Fujifilm X‑E5: When Specs Lie, Complaining Fails and Even the Sony A7CR Can’t Save the Rant
- Fujifilm X-E5
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Originally in this article I highlighted how many reviewers love the Fujifilm X-E5.
It’s such a great looking and well built camera, compact and yet packed with powerful features. A camera that is truly inspirational and “makes you want to shoot pictures“.
It’s sexy, it’s fun, and it comes with features like a film simulation dial, which turned into a favorite feature for some people, who previously didn’t care much about film simulations.
Inspiration… falling in love with photography… that’s what we hear in their reviews.
But you know what?
We are going to ignore all of that good stuff.
We are here to moan. And we’ll do that by focusing on those few specs that are a sheer disappointment and ruin our inner peace.
Let’s start with the lower resolution LCD and the EVF.
Here is what Luca Petralia has to say about it (full video below)
- LCD, while lower resolution than other cameras, it is actually really good from a color and contrast perspective
- zero issues using this LCD even under the bright summer sun in Sicily
- if he had to chose between higher resolution or better usability under the sun, he’d go for the usability under the sun
- example: he owns the Sony A7CR (which costs twice as much as X-E5), which has a higher resolution screen, but that Sony screen is much much worst under the sun to the point where it is almost unusable. X-E5 screen is better
- it’s a great LCD when it comes to using it in real word
- EVF is crisp, contrast is really good and even under difficult circumstances you can see through the viewfinder pretty well
- the new vintage “classic display” view mode on the EVF may seem like a gimmick, but it cleans up the screen and simplifies the scene
Damn Luca, that was not what we planed.
We wanted to moan.
But hey, we can still moan about the lack of weather sealing, right?
And who can tell us better about how awesome weather sealing is than DPReview, who has tested hundreds of cameras in all possible conditions. They say here:
One luxury I’ve had as a DPReview editor is the opportunity to use many mid-range cameras in absolutely terrible, wet conditions, sometimes with water dripping off them for extended periods. Every single camera I’ve done this to kept working. I’m not suggesting carelessness, or that water will never cause a problem – just that gear may tolerate more than many imagine.
C’mon DPR, that also does not help our case here. We are trying to convince people that no weather sealing is a shame and that at the first water drops rain flows through the camera like water through a pasta strainer. A camera without weather sealing should cost 800 USD max!
Ok, I guess our attempt to moan about the Fujifilm X-E5 was not as successful as we hoped for.
So we are left with a camera that is not just a decent to excellent technical tool, but more importantly a creative enabler. A grab-and-create camera that focuses on experience, fun and inspiration. And that’s quite refreshing in a camera world that is often just battling for best specs on paper.
- Fujifilm X-E5
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