Fujifilm XT-5 Review
How does it feel like walking around with this camera?
Fujifilm cameras get a lot of hype for their features that in many ways resemble the good old days of analogue photography. The top plate offers rotating dials for ISO and exposure times, which look and work exactly like on classic film cameras from the 1960s. On top of that, one can choose from a number of film simulations that are applied to JPEG processing and mimic legendary Fuji films (like Velvia, Provia, ProH negative, etc.). For many, this sounds too good to be true, but does it hold the promise in practice? Let’s find out.
I am delighted to have gotten the opportunity to test this camera on my trip to Bratislava’s Month of Photography. I had already tested the Fujifilm XT-2 on my trip to Morocco in 2018 (Flickr gallery here). I loved the colors it captured in the picturesque Moroccan landscape. I also fell in love with the analogue dials and film simulations. Thus I can confidently say that I absolutely loved that camera, the only complaint that I had was that it drained batteries like there’s no tomorrow.
Naturally, I was eager to see how they improved over the years that have passed in between. BTW; it is also worth noting I came to the XT-2 from a Canon SLR camera (EOS 5D mkII), while this time around, my daily camera is also mirrorless, the Sony A7 R3…
