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Coming from Nikon, I am used to not having IBIS. I can understand why some people would like it though, and why some do not. Depends what you shoot, the situations you shoot in, and your personal style. So, yes, it might be nice to have, or, it might be sufficient to just have OIS in some of the longer focal-length lenses. Either way, there is definitely nothing wrong with speculation, wishing for it, or having opinions on its worth. One thing I do think though, is that all companies can adapt with the times, either due to market-forces, public-demand, or just plain old better and cheaper technology advances. So, okay, yep, Fujifilm have mentioned the limitation of the mount, where the back-projected image circle just isn't big enough to cover a moving sensor, causing darkened edges. So yep, difficult to compensate for right now. But, suppose they end up throwing in an ultra-light-sensitive hi-res sensor, they could, for example, then throw in an IBIS type sensor and just apply a small crop to mask the darkened area. Still great image quality, and with a high res sensor, no problem with a little crop... there are always ways and means to solve problems; anything is possible I'd say. Anyways, my take is, in the meantime, people have every right to wish for it, discuss it, and also have the right to choose another system if they don't get it. Easy as...

Well, it is possible for some camera systems. As I am aware, Fujifilm have said that it is highly unlikely that they would put IBIS into the X-series cameras. According to them, the reason is that when they designed the lens mount, in order to keep the lenses as compact as possible, they made the image-circle that is projected back onto the sensor to 'just' cover the area of the sensor. This means that if they were to apply any sort of sensor shift (which is the usual means to perform IBIS), the shift in position of the sensor would cause it to move beyond the usable area of the image-circle, causing darkening and lowering image quality at the edges of the image. They could do it by doing the sensor shift IBIS, and then cropping the image slightly, but not sure that Fuji would want to do this... We'll see what the future brings.

In Body Image Stabilisation... as opposed to inside a lens....

Just for my own interest, I made up a rough composite image of what I would like the X-E3 to look like, my wish, should they ever make one... For those of us that favour a smaller range-finder camera than the X Pro 2, but with the compactness of the X100F, and the facilities of the X-T2, that is where the X-E3 slots in. And the specs, well, here are my selfish desires... 24MP X-Trans Sensor Same battery as X-T2/X Pro 2/X100F Button-layout similar to X100F/X-T2 Focus point joystick / Two control dials ISO combined with Shutter Speed Dial / Q-Menu Button Assignable Weather-resistant High-spec EVF similar to X-T2 Fast Single Shot-to-Shot time <0.2s Better grip, similar to X-T2, maybe a touch slimmer Two memory card slots, although might make the camera too fat! Things I personally don't need, but some people do... Flash Articulating screen Touch screen 4K Video I am sure many people will have differing opinions on this. I have no need to argue with anyone else's wishes, the more the merrier I say! I really only post this to throw some more 'positive-energy' towards Fujifilm in the hope they do produce an X-E3 sometime soon...

Just for my own purposes, I made up a rough composite image of what I would like the X-E3 to look like, my wish, should they ever make one... For those of us that favour a smaller range-finder camera than the X Pro 2, but with the compactness of the X100F, and the facilities of the X-T2, that is where the X-E3 slots in. And the specs, well, here are my selfish desires... 24MP X-Trans Sensor Same battery as X-T2/X Pro 2/X100F Button-layout similar to X100F/X-T2 Focus point joystick / Two control dials ISO combined with Shutter Speed Dial / Q-Menu Button Assignable Weather-resistant High-spec EVF similar to X-T2 Fast Single Shot-to-Shot time <0.2s Better grip, similar to X-T2, maybe a touch slimmer Two memory card slots, although might make the camera too fat! Things I personally don't need, but some people do... Flash Articulating screen Touch screen 4K Video I am sure many people will have differing opinions on this. I have no need to argue with anyone else's wishes, the more the merrier I say! I really only post this to throw some more 'positive-energy' towards Fujifilm in the hope they do produce an X-E3 sometime soon...