Since posting his Fujifilm X-Pro2 review, Patrick La Roque has followed up with a short series of articles called Six Days in Tokyo which, as the title suggests, are all about his trip to Japan for the 5 year anniversary of the Fujifilm X series.
Once again, Patrick expertly uses words and images to conjure up images of a place many of us have surely never visited. Although he is more accustomed to using the 23mm lens of the X100T for documentary and travel photography, he forced himself to take all the images with the X-Pro2 and the new 35mm f/2.
Check out La Roque’s Tokyo series here!
David Hobby of the popular Strobist blog was actually involved in the early design process of the Fujifilm X-Pro2. In this post, he describes the struggle that he, the other photographers commissioned to provide their input and the Fujifilm engineers went through to arrive at the final design. As he states:
Suffice to say, every time you drop a snarky comment in below a new camera review (“Why didn’t they just do [this]?) you can be sure they thought of it, and it was weighed against other priorities and came up wanting.
While some of his suggestions (along with those of the other photographers involved) were considered for the final product, he laments the usability of the viewfinder with eyeglasses and has mixed feelings about the choice to use the same batteries as other X series cameras for the sake of convenience.
You can read Strobist’s full report about the X-Pro2 design process here!
