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hi I'm Lori grunion senior editor at cnet and this is the Fujifilm xq1 there's tons to like about Fujifilm's weather sealed cold resistant interchangeable lens camera it delivers great photo quality and excellent continuous shooting speed in a pretty comfortable to shoot body that's mostly well designed I say mostly because while I generally like shooting with the xt-1 there are few design quirks that make me kind of crazy on the good side it's got a sufficiently big and pretty comfortable grip manual dials for ISO sensitivity shutter speed and exposure compensation and a bright tilting LCD plus the viewfinders terrific it's big with several different views for manually focusing including a dual view and a digital split image view plus focus peaking like the rest of the recent generation of x-series cameras I really enjoy it for street photography but I really don't like the drive mode control the movie record button or the navigation buttons while the ISO and shutter speed dials lock the drive mode switch doesn't and the single shooting selections right in the middle the combination resulted in my constantly accidentally switching out of single shooting into burst mode and the movie record navigation buttons are really flat I frequently had to push the nav buttons with my fingernail and ended up with videos of me walking down the sidewalk because i thought i'd pressed the movie end button but hadn't these are especially problematic in cold weather when you're wearing gloves based on the same sixteen point three megapixel x-trans CMOS two sensor as the xe2 but with some tweaking to lower the noise the xt-1 delivers the same great photo quality JPEGs are clean up to iso 800 and depending upon content can be usable as high as iso 6400 unfortunately like the XE to Ross ports not available in the expanded ISO sensitivity range the xt-1 delivers a great continuous shooting rate of around seven point nine frames per second at a pretty deep burst of around 30 frames and that's with autofocus and reasonably fast saves to the card but the rest of its performance is just okay there's no on-camera flash but otherwise it provides a well-rounded set including Wi-Fi and an intervalometer Fujifilm's camera remote app is nicer than most for instance it lets you zoom when you're browsing remotely which many apps don't but the camera could really use NFC to simplify connecting to Android all in all the xt-1 isn't perfect but it's a great camera and the best of fujifilm's x series models today I'm Lori Brennan and this is the Fujifilm xq1