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HEIF support should be Fuji's #1 priority. JPEG is seriously obsolete compared to the new format and it's a real shame that we don't have options to shoot with Fuji in HEIF right now.

300f2.8 is probably the most popular of the “Big” lenses on other systems, 200f2.0 replicates the same FOV and effective light gathering with APS-C (accounting for the inherently worse high ISO performance on crop sensors).For wildlife one of the examples I seem to hear about is shooting exotic birds in the jungle, you don’t need excessive reach but due to the foliage blocking out most of the sunlight the lighting conditions are dim. It’s ideal for indoor sports or where the arena is smaller (e.g. Basketball or Tennis), or on a larger field if you only have one position to cover. And then music and stage events that normally allow reasonably close proximity to the subject. People like to shoot portrats with 200f2.0 on Full Frame but Fuji would need to make a 135mmf1.4 for that. This is probably not going to be used for portraits very often (not that it can’t be, you just get a lot of compression, good for someone with a long nose). 400f2.8 is the most common “Large Field Sports” lens, Fuji would need to make a 300f2.0 to cover that position (yes, it’s a 150mm front element, that’s the largest element Canon and Nikon are willing to produce).

Longevity is still my primary concern, and heat in long exposures. If all these IBIS cameras go belly up in 10 years most people are going to regret having the feature, especially given the likely cost of repair. Maybe someday they’ll have an IBIS Active Time counter and that’ll be a critical facter in resale value. Then you’ll end up with most people spending extra for IBIS and never using it.

Finally have the X-E3 on order. Lots of great systems on the market, I almost bought the Sigma Quattro H instead (Amazing details for 1/3 the cost of a 5Ds), but the X-E3 is legitimately one of the best cameras on the market, bar none, especially for the cost. Ironically it might be a while before I get a Fuji Lens. The Samyang 12mm f2 and Mitakon 35f0.95 will probably fill 99% of my needs for a while, and of course I can adapt my existing Canon mount lenses.

MTF charts measure the frequency of bright and dark contrast, but not the total light transmission, or the color tone. The prime example I have is my Canon 400f5.6 and Samyang 800f11 lenses, they produce effectively the same amount of detail when cropped to the same field of view, but the Canon lens has much better color. Along with that the F-stop of a lens is not a measurement of the amount of light actually hitting the sensor, thus the T-stop value that Cinema lenses always use. From what I’ve read, when people talk about “Micro-Contrast” they’re really just saying “Color Saturation”, and total light transmission (T-stop) is probably a good indicator of how much a lens is going to interfere with colors. Glass will always absorb some light so the better a lens is at transmitting light the less likely it is to absorb your colors. It’s really weird that more people don’t pay attention to these things, but I guess it’s hard to keep that sort of thing in the mainstream audience with all the people out there trying talking about it are trying to get converts to a channel more than informed and educated consumers.

Being able to select AF points with the touchscreen while looking through the EVF is a HUGE advancement! This is the fastest method of AF selection ever invented, undoubtedly this is an order of magnitude faster than any other method. The biggest disappointment is that they don't have "scrolling" in menus with the touchscreen. Hopefully the "Q" menu can be customized to include most of the deep menu settings that are normally harder to find and access quickly.

https://youtu.be/_UU8L_yUKTs?t=20m50s You can use the Touchscreen while using the EVF. What's more, they allow you to turn off either the left or right half of the touchscreen, so that "if" you happen to rest your nose on one side of the screen a lot it will not interfere with functionality.

https://youtu.be/L0MK7qz13bU?t=1m4s Embrace the touchscreen.

The accusation being made is that "having a touchscreen" makes the camera worse. That accusation is utter nonsense. You just brought up video for the fist time in this entire discussion when the only problem here is you seem to hate touchscreens for no good reason. You have still failed to apply logic to any response. You're wrong because you have yet to make any logical statement about why the touchscreen is bad. The only line of reasoning that would lead anyone to believe that Fuji made a negative change is the lack of 3 Fn buttons, I've said this multiple times now, but you just keep trying to say that the touchscreen itself is bad and you never apply logic or reason to any of your statements. Everything you've said on the subject is utter nonsense. It's obvious that your entire motivation for not liking the touchscreen is that Fuji changed the button layout in ways you didn't expect, and now you're mad at Fuji for not meeting your expectations.

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1067669_why-the-world-rally-championship-has-gone-low-tech Given that in relation to the X-E3 we're talking about one of the most common consumer technologies on Earth right now, it's safe to say that cost isn't an issue. Again, the question is why anyone would want to specifically remove features from a consumer product that make life easier for everyone. Leica has that market cornered with the M-D: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/leica-m-d-typ-262/leica-m-d-typ-262A.HTM Anyone who wants it, there it is, your perfect camera, it even has a full frame sensor. Everyone else wants a touchscreen on their camera. I guarantee you will see absolutely and utterly zero negative press around the touchscreen functionality. Industry Journalists will be praising the X-E3 in a synchronous angelic choir, they will be throwing awards at the X-E3 for being the most user friendly Fuji ever made. Maybe some people will miss the 3 absent Fn buttons, but I'm betting anyone new to Fuji will be totally satisfied, and most of the people who thought they would miss the buttons will find it a non-issue (due to expanded control elsewhere).

Right now it's like people are trying to say that having a media center in your car makes the handling worse. The two subjects are completely unrelated.

People are saying the existance of this function will ruin the shooting experience, this is a totally neutral feature if you don't like it, and a revolutionary feature for 99% of the rest of the potential market. This will transform the user experience for any modern user. The touchscreen is necessary.

Somehow this forum has become a congregation of people who hate new technology. Again, comparisons with the X-A3 are just insane. If you can turn it off, or if you can make sure it only enables while navigating the menu (which is the primary benefit), then the possibility of it having any negative impact on your shooting is zero. The only possibility is that it would be a positive thing. Sure, they "could" get it wrong, but Fuji is also best known for improving things through firmware. If they don't do the touchscreen right, they'll fix it.

Actually as of this September I will have been using my Canon 1100D (T3) for 5 years. I had a 5D2 for almost a year but traded it away because it's too big, the small crop bodies are ideal when you're hiking.

My understanding of events over the last few years is the X-E line was dead, and it got revived due to consumer feedback. I'm just happy that they're making another rangefinder at all.

Christophe your Flickr account looks good. There's a decent amount of traffic through that page, well done. I could get closer to a duck but it would take an entire afternoon sitting in a blind. Some people do that, I'm really just not that interested in ducks. The owls are about 40 feet up a tree, by early June it was almost impossible to find an angle to see them through the bush. I bought a Peterson Guide to Birds of Westen North America and it's my aim to check off every one of them as time goes on time. For the most part this is a game to play with expensive toys, indeed quite frivolous but I doubt it's much different for the majority of users here (barring the few professionals brave enough to tread among the commoners). The skills do come in handy for family photos though, and Macro capabilities are important for selling used stuff online. High magnification Macro is another genre of photography that I find deeply satisfying. My photography fulfills a sense of curiosity more than anything, you're never going to see an Owlet that close in person. Macro pictures are, again, images that are impossible to see without the right equipment (it's been a while since I've had the Macro tent set up). If I'm being "almost" entirely categorical about the process that doesn't bother me, the pictures still have an inherent value in the difficulty of capturing them. Primarily, Fuji cameras are just something significantly different from any camera I've had before. If I'm having fun I'll enjoy the pictures. I see the advantage of Fuji as being time saved actively composing with dials while you're shooting and not spending an hour fine tuning after the fact. Having a few less custom buttons does not interfere with that core premise, just "three" wheels is really all you need and the X-E3 has five wheels when you add an aperture ring on the lens. The X-E3 probably just handles faster than the X-E2 by using dedicated controls for the most commonly used features instead of assigning those to custom buttons. The X100F is almost identical to the X-E3 but they removed the D-Pad, I have to assume feedback from the X100F indicated there were too many redundant controls.

Repeat after me: "The X-E3 is going to be the best camera Fuji has ever produced" "The lack of a D-Pad Improves the X-E3 by removing entirely redundant clutter" "The fully touchscreen enabled interface is one of the most important features Fuji will ever implement on a camera" This is the truth of the situation. People need to get over their own prejudices and look at something for what it is and not how it compares to your imaginary ideals.

Are you Christophe Branchereau? https://www.flickr.com/photos/132271152@N08/ Are you Martin Parr? https://readthinkart.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/tate-shots-martin-parr/ Have you ever taken a photograph? Do you own a camera? Once again Citral you have demonstrated nothing but hypocrisy by calling someone out, and further critiquing their work when you have nothing to show for yourself. This is the definition of an Internet Troll. All talk, never admitting mistakes, never finding a middle ground, just perpetually attacking and distracting from any truth that is brought to light.

This is not a photo critique thread.Once again as soon as you're proven wrong you just cange the subject. Stop it. It's time for you to admit your mistakes. You've been wrong about everything up to this point, especially calling someone a troll just for being the only person with a positive opinion of the X-E3, when you're the one who's behavior has tended in that direction. You are a hypocrite and it's time to admit it. Your "preference" against the inclusion of a touchscreen has come out as irrational at best and antagonsitic at worst. It's time to accept that some changes are good even if you don't like them. Repeat after me: "The X-E3 is going to be the best camera Fuji has ever produced" "The lack of a D-Pad Improves the X-E3 by removing entirely redundant clutter" "The fully touchscreen enabled interface is one of the most important features Fuji will ever implement on a camera"

You may now apologize and take back everything you've said in the entire thread.

I don't have any crow readily available, maybe Citral could just eat some pigeon instead. I would say "A Duck" but that wouldn't be as much fun. Anyway, "Who" was doubting my photographic prowess? Mr. Muskrat is rushing to my aide. Finally, it's time to end silly talk and call on down the thunder. I really wish I had a crow picture right now.

The only way I could be more ready for this is if I had a picture of a Crow.

Woodworth probably has the best criticism in that there is no IBIS and no tilt screen. If you look at all the best features of high end cameras over the last decade the X-E3 has most of them now, and looks to be well equipped for the future. In 20 years people are probably going to look at the X-E3 and think it's "mostly up to date", except maybe for the lack of a flippy screen and IBIS, "if" IBIS actually holds in the long run. In my case the flippy screen can be offset with a remote shooting utility for Macro shots from the tripod. (Fuji is specifically appealing for Macro because the X-Trans sensor deals with moire better than anything else on the market, second only to the Sigma Foveon sensors, and Macro can feature Moire more heavily than almost any other form of photography). IBIS has me worried. All I can think of when I see a camera with a moving sensor is a $500 repair bill every 5 years or so. As well it disconnects the sensor from any potentially large heat-sink, I have no idea how Sony is cooling the sensor in the A9. I've seen what shooting in live view does to my Macro images with long exposures (way more hot pixels), so I'm very conscious of sensor heat. Even going mirrorless is probably a compromise but I'm assuming the copper wire sensors from Sony deal with heat better than older tech. Hopefully there's still a way to turn off any live feed and let the sensor cool off before snapping an image.

As a complete package the X-E3 is probably going to be the most solid product Fuji has produced to date, a few years ago people would be doing backflips to see a Joystick on a body like this, and an extra dial to boot, but instead we have half a dozen people continually saying all that means nothing to them, and that the touchscreen functionality that has revolutionized the way we interact with on screen menus means nothing to them, and that "just having" a touchscreen ruins the entire thing for them. It's really ludicrous. If you count every button on the X-E3 compared to the X-E2 they have exactly the same amount of physical buttons. Five of those "appear" to be dedicated to AF selection now, but we have no idea how many custom function buttons the X-E3 actually has, and it's not like "every" button on the X-E2 could be used for custom functions anyway. According to the manual The X-E2 had 7 custom function buttons (Page 43: http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/manuals/pdf/index/x/fujifilm_xe2_manual_en.pdf), http://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x100f/button_fn/use_fn-button/index.html The X100f has the same number of custom buttons as the X-E2, but the X-E3 has less buttons than the X100f. Going by the pattern of buttons being used as Fn buttons across those bodies I'm betting the X-E3 has 4 Fn buttons. That said, it still has an extra wheel on the front and the joystick on the back, even if those can't fulfill the exactly the same function as an Fn button surely it's worth just as much (if not more) convenience for quickly accessing controls. If Fuji has user statistics that say the Joystick fills even just one of the functions that the majority of users allocated to an Fn button then you just don't need as many Fn buttons on the new camera. If between the new dial and joystick you've effectively got even just two Fn buttons worth of controls back then this camera is only effectively missing 1 button, and the controls it does have are all massively superior to what you had on the X-E2.

I still include Japan as a "Western Nation" because of the close ties with the U.S.Regardless, "Developed Countries" "First World Nations" "The Place Where All The Money Is" With China's budding middle-class we're going to need a better definition soon, if not already, so there is that, (and I think I read Korea buys a lot of Fuji?) but even if Instax sells well across most of Asia there is still some extent of a global economic divide. There's no denying that virtually anyone on Earth with internet access probably has a touchscreen device. No digital camera should ever be made without a touchscreen ever again, there's no reason not to. We've been at this for three pages and No-one has come up with a real argument against having a touchscreen yet, only irrelevant distractions and gushing fountains of opinion.