Pompous title? I thought so myself, but after spending 10 minutes with a loupe and a bunch of full sized jpeg images taken with a X-Pro1 i truly stand behind my statement.  The X-Pro1 images in question are unprocessed jpegs taken at the launch event of the Romanian store 'f64'

They are shot at default settings (0 sharpness etc)  in a not so well lit interior environment.

I fired up some similar photos taken with my own 5Dmk2

and at iso 6400 and above the X-Pro1 slightly trumps my Canon. At iso 25.600 the X-Pro1 produces pictures that are acceptable for small prints, and so-so for viewing on a 20" computer screen. At this point, even if i clean my 5Dmk2 jpegs in Lightroom, its output is clearly lacking to that of the X-Pro1. I have speckles, blotches, and every other hallmark of high noise artifacts.

Trying to clean up the iso 25.600 X-Pro1 images I end up with something similar to what the 5D Mark II produces at iso 12.800.  Truly amazing. The X-Pro1's at hand in the Romanian launch even were pre-production models, and the photographers on location reported some minor issues, especially with the AF. Hopefully Fujifilm is to iron out all bugs in the system until the real launch of the camera, sometime in Mars.

P.S There's another site hosting X-Pro1 full sized images, but it appears to be infected with malware at the moment, so sorry no direct link to that. Visit at your own risk.  Hint: Christian Fletcher com au