development. Even the x100 is rumored to be using a Sony sensor. The x100 is really a very handsome camera . That’s about it.
To have an apsc sensor that surpasses or match ff sensor . It sounds like a tweaked 24mp Sony sensor to me .
acolyte
8 months ago |Correct. In no way did it say Fuji will give FF sensor or larger.
Sony could, if they want, try to declare that they surpassed their a900 sensor, and it’s still an APS-C.
Fuji may take the same route as Sony, I guess there’s no telling at this point unless we hear more leaks.
C
8 months ago |Thank you; I was horrified that Fuji would have been using a 2/3″ sensor on an ILC for a minute.
Ben
8 months ago |Regarding the sensor size, the article also states the following:
Speaking about the segregation of the fixed-lens FinePix X100 and the X-S1 due for launch within the year, he remarked that “While I think the 26x zoom covers a wide range of scenarios, it has a limit… we hope to put that technology into a larger sensor and make it with interchangeable lenses.”
So it looks like they are definitely looking at increasing sensor size. The question is by how much, as the admin noted.
Steve Jones
8 months ago |This sounds like an aspiration, not a product that is anywhere in real development. We’ll see. Of course there’s no reason why a mirror-less body has to be as small as the NEX, but I somehow doubt that they’ll go for something with a significantly bigger sensor than FF as the sizes of lenses will get out of hand (and it’s useful to support legacy 35mm lenses to appeal to more owners).
Of course it ought to be possible to beat existing FF sensors with a new one. We know that the rules of that game will change shortly when Sony’s next FF sensor comes out. (I wonder if they mean they will beat the D3s’s noise performance – that will be difficult, as it’s specifically engineered for action/low light, albeit at the expense of some other characteristics).
SonyA77
8 months ago |Reminds me of the Sony A77 ISO in the hundreds of thousands claim. I’ll believe Fuji’s claims when I see it…
Mato34
8 months ago |Hahaha! Great one
Joe
8 months ago |I don’t think Sony ever claimed such a thing. It was just a rumor.
Sky_walker
8 months ago |And wasn’t it a rumor for a 3xCMOS camera in a first place?
Alexey Ozerov
8 months ago |About Nex with FF – how could be combined FF sensor with E-mount? Look at sensor size of A900 and size of E-mount bayonet. Simple test just remove lens from Your Nex and look at matrix – there is no place for 35 mm sensor. Or sensor could be larger than bayonet?
Joe
8 months ago |The throat size of E-mount is large enough for a FF sensor. The short registration distance is worrisome, however. Leica M mount has smaller throat size.
matgay
8 months ago |no. the short flange is wonderful, it allows adapters to use any lens from any maker.
only bad thing short flange is for making native autofocus pancakes. but on the other hand, if you wanted something ultracompact, then why even get an interchangeable lens system? a fixed lens like x1 or x100 can be designed more compactly (those designs can be shrunken further).
Neo NiGHTS ®
8 months ago |Fuji already has the experience with the “Super CCD” technology, with pixel binning and stuff.
So, they’re most likely to do what many here have been asking Sony already.
Nice move from Fuji!
EiTaro
8 months ago |Alexey who said that a NEX FF will have E mount?
MF
8 months ago |I would love sony to bring out the Minolta CLE type camera… that would be more of the M9 type of look than the NEX 7… Thats what i want the NEX 9 to look like in my opinion…
Oldmanv
8 months ago |Nah, i’m just waiting for the samples of the x10.
Hope, it’ll become my last camera.
Error: No Name
8 months ago |I suspect there is no such thing as long as you keep reading sites like this ;^)
Oldmanv
8 months ago |haha, i’ll try quit reading SAR(and fail for sure) if x10 would be in my pocket
Alexey Ozerov
8 months ago |But Fuji could bring back experiments with non standart matrix – with octagon pixels or combining pixels with different size.
Doraemon
8 months ago |I am not surprise. I will only be surprise when Sony make a full frame camera that is better than Canon’s and Nikon’s.
Joe
8 months ago |Better is a broad term. The A900 has better color and tonal reproduction than any current Nikon or Canon FF (save for the more expensive D3x). It also has the highest MP count (better?).
zstan
8 months ago |So how many megapixels will this sensor be? 10?
Brad
8 months ago |Medium format with SLR-like design and sized body please.
Because Leica has proved that this works. The S2 has sold well even with such a stupendous cost for both body and lenses and with no aftermarket for glass.
And so has Pentax. The affordable and easily-learned 645D has got its fans.
Circumvent the fight with the bloated APS and FF DSLR/SLT market and create a similar bodied MF camera. Create compact or rangefinder-styled bodies both fixed and interchangeable using APS-C sensors and making the glass as compact as possible, which Sony needs to get a hold on. Oh, and make a rangefinder just to screw with Leica. Fuji can be such nostalgia and legacy fiends after all.
This plus the Sony FF will be exciting to see I’m sure.
Joe
8 months ago |I doubt Fuji has that kind of financial back-up to venture in such direction. Despite the popularity of X100, it still remains in the niche market (i.e. relative low sale figure).
Agent.Pires
8 months ago |They should adopt the E-Mount. Imagine Fuji and Sony together. They’ll destroy the competition.
Nico
8 months ago |X1OO quality and design with a better sensor (without AA) and interchangeable lens mount (m-mount ?)… Fuji !!!!!!!!!
_Core
8 months ago |“X1OO quality and design with a better sensor (without AA) and interchangeable lens mount (m-mount ?)… Fuji !!!!!!!!!
”
+1
and for the announced price of the x100 “899€” or less
totalreader
8 months ago |+1
Would be great
Doraemon
8 months ago |Let’s hope that there will be NEX-9 and A99.
c.d.embrey
8 months ago |The Fuji X-S1 looks like it is aimed at the Nikon D300/D400 buyer. The Fuji S5 (the last Fuji DSLR) used a Nikon D200 body Will the X-S1 use Nikon F mount lenses, or will Fuji make their own mount? Fuji makes some of the best Broadcast Video and Digital Cinema lenses (PL mount), so they are capable of making DSLR lenses as good as Zeiss. BTW Fuji makes the lenses for Hasselblad.
Carl
8 months ago |The XS1 is a fixed lens, small sensor bridge camera.
FMJ
8 months ago |would it be just their APS-C EXR sensor with low mpix?
KingRenas
8 months ago |Well guys, you will have to wait until spring.
From that day you may see Canon, Nikon, Sony, Leica and so on with their fullframe and mirrorless cameras.
ty
8 months ago |If the sensor is larger than a 35mm, on my first thought, it seems to be a very exciting idea to have a small compact with a sensor larger than 35mm. That is, if it is even possible for Fuji to make something like that. Where would they get the sensor from?
After some thought, even it is possible for them to release something like that, I am not exactly sure it is such a good idea. One of the reasons NEX or other mirrorless compacts are a hit for photo enthusiasts is the ability to use legacy lens, lens that are good quality and yet affordable. Compacts with sensor larger then 35mm could be a problem, as it will make many 35mm legacy lens too small for entire sensor. So the options would be use medium format lens, for which, the availability is rather limited and more pricey.
On the other hand, if the sensor is 35mm or slightly less but beat all FF cameras performance, it will be a welcome news. The majority of all my lens for NEX are 35mm legacy lens, so I am just an adapter away from the new Fuji camera.
NEX system kind of abstract the body from the lens, it is a lot easier to change to any system so long the lens to sensor distance is shorter than my legacy lens.
c.d.embrey
8 months ago |Look at the photos, this is not a small camera — it is a full size DSLR. front http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/481/838/html/41.jpg.html and back http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/481/838/html/42.jpg.html
admin
8 months ago |This is not the interchangeable X system!
Denis
8 months ago |Camera We see on the picture can’t have big sensor: look at the lens – it has 26x-zoom!
Erational
8 months ago |Andrea, your are right. Folks need to understand that Fuji was talking about different cameras. The X300 is going to have a body much like the X100, but deeper with rangefinder-sized lenses. These coming Fuji lenses are not retro-focal designs, so they do not need to be as massive like SLR lenses. Expect the lenses to be the size of Zeiss Contax G1/G2 lenses, Konica lenses of yore, old Leica R and all Leica M lenses. (yes I understand the R’s were retrofocal, I’m talking size here.) Any out there in SLR lend: don’t expect the coming Fuji X lenses to go beyond 180mm. These cameras will not be perfect for the football game shots. The Leica M9 showed that these sized lenses were possible with a full-frame sensor (if that’s even the size that we are talking about with the Fuji X300).
The S-series will not even make a dent in the Overseas Markets. That series is a waste of time, energy, and resources. a 1: 2/3 sensor ?! God, what was Fuji thinking ?
Carl
8 months ago |Dalsa make nice sensors that are larger than 135 format. They don’t beat the current Sony sensors from an ISO point of view, however.
obican
8 months ago |I think that “larger than FF” saying is just a mistranslation.
pancanikonpus
8 months ago |So sweat in this mirrorless segment ~.~ suddenly everything become so hot so fast just like smartphone, everyone put a leg in
competition always good!
With this, Fuji will be the 8th imaging company participate mirrorless besides we have Panny,Sony,Sammy,Nikon1,Olympus, Ricoh,Leica and this make Canon fall even behind! Fantastic move!
Will this competition make the companies frequently update their lineup every year or 1.5 years? if Fuji raise, will m43 fall since their sensor too small to be compete with? same goes to nikon1.
Ben
8 months ago |Exciting times!
Jiri
8 months ago |Yes, let´s wait a bit.
acolyte
8 months ago |Yeah, but the market is not going to be as big as smartphone.. :\
matgay
8 months ago |mirrorless will knockout canikon!
Mike
8 months ago |I wonder how many of the new Fujifilm big sensor interchangeable lens “compact” cameras will be returned with sticky aperture blade problems?
A pretty high percentage of X100s have failed with this issue, including mine of course. Fujifilm needs to prove themselves all over again before I’ll trust them.
Alfonso Cuitiño
8 months ago |Wow this is unexpected. But I guess it’s good for us consumers, all brands are in the race for better features/price/marketing
SonyA77
8 months ago |I wonder what Nikon are thinking now after releasing their glorified coolpix mirrorless… While this Fuji is vapourware and might turn out to be crap, Canon and Nikon have got to be sweating with all this mirrorless news.
Erational
8 months ago |I for one welcome our Fuji Overloards
JK.
What’s not to like ? Speedy leaf lenses, high-speed flash sync, better reds, better greens, accurate fill-flash in ambient light, less need of external flash.
There will be a dearth of compatible lenses in the beginning, but how much worse can it be than Sony’s E-mount offerings right now ? I will miss Sony’s OSS/IBIS for sure. Fuji is at the forefront of broadcast and cinema lenses and has been making rangefinder lenses for ages. Rest assured the lenses will be killer.
Sony looks like it has the mirrorless big sensor march stolen. Was not anticipating a FF Sony mirrorless until Sept 2012, but this announcement may push Sony to release faster. Any FF Sony NEX can’t keep the 18mm flange registrar distance due to diffraction limits already needing microlenses with the APS-C sized sensor. I think A-mount lenses could be a possibility on FF Sony mirrorless cam. Lets see who does on-sensor AF first in a mirrorless camera. On-sensor AF promises the speed of today’s phase detection autofocus.
Mr M
8 months ago |I think Sony has patented some on sensor pdaf technology and there would be apparent difficulties to implement it well onto large sensors like apsc and full frame . So far it has been only on compact cameras.
Fuji would need slot of money to kick start back into exchangeable lens system. With the success of x100 , they definitely have the momentum and confidence. It will be interesting to see what mount decisions they make.
If they go emount, it would be easier . For all we know they can go join the samsung camp lol
Erational
8 months ago |I think your right that it would take more money to implement a decent lens line. With the Fuji X100, they are not able to meet demand right now, I don’t see how they could meet demand for the Fuji X30O camera
ageha
8 months ago |They are not able to meet demand right now? Lol, I doubt it sells at all right now. At least here in Singapore the price went down dramatically and every shop has plenty of stock.
Erational
8 months ago |Hey, I just read the reports. Here in the US, your not likely to find the Fuji X100 in a brick-and-mortar shop. It’s a Canikon world here. Only when you get to the compact segment does Canikon loosen it’s grip on American retail camera-ology. Lucky we have Sony Stores.
Anyway FWIW, here are some post on the irregular supply of Fuji X100′s StateSide;
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1020&thread=39418349
and here:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1020&thread=39493773
rightchoicespp
8 months ago |Guys the X-S1 is a super zoom with 2/3 sensor.
not a DSLR
REVENGE
8 months ago |Fuji should use the E-Mount.
/s
Erational
8 months ago |Fuji isnt going to pay a licensing fee for the E-mount . That’s wishful thinking. At worst they will use their old rangefinder MF lens mount with newly embedded electronic contacts to transmit lens information. At best it would be compatible with the M-mount.
To those folks who are shocked about this announcement, there have been rumors of the X300 for almost two years.
I’m sure the parent company, Fuji Heavy Industries can make the capital available to Fuji Camera to invest in the lenses. But the x10 was a waste of time and manufacturing capacity. Unless they stop making some current cameras, I don’t see how they could even hope to meet demand for the upcoming X300
Gimp
8 months ago |I thought Sony had given the E-mount specification away for free?
Erational
8 months ago |That was what was said, but how many 3rd party lens manufactures do you see announcing E-mount lenses ?
Erational
8 months ago |BTW, that Sony said it would support 3rd parties access to the E-mount spec in Sept 2010. 1 year ago. All we have to show for it is one or two lenses from SLR Magic. Don’t you think there is something more going on that Tamron, Samyang and Sigma have announced NO coming E-mount lenses ?
ageha
8 months ago |Why should they release E-Mount lenses? I doubt you can make much money with them.
SonyA77
8 months ago |So they wouldn’t have to pay a licensing fee then, that’s the point.
You don’t make much money from the body, it’s the lenses and accessories that make you more margin, that’s why manufacturers have their own lens mount.
REVENGE
8 months ago |I guess nobody knows what /s means these days.
/s
SonyA77
8 months ago |/s means search sub-directories too doesn’t it?
Raul S.
8 months ago |Ok…to me the interesting part is…
“That’s probably the first real competitor for the NEX system and probably also of the future full frame NEX camera!”
FF NEX?!? So it’s going to be developed soon? I was thinking of seeing a FF NEX in like, 2 years, not in 2012..!
Clyde
8 months ago |Hopefully Fuji will screw up like Sony and forget to provide wired remote and tethering capability. If they include those things it will be bad juju for Sony by comparison.
Oh I forgot… Fuji X100 already has tethering support and a standard cable release. They’ll probably put in on their NEX challenger too. Oh well…
Kiril
8 months ago |So the news is
the future full frame NEX camera
Thanks. Is this SR4 or SR5?
Raul S.
8 months ago |I’m waiting for the admin response on that. He mentioned FF NEX camera as if there’s one in development right now.
Carl
8 months ago |Fuji’s manual focus SLR bayonet was called the X mount. It’ll be confusing if they reuse the name.
Either way; large sensor, fast lenses and small size are what I’m after. If they make it, I shall come.
Erational
8 months ago |+1
Joe
8 months ago |Alot of people seem to be expecting a FF nex as an answer to fuji. Would it still use e mount lenses?
jonathan
8 months ago |Fuji has claimed a few years ago (2006) that they were working on a completly new tech for their sensors. They called it “ORGANIC CMOS” a kind of 3 layered sensor without bayer filters like FoVeon but made out of organic chemical compound not silicium at least for the light sensitive part of the sensor. It sounds like a breaktrough in sensor tech if they bring it to the market. I hope it will not only benefit to pro. And they also have “on sensor PDAF”.
grumps
8 months ago |FUJI pay attention!
Two things you MUST improve over the X100. Focusing in both AF and MF.
These were the two weakest links in the Fuji X100, that being focusing and I sold mine under a week!
ageha
8 months ago |I couldn’t agree more, the AF is a major deal breaker and unfortunately the MF too.
Daemonius
8 months ago |How did Sigma said that?
Our SD-1 is comparable to medium format cameras?
Yea it gets a lot of details (given right lens, which limits it pretty much to highest quality Zeiss/Leica, definetly not Sigma
). But its still small and stupid APS-C (tho at least its bigger than usual 1.7x crop Sigma had before).
So, Fuji will use 24 mpix APS-C from Sony, without AA filter. Considering what they did with SNR of Fuji X100, I guess they will be able to clean that 24 mpix sensor too..
And they will have sensor, that has more resolving capability than any FF.. (and it will still be small n stupid APS-C).
FF or bigger than FF would be amazing.. I would love to see that (and Fuji did a lot of medium format cameras, including 6×7 and 6×9). But considering what exactly they said, I see bit more Sigma style of advertising..
Erational
8 months ago |Grups, I also heard about the sucky focusing from Fuji X100. Also heard about the nonsensical menu system the camera has. We will have to see if the lower-echelon X10 has mitigated these weaknesses or not. Only if the Fuji X300 is fantastic can Fuji keep on it’s upward trajectory. I certainly don’t expect the cam to be any worse than the X100, but, the X300 is going to be held to a higher standard if Fuji keeps claiming that it surpass FF DSLR’s. I predict lenses will be it’s weak link.
Some SAR folks are asking if Fuji will do away with the anti-moire filter ahead of the sensor. From what others have speculated and the moire I have seen from the X100′s pictures, it looks like the X-100 already doesn’t have this detail-sapping filter. I wouldn’t expect the X300 to have it, either.
One reason for the A65/A77′s resolution (besides 24Mpx) is it has a very ‘light’ anti-aliasing filter.
ed paul
8 months ago |i best bet it is using A77 24mp. if fuji would make a FF sensor, it would be done months ago,… not after using A700 12mp in x100. there are rumor fuji gotten stuck with CCD and has no direction but moving into cmos or getting from others (eg sony) sony already drop CCD from APS-C camera,… and soon sony compact will all have exmor (cmos) sensors… even soon, sony CCD market (CCTV/surveillance system) will adopt exmor sensor (cmos)… its obvious years ago sony see CCD is reaching a wall.
anyway, fuji would have to built a whole new lineup of FF lenses…
Carl
8 months ago |It’s not like Fuji have a lineup of APS sized lenses, either, so I don’t see a problem there. If they were going to reuse a lens range, the most logical one would be their X-PAN ones, which have an image circle even larger than 135.
Erational
8 months ago |That’s a good a guess as any, Carl. One would presume they still have the tooling for the mounts. But the optics is manual focus on X-Pan and X-PanII. The X-300 is definitely going to be auto-focus, dontcha think ? So they still have a ways to go with the lenses. I would imagine Fuji would offer a kit zoom and an optional 50mm F/1.4 out of the starting gate, but Fuji certainly has offered primes as the kit lens in the past. The X100 has one kit lens and it’s a prime
ageha
8 months ago |Stuck with CCD? I thought they had already their own EXR CMOS for some time: http://finepix.com/exr_cmos/en/about-exr/
Richard
8 months ago |I’m very confused, could someone please clarify?
Is it this X-S1 that is supposed to be APS-C mirrorless interchangeable? I seriously hope not…
Carl
8 months ago |No, not at all. The XS1 is another camera they’re adding to the X series (with X100, X10, etc).
There is no mockup for the mirrorless yet. They said they’ll have something to show at CES.
Richard
8 months ago |Arh, okay, thanks for clearing that up. When is the CES show ?
calxn
8 months ago |Hate to say it, but this news made me pause and reconsider my purchase of the NEX-7. I have the X100 and wanted to add the NEX-7. The X100 is one amazing camera. The IQ is extremely high. I’ve been blown away. I also have the Hassy lenses made by Fuji. I have extreme confidence in Fuji. If they make a mirrorless interchangeable camera that looks like the X100 (but with all black), I may regret my NEX-7 purchase. I’m gonna risk it.
This is quite an amazing time in photography. With the X100, Nex-7, 36mp Nikon FF, and now Fuji mirrorless, this is getting fun! I am so glad we have real cameras coming out now and don’t have to fill our time with rumors from the pathetic m43 world or Nikon 1 world. I’d like to see Canon and Leica join the party and introduce some fantastic real cameras.