Fujifilm X-E5 Mirrorless Camera Review: Compact Color Science in a Retro Package Leave a comment

Additionally notable within the X-E5 is the addition of in-body picture stabilization (IBIS), which was once one thing reserved for the X-Professional sequence cameras (once more, IBIS within the X-E 5 feels like one more dying knell for the X-Professional 4). Fujifilm is claiming seven stops of IBIS, which feels about proper primarily based on my testing. I used to be capable of shoot a variety of handheld pictures of my youngsters on Christmas morning and by no means missed a factor resulting from digital camera shake.

The general development and construct high quality of the X-E5 can also be an enormous leap ahead. Not like the X-E4, which had a moderately plasticky really feel to it, the X-E5 is stable and effectively constructed. The highest plate is now a single piece of aluminum, which matches an extended solution to giving the digital camera a sturdier, higher-end really feel. When you throw a pancake lens on there, like the brand new 23mm f/2.8, it seems like an X100, which was not true of the earlier mannequin.

My favourite factor that the X-E5 has stolen from the X100 is the faux self-timer swap on the entrance of the digital camera. (The X100 sequence took this swap from, effectively, just about each movie SLR ever.) On the X-E5, you get 5 management factors out of this swap, which will be pushed left or proper, lengthy pushed (about 3 secs) left or proper, after which the spherical half on entrance is a button. All 5 of those are customizable, which is nice as a result of, frustratingly, there isn’t a ISO dial on the X-E5. I set the self-timer up as a shortcut to get me to ISO to unravel that concern.

In different button updates, the X-E5 regains the dual, press-able command dials of the X-E3 (the X-E4 was lacking the rear dial). The AF Mode swap can also be again, permitting you to change between guide focus, single-shot autofocus, or steady autofocus through a button as an alternative of heading into the menus.

Simulacra and Simulation

{Photograph}: Scott Gilbertson

{Photograph}: Scott Gilbertson

Then there may be the brand new devoted movie simulation dial.

Let me say up entrance that if there have been an ISO dial I’d have much less of an issue with this dial. It might nonetheless be embarrassing in some imprecise approach I am unable to put my finger on, however eh, I may stick a bit of tape over it and overlook about it. However there isn’t a ISO dial, and including a {hardware} dial for one thing as frivolous as switching movie simulations, without having a dial for one thing you modify all time (ISO), is unforgivable in my e book.