May I take this opportunity to say how honoured I am that you took the trouble to visit my humble blog in the first place. Clearly, I am not worthy.

You write: “Long enough to know when someone else either doesn’t know what they’re doing or is deliberately attempting to either inflame or discredit.” Are you absolutely sure about that, Kim?

Oh and by the way, seeing as you are so keen on giving friendly tips, here is one for you — learn to spell correctly. It does so help with one’s credibility.

Usually, I correct people’s misspelling in their comments but in your case, I will make an exception. I wouldn’t want to give people the wrong impression about you.

Your opinion is invalidated through lack of actual experience.

To claim that this is ‘not a review’ is both flippant and disengenuous.You can’t claim a lack of exerience in the formulation of an opinion as a positive. It’s clearly not.

You’re right; I have been photographing for a long time. Long enough to know when someone else either doesn’t know what they’re doing or is deliberately attempting to either inflame or discredit.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here and choose to think that you’re being deliberate in your attempt to inflame views.

Probably to drive traffic to your site.

A little tip – never begin a rebuttal with ‘Excuse me…’, it invites ridicule and shows exceptionally weak argument cognition skills.

If you look at the top righthand corner of the web site, you will see the following: “Photographer Calvin Palmer shares his thoughts, hopes and fears over a virtual mug of tea.” I don’t think that qualifies as journalism, so how can anything I write be described as “shoddy journalism”?

I can only assume that you must have hacked into my bank account in order to describe me as “a paid mercenary”. [Can you be an unpaid mercenary? You do seem to have a penchant for oxymorons.] A good journalist always checks his facts, which probably explains why you never chose journalism as your career.

If you do have access to my bank account, feel free to deposit a few thousand dollars at your convenience. I may then be able to afford a Leica M9 and a couple of lenses. I promise I won’t be extravagant. I will gladly settle for Zeiss ZM lenses, even a secondhand 40mm f/2 Summicron, costing only a few hundred dollars, which I have spotted at an online store. But make the deposit soon. The Summicron will be snapped up fairly quickly at that asking price.

You’re damn right it’s not, it’s a character assassination by a paid mercenary.

Given your length of time photographing with a variety of cameras, you are well aware that new cameras are announced on a regular basis. They have features that arouse our interest but what a manufacturer claims and what turns out to be the actual reality can be two very different things. With the passage of time the cameras are reviewed by publications and passed out to professional photographers for their views. In this age of blogs, early adopters also comment on their experience. All this information allows potential purchasers to gain an insight into whether the camera actually lives up to the marketing hype or whether the camera has certain quirks or flaws.

I read as many such reviews and experiences as I could. I have not stressed the negative aspects of the X-Pro1 but simply cited the reasons, experienced by others, as to why the X-Pro1 is not the camera for me. It is called assembling the facts at my disposal and on the basis of those facts making a decision. I do not see anything particularly heinous about that process.

Unlike you, I do not happen to live in a city with a decent camera store, so actually trying the camera is not an option. When I buy a camera it will be online, so I try and do as much research as possible before making my choice. I am British and so cannot get used to the idea of returning an item just because it doesn’t happen to suit me, as is the case in the United States.

I fully agree that there is no substitute for actually handling a camera and it would be preposterous for anyone to give a review of a camera without doing so. That is why my piece is not a review and I find it somewhat incredulous that it has been viewed as such.

Believe me when I say that I am disappointed that the Fujifilm X-Pro1 does not quite match my expectations. I fully agree with you that the image quality is quite superb and I also like its compact size. But for the reasons I have cited, experienced by others, it dropped to the bottom of my list of potential cameras. I have not completely discarded it from consideration. There is always the chance that the Fujifilm M-mount adapter could provide some kind of focusing confirmation when using manual Leica, Zeiss or Voigtlander M-mount lenses. If that proves to be the case, I may reconsider the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

Having said that, the more and more I read about mirrorless cameras, the more I realize that I am an SLR and DSLR man at heart and one who values the full-frame format. Should an X-Pro2 or X-Pro3 offer a full-frame sensor, it would again be worthy of consideration.

I am pleased to hear that you are enjoying your X-Pro1 and it is the right camera for you. It just isn’t the camera for me.

How very, very, very odd. A vicarious camera review.

To host a blog, write reviews and to then write a review based around zero experience. That, to me at least, would appear to be the height of either laziness or conceit. I’m not sure which.

I understand that you have done ‘research’ (although, reading other people’s opinions and cherry picking the negatives does not really constitute research – perhaps if you’d just ussd this camera, we could consider what you present to be authentic research), I’m sure if I look hard enough I can find someone online who will tell me that the Bugatti Veyron has a terrible problem with blah, blah, blah. Th point is not what ONE person thinks, the point is what YOU think and you simply can’t think anything because you have no experience.

I own this camera. I have owned all types and brands of cameras over the past 25 years that I’ve been involved in photography. I’ve owned Leica, Bronica, Mamiya, Rollie, Nikon, Canon, Ricoh etc and I’ve used even more brands – Sinar, Hasselblad etc. This little Fuji has it’s faults – see? I can say that because I’ve used it and experienced the faults – but these faults pale into nothingness when considered besides the positives it brings.

Forgetting about it’s stunning image quality, it’s robustness of build, it’s incredibly sharp lenses (at least, the 35 and the 60) – this camera makes you want to photograph – and that’s the highest praise that I can give any camera.

Why don’t you just go and try one? You may hate it utterly. You may love it.

But you WILL then be able to give your opinion based on experience, not the hearsay of others.

“What version of ACR will eventually support the X-Pro1 is anyone’s guess”

Don’t get all bent out of shape – You jumped the gun to try and make a point – and failed.

X-Pro1 RAW suport in BETA at Adobe, DPR have already done a test with sample images.

You should also note that Fuji posted their M Mount adapter on their accessories page yesterday.

Here’s an idea for you – Try reporting something useful, instead of just trolling out the negativity.

I’ve moved your readers on further in two posts regarding the X-Pro1, than you have in your whole article.