Fujifilm X-Pro1
Announced January 10, 2012
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Reviewer Consensus
Strong
The Fujifilm X-Pro1 is a premium mirrorless camera that delivers class-leading image quality and a tactile, rangefinder-inspired shooting experience. While it offers excellent color reproduction and a unique hybrid viewfinder, the system is held back by sluggish autofocus performance and a dated, slow menu interface.
Weighted from 24 reviewer scores
Pros
- Exceptional image quality and high ISO performance
- Intuitive manual controls and solid, premium build
- Innovative hybrid optical and electronic viewfinder
- Superb color rendition and film simulation modes
Cons
- Sluggish and inconsistent autofocus
- Rudimentary video capabilities without manual control or external mic support
- Frustrating manual focus system with slow response
- High price point and limited lens selection
- Launch price $1,699 (USD)
- Sensor 16.3MP APS-C CMOS
What the Reviewers Say
All 24 expert reviews, weighted into the PixelMeter score.
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- DPReview 79/100
The X-Pro1 marks Fujifilm's entry into the high-end mirrorless interchangeable-lens market, and combines excellent image quality with fluid handling.
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It’s well-built, functional and a joy to use, and even with focusing issues is thoroughly deserving of a Cameralabs Highly Recommended award.
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The Fuji X-Pro1 is capable of excellent image quality at ISO levels all the way to ISO 12800.
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I had high hopes for the Fujifilm X-Pro1 when it was announced and, having tested it, I am pleased to say that I am not disappointed.
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It's faster shooting, it's faster focusing, I love the interchangeable lenses, they're faster apertured, the handling feels good.
- The Verge 8/10
The Fujifilm X-Pro1 does almost everything right: it’s a beautiful (if enormous) camera, it takes great pictures and video, and once you take the time to learn its controls and systems it’s as capable a shooter as I’ve tested.
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The Fujifilm X-Pro1 is a fantastic camera, in every area it produces the results expected from a premium quality camera.
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The Fujifilm X-Pro1 feels like the natural interchangeable lens evolution of the incredibly popular X-100 camera, offering similarly refined, intuitive handling, fantastic image quality, premium build quality and three high-quality lenses on launch.
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The Fuji X-Pro1 is an enthusiast-level compact system camera that produces class-leading image quality and a really satisfying user experience thanks to its manually operated shutter speed dial and lens-based aperture controls.
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The Fujifilm X-Pro1 is a top-notch mirrorless camera that is sure to appeal to optical viewfinder fans that are put off by the high price of Leica rangefinders.
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Right now, switching to the X system is beyond my budget, but if I had the money, I would seriously consider putting the X-Pro1 alongside my X100s and OM-D E-M5 for my work and personal projects as a photographer because it perfectly synthesizes how I want to work: portable [...]
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For charm alone the luxurious, premium-feel Fuji X-Pro1 is the most exciting and interesting release in the Compact System Camera world since Olympus’ original E-P1 digital Pen of 2012.
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With its rangefinder-like dials and knobs up top, plus DSLR-style controls at the back, the 16.3 megapixel Fuji X-Pro1 is every inch the enthusiast's camera.
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If you're an enthusiast and you're looking for a retro style body that can give you great quality images and a nice collection of first-rate glass, have a look at the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and be sure to update your firmware as soon as you get yours.
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The Fuji X-Pro1 is a 16 MP digital camera with delivers class-leading image quality thanks to its unique X-Trans sensor which does not use an anti-alias filter.
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Careful, deliberate shooters will love it. Rushed, spontaneous shooters won't like it as much. Action and really fast shooters won't like it all.
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The X-Pro1 is probably the best camera ever introduced for actual photographers, as opposed to computer hobbyists or vidiots, in years. The Nikon D800 and Canon 5D Mark III are simply more of the same old thing, while the X-Pro1 is uniquely excellent.
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Yes, you get the best mirrorless camera on the market for your money, but you still have to get lenses, and you just don’t get the Flexibility that a DSLR offers.
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Why you’d buy the Fujifilm X-Pro1: you want full manual control; you need access to high quality lenses.
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Make no mistake, the X-Pro1 is still a capable camera, as long as you’re a capable photographer.
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So I have in no way sponsored by Fuji, I really am have nothing to gain but necessarily by singing their praises, but I can say that as a tool it's really really fantastic. It's really producing some beautiful results and I can't wait to even use it more.
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The Fujifilm X-Pro1 is a Street Photographer’s camera. It makes fantastic images of the highest quality, performs great in low light, handles like a dream, it is unobtrusive and comes at a really good price.
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In fact, I would say that up to around 700, maybe 800 if it was in really, really nice condition, would be the upper limit of what I'd be paying for one of these.
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There is something special about this camera, it really does feel like a special little machine, and it may be the most successful of the Fuji's that I've tried overall for integrating the qualities of film and digital and feeling like a film camera in operation.
