Name: Fujifilm X-E1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS Zoom Lens, With Fujifilm 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDHC Memory Card
Brand: Fujifilm
SKU: IFJXE1BKFC
Price: 728.95 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.5 (46 reviews)

Fujifilm X-E1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS Zoom Lens, With Fujifilm 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDHC Memory Card

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Fujifilm X-E1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 18-55mm Lens, Black W/ 32GB Card

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Buy: Fujifilm X-E1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS Zoom Lens, With Fujifilm 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDHC Memory Card Camera Battery Series: Fujifilm NP-W126, Color: Black, Configuration: Body & Lens & Kit

The compact X-E1 is engineered to deliver extraordinary image quality. It starts with Fujifilm's proprietary 16.3 APS-C X-Trans 2/3" CMOS sensor whose unique pixel array is designed to deliver unsurpassed image resolution and color accuracy. Choose from the newly expanded XF Lens lineup with two new bright, high-definition FUJINON X-Mount lenses including a 14mm F2.8 and an 18-55mm F2.8-F4 lens. The 18-55mm allows photographic flexibility, optimizes low-light shooting and coupled with the EXR Processor Pro, the X-E1 delivers high performance auto focusing. Everything you need in one compact, beautiful camera system.   The X-Trans CMOS sensor, inspired by the random arrangement of fine silver halide grains seen in photographic film, adopts a more complex, random arrangement of 6x6 pixel sets to reduce moire and false colors. This innovative array of pixels eliminates the need for an optical low pass filter, and lets the X-Trans CMOS sensor capture unfiltered light from the lens avoiding any of the resolution reduction this causes, ensuring you get extra high resolution images that can withstand enlargement to a 2,700mm x 1,800mm size.   When matched with the new XF18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS lens the result is maximum performance with a high-speed autofocus time of 0.1 sec. The highly agile linear motor in the new XF18-55mm lens combines with the high-speed signal readout of the CMOS sensor and the newly developed EXR Processor Pro, to achieve a huge leap in AF speed and precision performance. Contrast Detection in the X-E1 brings your subject into sharp focus in as little as 0.1 seconds.

I was using the X-E1 as a second camera in conjunction with an X-T1 and in terms of image quality, it is every bit as good. However, even after the recent firmware update (which does help quite a bit with AF and other features) it still was a bit too slow to be using as a true second camera for weddings or quick, candid doc-style photography. I moved to the X-E2 and couldn't be happier. It's not a "night and day" difference, but it's the little things that all add up to the X-E2 being a faster, more useful camera for my purposes. If I were shooting still objects or doing portraits and little else, this camera would easily suffice.

Great image quality, decent interface

Fuji designers have identified the "I love photography but can't warm up to digital"niche...They have created a leica like body which masks a digital camera...solid construction, sharp lenses in a body that's a bit too small but can be accessorized with thumb grips or hand grips...

made for the rangefinder niche

This camera won't disappoint. The image quality if amazing and Fuji keeps updating the camera with Firmware making it even more capable. The Fujinon XF series lenses are top quality too.

Absolutely a must have

I do not shoot professionally just for leisure these days and I had been wanting to replicate the experience of shooting on my old  35mm slr.  The XE-1 is exactly that.  I use an adapter fit my manual lenses on it and don't have to worry about developing film!  The images this camera sensor puts out are incredible to say the least.  ISO performance is really phenomenal, but I haven't shot crop sensor cameras in a while so don't really have a barometer to judge against.  The handgrip is lacking a bit though and would benefit from a external hand grip.  Other than that it is a very good package for what I shoot.

The perfect digital for the analog lover

I would never haul my pro gear on a regular lunch date with a friend — but compared to what I'm used to dragging, this body (I have the 35mm lens attached) is light and effortless to carry all the time, so it's always with me.  Operation is so quiet; the fact that I can shoot from the hip without being noticed has opened up a whole new avenue for me in street photography (the autofocus issues complicate that a bit, I need to keep practicing to work that out.)  I wish the ISO settings were on the body rather than buried in the menu.

Fujifilm X-E1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS Zoom Lens, With Fujifilm 32GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDHC Memory Card

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