High ISO results are very impressive and I have to say the camera is as good if not better than a Canon 5DmkII at 3200 ISO and 6400 ISO. Image quality is superb and the 35mm F1.4 is one of the sharpest lenses I own, beating even my Canon L series glass. With the chattering aperture fixed I started to really enjoy the camera.
#XPRO 1 FIRMWARE UPDATE#
Fujifilm told me they were aware of the issue and were looking into ways around it, a firmware update in late April 2012 completely stopped the chattering and I was left wondering why Fujifilm released the camera without fixing this first. Later in the day with some ambient noise the clicking wasn’t an issue and I started to enjoy working with the camera, I drove home from the wedding with mixed thoughts but once I had seen the image quality I decided to keep the X-Pro1 and email Fujifilm to ask if they had a fix in the pipeline for the aperture noise. I had a wedding the following week and decided to take the X-Pro1 along to try it out, I got the camera out for the bridal preps and the clicking aperture drove me crazy. When the camera first arrived in March 2012 with firmware 1.0 it was almost there but had a few annoying niggles which included a geiger counter sound from the aperture opening and closing as it constantly adjusted to the light. The question is would I love the X-Pro1 as much as my X100? The X100 has a 35mm equivalent lens and I longed for a 50mm equivalent Fuji X200, instead Fujifilm gave us the X-Pro1 with interchangeable lenses including a 35mm F1.4 which is the equivalent of a 50mm F1.4 on the Fuji APS-C sensor. Then along came the Fuji X100 with it’s almost totally silent shutter and retro styling, I loved the X100 from the start and have used mine at every wedding. The shutter is also loud and intrusive on the Canon 5DII and I often curse it during quiet parts of the wedding ceremony, although the 5D3 and 6D have introduced a “silent shutter” it is still anything but silent. Much of this article was written in 2012 when the Fuji X-Pro1 was launched.Īs a documentary wedding photographer I don’t want to work with big cameras with equally big lenses that shout “photographer” for that reason I switched from Canon 1D series cameras to the 5D a number of years ago, but even the 5D is on the large size compared to Fuji X series cameras. Updated 30/12/15 with details of the Fuji X-Pro2, scroll to the end of the article for the update.
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