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by 4ad
3497 days ago
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I bought an X-T10 a year ago and I don't like it at all. The lenses are excellent, and the build quality of the camera and lenses is impressive, but that's about it. Battery life sucks badly, the very proprietary and esoteric battery sucks when visiting less-developed countries where you can't buy a new battery easily, camera takes too long to boot, autofocus is too slow, fly-by-wire manual focus has an annoying lag, manual focus is awful with electronic viewfinder, jpeg colors are ugly and offensive forcing me to process raw files (I'm perfectly happy with Canon or iPhone jpeg colors for what I do). The lenses are not significantly lighter than DSLR lenses and are just as bulky. It's too bad because I really wanted to like this camera. As I said, the optical quality is excellent, and the build quality of the metal construction is something you can't find in anything produced this decade apart from Leica. Since I got my Fuji, I shoot my Nikon FM3a (mechanical film SLR) more. It's lighter and much less bulkier, never runs out of battery, and I am happy with Velvia 50 colors. I want to sell my Fuji gear. The X100T has a leaf shutter, and it's much smaller. It's a very nice camera for what it's supposed to do, but I can't justify buying a secondary camera at that price, and for me X100T can't be a primary camera. I need a SLR with interchangeable lenses (or at least a normal 50mm equiv. lens, not the wide lens of the X100T). |
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There's something hard to explain about the top X series cameras. In terms of actual "camera stuff", they're comparable to other cameras in their price range for the most part. But there's something transcendent about the products themselves that makes it hard for me to switch. I'll put it this way: I'll take my X100T with me on any trip, no matter how small since it's such a pleasure to use and handle. I wouldn't do that with virtually any other camera. It's definitely a different strokes type of thing, but it's made it so much easier to photograph everyday life and not feel like I'm slogging around a DSLR.