I love your blog post about the X-Trans sensors! I agree with you completely on your summary of all the cameras, their pros and cons, etc. I had the x-t20 as my first camera and wanted better autofocus so I traded it for the x-t30ii. I got better autofocus but could never put my finger on why I never liked dealing with the raw images. I could never make it look like the x-t20. Then I got a beat up copy of the x-e2 and fell in love! I sold my x-t30II, went to Nikon for the autofocus but for fun, I shoot with the x-e2. I'm now thinking to either get another copy (if I can find a better deal) or the X-T1. Thank you!
Yea, Kris, I started with X-M1 and took some really good photos on that little camera in good daylight. Then I got the X-T2, and that has some magic color I still appreciate to this day. Then I got the X100V and now X-T5. I’ve been pretty happy with all of them to be honest, but in terms of color rendition probably some secret sauce on that X-T2, dunno. I’m certainly not as picky as you are when it comes to color. 😊. Btw, read your blogs a while back when I discovered you on Flickr. I’ve been to Copenhagen back in 94 and I’m longing to come back and re-visit and reminisce the times when I was still a young man. And, I really love your photos; some of them bring me back that Copenhagen longing and nostalgia, for sure. 👍
Great idea. I wish more people would talk about the colour and contrast changes between generations, I guess it is difficult to pin down because there are also colour and contrast changes between lenses too. 😂 I would rank them like this: 👑 X-Trans 3, I think it's the perfect balance between realistic and stylistic. X-trans 2 is next, but probably only for me - it's extremely stylistic and difficult to manage sometimes, but its vibrant and deep contrast look is just very unique. X-Trans 1 is the opposite of 2, but it has a very unique dreamy soft contrast pastel quality. X-Trans 5, I think it has the least stylization, so if you don't like Fujifilm's more extreme looks, the newest cameras will give you the classic Fujifilm experience but frustrate you less with their most neutral look. 👋 X-Trans 4 is noticeably worse. They really struggle with magenta and yellow in all of this generation of cameras, giving them some of the worst skin hues so far. X-T3 and X-T30 are the worst offenders, but the X-T4 and X-T30II didn't fully resolve the issue either. It's why a lot of people didn't care to upgrade when the X-T3 came out, the improvements were pretty incrementally small and the colours were worse.
I love your blog post about the X-Trans sensors! I agree with you completely on your summary of all the cameras, their pros and cons, etc. I had the x-t20 as my first camera and wanted better autofocus so I traded it for the x-t30ii. I got better autofocus but could never put my finger on why I never liked dealing with the raw images. I could never make it look like the x-t20. Then I got a beat up copy of the x-e2 and fell in love! I sold my x-t30II, went to Nikon for the autofocus but for fun, I shoot with the x-e2. I'm now thinking to either get another copy (if I can find a better deal) or the X-T1. Thank you!
Yea, Kris, I started with X-M1 and took some really good photos on that little camera in good daylight. Then I got the X-T2, and that has some magic color I still appreciate to this day. Then I got the X100V and now X-T5. I’ve been pretty happy with all of them to be honest, but in terms of color rendition probably some secret sauce on that X-T2, dunno. I’m certainly not as picky as you are when it comes to color. 😊. Btw, read your blogs a while back when I discovered you on Flickr. I’ve been to Copenhagen back in 94 and I’m longing to come back and re-visit and reminisce the times when I was still a young man. And, I really love your photos; some of them bring me back that Copenhagen longing and nostalgia, for sure. 👍
Great idea. I wish more people would talk about the colour and contrast changes between generations, I guess it is difficult to pin down because there are also colour and contrast changes between lenses too. 😂
I would rank them like this:
👑 X-Trans 3, I think it's the perfect balance between realistic and stylistic.
X-trans 2 is next, but probably only for me - it's extremely stylistic and difficult to manage sometimes, but its vibrant and deep contrast look is just very unique.
X-Trans 1 is the opposite of 2, but it has a very unique dreamy soft contrast pastel quality.
X-Trans 5, I think it has the least stylization, so if you don't like Fujifilm's more extreme looks, the newest cameras will give you the classic Fujifilm experience but frustrate you less with their most neutral look.
👋 X-Trans 4 is noticeably worse. They really struggle with magenta and yellow in all of this generation of cameras, giving them some of the worst skin hues so far. X-T3 and X-T30 are the worst offenders, but the X-T4 and X-T30II didn't fully resolve the issue either. It's why a lot of people didn't care to upgrade when the X-T3 came out, the improvements were pretty incrementally small and the colours were worse.