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Pros: Inexpensive - second hand, with 18-55 lens, only EUR 500 (2018).
Cons: Battery life only 150-200 shots. Very time consuming to set up and shoot. Kit lens 18-55 useless for any 'close up' work. Impossible to set the camera from full manual to full auto in less than one minute.
Opinion: I bought this camera to step up from our older Nikon P7800 (a compact camera). I could afford an X-T2 but wanted to test something similar from Fuji before spending big money on the camera to use for my future work. After one month shooting these two cameras side by side I still get better images from our Nikon compact. I have seen some great images taken with X-T1 on many websites but now I am sure these images have been very seriously processed. So if you want to spend your life playing with Photoshop, this is the camera to get. I will still keep it and learn more and maybe I will be happier with it in the long run. But I may as well say good bye to Fuji and to any other mirrorless camera. Today top shelf compacts with large sensors are far easier to shoot and give equally good images.
Edit late September 2018: After a lot and lot of trial and error - now I can get the camera to outperform much older much cheaper Nikon compact. Image quality is clearly MUCH BETTER than I assumed earlier. It just takes so much time to get used to all the too many dials, switches and buttons. This camera is completely NOT like any real retro camera I used to own (e.g. an Olympus OM-1, among many others.)
I also found that the AF system is only good with some newer lenses (like the kit zoom) but it is absolutely abysmal with some R lenses (e.g. 35 1.4R). I am yet to find if this is because of the lens or because of the camera. I will report as I test more.
Corresponding lenses are easily 100% more expensive than comparable Canon or Nikon lenses. They are very difficult to re-sell when you upgrade your kit.
Pros: Quality, feel, controls, size, lenses, versatility, image quality with jpeg right from camera,
Cons: Battery life.
Opinion: I have had this camera for about six months and am amazed at the quality. The image quality is fantastic when I do my part. I love the control dials as opposed to the menu system of other cameras. This camera is better than my Leica system in every aspect. This camera allows you to think and to control every aspect of a shot very intuitively. Build quality is superb. The 18-55 mm 2.8-4 zoom is fantastic and is definitely not a kit lens. The other lenses I have are equally excellent. This is like having all the benefits of an old time camera with the latest technology. I love this machine. I also like the firmware updates. Fuji really supports their customers.
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Pros:Retro style of controls combined with many useful modern functions (electronic shutter completely silent, focus peaking and electronic viewfinder with dual frame for MF Precisissima); Exceptional electronic viewfinder, extremely low weight, quality of the produced files, perfect white balance in artificial light, focus and AF.
Cons:Flash system. Battery life.
Opinion:I took it as a second system, from alternating to Nikon full frame. What to say, it's a marvel. The files that you get are always very close to what you want to achieve by shooting in natural light and are well workable in the recovery of lights and shadows. The raw are always very good already departing and wishing you can always apply with Lightroom in post production the assembly color of Fuji, type Astia or Velvia. On the Iso seal side I can not express myself objectively, in the sense that I should compare it to other APSC that I no longer after switching to FF: For me the yield is good, comparable to D7100, maybe better. But I read a little everywhere that the Iso indicated by Fuji in the car actually... are not real so any cross brand comparison is out of my reach and my purposes. The native optics are all of quality and I sincerely admire Fuji for having given the APSC format the dignity that other brands have denied when they stopped investing in the creation of valuable optics. The XT1 is a very powerful machine that in the simplicity of transport of a system composed even by a few essential lenses allows to shoot with satisfaction reaching a remarkable image quality. The manual ring nuts must please: it is more a question of style than speed because on balance the controls of the Nikon type d700/d8 * * are faster (at least for me I'm used to that layout of controls). For me the strong point is the viewfinder (as big as the D800 with DK17M mounted) and aid to manual focus: I rediscovered the pleasure of shooting with vintage optics with the certainty of a perfect focus.
Pros:Sharpness, excellent JPG, good dynamic range, convenient controls.
Cons:In certain situations: poor lighting, confused background, strong lighting points the AF leaves you a little distracted.
Opinion:I had almost all the Fuji APS-C, the XT1 is the one that gave me the most satisfaction considering quality/price. Combined with 23 1.4 beats many FF. The only caveat, in my opinion, is to use when you can the FM with "the Help". Maybe it's not suitable for highly dynamic scenes. Shooting a long burst in JPG + RAW heats up a bit. arrives quietly at 1600 ISO even if the best I got it to 400. Above all, he does not close the shadows as he tends to make his elder sister. Good bargains in the used if you know who had it.
Opinion:I had some of Fuji: X30, X-M1, X-E1, x Pro1 and X-T1. Of course the XT1 was the best. I will not be able to reiterate things that I have already read below about the indisputable photographic quality of this top range but I'll just tell one of the reasons why I was not well: what just stood me tight of the XT1 were the ring nuts. I love the street fast and for this kind of photography I need a camera from the immediate controls because I can need more or less field or I can pass in a short time from a very enlightened situation to one of twilight or backlight. On the X-T1, which with the street should find its raison d'être, setting the shutter speed dial, I do not know, at 1/125, I could not then quickly use the wheel to pass, just to say, to 1/1250. I had to unlock the ring and reposition it! The wheel only gave me the margin of one stop at the bottom or the top. Same speech for the ISO ring. I had an Olympus whose ring nuts were in range of thumb and forefinger and also acted as wheels! Now, with the Sony A7R II, I have all the scissors at the wheel range. I can move from minimum to maximum without having to go even for the ring nuts. Why two commands for the same thing, where then the wheel serves little and nothing? (The only thing I miss about Fuji is the aperture ring on the lenses: I adored it) As I see it, in addition to the compensation ring, it needs one to switch from M mode to A, S or P (which then instead this ring here, which serves, on the X-T1 is not there). In short, fine ring but totally useless (critical that I could expand even to other models Fuji, as well as later). Surely some fanboy will resent this affront! I beg your pardon.
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