Mirrorless Cameras

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Welcome to our series of 100 interviews we will be holding with professional photographers who use mirrorless cameras for work! "Switching to a smaller and lighter system" has become somewhat of a ...

Fuji X-T1 review from Gary Tyson at F8 Photography based in Hong Kong. Whilst working in Cambodia, Korea and Hong Kong. Here's my thoughts.

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It has been well over a month since the long-awaited-for Fuji X-T1 arrived at my doorstep. I can now safely say that I will keep this camera (and hopefully for a good while). The X-T1 is part of the Fuji X-series of cameras that were first introduced a few years ago and include both compact fixed-lens and interchangeable-lens cameras. At the heart of most of these cameras is an APS-C-sized sensor that has a different pixel arrangement than the sensors used in most other cameras today. Fuji called called the pixel arrangement X-Trans. From the start the X-series cameras were widely praised for their high image quality, close to that of full-frame cameras, but roundly criticized for being slow and quirky. Back then, an X-camera made great photos if you were able turn it on without a firmware crash, get the lens to focus, dig deep into a maze of menus to make adjustments, and your subject stood still while all this unfolded. But that was then and this is now. The just released Fuji X-T1 is a solid performer in every respect when compared to other mirrorless cameras.
Control Layout
Most X-series cameras follow a traditionalist approach to the control layout which I like very much, and the X-T1 takes it to a new level. Most importantly, each one of the three main exposure settings - aperture, shutter speed, and ISO - has a dedicated physical dial. There are also dedicated switches for metering, autofocus, and continuous shooting modes. No fumbling with button-wheel combinations (Canon) or diving into menus. In this regard there is nothing on the market quite like the X-T1, except maybe for the Nikon Df (which is bigger, heavier, and $1400 more expensive). To many people this retro-style design is appealing because it brings back memories or simply looks cool…but I was not into photography during the analog age, so for me this is not about nostalgia. This is about practicality. I like this design because it makes it easier for me to locate my controls

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