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Fujifilm X-Pro 1 – Hands on Preview by Vlad Dodan

This is the first user review posted in English, and as such is of enormous interest:

"The viewfinder is the main character of the show and If you loved the one on the X100, the new (v.2) will bring you joy. Honestly, I`m not a big

fan of non-rangefinder viewfinders in general so I`m a bit biased but I can say for sure it will be fantastic for at least 75-80% of the buyers. The electronic viewfinder was something I tried by mistake. I accidentally touched the lever and went from crispy clear to happy pixels in 0.1s. Did not like the EVF at all. And I hate all of them equally (be it Sony, Olympus, Panasonic etc) Give it enough light and the image on the EVF will keep up with your movements. Turn off the light and prepare for lag! I also liked the fact that after the pre-focus the bright-lines shift to the right to correct for the parallax.

Auto-focus speed was decent. Not Nikon V1 fast but not too slow either. My biggest problem with the AF isn`t the speed though. It`s the fact that it hunts, and misses quite allot, if you`re looking through the viewfinder. If you`re using the back LCD it gets considerably better. (Still hunts but at least you can see if you have your subject in focus or not)"