News for fujifilm x pro

PhotoTraveler wrote: It's not about getting a bunch of lenses all at once, it's about giving people a cost effective path, and lower risk. ... Fuji will probably want to stick to primes, so with a partnership they could skip doing some things like an 18-200. Having bit players making mounts just fractures stuff all over and hurts all of them. Even within brands there may be more than one mirrorless mount. There is going to end up being far too many, and many of those won't survive. That's going to be a bunch of people who bought into a dead end, and have gear they are stuck with.

Apologies for editing your reply, but wanted to comment on certain points.

I am mostly in agreement with you - I think currently there is an unsustainable number of systems coming out, mostly driven by mirrorless, and it is clear that in the short to medium term there will be some casualities. Whether as a user that bothers you depends on what you are buying and why.

I am not sure E mount is any more likely to be around than any other, though the success of the cameras tends to indicate Sony will support it in the medium term, possibly at some expense to A mount (split of resources across 2 systems now). It may well be it didn't suit Fuji, as so far Sony have proven mostly incapable of making small lenses, and indeed commented that the flange depth and the mount make it very hard (which is rather dumb, having deliberately designed the "worlds smallest" camera that way!). Although the X system flange depth is also very short, Fuji seem to have been able to make small-ish lenses.

They are going to make zooms for X mount - a "standard" zoom later this year, anda wide angle and a tele next year. There are rumours they could be constant f4, which would be great - although a statement that the standard zoom will lack an aperture ring makes me think it will be variable aperture.

Of course, this is Fuji's first "own" digital interchangeble lens camera system (I don't count their previous SLRs, as they used other people mounts, if you see my logic) - so I can understand why they might want their own lens mount. Personally, with their long tradition of professional cameras, I have more faith in Fuji that I might with Sony's first-time user biassed NEX system - but that's just personal opinion. I would have more faith in Sony and NEX if they were more open about the lens roadmap, starting making some more interesting lenses in appropriate size and focal length, and got on with it more quickly.

But I totally agree over the next 1-2 years, we are going to see some fall out - I can't see Pentax Q surviving, I am not convinced Samsung will stick with NX if they don't start seeing significant sales, Olympus 4/3rds E cameras are all but finished, and I am not totally convinced that Nikon's "1" system will be here indefinately.