Final comments now that I have used the camera more:
- Xtrans sensor is weird. Sometimes you get a lot of detail, sometimes you get a bit of "mush" that can make it be pretty much like standard Bayer. But it's usually detail.
- Also while you can get phenomenal color, often there's this feeling of maybe "lacking a bit of color" when it comes to small regions in red... as if some borders were slightly desaturated or something- doesn't happen all the time either. Anyway, it's not too intense or bad, and I am being really really picky when saying this.
- Phenomenal dynamic range considering it's 12 bits raw.
- Not too hot that the ISO seems to run 1/2 a stop to 1 stop behind the K-5 at some ISOs
- X35mm prime F1.4 - wow, one of the best lenses I have used
- AF is reasonably good. However, and ironically, I find the Pentax Q being able to focus into darker and faster now with the later Pentax firmware upgrade they made.
- Fuji *really* needed to put a lock button on the lens aperture ring. Really should have done the same for the X-E1's exposure compensation dial. It's very annoying that very often when I put the camera in a coat pocket and out, those two things can dial themselves to a different value.
Though in normal use they seem to have enough resistance (particularly the EV compensation button) this has happened to me more often than I like.
- The zoom lens in particular has this issue with the aperture ring too.
- The zoom lens is surprisingly good as a lens.
- Continuous or whatever it is AF is a complete utter waste. Maybe there's a use for it but I don't know why Fuji didn't go Sony's way with their RX1- just take it out.
- Overall I like the interface a lot other than the quirks mentioned above. Menus are superbly well thought out.
- Press and hold DISP button for change into silent vs non silent mode (turn off camera sound, any flash firing, AF assist light) at once = BIG WIN
- Not sure why Fuji didn't have their famous continuos drives modes where you continuously shoot until you release the shutter and then save the last 3-5 shots.
Some other pics:
I think with this I am closing my own thread and following up on the other already opened threads about the X-E1.
Final thoughts: X_E1 vs K-5.
K-5 has the better sensor, in tonal range, DR and color, imho. The Fuji is a bit sharper. A K-5IIs should outclass the Xtrans imho, but it's nice to for the most part not deal with color moire.
But I would put the Fuji sensor pretty high on the scale, more in the K-5 class than another class. Of course this doesn't ultimately matter- you pick what works for you. The Fuji works for me for being smaller. I will be selling my K-5 shortly... I believe.
Now that Pentax Q- I have a real hard time parting with that little camera. It's more than proven to me a very useful tool, and it still smaller than the Fuji, completely silent.
In fact, the Q has made me think maybe I should sell the Fuji I just got and keep the K-5 and Q for all my needs, but I think at this point I am getting more used to the Fuji and liking it more overall.
I am not sure if I will be selling my Pentax Q. I just like it *that much*.
- Ricardo