[duxup]

I was curious so I looked at the price, it's absurd.

$850, that price point is dead in the water to me. I may as well move up to other Fuji cameras that provide far more for not that much more money.

It's a "perfect family camera" if you don't consider the price...

[kemayo]

A camera that costs as much as a flagship smartphone shouldn't need a "setting expectations" section. Particularly when those expectations are "this is going to take worse pictures and be harder to use than your smartphone"...

It might be an okay intro-to-"real"-cameras device, since it's far less huge-and-clunky than an equivalently priced DSLR. But even there the tradeoffs don't look great.

[maxnoe]

Author drops that he owns a Leica M11 in a half sentence.

Most people who consider prices don't.

[mbreese]

Exactly. Phone cameras have completely absorbed the middle-ground for cameras. You either can find a cheap one where you don't care as much about the quality (for kids, or times when the phone could get damaged). Or you can find expensive ones like this where the fact that it's not a phone is the main feature. Any middle-range point and shoot has been out competed by the the phone you probably already have with you. That leaves the higher end DSLR style camera as the only other market segment for a standalone camera.

My kid recently asked about getting a stand alone camera. I found this one, but at that price, they needed to have a really good reason. In the end, I told them to use their phone anyway.

“¯\_(ツ)_/¯“

[boromi]

The price is crazy for the sensor size.

[brcmthrowaway]

Crazy good or bad?

[moolcool]

The X Half's selling point is all of it's software and hardware gimmicks. Strictly going by the numbers, you really aren't getting much camera for the money.

[mynameisvlad]

The article's author didn't like the quality of the photos, so seemingly crazy bad.

[stronglikedan]

crazy by itself is always bad. crazy good is a different thing that was added later

[xboxnolifes]

Not true. There is crazy (interesting), crazy (neutral), and crazy (I don't care).