I like the dials on my x-H1, period as well as its high performance (as of 2018)! I think PASM format is not for me. I am a stills photographer and I hoped to buy the X-T5 until Fuji crippled its performance just to come under the X-H2 price by couple of hundred dollars. Now I don't want the x-H2/2s because of PASM and I don't want a crippled X-T5. Which means I am passing up on this generation of X-bodies. Nikon just introduced Z8 by not crippling the Z9. FUJI would have been wiser by full-featuring the X-T5 at the same price as the X-H2. This is a textbook example why a Marketing Dept should not run a camera business.
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Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "crippled its performance" exactly for the X-T5?
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for example EVF, video specs... - however the OP needs to compare X-T5 vs X-T4... not vs X-H2 and his gallbladder will be healthy
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Interesting. I don't think that Fuji crippled the GFX 100 performance when they came out with the GFX 100S. One battery, no T/S finder, lower res EVF, PASM. So maybe it's not a company-wide pattern.
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So go with a brand and model that has the features you want. This sounds more like a textbook example of whining.
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FUJI deliberately removed features from X-T5 to distinguish it from X-H2. Some examples are smaller buffer, no CF Express card for the fastest write speeds, no drive can be attached underneath the body. Nikon didn't cripple theZ* and as such they will now sell boat-loads of then at the given price.
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he has no options brand wise and models are just one :-)
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I would but neither has the features I want in one body. I disagree with your description of my PoV; I am not whining.
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and so does Fuji to people who want Fuji ... you for example not going to buy Nikon Z8 😅
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such as life - but look at the bright side , at least you are not suffering like some people who want many different features in their own bodies...
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Yes I am not moving over to Nikon. BUT FUJI would have loved to sell to me one of the current gen. bodies which now they will not.
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…and to keep the price point lower than that of the XH2.
You can’t have one without the other.
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Perhaps not, as you point out. Most likely GFX and X have different product management groups. I feel someone at FUJI dropped the ball, since up until this generations the retro design and ergonomics were also associated with the top performing X models. That value proposition distinguished the FUJI X brand from all others and allowed it to gain presence in the market; note that Olympus and LUMIX were unable to get to the same place. Now they extinguished the "magic".
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Of course I agree. As I stated in my original comment I would pay the same price for the same performance. Now in NIKON's strategy Z* comes in at almost the same performance at a lower price. NIKON is doing this to steal share from Canon and Sony by partially balancing out the cost of switching platforms. FUJI X can share some of Canon ans Sony installed base however that isn't something FUJI can rely on with this sort of product positioning.
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My apologies - I missed the part where the OP was forced to buy into Fuji.
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Well, the GFX 100S is a PASM camera. That bummed a lot of people out, including me. There have been 4 GFX cameras, and 4 different user interfaces. My favorite user interface was the first one, the GFX 50S.
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it is not a strategy - it was their only forced move ... they can't sell more Z9s they were not able to make other cameras with other sensors... Fuji had $$$ to buy 2 different new sensors sensors and put them in 3 different bodies... Nikon had to recycle Z9 sensor
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What's with this whining? For stills there are three differences: EVF, memory buffer and vertical grip addition. Just three points and you're moaning that it's crippled. You want to know what's crippled, see the early Canon DSLRs, like the first 5D.
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Another out of curiosity question for Vartkes. What's wrong with having PASM modes available? 100% of my photography is in one of those modes. Thanks in advance for your input.
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The traditional Fuji UI had ways to get all those modes, but there was no PASM dial.
Set the lens to auto and set a shutter speed. That's S mode.
Set the lens to a stop, and set the shutter speed to auto. That's A mode.
Set both the lens and the shutter speed to auto. That's P mode.
Set the lens to a stop and the shutter to a speed. That's M mode. -
X-T# series fans wanted a return to a more stills-oriented, old-school user interface, away from the loathsome trend towards smartphone UI that was showing up in the X-T4. And Fuji listened, which I applaud. I think the T5 is also as swellegant aesthetic-design-wise as the beauitul XT100V. It's just not for me, as I'm not an X-Trans fan.
I am starting to feel the tug of a GFX 50mp model. I wish, though, that the current iteration was the GFX 50 S with the IBIS and weight of the 50SII. And I'm horrified that a Nifty-Fifty equivalent would cost $1500.