StS Posted January 25, 2014 Share #1 Posted January 25, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) ...at least, it seems the Fuji people had the RTS III in mind, when designing the X-T1. If this is really the case, the shutter dial appears to be on the wrong side... Stefan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 Hi StS, Take a look here Contax RTS III ?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
adan Posted January 26, 2014 Share #2 Posted January 26, 2014 Well - define "wrong side." The vast majority of 35mm cameras (Leica, Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Pentax) with a top shutter dial have placed it on the same side as the Fuji, ever since Barnack set the style. So it was Kyocera/Contax that put it on the "wrong side" in the first place. Of course, originally it was on the shutter-advance side because it connected directly to the shaft of a horizontal-traveling clockwork shutter. And the other side was taken up by a rewind knob. Once vertical-blade shutters, and then electronic shutters, and then motorized rewind, made the mechanics different (or even irrelevant), designers were free to move the dial anywhere they wanted - thus the Contax RTSIII/RX/Aria style. (Note that the Contax S2, with a clockwork shutter and rewind knob, had to revert to the "Barnack" layout.) Other options were: on the front, like the Leica slow-speed dial or the Contax I or the Ricoh TLS; or around the lens mount (Olympus/Nikkormat) My guess is Fuji was not thinking of the RTS III, but simply working from the existing X100/X-1/XE-2 camera layouts. Exp. comp and shutter dial in the same places, move the viewfinder to the center, add "something" on the other side (in this case an ISO dial). The quote-"prism-hump"-unquote shape doesn't have a lot of room for variation - chunky Contax/Nikon FTn/Alpa/Sony A7/Minolta XK shape - or pointy Canon F-1/Olympus OM shape. I expect Fuji chose the shape that looked LEAST like the OM-D series, for current product differentiation, rather than worrying about what a defunct camera from 15 years ago looked like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted January 26, 2014 Share #3 Posted January 26, 2014 Its a nice shape, I'm glad there are some proper dials. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevelap Posted January 26, 2014 Share #4 Posted January 26, 2014 Interesting that they've chosen to use an A position on the aperture ring, shutter and ISO dials, rather than a PASM dial. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
janki Posted January 26, 2014 Share #5 Posted January 26, 2014 FUJI X-T1 seems to be very well designed, with a beautiful retro look. I can understand that one can see a bit of Contax RTS in this camera. If I remember correctly, Porsche designed the Contax RTS. With design and image quality at top, probably Fuji here has a winner. For us who live in the colder regions of the world, it is interesting to see that the camera is guaranteed to operate down to -10 degrees Celsius. Maybe I have a future "hiking companion" in this camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevelap Posted January 28, 2014 Share #6 Posted January 28, 2014 Just read some 'first look' reviews after this morning's official release. Impressive.......if the performance and build quality are as promised and IQ passes muster. I wonder what Leica has up its sleeve with the T.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
janki Posted January 28, 2014 Share #7 Posted January 28, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Look, a camera with a shutter-speed wheel and aperture ring on the lens, - that is something we Leica people like to see. And I must admit that this promotional clip gives me a feeling of, "must have, -simply must have". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted January 29, 2014 Share #8 Posted January 29, 2014 It appears the "Contax-like" large viewfinder hump is large for a practical reason - the largest EVF ever installed in a digital camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StS Posted March 12, 2014 Author Share #9 Posted March 12, 2014 Having seen the X-T1 today, I would say, that it is significantly smaller compared to the RTS III. Stefan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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