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Some companies plod along, slowly incrementing the marketing bullet points with new models. These are usually the ones that have turf to protect and market share to hold onto. Other companies, hungry for position, and without entrenched products to protect are more willing to innovate and take risks.

Fuji is in the latter camp. When Nikon stopped supplying Fuji with DSLR bodies several year ago it looked like they might abandon the high-end market. But, the digicam market is vaporizing because of smartphones, so where to go? The enthusiast market is what Fuji has decided to pursue, and 2011 saw the first salvo in its attack on this segment, the very highly regarded X100. 

New Fuji has followed up with the very desirableX-Pro1, the first in what is likely to be a series of interchangeable lens rangefinder-style large sensor cameras. Here are the main points about the X-Pro1...

– 16 Megapixel APS-C sized sensor

– No Optical Low-Pass filter. Unique ...

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