It's good to see Jack Black lost some weight and is enjoying the hobby of photography!

Amazing. No hyped up voices, no flashy sets or lighting. Simply a straight up vid on what a guy likes and doesn’t about a camera that some like and others don’t. That’s life and that’s photography. Well played my man. #newsubscriber

Jack Black does a surprisingly informative camera review!

Just watched it again - really liked your style and humour in presentation.

Always a pleasure listening to your videos. Calm and informative. Thanks

A happy new year and looking forward to enjoying new down to earth insights from you. Thx. Apropos I will stay with my XPRO1and 2 as I'm still happy with both of them.

"Everybody knows that professionals take pictures... like an iPad." hahaahahaahahahah I love it

Jack black doing reviews?? ..... like it a lot!

Have been missing your videos. Glad you are back in the saddle. I really appreciate your descriptions and opinions without hype and embellishment.

Excellent, restrained, no nonsense vid. Subbed!

Nice pace, good narration, very calm. Only recently I have found this channel. What a joy to listen to. Great review really draws you in and makes you think. A real change from the norm.

Legend is back! Hope 2020 marks the return of Herr Schultz!

A great Christmas present to see a new video from you, Palle. Missed seeing you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

I really appreciate your de-escalated approach. Too many people freak out about the display. You made some great points.

Welcome back! Loving this camera!

Ok. I’m sold on this camera for sure. I’m definitely adding it to my wishlist. And welcome back! I always dig your videos.

Welcome back! I love the X-Pro 3. I ordered one after reading Jonas Rask’s great article about it. I have the XT-3 as well and I view the two cameras as beautiful tools designed for different purposes, or for different shooting styles. The hidden LCD works for me, as does the e-ink display on the back. The lack of an in-your-face LCD reminds me of shooting analog, and in particular with the Leica MP and M7. It’s freeing not to have the LCD tempting you to look at the camera instead of at what is before you. Also, the body fits perfectly in my hand and, to me, reflects a high level of artistic industrial design. I think the flip-down screen is also brilliant for low or waist level shooting, especially since the bottom hinge means the view is unobstructed by the viewfinder. The restriction regarding tripod use does not bother me, since I view the XT-3 as a more all-around workhorse, including using it for landscapes and other work where a tripod is needed. To me, the X-Pro 3 is more about walking around, camera in hand, and photographing what you happen to come across. I applaud Fujifilm for taking the path less traveled, producing a unique camera that a relatively small audience will love. I also greatly enjoy Jonas Rask’s product shots. I wonder how many cameras and lenses have been sold based on customers reacting to those product shots!.

Good to have you back!

I’ve definitely missed your informative styling. Have been hoping that you would get the X-Pro3 and craft some content surrounding our experience with it. Thank you & welcome back

Well done on your welcome back video. Love my X Pro3 and I'm a left eye shooter as well!

I do agree with you. I like this new design, it is absolutely iconic...

Good to see you back 👍

Brillant video! Glad I found your channel!

Welcome back Palle!!, Common sense, no nonsense opinions and particular humor that I enjoy a lot!!!

I'm an X-Pro-2 shooter and I communicate regularly with other's. Most of us have tried an X-Pro-3 and, so far, none of us have purchased one or plan to. As far as we can tell they added more quirks (sorry but that LCD is a terrible design and execution) and didn't address issues like IBIS or an improved battery, tangible items that would have been real improvements. I am very frustrated by Fuji right now and wanted to want this camera, but I don't. For me right now I'm sticking with the X-Pro-2. It's doing the job well enough and I'm much too invested in the system (4 lenses) to jump ship... for now. The things you mention are minor at best and sound like nothing more than an attempt to put a positive spin on a very poorly designed camera.

Excellent presentation! I agree. Thanks.

Always enjoy your opinion and video style.

Just got mine and LOVE IT! Best cam I have gotten in a long time, and I was a Canon and Nikon lifelong shooter. This Cam is simply OUTSTANDING, I loaded a few Recipes from Fuji weekly and all I can say is WOW! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Hi Palle! Nice to have you back!

I had the dura black model in my hands yesterday, it felt soooo good in my hands. A beautiful tool!

Ahh yes! Glad to see a video! :) Excellent points you made btw!

I hope you make more videos.. I love your work. please keep it up!

I legit had to double check cause I saw Jack Black reviewing an XPro3 on the thumbnail

Good to see you back, Palle.

niiiiice to see you back, actually I was curious about an "worth upgrading" video between this one and the xpro2, just to see what changed in 4 years. keep posting, I love your style

Don't know about know about the xpro3, but it is surely good to have a video from you again.

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

a clarifying perspective thank you

Thank you sir for this great common sense review! I can’t wait to get my XPRO 3! 😁 Happy Holidays!

I love the fact that you and I use Fuji and Kemper gear 🙌 Great video btw!

I just bought one:) Great video, very well explained

Nice work Palle, agree with you - i like it!

Very insightful video. The X-Pro3 is not for everybody. That's just one more reason why it suit me. More specifically, the rear display is a great feature for the reasons you describe, but also because it expands the information available on camera settings BEFORE the camera is even turned on. By choosing the "classic" format for the rear display, I can know which custom setting is selected before the camera is turned on. That's because each of my custom settings is based on a different film simulation (Provia, Astia, Classic chrome, Pro Neg std, Classic negative classic, Acros red, Acros green). I can therefore also indirectly SCROLL through the list of these custom settings after pressing my "custom settings" button, once the camera is turned on. Of course, once a custom setting has been selected, I can also quickly and stealthily change the film simulation within that profile after pressing my "film sim" button. This is very visual, intuitive, quick and stealthy way to change how my JPEGs images will look. I shoot Raw+JPEG and use the JPEGs 98% of the time.

Thank you! I'm looking forward to more.

Thanks Palle - another nice informative yet calm and non hyped video! 👍The X-pro series has evolved beautifully I totally agree with your comments, simplicity in design for user experience is always better in my book also! Kind regards Anthony

Very simplicity, love how u set only very minimal Q menu, inspiring!

Thank you for this video ! Man, I think exactly the same regarding this camera, I finally bought it although there was so many negative comments, but I am so glad :)

The xpro3 brought back everything I love about photography and I couldn't be happier with it.

i really appreciate everything you said here -- especially the part about losing interest in shooting with analogue cameras! i have a desire to delve in this area but don't really want to also "go there" so this camera can fill that desire (you get what i mean. film will always be film -- the whole experience but this allows me to entertain that feeling)! thanks for the great video. much respect!

You've been sorely missed Palle - welcome back! Yeah, I get it too...

Awesome vid thanks! +1 I have 25 years of photography experience, started at my 15th, from 35mm went through medium format and large format panoramic analogue phorography, velvia provia was my daily diary. Being able to try to capture that once vivid bright emulsion of Fuji colors in a handy small convenient box that is reliable, puts the photographer again at maximum creativity. I'm a right-eye shooter but nevertheless I prefer LCD closed and all attention going to the composition of the subject through the OVF / EVF.

Thanks Palle, nice to see you back! I´m quite sure I will get the X Pro3 as soon as the X Pro4 is announced. As I got the X Pro2 recently, when the X Pro3 was announced (great camera by the way). No problem for me to be 2-3 years behind :-)

Hey Palle, This is the first time I have seen one of your videos and I really enjoyed the way you just explained why you are so passionate about the X-Pro 3. (Subscribed). I had to write because its hard to imagine the negativity about this camera design, from reading the many comments here. What is so great about the camera world today is how much variety there is available. So we can choose what really suits us and use it to develop our own style and expression. We have unbelievably good smartphone cameras, Foveon sensors, Petzval style lenses and we can adapt vintage or even CCTV lenses to our digital cameras. Etc., etc... I like that Fuji engineers approached the X-Pro 3 design from an alternative perspective, with the aim of switching the emphasis from the LCD onto the viewfinder. I can’t wait to get my own X-Pro 3 and I hope it works for me as much as it does for you. But if it doesn’t I shall simply sell it on and I’ll still be grateful to Fuji for presenting us with choice and the option to think different.

What a great review style.

Agree 100% - great video.

Thanks Palle, I’de love one, but will have to stay with my x100f for now. Simon

Your pared back approach to this video makes it stand out from all the other X-Pro 3 reviews that I've watched. It feels more honest, and coming from an actual film-shooter. Everybody else's seems like it's coming from a camera reviewer. Thanks for this video. Now, I feel like I know who this camera is really for. =)

Nice to see you Back

Great experience and point, sort of those man who were shooting with me on tape long time ago. Same filings 🤝🙌🏻

Short but very good review.. Thanks a lot Sir

Merry Christmas Palle!

Great video Palle 👍

Great video - agree fully. Took me out of the Leica “want” space...this is amazing. Might only add lenses now and perhaps a GFX.... only need more resolution but supposedly sony now has a 43megapixel app-s sensor..... Only miss for me is only one mag factor in the OVF. Great video. Thank you!

Nice review and good to have you back. Haven’t tried the X-Pro3 yet, but as you said it is not for everyone and that probably includes me. 😉

I've been watching some of your X-T3 videos since I just got one. Cheers

Well, as I'm currently using an X-T3 for video work, and sometimes photography, I can clearly remember many situations where I wished I had such a simple tilt screen as there is on the X-Pro3 (for low angle shooting). The good protection this layout offers allows for a bigger screen too. It's not for everyone, but I agree with you, it's actually very useful in some ways. Oh and welcome back ! :)

Some of Jack Black's best work

Welcome back =)

Yep! Fair dinkum cobber. Nice to see you back.

I hadn’t thought about the “no spectators” thing, but that’s a good point

ALL your videos are good Palle.

BTW, the X Pro3 is a gorgeous upgrade to the old rangefinder.

I don't understand the hate for the screen to be hounest. Most of the time (99%) shooting with the viewfinder makes more sense since the backscreen reflects basically just about everything. The only time I can see it as a problem is when someone would use a tripod. But I'm sure with some acra plate a work around might be possible. The only reason I didn't get one is the price. Other then that, it is just a rediculously beautifull piece of amazing machinery!

I have purposefully waited through Xpro1 and 2 and many other cameras to eventually buy the one for me, the X Pro 3, its been a long time coming and Fuji are way ahead of the field, its a camera, not a video screen. I particularly love the back screen with the film display, nice touch. Photography as it used to be. Thanks Fuji

I'm so glad I bought the x-pro 3 over the x100v. I love the flip screen because i can use it to shoot waist level like how i shoot using my 500cm hasselblad. I also love that its film focused. I love that the experience i get from using analog is kinda the same and respects the old school experience but at the same time the conveniences of new tech is there like usb c (i carry a power bank), automatic transfer to mobile phone, etc. I dont even have a huge memory card in the camera because its all stored raw on my samsung phone that's 512gb.

Love my XPRO3 probably one of the best things ive done with my photography. Really made me think about the way i shoot again, when i went digital with my Sony i became the "ipad" shooter lol that you describe and when i got the XPRO i really saw how much i had been missing. Great video fully enjoyed. Thanks Palle.

Great video...thanks

You make a couple really good points about the benefits of the controversial rear LCD design. OTOH, your suggestion that people don't like the LCD design because they can't hold their camera like an iPad isn't fair at all. Good to see you back at it.

Glad too see you again! Will be happy, if you'll tell smth about X-H1 software ver.2 - thinking of buying it second hand in 2020(cause of ibis)! Like your videos anyways

👍 It's nice to view your video's again.

I agree with you. March 2022 I received mine with a couple of lenses. So far, I am loving it. I'm also a left eye shooter and I learned on manual cameras shooting Fuji Velvia. This brings back "real" photography for me. And, as a bonus, I'm training my right eye to see. As a pretty devoted Sony guy I can't complain about this camera. It brings back the joy of just seeing. I would recommend it to anyone who loves taking pictures. On a side note, I recently took out my now ancient Sony alpha 900 DSLR. Wow. That's what prompted me to get the Fuji X-Pro3. Seeing through the lens makes a big difference for me. I feel very fortunate to have both these cameras. // alex

Good job on this my man.

Palle, you really, really make me want that camera...

Thanks for talking about a couple of things nobody mentions. I am a hobbyist and probably should not buy a camera this expensive, but the heart wants what the heart wants so I'll probably end up doing the investment. Just sometimes not sure if I should get an XT3 or XT4 as the price tag is lower... 2K vs 1.5-1.7K just seems stupid but man that 2K camera looks so damn sexy...

Nice. Well said!

Palle, great to see a post from you. You've been missed, friend. Side note: I wonder if you shouldn't post affiliate links for the US, Canada, and at least UK/EU in your description section, so that the benefits can be truly mutual, or moreso. Your viewers are often making purchases, prodded by your thoughtful and creative approaches to integrating Fujifilm cameras into your life.

As a right dominant eye shooter, its my main reason of why I stuck with the xpro series. No more greasy LCDs

I just bought x pro 2 used for $1k..and it came with 23mm f2..in mint condition including the box and papers..loving the x pro 2..will upgrade to x pro 3 in 4 years time..🤭

I am not able to get the Xpro3 right away- but very great-full to Fujifilm for allowing the Xpro Series to branch off on it's own

I'm not totally conviced by the XPro3 design but I like your videos and comments.

Dream camera absolutely perfect form factor

Cool colours

Thanks for making a new video, Palle! Now I don’t know if I want to get the xpro3 in DURA silver or DURA black. :|

Great Palle!

I had hoped that the X-Pro3 would introduce16mm framelines. Instead they removed the 18mm framelines! I don't mind about the hidden screen (I almost never use the LCD), and I could live without the D-pad (grudgingly), but it's a shame that they made the optical viewfinder less flexible than on the X-Pro2 and X-Pro1.

I’m also a left eye shooter for the last 3 years. As I’ve lost my sight in my right eye. So I get the nose on the screen issue. I’ll have to wait a few years until I can afford this though. I love the idea of not using a screen all the time personally

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned the leftie issue with this particular camera,,but I have seen reviewers knock the Sony a6000 series for that very issue, as the reviewer was left-eye dominant. I’ve thought about whether it was an issue for the X-Pro line before, I guess another reason most stick with the SLR-like middle position, even when they don’t have to anymore. Good point about there being no screen to smudge with your nose (apart from subscreen), a bigger eye cup might have helped that, perhaps detachable and replaceable rubber one. I think I read somewhere the x-pro 3 still does the annoying thing of turning off the screen with a proximity sensor, eg your finger touching the screen, a camera strap, whatever. I had hoped with the screen design, that was off or designed differently. Maybe not an issue unlike the other xt cameras.

Well said.

Just want to say... welcome back, good sir... welcome back. What people’s work would you recommend who have used the Fuji systems for documentary and filmmaking?

Where did you get the. Hot shoe cover please