I was chatting to a respected local dealer this afternoon, for most of the
afternoon it seems. His store sells rare hi-fi, Leica and just general good
stuff and he has nice sofas i the saleroom and boxes f stuff everywhere. Made
his money by being the top pro Canikon dealer for a looong time. We put our
feet up, someone got coffee from the deli next door, we talked about favorites
and family and Easter and stuff as we considered the movement of a nice, black
Alpa 9D from his stock to my collection - he owed me some money and now I owe
him some.
I mentioned the Cosina 'theory' and he was unsurprised. Thought it made sense.
He had the Fuji X-Pro on the counter and a few CosVoigt bodies in the cabinet
and 30-40 lenses or so and an X-Pan 2 on the table next to him so we had the
necessary props.
I don't think I'll print it but I may whisper the idea here and there. Even to
Fuji Aus tho' they may never talk to me again.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
On 05/04/2012, at 9:08 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Fuji downsized a lot of their ability to manufacture this camera
> inhouse. I have every reason to believe the X100 is inhouse, but the
> X-Pro-1 looks like the child of another mother. The lens design is
> absolutely Fuji--no doubt about that. That company knows how to design
> and build extremely high-quality lenses. Just look at the TV cameras
> to know that. But Cosina has positiioned themselves as the goto
> company for making specialty cameras that require some old-school
> technologies. It's been a LONG time since the X-Pan was built.
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