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This little guy made me smile. XT-2 with 100-400 handheld.

Too bad edit won't let you fix a typo in the title.

I took the photo below at dawn from a 26th floor hotel room with my XT-2 and a Rokinon 12mm @ f8, ISO 200, 6.5 seconds. The big aircraft carrier looking thing is the roof of the San Diego Convention Center. Color, sharpening and vibrancy are SOOC. I've fiddled with the exposure to lighten shadows a bit, and I've cropped and applied correction to straighten the verticals. Thought I'd share just to say how happy I am with the Rokinon lens. The fact that it's manual focus only hasn't been an issue at all.

I said this in another thread, but the bodies were the precise reason I bought an XT-1 and XT-2. The combination of size, weight and precise manual control of key settings using physical dials and buttons is what attracted me to Fuji in the first place.

I think it's all a matter of what you care about. How I interact with the camera is very important to me. I switched from Canon to Nikon years ago because I found the Nikon controls and menus to be more intuitive. And I switched from Nikon to the Fuji XT-1 (and now XT-2) because I loved having physical controls (dials and buttons) on the camera for most everything I'd want to adjust. The fact that the XT-20 takes aways some of those controls would be the deal-breaker for me. For that reason, if cost was a primary driver, I'd get a used XT-1 before I got a new XT-20.

I had the body and the grip on order when the deal was announced but couldn't change because they were coming from two different places and one had shipped. If they'd announced the deal earlier, then people who ordered before that would be disgruntled. Just how it goes.

Since I haven't see much mention of it in this thread, I'll chime in that I find the usability of the XT-2 dials to be tremendously improved over the XT-1, and that matters a lot to me. With my XT-1, I frequently would take a photograph expecting to produce a single exposure only to discover that I am actually in exposure bracketing mode because I accidentally turned that dial when adjusting the ISO dial above it. That doesn't happen with the XT-2. The dials are nice and firm, and I haven't turned any without meaning to. I'll also say that my first day at the dog park taking photos of running dogs with the XT-2 yielded more usable, in-focus images than all of my previous attempts to capture dogs in action with the XT-1.

XT-1, 18-135 ISO 800, 122.6mm, f5.6, 1/125 - taken through a glass window