Re: new Fuji X Pro1 camera (formerly called "new camera")
Probably best to buy the camera and do your own tests.
Unfortunately, that's the problem isn't it? Who wants to buy something they aren't sure of? So we have to partially depend on communications over the web and test sites ... which isn't as easy as it seems because it's difficult to sort out the biases, motivations, and over enthusiasm of early adopters ... or reconcile differences in what constitutes excellent performance.
The question is, can you evaluate anything over the web? I say yes you can because it is all relative ... if what you are comparing to is also evaluated in the same manner. Is it definitive? No! The final evaluation is how well it fits your needs, and how the prints look. However, the initial cut can often be determined by that relative web comparison if you have a decent eye and know what to look for ... otherwise, why do it t all?
I do not think anyone wants to sabotage any new camera, yet no one wants to buy into something that doesn't match the hyperbolic hype that accompanies almost any new camera that comes out these days. After a few buy-ins to these type pitches, you get a little skeptical and thus all the questions and frank evaluations.
To be honest, I read claims as to better performance than the M9 even at base ISO, better
this than the M9, better
that than the M9 ... and I look at my own M9 stuff, the shots from Jono's M9, or Irakly's M9, etc. etc. etc., and then look at these X Pro sample shots and ... well ... I become even more skeptical and unconvinced, based on those claims.
Perhaps the Fuji should stand on its own merits, or lack of same ... it is an interesting camera for a decent price. So what if the IQ is not all that distinguishable from other offerings? It is a new sort of form factor that offers at least a taste of rangefinder photography ... with added do-dads that some folks want ... it's NOT a Leica and setting it for that comparison is doomed to failure just like a zillion other M pretenders in past which are now in history's dust bin. On its own it seems to be quite a camera and may full-fill a lot of photographers specific needs and fit their budget like a glove.
All the best ...
-Marc