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Fujifilm X-T1 Review | Digital Photography Review

Overall conclusion

The X-T1 is Fujifilm’s most ambitious camera to date, and we’d have to say, probably its best. Its relatively compact, well-built body is peppered with dials and switches which give direct access to all the key photographic settings, encouraging you to take control of the picture-taking process. The huge high-resolution electronic viewfinder is a joy to use too, offering an excellent preview of how your images will turn out. Autofocus is impressively quick, and the X-T1 is one of the first mirrorless cameras that can properly track focus on subjects moving towards or away from the camera. Image quality is excellent; we’ve long been fans of Fujifilm’s JPEG colour rendition, and the X-T1 doesn’t disappoint. Colours are natural-looking, with consistently well-judged white balance, and skin tones in particular are nicely rendered. High ISO noise is well-controlled too. Autofocus hasn’t always been Fujifilm’s forte, but the X-T1 is markedly improved over its predecessors. It may use the same sensor and processor as the X-E2, but new algorithms mean that it can now track focus on a subject moving towards or away from the camera, even when set to shoot at its fastest framerate. We’ve been quite impressed by how well this works, although you do have to keep your subject in the central region of the frame. Interestingly, even when set to Release Priority, we’ve found the camera prefers to slow down and deliver more in-focus frames, as opposed to taking more out-of-focus shots, which we think makes perfect sense. One point we do have to make is that the X-T1 is nowhere near as good a movie camera as it is for shooting stills. Manual control is limited, and video image quality is unusually poor. It’s OK for casual use, but if high quality video is high on your list of priorities, you’ll probably want to look elsewhere…….

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