THIS IS JUST A FIRST CONTACT HANDS ON REVIEW. I COULD USE THE CAMERA JUST FOR HALF AN HOUR YESTERDAY.

HOW I USED THE CAMERA FOR THIS FIRST HANDS ON REVIEW:

I used the lens at its most wide angle focal range, 10mm. I chose Acros film simulation with extreme grain on, using jpg straight from the camera as always. Of course, no crop.

THE PHOTOS

CONSIDERATIONS OF A STREET PHOTOGRAPHER

Operationally I did have fun using the 10mm focal range, despite my favourite lens is the 35mm. With that said, is not my thing: the 10mm is an extreme wide angle that makes anything very weird due to excessive distortion. I would save the last picture, with the subject on the frame, anything appears more normal. Also the lens appears to me very big, and I don’t love to photograph with lenses so large. The XPRO2 is a fantastic camera for street photography. I worked just for half an hour but it was sufficient to understand it and get familiar with this. Coming from Fujifilm X series system anything appears to me easy.

ERROR “TURN OFF THE CAMERA AND TURN ON AGAIN”

After 30 minutes the bad event: I made some research and I read this error is a hardware error, typical when the camera has some kind of issue with a lens. This thing happened also to some XT1 users. I have seen the error disappears when turning on the camera without the lens. 

CONSIDERATIONS

On the second part of this hands on review that I hope to be able to do, I will use the lens on its 24mm focal range. I will give back the camera for the Fujifilm assistance. And I will keep you updated. By beeing a X Photographer I could hide this issue, but with spirit of honesty I want always be loyal to my readers: this is a technical issue fujifilm really needs to fix, because is not the first time happening. And this despite with firmware update 1.02 secured to fix it. I think is not happening to everyone, maybe there is just a percentage of cameras with this issue. There is also a series of reports about this:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3993396

I would conclude this post saying that I really enjoyed using the camera: it feels heavy and therefore important, as a Leica M. The camera is very handy and tied to a film camera experience. With a 35mm pancake I would love the camera, I am sure. I just would a ISO dial…this could represent a great improvement for the next XPRO3. Are you reading us, Fujifilm?