I was going to post a new thread, but thought it better to necro this one...
My X-E1 is a *great* family camera, and we have really valuable photographs going back many years and hopefully many years into the future with whatever X-series I upgrade to in due course (X-E3? X-T2?). But when we're looking through the albums with the kids it's always the video clips they're most interested in, so it's good that capability is there. I'm just thinking of the use case where family members are looking back at this stuff after we're gone...
The hot tip for generic video on the X-E1 (so probably the others) is *always* put the camera into manual focus mode when you video, and use the AF-L (X-T1 AF-On?) button to autofocus before the recording. If you avoid the rookie error of moving the camera around too much the HD quality can be very good indeed (the 18-55 works well for video). Most of the Fuji videos I see are hopelessly wobbly and have the autofocus going in and out anyway. But videos have there place, IMHO.
To try and illustrate the point (not great, I admit), here's a pic and a video from the same place, this month:
And here's video (after Youtube transcoding) from about the same time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyat1M5RIIU
Neither are going to win prizes, but for a family/holiday camera there's value (to me) in both images and video.
If your thing is 100% portrait, street, landscape or wildlife with creamy bokeh and characterful shadows (I like that too) then ignore my video comments, as that will never be for you.
