Conclusion

For hobby hiking photography with manual lenses, my experience with the X-T1 has been a dream. It is easy to use, compact, and fast on its feet. It is more robust than the X-Pro 1. It takes a fraction of a second to wake and less time to snap and record an image. Its underlying technology mostly disappears. But its numerous — and hairy — hardware boners get in the way of a truly stable hiking experience. Each one proves that as good as mirrorless cameras have become, they have yet to achieve the stability, reliability, and construction quality of a good dSLRs. The X-T1 is sexy to look at, and, for the most part, it is sexy to shoot. The complaints I have regarding EVF lag in low light may disappear as technology progresses. The flappy doors, and the slippy, sloppy, drive mode and metering dials should never have surfaced. My hope is that the next X-T camera will right all the hardware wrongs of the XT-1 while keeping the size, feel, and basic handling elements that make it an simple camera to operate………

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