Fuji TCSTV X-T1 Test with Nick Devlin

I watched the video and did not feel any GAS attacks at all. The sensor is getting a liitle old in its tooth, no weathersealed lenses yet and the ones coming are only zooms and will be big, they say. Another Fuji with the "fastest AF". Still no perfect solution for raw files. Granted, everything looks nicely made but Sony with its A7(r) really spoils all mft or aps-c parties in bodies not smaller or lighter then the A7(r). An then there is the poor man`s Otus, the 1.8/55mm prime for the A7, almost reason alone to buy a A7.
 
This is perhaps something of a "coming of age" camera for Fujifilm. The camera that could directly replace rather than supplement a DSLR setup, especially when their new lenses come on-line. Mirrorless ILCs are mature enough now that you needn't make excuses for them if they are done right, and the X-T1 should be right up near the head of the pack. I don't necessarily want one but I'd love to have a play with one.
 
We had one in store for a few hours and it was a lovely looking camera and felt nice in the hand with the grip but it was small. It look smaller in real life than it does on video. Still a lovely camera.
 
This is perhaps something of a "coming of age" camera for Fujifilm. The camera that could directly replace rather than supplement a DSLR setup, especially when their new lenses come on-line. Mirrorless ILCs are mature enough now that you needn't make excuses for them if they are done right, and the X-T1 should be right up near the head of the pack. I don't necessarily want one but I'd love to have a play with one.

What you said!

Cheers, Jock
 
enjoyable and informative! and a beautiful looking camera.

however, with the advent of the A7/R and Df, and the continued improvement of m4/3 sensor tech as in 2013 camera of the year, oly em1, i continue to wonder what apsc offers, what is its market niche? combined with many large lenses and slr comparable zooms, it cannot match m4/3 for compactness. and the sensor tech--and raw conversion probs--have not advanced to where IQ can compete with FF. and now FF is affordable. so where does apsc fit in?
 
As always, I really enjoyed your video review - good information along with humor. To me as a veteran X100 shooter, this looks like an excellent next step into the interchangeable world.

Many thanks!
 
Those Fuji JPEGs that Nick got out of his camera are just wonderful. Who needs RAW?

AF tracking at 8 fps? From a mirrorless camera? Who needs DSLRs?

Initial photos OF the camera made me think it was a bit ugly. But in the video, I think it's quite understated and good-looking. I especially like it with the grip and the 56mm, but alas I have no money for cool new cameras.
 
Thanks for the video Jordan! As always, very enjoyable.

IMO, APS-C is probably still a good compromise between sensor size, camera size, and lens size. m4/3 is probably a better compromise.

The size of my A7 is nice and compact (similar to the EM1 and XT1), but it appears that the native lenses will always be substantially chunkier than their smaller sensor counterparts. And the beef against Sony is always the lack of native lens and/or uninspiring native lenses. I do wonder how many lenses Sony will actually make available for the public before they pump out new A7/7r bodies. Hopefully, Sony will NOT take the NEX approach.
 
yeah, i generally agree about the sony lenses, but wow, that zeiss FE 55/1.4 paired with the A7 looks awesome! also, though its ridiculously priced now, the nikon Df is really just a harbinger of what can be done to make compact, interesting FFs where the backward lens compatibility allows for a tremendous amount from which to choose. the variation will inevitably increase and the price will inevitably come down on these and be competitive with sony and thus with apsc.

also, if we do the math, the sony FF lenses are no bigger than their apsc FL equivalents (but much bigger than their m4/3 FL equivalents). it just leaves me feeling apsc is 'betwixt and between', very nice, but not the best at either compactness on the 'twixt' or IQ on the 'tween'...):
 
I was playing at CameraSize.com, and the Sony FF mirrorless lenses are bigger than their APS-C mirrorless counter-parts. Well, I guess we don't have too many lenses to compare right now! But let's just take the excellent 55/1.8. It's 20mm longer and 100 grams heavier than Fuji's 35/1.4. Sony's FE 28-70/3.5-5.6 is 23mm and 100 grams heavier than Sony's own 18-55/3.5-5.6 for the NEX. I'm not much of an engineer, but I guess there's just no way around the laws of physics when it comes to lenses (so I've been told by smarter people).
 
Initial photos OF the camera made me think it was a bit ugly. But in the video, I think it's quite understated and good-looking. I especially like it with the grip and the 56mm, but alas I have no money for cool new cameras.

I agree on the looks. When you see a big, front-on shot of the X-T1 on the computer screen with it's chunky viewfinder hump it looks like it should be standing in front of a measure and holding a number, but seeing it in a real life scenario it looks smaller and better proportioned.
 
I was playing at CameraSize.com, and the Sony FF mirrorless lenses are bigger than their APS-C mirrorless counter-parts. Well, I guess we don't have too many lenses to compare right now! But let's just take the excellent 55/1.8. It's 20mm longer and 100 grams heavier than Fuji's 35/1.4. Sony's FE 28-70/3.5-5.6 is 23mm and 100 grams heavier than Sony's own 18-55/3.5-5.6 for the NEX. I'm not much of an engineer, but I guess there's just no way around the laws of physics when it comes to lenses (so I've been told by smarter people).

The A7 lenses are weathersealed, the ones for the Fuji not. Wait until Fuji releases weathersealed primes, if they ever will. Except for the first series of primes (18, 35, 60), the newer Fuji lenses are heavy and bulky.
 
Has there been any verification or clarification about the extent of the weathersealing on the A7? I ask this based on this Lensrentals article, and because of the lack of any obvious external identifiers like rubber gaskets on the lens mounts.

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Roger Cicala said:

Doug, I haven’t seen any claims by Sony in writing, only the reviewers claims (which I assume came to them verbally from a rep). The top looks well sealed by itself, and that’s a positive thing. I saw no gaskets of any kind anywhere. So either the plastic shell is supposed to be so tight that it’s weather resistant, or it’s not weather resistant.

The magnesium alloy body being weather resistant particularly doesn’t make sense: there’s a strong magnesium alloy chassis inside a plastic shell. The body, other than the chassis, isn’t magnesium alloy.

It’s very possible Sony has designed some weather resistance via a method I don’t recognize, but it’s not gasketed. Until I see a Sony claim for weather resistance, I’m not taking mine out in the rain.

Oh, heck, even if Sony does make a claim for weather resistance I’m not taking mine out in the rain. My faith in weather resistance will reappear right after the Abominable Snowman rides in on his Unicorn and brings me a guarantee in writing from the manufacturer that a camera is weather sealed. You want to know how many ‘weather sealed’ cameras and lenses we write off for water damage every year?

I do note from his last few sentences that while some may be better than others, NO camera can be truly guaranteed to be weathersealed.
 
It does look very nice and Fuji is smart enough to also be expanding it's lens collection. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like most of the "wow!" cameras coming from the mirror less guys are SLR look-a-likes and most are retro at that. I'd point to the lack of an EVF in the RF style bodies but that's not true of Fuji.
 
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