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ISO1600 wrote:
The XE cameras are truly wonderful, but are grossly overvalued at every level for what they are- XE4 are going for more used than they ever cost new (when you can find one), used XE1/2/3 are 2-5x what they cost a year or two ago...
I am on my 3rd and last XE1, I plan to never sell it. First two I bought when it was already an "old" camera, for under 200 each time, and was hard to sell them lol. This last one I bought for almost 300 and the lens mount contacts are defective so it's essentially manual-lens-only, which is fine because the camera is so old and slow that using it with AF lenses is painful!
Fuji lens options are awesome, but they pretty much all start at $300 and rapidly go up from there right? Their only actual CHEAP prime is the 35XC plastic fantastic which I honestly loved on the XE4. I've posted in the Fuji thread that a line of XC fujicrons would be amazing. 3 lenses for ~$500 lol.
That's the direction I think Canon should go with RF-S primes. All plastic, all F2, simple build and small size. They have a lot of patents for small fast RF-S wides with unique focus mechanisms. Small fast primes could turn the R50 into an awesome VLOG/Camming option, which the M50 dominated at the time. A lot of twitch streamers (and other camming industries as well) have shifted to large sensor mirrorless over webcams for the massive boost in image quality. The awesome AI focus built into the R50 would be excellent for this....Show more →
Prices have been crazy on the Fujifilm cameras, especially the XE and X100(x) cameras. The issue with th former is that Fujifilm is no longer supplying the XE4, so demand is outstripping supply, to say the least. The XE3 is still a viable option, but it is also priced high on the used market. In fact, as you point out, it costs more to buy a used XE3 than it cost to buy a new one. (My wife bought one back when they were available at list price.)
So, unless you really specifically want the small body, the manual controls on body and lenses, and so forth… it is definitively not the least expensive small camera.
A lot of the small primes with f/2 or f/2.8 apertures sell new in the $400-$500 or so range. They are not cheapie lenses. There are a few cheapie lenses, as you mentioned, that are marketed for consumer-grade cameras. They are reportedly pretty good optically.
You’ll never see three of the excellent “Fujicron” lenses for $500. ;-)
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