As a newcomer to the X system, I am truly impressed with the quality of the equipment and feel that my move from bulky and heavy medium format equipment (Leica S), which will, hopefully, allow me to continue to enjoy walking and capturing images in the mountains of northern Britain for as long as possible, has been justified. However, like all camera systems, nothing is perfect and I would like to see the following common sense improvements in the first firmware update for the XT-2 and, to be honest, I cannot understand why these were not incorporated into the camera from the beginning, as they seem to be a nonsensical oversight: 1. The ability to zoom into 100% while reviewing images on the rear screen or through the EVF without having to shoot JPEG files along with RAW files. 2. The ability to review an image in camera which shows “blinkies” utilising the entire screen or viewfinder as opposed to showing the tiny image which is currently the only way to see a histogram and over/under exposed areas. 3. The ability to see an RGB histogram as opposed to the purely luminance histogram shown currently.
4. While I appreciate that retrospectively fitting a GPS facility to the XT-2 is impossible, I would ask Fujifilm to improve their smartphone app to make the GPS facility workable rather than the pain in the backside to use it currently is. I travel a lot and an accurate GPS facility, which I have on my Leica S cameras is an extremely useful, if not necessary tool.
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