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Here are my quick thoughts on the matter.
- Both have rather complete systems and continuously improve their existing products through firmware updates. The only other product that I can think of hats received as much improvements is the Ricoh GR.
- Both have very nice lens lineups. The Olympus has the advantage of being able to use Panasonic lenses as well. Oly has affordable lenses, a good selection of primes (24/35/50/90/150 equivalents) and two nice 2.8 zooms out now (24-80/80-300 equivalents). Also has better weather sealing.
- Fuji has some incredible primes. Better IQ and build that the Oly but also more expensive. The zooms are very nice as well, but they have to deal with size. Larger sensor will lead to larger lenses. The mock ups of the 16-55 2.8 is rather large. Oly lenses are smaller because of he smaller sensor. You can literally carry lenses in your pockets if you wish. In my experience the grip and handling of the E-M1 is better than the X-T1. Manually focusing is much better on the Fuji, the peaking and manual focus aides are 100x better on the Fuji.
- Oly is better for fast shooting, Fuji better for slower, more setup shooting environments. This isn't discussing AF speeds but overall shooting parameters. The Oly is setup more DSLR like with two dials, a PASM dial. Can quickly change exposure settings with using your index finger and thumb on the dials. So you could go from shooting at say 1/80 flower and see a moving object that you want to freeze, so flick your finger and get to 1/2000 SS quickly. With the Fuji youre using the dial to set exposure settings and might still have to fine tune it if it's not at your desired stop on the dial.
- IQ wise the Fuji is better, at least in my experience. Jpegs are usable most of the time out of the camera. Slightly better high ISO performance.
- Of the two, I would lean more towards the E-M1. So much so that I just bought back into the system in a big way last night taking advantage of the lens promotion.
I would recommend
x-T1 for
- manual lens shooting
- Have time to setup and compose a shot. M
- Like shooting with fast primes.
- Like setting exposure settings manually
e-M1 for
- change shooting parameters quickly
- coming from a DSLR and want something to replicate the shooting experience
- like being able to choose from a wide variety of lenses (oly/panasonic/sigma trinity, Voigtlander, etc).
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