Actually, what impressed me most about this thread, is that flysurfer is doing a great job of selling the plasticky, inferior, dog-slow Fuji 16-50mm... :big grin:
I was considering an X-E1 because it's pretty cheap now, to use with MF primes and one of the Fuji zooms (maybe save up for the 18-55). But this is great stuff from the X-A1/16-50, which is the cheapest of all. I really had to stare hard at the samples to see differences between X-A1 and X-M1, the X-A1 saves you money to put towards a nice Fuji prime, or say upgrade you to the 18-55 over the 16-50.