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the most notable thing about Fuji films xm1 the company's $800 interchangeable-lens camera kit is the stellar photo quality you get for the money the camera incorporates Fuji films aps-c sized x-trans sensor which uses a non-standard color filter array layout so that can drop the softening anti-aliasing filter and combined with really good JPEG processing delivers excellent photos as high as ISO 1600 and really usable ones through ISO 6400 it's got great dynamic range and good color to flip side however is relatively poor video quality with a lot of edge artifacts that the anti-aliasing filter usually deals with the camera has a really nice design as well I like it's Big Brother the XE ones body better with its electronic viewfinder and more photographer friendly physical controls but this camera straddles a good middle ground between consumer comfort and retro style highlights include two adjustment dials a tilting LCD that can operate at 90 degrees downward as well as upward and it's pricing ly good on camera flash that you can tilt back to bounce or reduce intensity the grips a lot shallower than I like but it's not bad it does offer Fujifilm standard confusion of auto modes a dumb auto a smarter auto and the tradition select Essene auto but it also has a custom settings law my only real quibble with the interface is the lack of a direct access option for metering and a physical auto exposure lock button you can program the function button for either but there's no way to program both operations so you're stuck going into the menu system to change the metering it doesn't even appear on the control panel or going without the auto exposure lock entirely the cameras performance while sufficient lags its competitors and though it can burst at about 5.7 frames per second it can only do so with fixed focus and exposure in the feature set which includes Wi-Fi for connecting to a mobile device to upload or tagged with GPS coordinates also ranks is sufficient but not outstanding if you're looking for the best photo quality you can get for the money the xm1 is it it's just not the most well-rounded option of its cobourg I'm Laurie grunion and this is the Fujifilm