r/FujifilmX

Hello, I’ve never owned an actual camera before, but I’ve been doing a lot of research on different cameras and have narrowed it down to the Fujifilm X-M5 and the Fujifilm X-S10. I mostly want to take pictures when I go on hikes and when I go to airshows. I’m basically just wondering if I 100% need a viewfinder like the X-S10 has in order to take good pictures of planes in the air or landscapes while hiking, and if I can still achieve the same or very similar results with the X-M5, since it has better autofocus than the X-S10 but no viewfinder, and would also save me some money.

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question—I don’t have much real-world experience with cameras.

I am a new photographer who mostly had experience behind the computer editing video instead of behind the camera. Started photography within the past year and greatly enjoyed it and purchased a Sony a6700. It does everything well but does not excel in SOOC colors. A friend introduced me to Fujifilm and I have enjoyed the film simulation, compactness, and ease of use their x100vi provides. Finding out the viral hype and cost behind that camera however, I turned towards the more moderately priced X-E5 or X-T50 as my next best alternative.

Already having one camera body and a decent range of lenses, I am not interested in replacing my a6700 but rather accompanying it with a more portable, smaller, flatter companion. I live in Tokyo and am interested in exclusively using the 23mm pancake lens for street photography. I would like something I can slide in my jacket pocket or small backpack without having to carry my camera sling around everywhere as I do now.

I would like to hear from owners of either the X-E5 or X-T50 on why they chose the model they did, what they think it excels and lacks in, and what they recommend for me who values portability and compactness above all, closely followed by handling comfort and ease of use.

My current pros for the X-E5 are its rangefinder build, and slim and small size which allow for easy carry.

My cons are that it seems difficult to grip. I am a tall guy with large hands so I think I would need to buy aftermarket grip attachments. Does anyone have experience with those and if so, how do they help (or not). Or has the grip been fine without attachments?

I appreciate the built in flash on the X-T50 but would likely be buying a godox it30 pro for whichever camera I choose anyways so it would be irrelevant.

Thanks everyone :)

Hi all, I shoot with an XT5 and a lot of lenses (16-80, 70-300, 150-600, 23 prime, 27 prime, 80 prime macro) and have been thinking of switching to a sony a6700 or canon r7 or maybe even full frame.

My primary shooting is street but I also like to shoot wildlife / birds. I mostly shoot when I travel but shoot local as well (im in north cal).

I originally bought the XT5 and into fuji all together for the recipies and dials. I wanted to have high quality pics and colors SOOC since I hate editting. Ive had the XT5 for about 3 years now. Lately ive noticed I really only shoot with reggies porta and I dont really switch between the recipes I have saved. I also mostly shoot in full auto so the dials arent that useful to me. I took a trip to costa rica and was shooting the wild life and realized I was getting a lot of misses due to auto focus ( and lack of user skill) being meh. My friend wanted to get into photography recently as well so I was doing some research and stumbled onto the sony a6400/a6700. The AF is insane and quality is similar if not better than my XT5. I was wondering if it would be worth selling my gear and switching to the sony system (or canon but I havent researched much on it yet). I did hear that the XT6 is rumored to have better AF but im skeptical lol.

I also really like to pixel peep and the 40MP on the XT5 is amazing, I test shot a bit inside best buy with the A6700 and the pixel peep was pretty good on it as well.

What do you guys think? I was thinking maybe keeping the XT5 and getting a nice prime and selling everything else and getting a sony. I know there are better wild life camera set ups out there but it looks like the A6700 is a good combo for the price range (looking at olympus as well)

Hey y’all! Been vying to buy a Fujifilm for a couple of years now and haven’t had the financial opportunity to till recently. I just purchased an X-T2 on eBay with a shutter count of 397 for about $600. It came with a vintage SMC Takumar 1:1.8/55 lens (with the M42 to FX adapter), two 256 GB Sandisk Extreme Plus cards, and a neck strap. The camera is in good condition with a couple of paint chips to the body but that’s it. It arrived in the mail this week and I’m having trouble taking photos with it. None of the pictures I take are clear, no matter the lighting conditions. I know this is a manual lenses and that I need to do more work to achieve a good picture but I just can’t make heads or tails on what I’m doing wrong. I put the shutter speed at A, iso at A, exposure compensation to 0, metering at multi, and the drive dial to S. What am I doing wrong? Should I just save up for a new Fujifilm lens that’s automatic? Any help is much appreciated!

Hey all, how are you?

I'm pretty new on the fuji/film recipes world and I'm completely overwhelmed by the amount of film recipes and the simulations. I would appreciate some tips on how to choose wisely, and moreover, don't loose that perfect shot because of the indecision on which sims to choose.

What do you think when choosing which recipe will be uploaded or deleted from your camera? You look for a balance to make them versitile for instance?

Any help would be great!

Important info: I shoot JPEG and i'm not realy interested for the moment in shooting raw and post-procesing the images