Many new products were announced in the past few weeks. Here is a quick update on the expected availability dates for some of the more popular items: Olympus OM-D E-M5: April 10, 2012 Fuji X-Pro1: March 20, 2012 Pentax K-01: March 29, 2012 Sony 500mm f/4.0G lens: April 23, 2012 Canon PowerShot G1x: March 5, 2012 [...]
The Fuji X-Pro1 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera is now shipping in Japan, just as Fujifilm promised last month. The North America market has to wait for another month, but I have the feeling that the camera will start shipping before March 20th in the US.
B&H updated their expected availability for the Fuji X-pro 1 to March 20, 2012. Update: some new X-Pro1 samples were posted by LensTip. In addition to the many new Fuji X-Pro1 samples, Brandon Remler has uplaoded also several new videos – the first one shows some significant X-Pro1 speed improvements compared to the X100:
At the CES 2012 show Fujifilm confirmed the upcoming X-Pro1 adapter for Leica-M lenses. A prototype is currently on display at the CP+ show in Japan:
The Italian website dday posted an interesting slide about the performance of the X-Trans sensor inside the X-Pro1 mirrorless camera. The graph, provided by Fujifilm, shows that the X-Pro1 has better resolution and signal/noise ratio than the Nikon D7000 and performs even better than the full frame Canon EOS 5D Mark II (only in terms [...]
