06-26-2012
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#76
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Pocketable is not about having it in your pocket when you are actually engaged in photographing.
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06-26-2012
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#77
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Don't know about you guys, but as a street photographer the worst thing you can do is put your camera in your pocket... you will miss the shot every time.
Also, I can't believe anyone complains about the X-Pro being too heavy. Heavy vs. what, your iPhone?
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You're right about that. I originally bought the x100 because it was the largest sensor that would fit in my pocket.
But when I'm out with it, even if it starts in the pocket, i find it around my neck most of the time. With the xp1, since it won't fit in my pocket, it's always around by neck :-)
Tom
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06-27-2012
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#78
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I don't own any pockets large enough for the X100.
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06-27-2012
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#79
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I don't own any pockets large enough for the X100.
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Willie-
Though it"s not exactly Fashion Forward, let me suggest a pair of cargo shorts for Summer
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06-27-2012
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I can easily get my X-Pro1 into a jacket pocket with the 18mm lens mounted.
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06-27-2012
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#81
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Quote:
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Willie-
Though it"s not exactly Fashion Forward, let me suggest a pair of cargo shorts for Summer
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Might bruise your leg though one that camera starts swinging around...  |
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06-27-2012
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Quote:
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Willie-
Though it"s not exactly Fashion Forward, let me suggest a pair of cargo shorts for Summer
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Better than capri pants  |
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06-27-2012
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What's Capri pants! 😳
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06-27-2012
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06-27-2012
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This thread should have an NSFW label. I mean, Capri pants and bare midriff? Some of us Americans are still Puritans, you know! 
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06-27-2012
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If you dress like that, you have to skip the morning donut...
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06-27-2012
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This thread should have an NSFW label. I mean, Capri pants and bare midriff? Some of us Americans are still Puritans, you know! |
I'm a proud Scotsman!
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06-27-2012
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I'm a proud Scotsman!
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Like this?
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06-27-2012
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Oh, boys, really: normally I'm strictly against censorship, but these last "fashion" posts...  |
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06-27-2012
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I can't believe what happened to my post!!! |
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06-27-2012
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Capri pants are stylish on women. The right women.
As for the X-Pro 1, it's interesting how people's opinions vary on the handling and perception of build quality. Many love how light it is, particularly compared with a Leica or DSLR. Others think it feels hollow or plasticky. I very much like its lightness compared with the M9, but in terms of feel there is nothing like the feel of a M and manual focus lens.
Dave, you would find it weirdly boxy at first because of the edges. The M9 and X100 have rounded ends, but the X-Pro 1 is very much like a box with hard edges. The grip part is quite nice, and I could shoot with it one-handed. |
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06-27-2012
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Now THAT'S a classic photo !!!
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06-27-2012
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Hilarious. I needed the laughs. Thanks!
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06-28-2012
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Originally Posted by Archiver
Capri pants are stylish on women. The right women.
As for the X-Pro 1, it's interesting how people's opinions vary on the handling and perception of build quality. Many love how light it is, particularly compared with a Leica or DSLR. Others think it feels hollow or plasticky. I very much like its lightness compared with the M9, but in terms of feel there is nothing like the feel of a M and manual focus lens.
Dave, you would find it weirdly boxy at first because of the edges. The M9 and X100 have rounded ends, but the X-Pro 1 is very much like a box with hard edges. The grip part is quite nice, and I could shoot with it one-handed.
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The right woman... Yes!
The tartan trousers... Nope!
To have a laugh!... Yes!
Yes, I do like the small hand grip on the X-Pro1. It just big enough without becoming bulky. The M9 really only needs a thumb rest like the ones from Match. I still say the X-Pro1's size and build is just right as it gives me just the tight weight, grip area, and the right build size to make it a comfortable camera to use. Much like the M9.
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06-28-2012
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Like capri pants, the X-Pro 1 appears to be a polarizing camera.
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06-28-2012
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Waiting on Maitani
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Capris depend on the right legs ... |
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07-02-2012
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Okay everyone, time to eat some crow.
I am a flip-flopper. Read that clearly!
I went shooting today with a friend, a new X-Pro 1 owner. I toted along my X100 and my 5DmkII (we drove my car so I could leave a camera in the trunk). He has the 35/1.4, and an 18mm is shipping. So, I put my 50/1.4 on my markII, and away we went, strolling the streets of Fort Worth, Texas, looking for nothing in particular to photograph.
My shutter went *clunk*, his went *snick.* His XP1 began looking sexier in the hand...compact, black, with that beautiful hunk of glass in front. Yes, we traded. Yes, I shot with it. Yes, I held it longer than the thirty seconds in the camera store.
Guess what? I have GAS really bad! I want one!
So, ignore all my previous whining. It's got right all the things I love about the X100, and it's got the interchangeable lens stuff that I sometimes miss.
So, I'm a flippin' flip-flopper!!! Bring it on!
(saving my pennies).
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07-02-2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David_Manning
Okay everyone, time to eat some crow.
I am a flip-flopper. Read that clearly!
I went shooting today with a friend, a new X-Pro 1 owner. I toted along my X100 and my 5DmkII (we drove my car so I could leave a camera in the trunk). He has the 35/1.4, and an 18mm is shipping. So, I put my 50/1.4 on my markII, and away we went, strolling the streets of Fort Worth, Texas, looking for nothing in particular to photograph.
My shutter went *clunk*, his went *snick.* His XP1 began looking sexier in the hand...compact, black, with that beautiful hunk of glass in front. Yes, we traded. Yes, I shot with it. Yes, I held it longer than the thirty seconds in the camera store.
Guess what? I have GAS really bad! I want one!
So, ignore all my previous whining. It's got right all the things I love about the X100, and it's got the interchangeable lens stuff that I sometimes miss.
So, I'm a flippin' flip-flopper!!! Bring it on!
(saving my pennies).
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Lol 
Xp1 takes a while to get used to, even for those of us with x100 sometimes. I don't think there is a camera w/o quirks out there. In the end of he day, the Fuji cameras hit the marks that were important to me and I figured out ways to live with its quirks.
I still have my Nikon slr and dslr setups, but they are awful lonely lately...
Hope u decide to keep the x100 after u buy the xp1! They both have there place in the tool kit. And of course "resistance is futile" u know u want it.
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07-02-2012
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Yeah... Resistance is quite futile...
For walkaround jaunts, it's pretty hard to beat one of the Fuji hybrid beauties :-)
It's not for sports or wildlife, it's for walking around taking great shots. It will be quite nice in a studio, but probably you still would rather use the slr in that setting. I haven't even bothered to order a really right stuff bracket for it - I don't plan to ever put it on a tripod. This is a camera to walk and run with and have fun with and be unobtrusive with and make some great photos that way for a very nice change (just mho :-)
tom
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07-02-2012
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I can't believe some of these replies and what you guys are focusing on.. Seriously? Capri pants? it really makes me wonder if some of you would cry at the thought of carrying around a GW690 or something of that ilk. None of the M-series or X-series are anything even remotely worth worrying about, size-wise.
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