With the X-T1, Fujifilm goes a new way, away from the quasi-housing typical for X-Pro 1 to X-A1 to the classic SLR look with the typical seeker in the middle. The Fujifilm X-T1 also features a range of controls for direct access to classic SLR virtues. The X-E2 16-megapixel X-Trans-CMOS-II sensor with hybrid AF and without low-pass filter as well as the EXR-Processor II. Works in the X-E2.
The Seeker - great cinema
The viewfinder on the Fujifilm X-T1, with its promising large eyepiece, is the first to look into the viewfinder. Anyone who turns on the camera with a small finger movement at the grip-release button on the shutter button and looks into the viewfinder will not be disappointed after a start time of 1.7 s.
Operation & exposure
The view falls on one of the current best electronic viewfinders in a digital camera. The viewfinder image of the Fujifilm X-T1 is beautifully sharp with a resolution of 786 666 RGB pixels and appears smooth thanks to the OLED display, in well-differentiated colors and also for panning or moving motives.
Image quality
The whole thing is really nice by the effective search magnification of the Fujifilm X-T1 of effective 0.77x (corresponding to 35 mm KB) and 23 mm exit pupil. As a result, even much more expensive, heavier and heavier professional SLRs such as Canon EOS 1Dx (0.76x) and Nikon D4 (0.7) are no longer available with optical prismatic viewfinders
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A special feature, as only an electronic viewfinder can offer, are the three different display modes for the picture. The standard viewfinder layout with the most important data at the top and bottom of the screen, including the distance scale, is also the most practical in normal operation. If you want, the image can look slightly smaller in the style of the XE-2 viewfinder with larger margins on the sides instead.
The third variant "Dual Display" shows the central section in black-and-white with the digital intersection indicator as a focusing aid in addition to the actual subject in a smaller second image. This is possible thanks to the corresponding signals from the X-Trans-II CMOS sensor. Thus the X-T1 viewfinder proves to be a new benchmark in quality and function that others have to measure. The fact that you might want to go beyond the histogram for a light / shadow warning in the exposure correction does not change this.
As an alternative, the Fujifilm X-T1 offers the 3-inch LCD monitor with 346 666 RGB pixels, but can now be folded up and down. This is useful when shooting from the head or from a low perspective, or if you want to remain in eye contact during portrait shooting with the subject.
The Fujifilm X-T1 is equipped with conventional controls to select important shooting functions. The three direct dials turn out to be good-looking and readable. To the left of the viewfinder lies the ISO ring, concentric beneath it a rotary switch for the series exposure modes, to the right of the viewfinder the time ring with subordinate measuring field selection. On the far right, the exposure correction camera, which is not easily adjusted as easily as X-E and X-M, is placed. The fast on / off switch surrounds the trigger.
With its WLAN function, the Fujifilm X-T1 now allows not only image transmission, but also remote control via smartphone or tablet. The Wi-Fi key, which can be used as a total of five more "Fn" keys with other functions, is flattened. In practice, the "Fn" quick access is to the automatic exposure series for EV, ISO, film simulation, dynamics or WB.
The f-stop is selected on the lens of the Fujifilm X-T1, even if no aperture values are recorded on the knurled ring. Thumbwheel thumbwheels and index fingers are available for quick menu settings, program shift, menu navigation, or image playback.
Important menu settings are also quickly accessible via the Quick button. The actual menus for the numerous detail settings are well sorted and structured in the Fujifilm X-T1. Seven user functions are available for storing individual function combinations. With all this, the Fujifilm X-T1 is always well and securely held in the hand thanks to its well-shaped, non-slip rubber grip.
For the full-HD video recording with a maximum of 1080p, Fujifilm has also donated the X-T1 a new, practical direct start button next to the shutter release. Unfortunately, the slow continuous video AF, which has already been criticized in the X-E2, is not particularly fast-paced in the Fujifilm X-T1.
The Fujifilm X-T1 lab test did not surprise us. As expected with the common sensor / processor genes, the X-T1 showed similar qualities to the X-E2. The X-T1 comes at the same high resolution of 1795 LP / BH at both ISO 200 and 400.
Autofocus & Series
At higher ISO values, the Fujifilm X-T1 as the X-E2 drops only slightly to still very good, almost 1600 LP / BH. Thus the X-T1 to ISO 800 moves in regions of full-format SLRs. A similar picture is also found for the Dead-Leaves values, with the X-T1 still striking slightly better than the X-E2 at a high level with values of 1329 at ISO 200 to 1156 at ISO 1600.
The nominally still Fuji Top model X-Pro1 shows as old-age releases of the 1st generation and can with DL values from 1191 to 738 over the same ISO range no longer keep up. With the kurtosis values, the Fujifilm X-T1 remains slightly behind the X-E2. In noise, the X-T1 diagram shows virtually the same footprint as the X-E2. Differences between very good values such as 0.5 and 0.6 (X-E2 / X-T1 at ISO 200) or 1.0 and 1.1 (X-E2 / X-T1 at ISO 6400) are measurable, however Can not be seen in the photo.
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In normal photography practice, the upper limit for the ISO automatic of the Fujifilm X-T1 can easily be screwed up to ISO 800 with restrictions also on 1600. In terms of dynamics, the X-T1 favors more than 11 f-stops up to ISO 800, which then drop only slowly over 10 at ISO 1600 to almost 9 at ISO 6400. The Canon EOS-1D X and EOS 5D III / 6D as well as the Nikon D610 and D800 are not better. The uniform color deviations over the entire ISO range, with moderate DeltaE values just above 11, do not occur in practice.
The laboratory chart showed that mainly tones in the reddish area are somewhat less saturated. The Fujifilm X-T1 has a very good control over different color temperatures, including mixed light situations. Contrasting motifs were usually balanced - certainly with a merit of the Fuji-typical variable dynamic range. "DR" offers as usual the levels 100, 200 and 400 percent, although in practice one can rely on the "auto" setting, but the program shift no longer works.
If necessary, the Fujifilm X-T1, which is supplied with LZ 11 (ISO 200), does not make the Fujifilm X-T1 more beautiful and handy, but provides a balanced fill-flash illumination also over a larger room distance.
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Test Conclusion
Not in the lab test, but in practice noticeable is a moiré effect when recording a escalator with metallic ripple structure on the ground. They show some moiré in two places, depending on the different display sizes more or less pronounced - a problem that we also noticed with other cameras without low-pass filters.
The autofocus of the Fujifilm X-T1 corresponds to that of the X-E2 Hybrid-AF with combined contrast AF and phase AF on the sensor by means of approximately 100 000 pixel tapped for this. The contrast AF uses 49 measurement points with automatic selection for multi-field measurement or as single-field AF, movable within the framework of the fields arranged in a 7 × 7 matrix. The field size is variable in five steps. If desired, the AF also works with facial recognition.
The AF system of the Fujifilm X-T1 is, however, measurably faster than 0.43 / 0.45 / 0 with 0.35 / 0.44 / 0.36 s 1000/30 Lux / Live View in bright light, 45 of the X-E2. Here, Fujifilm seems to have improved a bit in the algorithms of the EXR processor Pro II. You can quickly switch between single and serial AF as well as manual focus with a small rotary switch at the front left of the X-T1.
In any case, the possible control of the automatic or manual adjustment of the distance is practically possible by means of an analogue scale with a small blue dot and meter numbers, which is embedded in the live-view image.
Manual Focusing also provides a focus-peaking function by pressing the Focus Assist button through the bright highlighting of sharply-rendered edges, or the "digital editing indicator" already mentioned in the viewfinder. In the case of defocusing, it shows off-set edges in the motif in a magnified central image area, similar to an optical cross-sectional image meter.
When shooting in series, the X-T1 has a maximum of 8.4 JPG and even 8.8 RAW photos around 2 B / s faster. A maximum of 32 or 24 photos make the X-T1 in one piece.
The Fujifilm X-T1 confirms with 60 points the above-average level of function and image quality presented by the X-E2, especially at higher sensitivities. As an additional bonus, it offers classic SLR operation in many respects, as well as a high-quality, weatherproof housing as well as a searcher excellent in a double sense.
Added to this are new features such as flip-down monitor and video direct start button. Even an X-flash cable socket is not missing. The well-equipped Fujifilm X-T1 costs around 300 euros more than the X-E2, which is comparable in quality to the image quality, but offers the better viewfinder at a price of 1200 euros.
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