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Quick Autofocus Test: Fujifilm X Pro 1 (Firmware 2.0) vs Olympus OMD EM5

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 09/24/2012
09/25/2012
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Fujifilm recently updated their X Pro 1 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera’s firmware to deliver blazing fast results. Indeed, the camera is much improved over its past performance. But to see just how far it has come, I decided to put it up against the current autofocusing king: the Olympus OMD EM5 with an MSC Fast AF system lens.

Check out the quick, informal video after the jump. Which one would you use?

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Conclusions

The Olympus OMD EM5 is a clear and undisputed winner in my opinion. Despite this being said, the Fujifilm X Pro 1 is now fast enough for the candid nature of street photography.

Now here’s the interesting part: in some situations, I still actually consider my Canon 5D Mk II to be faster than the X Pro 1’s focusing with my 35mm f1.4 L lens attached. And with a lighter and faster lens like Canon 85mm f1.8, the X Pro 1 is blown out of the water. To be fair, it still isn’t bad; but it cannot catch up to the rapid fire speeds of Olympus’s OMD, Sony’s NEX line of cameras, or higher end DSLRs.

At times though, the X Pro 1 can outperform the 5D Mk II.

But the X Pro 1 still beats many of these cameras in one particular category: and that is pure image quality. We put the X Pro 1 against the 5D Mk II and 5D Mk III in an image quality test, and many of you either were not able to tell the difference between the images or really favored the X Pro 1’s quality.

I’m going to do more tests with the X Pro 1 over time, but from today’s test it still seems that the company has some ground to cover.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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