Originally posted by biz-engineer I was also looking at a small size travel kit to have along with my Pentax K1 kit.
Fuji have a number of good points for them, but there are a few things that put me off.
Advantages:
- size
- vintage look
- selection of small primes
Disadvantages:
- price: the most expensive apsc of the market
- no sensor stabilization (except X-H1)
- lens stabilization only on some lenses, either big/expensive
- X-trans demosaicing can be an issue for landscapes (weird painterly trees and other things), some people have switched away from Fuji just because of that.
So, I'll wait for the Ricoh GRIII. And whenever I get a Fuji, it's going to be an older model, I've seen XT-1 and XT-2 together with X primes second hand at the price of Pentax new.
Other option would be to get a Pentax KP with a couple of limited primes and the 100 macro.
Yup, I find myself agreeing with you.
I've got a Pentax Km, think it was called the K2000 in the states. The size is quite compact and I also have the 21, 40 and 70 Limited(s), which are quite compact. My Km is an older camera, still works well, has the 10 something sensor , has limited ISO...but between 100-800 is really quite good.
I've thought about the Ricoh GR lll and before thought about the GR ll. The thing that holds me back about the ll was dust getting on the sensor, which others seemed to encounter with this camera. I'm hoping that Ricoh has solved this issue with the lll.
Other than that, I think the Ricoh GR series with the ultra compact body, ASP-C sensor and from the accounts I've read, quite a good wide angle lens is an exceptional carry around camera, more than capable of taking excellent photographs.
I've been thinking more about what the appeal of the Fuji X-Pro 2 camera is to me and I do believe it focuses, in my case, about it's Leica rangefinder
' look ' more than anything else.
But it is not a Leica ...ersatz...or otherwise...
I have a K1, K5 and K10D and the aforementioned Km and for a compact camera, my Canon G 12. So I really don't need any more cameras. I'm covered. I'm covered with cameras that are excellent quality and when I look at things objectively...the Fuji system really doesn't offer me anything that I don't already have in the end product, photo quality ability and I would say the Fuji X as an ASP-C sensor, doesn't compete with the K1, when it comes to the type of pix that I generally take...landscapes, vintage iron, family pix .
It is like the vintage car TV show of a number of years ago where the co-host would test a desirable car, extol it's virtues and conclude...do I need this car, no...do I want this car...yes. When I'm honest with myself, I would say the Fuji X Pro 2 is a neat little camera, that I don't need, given what I have and if Ricoh have cured the dust on sensor issue with the new GR lll...that maybe a better choice for someone like me...or maybe I should just start using my small Km more.