Lensgod
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I don't know about you but I had a nice 5d Mark ii...it was fantastic, but way to big to carry around with me all the time, and sods law...every time I thought to myself "oh, that would make a good photo" I never had the thing with me. So I downsized to a pentax k5 with a couple of limited primes...nice combo, great image quality and colours...but still not quite small enough...so then I thought, I know, I'll get a Leica x1, or maybe a Fuji x100...but didn't think I could live with just the one focal length (I like 50mm, 35mm, 22mm and 15mm FF equivs). Then, I heard about the xpro1...figuring this might cost around 1000 great british pounds, and the lenses would be around 500 a pop that sounded just fine for a quality bit of kit...okay not too much in the way of fast zooms or longer focal lengths...now I hear that the lenses are a plastic and a bit big (unlike the handbuild metal pentax limiteds, which are also nice and compact)...and the camera body is bigger than the x100....so suddenly I'm thinking, okay...a compact the size of a small slr, with high quality primes that are made of plastic and wont fit in your jacket pocket when mounted, the zooms that might come out look to be f4 at the most, and to add insult to injury....it's body only pre-order price is around 1400-1500 quid!! Give me a break fuji, you started on the right foot, and I was genuinely interested...but now you've got me thinking, maybe I'll see what olympus have up their sleave, and failing that...maybe leica will make something nice (if I can be bothered to wait that long). What's that, a Nikon v1...small, and nice quality with an adapter for normal nikon lenses...hmmm, maybe I should take a look....