Arnold Newman

In 20+ years of using Canon bodies and lenses I've never owned or sold one that didn't look pristine. Fuji, not so much. I already see small places where the paint has chipped off my 6 month old 16-55. I believe these are the result of the slightest contact with a plastic zipper as it is inserted and removed from my camera bag. Whether or not one considers this a big deal, it *shouldn't* happen. Clearly processes exist to apply a durable finish to bodies and lenses. Fuji should be using them.

So many reasons the X-T2 works better for me.
 
#1 Multi-angle tilt screen. Lack of tilt screen has become a deal killer since I started using a body with one.
#2 EVF
#3 Faster operation & superior performance in action-oriented settings
#4 Better control layout for my uses.
#5 Video
#6 Useful accessories...the metal grip, vertical grip
#7 Better match for their high-end zooms

So many reasons the X-T2 works better for me.
 
#1 Multi-angle tilt screen. Lack of tilt screen has become a deal killer since I started using a body with one.
#2 EVF
#3 Faster operation & superior performance in action-oriented settings
#4 Better control layout for my uses.
#5 Video
#6 Useful accessories...the metal grip, vertical grip
#7 Better match for their high-end zooms

So many reasons the X-T2 works better for me.
 
#1 Multi-angle tilt screen. Lack of tilt screen has become a deal killer since I started using a body with one.
#2 EVF
#3 Faster operation & superior performance in action-oriented settings
#4 Better control layout for my uses.
#5 Video
#6 Useful accessories...the metal grip, vertical grip
#7 Better match for their high-end zooms

X-T2 for me, BUT NOT FOR A WHILE!  Yes, I can pre-order but I think I'll wait.  All the reviews seem very positive and the reviewers are wearing their rose colored glasses.  I think I'll wait until the actual production models hit the market and the real life reviews start to pour onto the web.  Not that anything is wrong with the mass of reviews out there now, just that I have a small problem with folks who get their equipment FROM the company they are reviewing.  So, as I've said for a long, long time I learned my lesson by being an early adopter of the Nikon D800 and I'll never do that again.  The actual delivery of the X-T2 starts in September(?) so I think I can wait until next spring... Hopefully by then all the bugs (if any, as I'm not saying there are any) will have been worked out, the furor will have died down a bit, and maybe, juuuust maybe, prices will have either come down, or their may be some incentives to purchase the X-T2.  If no incentives or price breaks I'll probably buy one anyway, but let's see what the pioneers think of it first.
I'm very curious...

Can you (or others who have expressed happiness about lack of touch screen) help me understand your position? I am honestly interested in understanding your point of view, as Fuji does a great job of listening to customers, and it seems like there are plenty of people who don't want a touch screen and speak their minds on a regular basis about this. Here is why your comments confuse me: why would you object to a feature that is so easily ignored? You do realize that even if Fuji didn't allow you to turn it off in the Settings, you could simply not use it, right? Unlike so many other features that drastically change the look, weight, size, functionality of the camera, a touch screen is going to have no impact on someone like you, who could simply ignore it and use the buttons instead. I will speak for those of us on the other team, who find it extremely clumsy and frustrating to have to push clicking physical buttons for something so simple like zooming into a check focus. The ease of use of a touch screen is clear when you consider the explosion of smartphones, so why is there so much dislike of this concept in the Fuji user community, when again, you could simply just ignore it if you don't want it? Much like that silly sync portal on the front of the XT1 that 99% of us all ignore.
 
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About a touchscreen; at first I didn't use it on the X70, but when I tried the touch to focus, I found it's a really neat feature.
Hope it in the X-T2 also. Turn it off if one don't like it. And adding touch capabilities to a screen is relatively cheap these days, so cost should not be an issue.

That’s not an argument against Fuji including a touch-screen though. Like others have said, if the XT2 does​​ have a touchscreen, it will have literally no negative impact on people who don’t want to use it. They can just ignore it entirely.
 
The only​​ argument I can see against Fuji including touch-screens on cameras is that it might somehow mean they make design decisions that end up with core functionality controlled by the screen and not by buttons/dials. In other words, a slippery slope fallacy.
 
And if you’re upset about ‘paying’ for a feature you don’t use, then uh, don’t be selfish? The camera isn't designed specifically for you. I personally don’t ever use the hotshoe on my cameras, but I realise that other people do and don’t begrudge Fuji putting one there.

I believe on cameras that have touch LCD's ... there is an option in the menu to turn the touch feature off.

Shhhhh.  If they knew that, what would they have to complain about?  Same goes for the "No 4k Video Club"..nobody's forcing them to shoot in 4k, but they'll complain about it nonetheless.