Fuji XPro 1

[jyl]

About a year ago, I bought my daughter a Fuji XPro 1 camera. Since then she's taken it on a seven month backpacking trip in Europe as well as three months at her summer camp job in the Sierras. It has been a fantastic camera. But she only has the basic 35 mm (50 mm in 35 mm equivalent) lens and additional Fuji XF lenses are too pricey for a college kid.

Well . . . I bought her an adapter for Nikkor and another adapter for Canon FD, $20 each. Miracle! Now she can use all my old manual lenses, and we have dozens.

These old manual lenses are excellent. She, so far, likes:
- Nikkor 50 mm f1.2
- Nikkor 85 mm f1.4
- Canon FD 24 mm f2.8
- Canon FD 17 mm f4.0

She's not a big zoom fan.

So I'm thinking about buying one for myself. What do we think about the XPro 2?

[Scott Douglas]

I shoot my Nikon lenses on my Sony A7II and Nex-7 cameras. Really enjoy using them.

You might want to take look here: https://www.fujixspot.com/
to see what actual users think about the XPro 2.

I frequent the sister site for Sony's.

[craigster59]

I have a Fuji X-T10. Nice camera, takes great pictures. Lenses are expensive, I might check out an adapter.

[Cdnone1]

I would imagine that none of your older Nikon glass have auto focus functions and that they will also not work with the metering on the XPro1 or 2. I was looking at this camera so I could use my old Nikon glass and also some of the Ziess glass I have from my Contax G2. I gave up as I've got older I don't want to carry a meter and as my eyes get older I admit that I do use the auto focus function some time, though I very seldom shoot the camera in auto.
Will you get and of the functions using the Nikon glass will you be shooting everything full manual?

[Scott Douglas]

That's the nice thing about the Sony's, the metering works with the old legacy glass in full manual mode. With the IBIS (in body image stabilization) and my TAP adapter I have auto focus and image stabilization too when using them on the A7II.

[jyl]

On the XPro 1, you set to camera to shoot w/o lens. The camera + manual lens then works in stop down mode. Which works perfectly fine for normal exposures. If you are trying to set the lens to f 22 for an ultra long exposure, then it is a problem, but that's not common for us.

As for the focusing, she has young eyes so not an issue. For me, I either run the lens at a smaller aperture (f 5.6 etc) or if using wide-open, I bracket the focus.

[Cdnone1]

I ended up going a different route as I wanted a rangefinder like my old Contax and even a lot of the newer mirrorless cameras are set up to look like a SLR.
I got the Leica D-Lux 109 and absolutely love it. You might want to take a look at it as I'm sure you can get one with a grip, shade and a few other accessories for less than a XPro1 or 2 body. It has a fixed zoom lens that I was hesitant about but because it is so compact I end up carrying it everywhere and taking a lot more shots than I use to