X30 - Such a brilliant little camera

Wouldn't it be nice if Fuji would put some of the new tech in this body?

Spotted a lone mushroom

Down on my knees for the shot (thanks for the flip-up screen, Fuji!).

The older we get, the more we appreciate having an articulated screen 😆
Beautiful pictures 👍🏻

Beautiful shots. Shame Fuji and Leica (and most others) abandoned the compact segment. My dream camera would be a Digilux 2 with a "2023 CCD" sensor...

I still regret selling my X10. The whole series was wonderful. I never really had issues with the orbs myself. Nice set of photos with that beautiful Fuji colour.

This is my first post here. My thoughts concerning the Fujifilm X30:
I use my X-Pro2 very much exclusively for my image making. However, my Fujifilm X30 may very well be the last camera I would consider selling. Why? It is very much a one-of-a-kind small sensor, travel camera made for professionals/enthusiasts. Being the last iteration of that camera type, it is near perfectly designed:
a fabulous EVF; a sharp, somewhat fast 4X zoom lens; IS; controls that nicely mimic Fujifilm’s high-end camera bodies; excellent image quality good up to at least ISO 800 or more; great B&W images; superb macro photography; delightful manual focusing; tilting back display; film simulations including Classic Chrome. What’s not to like? I cannot envision that any camera manufacturer will match the X30 in the future. For me, that means it is a keeper.

My images can be viewed at dworr.zenfolio.com/

The X30 is a brilliant, underestimated camera. I had one for several years and the images it produced were excellent. Regret selling it (traded it for a XE4). I know there is unlikely ever to be a X40, but one can dream!

I really don't understand Fuji's thought process on not bringing out a successor to the X30 with a 1" sensor. Sony and Canon seem to be having great success with their 1" compacts but the small size of the Sony ones especially put me off. The X30 is a lovely size, much more comfortable to hold without being oversized. I'd love a X40 with a 1" sensor and maybe a 24-120 lens

I had a friend in another state who was looking for a camera, and an X20 showed up in the clearance section of a local store… so I offered to send him my X10 while I bought the X20.

The X20 was fine… but UPS managed to deliver the X10 to the wrong address, and neither one of us saw it again. UPS refused the loss claim.

I’ve never shipped anything through UPS since.

I look at it as a return to the waist-level viewfinders of my youth.

This is one camera I never owned. Were it not priced so high now, I'd try one.

How do they refuse the claim when they screwed up? I have long refused them with their ridiculous “brokerage” fee when they ship to Canada. Order a $9.99 poster from the states, to be hit with a $20 brokerage fee on top of the shipping.

My friend lived in an apartment complex. UPS claimed that they left the package at his door, and whatever happened after that wasn't their problem. My friend said he never saw it at his door, and shipping services were supposed to leave packages at the complex office for that exact reason.

Same, I absolutely loved the X10 and it was my gateway into Fuji. I still think there was something special in those EXR jpegs with their extra dynamic range. Having a fast zoom in such a small but tactile package was great, and I loved the (wildly inaccurate!) OVF too.

Hard to justify compact, small sensor cameras in our computational smartphone world - I’ve no doubt my iPhone takes technically better pictures these days. Still miss it though.

Was a time when UPS routinely failed to deliver to my rural residence but they have since improved.

I like the FedEx system where they provide an image of the package where it was placed.

The only shipper I have ever had problems with was UPS.... I won't ship with them again either....

+1 ... around here, USPS Priority Mail is what I use for sending. Highly reliable.

UPS is best at losing stuff sent to me here in rural Texas.