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amazon Fujifilm X-T30 reviews
Well, maybe there’s someone who’s a fanatical photographer or spends the busiest part of his or her day taking photographs with a camera who must have heard of ‘Fuji magic’, something that all enthusiasts of this company insist: their cameras are ‘really better than other DSLR’s or Mirrorless’.
I love technology and exactly cameras, but I have never had experience long enough with a machine on my own to be able to say if all this is true. But the last shot comes when Fujifilm X-T30, the new baby, hits town.
What is a good camera to buy from Fujifilm?
So one might ask, what makes Fujifilm so strong in the presence of other numerous professional camera companies with better specifications? In simple terms, Fujifilm does not stack up against other manufacturers on paper, but their products ‘eat points’ in the actual use experience.
With history in film camera production, today’s Fujifilm has designed a modern digital camera with an exterior extremely nostalgic. Their machines are truly unlike any current cameras in the marketplace, and that difference is clear even at first sight. There were companies that tried this design long back, but all of them failed miserably, the typical example being the Nikon Df.
This design is not just ‘pretty’ but also serves very much purpose, having in-built rotation in its X-Series models to adjust parameters such as aperture, ISO, shutter speeds, and mode- Continuous shooting or 1 image, focus mode …creating that physical use feeling unlike other peering at photos.
Like the emulators of film colors, Fujifilm cameras are also very popular for such image quality. Aside from making cameras, Fujifilm is a big player on the film production scene and their films are still being used by many photographers. Definitely, one having a filmmaking experience would create color images for digital films that would outrun other brands.
It takes us back to Fujifilm’s X-T30, a model that has been showered with new state-of-the-art features about two months ago, being a ‘shortened’ version of the high-end X-T3. Its design is not much different from its former designs except for a few small modifications for a better user experience.
Shortened, then, in the way that a high-end X-T3 would be, the X-T30 has something of an overall sleeker design. This gives a plus for someone who needs a small machine. This gives it high usability, on the other hand, creates a disadvantage that the grip is small.
To remedy this, I hold the device according to a compact model (put a cross-arm, palm down) instead of an usual DSLR grip. Kind of a big palm, so if I had to choose, I’d like to have the X-T3 with a bigger grip than the X-T30.
Fujifilm has a lot of revolutions to adjust parameters like a film in physical, including exposure compensation, shutter speed, shooting mode (1 image, continuous), which has the ring Adjusting the aperture on the lens and particularly there is a lever to set all of these parameters to an automatic level, turning the X-T30 into a point-and-shoot machine for beginners to take pictures.
Instead of the D-pad navigation button present in various older models, X-T30 has had an innovation replacing it with a joystick. To my mind, this corresponding control is practical, intuitive, and also liberates some bunch of useful areas on the backside.
The X-T30 is well thought-out, as the rear ring always provides resistance when pressed down, and rotating it affords one function while pressing and rotating allows another function. In my particular setup, ISO changes are assigned to the rear ring, but if I press it, it toggles through movie emulators – super useful! When companies start incorporating such logical functions, one can’t help but wonder!
The monitor measures 3 inches, 1.04 pixel resolution, flip out (1 direction), and multi-touch.
The most prominent area of ‘shrinking’ on the X-T30 as compared to the X-T3 is the Input/Output system. Only one SD card port exists in the X-T30, this regular U-H-S-I standard instead of the high-speed U-H-S-II standard. It has a headphone jack and a 2.5mm rather than 3.5mm microphone input.
In spite of these few downgrades, I still appreciate design-wise Fujifilm X-T30. Minimalist, in a manner of speaking, like a film but convenient and versatile for operating systems, contributes to the standing of the device itself, one lonely in contrast to the practical bent yet utterly stiff, dry DSLR-Mirrorless systems of other design houses.
Incredible power within a compact body
Not the least bit ‘neck’; indeed, beneath the skin-deep film designer style. Fitted with Fujifilm’s X-Trans CMOS 26.1-megapixel APS-C sensor, X-mount mirrors the sensor fitted in X-T3. X-Trans sensor has become Fujifilm’s ‘specialty’, which is said to have high noise resistance and good definition due to no structure.
The noise reduction mechanism in today’s CMOS sensors is just great and hence each one has somewhat ponded differences. The first strong reason in support of Fujifilm, according to me, is that the level of definition of the image is dependent highly on the lens being mounted on the machine. Being a company which produces no full-frame cameras, Fujifilm’s X-mount lenses are only meant to work on APS-C machines so their optical quality is heavily biased in favor of that particular sensor.
For support to the sensor, the X-processor microprocessor with 4 cores generate around 150% more speed as compared to its X-T20 generation, and it even focuses on phase 2.16 million points (select 445 points). As par foreign reviews, X-T30 is currently the fastest focusing speed in all Fujifilm machines including the X-T3 series, as according to the version of the newer software. But in the future, X-T3 will also have its software updated for the X-T30 to make it comparable to the person and no worries will remain for those users of this model!
That is just one more of many advantages Fujifilm has over the others, as it is continuously updating models with newer software, which Sony hardly bothers doing, and Canon, Nikon, Pentax … still dream of. Thus the older models of the company hold their use value longer through the offers of the new model.
X-T30 is really very fast and almost instantaneous with both lenses that come with it-lenses such as Fujinon 23mm f2 and 35mm f2. The 27mm f2.8 Fujinon has a slower speed, but probably because of the speed of the motor in the lens, not the camera body.
We can take 8 stills in one writing and if we use the electronic shutter, we can boost it to 30 frames every second while cropping 1.25x. One thing that X-T30 will lack which is present in the superiors X-T3 is the possibility of filming. The gadget can only do 4K30p recording, not like the 4K60p, with its color system dropped to 8-bit from the earlier 10-bit.
Till now, it happens that the video recording is always scaled down in the series of X-T 2, so it’s not something new. The difference is that with the X-T30, it is a bit less but still topnotch, since it could read the whole 6K sensor and downsize to create 4K videos; detail will definitely be better than those of normal 4K turning machines.
One such attribute key is, and Fujifilm has kept it long. I have to say that the application for controlling a camera from a smartphone to transfer photos faster and adds tag locations as well.
The software is very much working fine, with only the initial setup process, which is tough for me. The company made users have to open the location on the smartphone to connect to the camera, but the first time and software setup did not notice it, so I struggled around for some time, thinking about an error. Currently, this app seems to have a lot of bugs as it holds only 2.9/5 stars on Play Store. Hope to see the company invest more in this area in future.
where can you get a Fujifilm X-T30 online
Fujifilm X-T30 Mirrorless Digital Camera – Black (Body Only): Buy it now
Fujifilm X-T30 Wi-Fi Digital Camera & 18-55mm XF Lens (Black) + 64GB Card + Battery + Charger + Mic + LED Light + Tripod + Flash + Case + 2 Lens Kit: Buy it now
Fujifilm X-T30 4K Wi-Fi Mirrorless Digital Camera with XF 18-55mm Lens Kit – Black with 32GB Bundle and Travel Photo Cleaning Kit: Buy it now
FUJIFILM X-T30 Mirrorless Digital Camera Body (Body 5 Piece Bundle, Black): Buy it now
Fujifilm X-T30 Wi-Fi Digital Camera & 15-45mm XC OIS PZ Lens (Silver) with 32GB Card + Battery + Flash + Tripod + Case + Kit: Buy it now
Live the film color experience – Not adverting
If asked to name the best camera company when it comes to color up in the market, around 90% will point to Fujifilm X-Series; because, unlike most camera brands in the market fighting for authenticity-the mainness is accurate to every color, Fuji goes the other route and creates images resembling the colors in the film for which they have been working for centuries with rich colors and yet with certain harmony.
What constitutes, according to each one of us, ‘beautiful color’, will differ from person to person, some deem it possible to create, in most people’s minds, the color that can be painted as true-to-life as it is, and almost everyone else believes, that eye-catching images-they do not have to be very successful, and authenticity is not very high-otherwise. In point of actual fact, most Asian photographers are also on the trend of adjusting images according to film colors, and therefore, the Fujifilm film emulators are definitely more than just beer publicity; it is a very practical point.
The X-T30 has Provia (natural), Velvia (bold), Astia (gentle), Classic Chrome (nostalgic color – vintage), Acros (high contrast black and white), PRO neg (portrait ), Sepia (brownish-earth film) and, lastly, the latest color – Eterna, light, smooth, and flat to serve the purpose of filming.
The two modes I like most are Acros and Velvia, one is colored and the other black and white (monochrome) but both high contrast, creating beautiful amazing pictures. I might say that all of the colors might be very fine from Fujifilm; JPEG images taken from the camera are usable-no modification.
However, Fujifilm is not yet known for its work in a RAW file. While I work with Lightroom, all Fujifilm camera users refrain from handling the RAW file for this camera in that software because it does not give the best quality.
No software can read RAW of the X-T30 yet, so I cannot test it, but for those who never take JPEGs and just want to sit and edit on the computer, they probably have to choose others. The value of Fujifilm photos is in those built-in film emulators.
Epilogue
A phrase that is almost a cliché but is nonetheless true is that the more you use this camera, the more it finds its way into your heart. Glamorous design and ultra-comfortable working.
There had been many instances, where I would have gone out for photo shoots and been ready to discard the Full-frame pro machine resting in my backpack just to ‘work’ with the Fujifilm X-T30, only because it was so much more fun to use. Perhaps this is the ‘Fuji magic’ that gets mentioned a lot, the one that pulls users.
Not that it is a perfect camera-grip too small to avoid switching hands while using, high magnification electronic viewfinder, 1 memory card slot, reduced 4K60p recording from the X-T3-But all that is easily palatable and in view of the much lower pricing than X-T3-$899 vs. $1400.