Review: The Fujifilm X-Pro2 is One Solid and Sexy Camera | Colin Peddle #PetaPixel

Take a moment, rewind back to March of 2012 and remember the buzz that surrounded the release of the Fujifilm X-Pro1. Many of my close photography friends — professionals, casuals, Sony fanboys, and even film shooters — were talking Fuji and discussing how they must have the X-Pro1. The rangefinder-styled X-Pro1 was revolutionary, not just technically, with it’s fantastic 16mp APS-C sensor and hybrid viewfinder, but visually as well. The aesthetics represented the beginnings of a design idea that would quickly take over the photography world. Yes, other companies had done the new-school-camera-in-a-retro-body before, but none had managed to build one that photographers, en masse, wanted to actually use as their daily. When rumors of an X-Pro2 surfaced almost three years ago speculation bounced from the downright negative: “they say that the X-Pro2 may never happen”, to the outlandish “rumor has it the X-Pro2 will feature a 36mp medium format sensor and will actually be called the X-Pro Z One”……..

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