Re: What is your favorite Fuji camera... past or present?
Geoff D F wrote:
X-T5 is a camera where I think they got just about everything right.
I have a few shots from my X-E1, where the colours are sublime. There is something about them that I have never quite been able to replicate with any other camera.
I wasn’t going to mention my old XE1, which I no longer have but which lives on in the hands of someone else.
Objectively, it was not that great of a camera, especially by the standards of mirrorless cameras that we have now.
But when I got mine over a decade ago, coming from a background that included shooting film MF and 35mm and then a pretty large DSLR system, it was a revelation to put the 35mm f/1.4 on that very small camera and go out and photograph.
Steve Spencer wrote:
For me the X-T5 has a very nice balance of features. Still compact, but with a nice EVF, nice controls, good IBIS, nice tiltable LCD, and a good sensor. For a long time I have not been willing to sacrifice the size of the EVF to get a smaller camera, and with the X-T5 I don't feel like that is what I am doing. I have rather huge hands and a camera any smaller just doesn't work for me.
That’s pretty much the conclusion that I’ve come to, as well.
After using things as small as that earlier XE1 along with much larger systems over the years, the XT5 for me has a pretty ideal combination of features and form factor in a small camera. Yes, there are smaller options, but the XT5 is actually quire small relative to the overall camera options and it doesn’t give up much at all to get there.
I can put a 27mm f/2.8 pancake on the thing and use it for a day of street photography. (I can toss in a couple of other small primes if i need more adaptability.) I can put the 80mm f/2.8 macro on the thing and photograph the small stuff. I can bring along the 16-55mm f/2.8, the 50-140mm f/2.8, and the 100-400… and I have a powerful backup system when I do landscape photography with my FF system.
Sep 15, 2025 at 09:00 AM
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