Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat camera
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2022
To keep it simple, here is a list of the strengths and weaknesses of this camera:
+ The image clarity is amazing and you can especially notice it when using the new 18mm, 23mm, 33mm, or 53mm lenses. Those are the three new primes made specifically for the additional pixels.
+ As with all of the Fujifilm cameras, the lens simulations are awesome. I have previously owned both Nikon and Cannon cameras and I may have used maybe 1% of the images straight out of the camera without editing in Photoshop etc. With the Fujifilm camera I probably use 25% of the images straight out of the camera and I am very picky with what I will use.
+ The focus speed is very fast and accurate. I really didn't have any problem with the X-T4 with regards to it's autofocus speed but this one is even better although not by a large margin in my opinion. There just wasn't a large room for improvement at the start.
+ The size of the camera is perfect for my hands. It is a bit larger than the X-T4 but not that much heavier and the size hits in my end very well with out putting on a bracket like I had to with the X-T4 which probably made it weight the same anyway.
+ I really love how they adjusted the display so you could always have the 3D electronic level on. I hope that they do this with all of their cameras in the future. I use this all the time with so many shots so it is nice to have in automatically on at all times.
+ The in camera view is extremely clear and never blacks out and with the fast refresh rate, you never miss an image and the clarity is amazing.
+ The new autofocus button (M, C, S). I am indifferent to the button but do really like being able to set it to go along with my C settings on the PSAM dial. Because of portrait settings I like certain settings but I prefer manual for landscape and being able to do this to this level I really like.
-+ The PSAM dial. I would actually prefer it did not use this dial. However, it is VERY useful to me with regards to all of the settings one can adjust with the C pre-defined settings. I really wish Fujifilm could figure out a way to allow a person to control all of the settings (like image size, image quality, autofocus setting, etc.) with the Q settings in the other cameras like the X-T4. I do not understand why they can't do this in the others and I find this very useful and then I would not want the PSAM dial at all.
- My biggest hang up is in the removal of the the clickable command dials. I really hate this! It is very nice in the other cameras to be able to set this to things like the ISO so you don't have to waste a button and are very easy to adjust quickly.
- This is getting EXTREMELY picky but a friend of mine has the old Fujifilm XF-10 camera. I rarely use the Filter settings but he was showing me all of the extra ones on his camera and some of the cool images straight out of the camera. I do not understand when they have already done the programming to create these, why they don't do that on all following cameras.
There are very few things that I dislike about this camera and am actually very pleased with how well it both handles and performs.
