Do you feel the T2 is really a
significant upgrade over the T1? Just curious to hear direct from someone who owns both. There's a few things about the 2 I want, but I wonder how much more is it really worth? For a shooter like me who will PP to achieve my end goal for any image regardless of camera or lens used. I am used to high end gear, I've used FX Nikons and some lovely glass over time, I was spoiled at one stage tbh. I do remember not having to sharpen or clean up noise as much toward the XT-1 ... but, I still love my wee Fooj
What does the XT-2 offer an XT-1 shooter beyond that? I'm with you on awaiting price drops
These are my opinions having shot with X-Trans2 since it was released and now having shot on X-Trans3 for a year. The images from an X-Trans3 are sharper (full stop), thus was brought home to me recently as I've recently shot over 1500 images on an X100F, the X100 series is not known for having the sharpest lens, I thought that the higher MP count if the X-Trans3 would show its inacquacies more, but this just isn't the case, I getting some wonderfully sharp images, and in fact I'm staggered at what this combo is capable of.
IMO a correctly exposed X-Trans3 image has very good shadow recovery, much better than X-Trans2, I know that there are some disbelievers about this but I have posted examples in the past on this thread, and my thoughts have been backed up by one of Fuji's X photographers who I had a long conversation with.I am very much a histogram shooter, and you really do have to make the best use of the sensor dynamic range (expose correctly) to get good shadow recovery.
I am also getting much better results at High ISOs, I'm regularly shooting at ISO6400 and finding that I have very acceptable image, something I couldn't do with X-Trans2, in fact one of my custom auto ISO modes on the X100F is 6400 with a min speed of 1/200, I've been using this as a general walkabout (Street,etc) as I know I can deal with the image noise, and it guarantees me a sharp image. Again making use of the histogram is important, under exposed high ISO images will always be difficult to recovery from. And now as
@psybear will testify, getting the exposure right reduces the noise in long exposure images as well.
Now they are just the X-Trans3 benefits, to which you can add higher resolution giving the option of more cropping variation.
On top of that the X-T2, has a number of function benefits, of which the ones that I've found useful are:-
The joystick, a dream to use, makes focus point selection very fast, so much so that I think I'd be hard pressed to buy a camera without this function.
The ability to set different focus points in landscape and portrait mode, sounds like a gimmick, but it really isn't, if you want to focus 1/3 of the way up into the sim age, you can set this in both landscape and portrait modes and you can taller the camera orientation and not have to move the AF point with the joystick.
It's just faster, and this helps make the user experience nicer, in fact the whole handling and button assignment options make it a better handling camera.
The AF speed is noticeably quicker, very very obvious on the original X mount lenses (18/35/60) and the zone tracking is really usable and much better than the X-T1
IMO it really is a significant upgrade, and was a big step in the X series camera development, the longer you leave the change the more you'll say I'd wish I'd done it sooner when you do.
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