Fujifilm XF10 Premium Compact Camera - Black

Product Information

The X70 by contrast has a tilting screen which we personally always found very useful. Both are 3-inch types with 1040K-dot resolution and a 3:2 aspect ratio. There is also a new Square mode on the XF10 which changes the aspect ratio to 1:1. It’s useful if you own an Instax Square printer because you can send your images to the printer and print them in Square film format. Instax SHARE SP-3 Printer The most striking thing about the Fujifilm XF10 is its compact, slim body – a big advantage over interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras. The lens does extend slightly when you power up the camera, but only by 2-3mm.

The Fujifilm XF10 produces images of excellent quality. It recorded noise-free JPEG images at ISO 200 all the way up to 3200, with a little noise at ISO 6400 and more visible noise and slight colour desaturation at the faster settings of ISO 12800 and 25600, an amazing performance for a camera with an APS-C sensor. The RAW files were also excellent, exhibiting more noise but still producing very usable images from ISO 200-6400. shutter speed is 30 seconds and there's also a Bulb mode for exposures up to 60 minutes in length, which is excellent news if you're seriously Still image JPEG (Exif Ver 2.3)*2 / RAW (RAF format) / RAW+JPEG (Design rule for Camera File system compliant / DPOF-compatible) Movie Movie File Format: MOV Movie Video Compression: H.264 Audio: Linear PCM Stereo L: (3:2) 6000 x 4000 / (16:9) 6000 x 3376 / (1:1) 4000 x 4000 M: (3:2) 4240 x 2832 / (16:9) 4240 x 2384 / (1:1) 2832 x 2832 S: (3:2) 3008 x 2000 / (16:9) 3008 x 1688 / (1:1) 2000 x 2000 The XF10 has a 18.5mm f/2.8 lens that gives you the same angle of view as a 28mm lens on 35mm format. It’s one of the street photographer’s favourite fields of view but is wide enough to be used for other genres too such as landscape or architecture. It has the same optical design as the lens found on the X70 which means that it should provide excellent sharpness at the centre and good sharpness in the corners when stopped down. I’ll be curious to see if resistance to flare has been improved. The minimum focus distance is 10cm. The 23mm f2 lens of the X100F Two modes that go hand-in-hand with the XF10’s 4K capabilities are 4K Burst Shooting and Multi Focus.

Verdict

Use a card with UHS Speed Class 1. * Speed of continuous shooting depends on shooting environment and shooting frames. Fast forward to today’s announcement of the Fujifilm XF10 and it’s true that what we have isn’t so much a successor to the X70 as a more minimalistic and affordable version with a few small updates to bring it up to modern standards. Curious to find out more about the differences between these two premium X-Series compacts? Then keep on reading! Specifications they share: The Fujifilm XF10 is thin. On top there is a mode dial, function button, on/off switch, exposure dials, etc. This is a photo with the lens extended. That’s pretty much as large as this camera is going to get.

Equipped with an APS-C sized sensor, the XF10 has superior image quality and wide dynamic range. It produces sharp, high resolution images that are certain to fulfill the demands of any type of photographer. You get three dials on the XF10: two mode dials, including one around the shutter, and a command dial on the right for adjusting things like exposure compensation. The elephant in the room is that the XF10 uses a 24-megapixel sensor with a Bayer color filter array and not an X-Trans array. It’s the same sensor that’s found in the Fujifilm X-A5 and X-T100. Also, the processor is not the same one found in X-Trans III cameras, but a generic one that seems related to the processor found in X-Trans II cameras. What this means is that the XF10 feels more like an X-Trans II camera, but with subtly inferior color rendition. It does have more resolution and slightly better high-ISO performance than X-Trans II, but overall it’s a lot closer to X-Trans II than X-Trans III and not exactly like either.

Image Quality

The Ricoh GR and later GR II are the kings of the “don’t need to focus each shot” function [Snap Focus]. It’s a really great feature for a small, large sensor fixed focal length point and shoot like the XF10/GR/CoolPix A/X100. Fuji should make their “snap focus” function on the XF10 better. On the GR, you choose whether or not to use snap focus by simply mashing the shutter vs a half-press for focusing. You can preset the snap focus distance to 1m or 1.5m or 2 or 2.5m or 5m or infinity. So if you are indoors (dinner table, say), I just set the snap focus to 1m or 1.5m, the shutter to a 30th, the aperture to f2.8 or f4 and the ISO to auto (TAv mode). Then I can focus or not as I see fit by simply choosing between a half press and a “mash it” press. The results are consistently great. Well, at least the results are in focus and properly exposed. There may be noise if the light level is too low and the ISO shoots up. In comparison, the XF10’s two “hyperfocal only” choices seem limited. I would think Fuji could improve this simply in software.

The XF10 utilises a leaf-shutter rather than the focal-plane shutter that DSLR cameras have. This is a small circular shutter that's built into the lens itself, the chief benefit being near-silent operation. To make the camera even less obtrusive, there's a Sound & Flash menu option which enables you to turn off the speaker, flash, AF-assist lamp and most importantly the artificially-created shutter-release sound, instantly making the XF10 perfectly suited to more candid photography. The Fujifilm XF10 is an absolute beast when it comes to image quality. If you like the Fujifilm Film simulations, then you’d probably really be okay with the JPEG output. But otherwise, the image quality and the editing abilities in Capture One are very good. Bokeh You also have 15 advanced filters on the XF10 including the new Rich & Fine and Monochrome (NIR) modes, which aren’t found on the X100F.

New 24MP sensor uses a traditional Bayer pattern, rather than Fujifilm's X-Trans pattern on more expensive models

Like the X100 series, the XF10 has a leaf shutter and fantastic built-in fill-flash. The camera seems to balance the exposure and flash perfectly every time, which is just fantastic! This is something that Fujifilm does better than anybody. A side effect of the leaf shutter is that it is nearly silent, making this camera particularly great for street photography. Just be sure to turn off all the artificial noises that the camera is programmed to make.I had an Olympus XZ-1, a great little camera with an excellent and fast Zuiko lens (with an attached EVF) Also gives the camera a cleaner look, as it covers up any lens information. (pictured with a 46-52mm Step up -> 52mm Circular polarizer) The Fujifilm XF10 has been designed with the social generation in mind - Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are built-in for easy photo sharing, and there are lots of digital filters to apply to images as well. There are 19 advanced filters and 11 film simulation offerings.