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fully modular interior beautiful exterior and completely silent the definer 5 from fractal design link in the description for pricing and availability hello everyone I'm Dmitry with Haruka Knox and the fujifilm x100t is a unique piece of gear because it combines this retro looking type of body with old-school handling elements but with an aps-c size sensor and tools for both neo Pro photographers and amateur photographers or amateur consumers to take excellent images with very satisfying operational mechanics you know once you learn the camera and this all adds up to a hefty price that I initially thought might be a total turnoff but that soon changed once I began to sort of explore the full potential of the x100t and the joy of shooting with something like this and to get the specs out of the way it captures sixteen point three megapixel images with the aps-c x-trans two sensor with the ISO range of 200 250 1000 3 inch screen at the back Wi-Fi capabilities and the whole lot of other features that make this experience even more complete now I recently traveled to Panama to escape the miserable winter of Toronto and to get some Sun of course that I brought back with me but that soon changed once the snow started falling again we're in spring now but anyway what a better way to test out the camera than to actually take it on the road with you and see what it can do and as you can see the camera is gorgeous many people thought this was a film camera at first and if you are a traveler I want to sort of minimize attracting attention I would say this would be a considerable choice also a full black version is available but there is something about that division between the silver bits and the textured midsection I love this look now one of the reasons I said this camera may improve you as a photographer is because of the fixed prime lens this 23-member optic will make you move your feet how to capture the perfect shot no longer can you rely on the zoom from our versatility standpoint the lack of zoom can be seen as a negative especially since the lens is fixed you cannot swap them for like a zoom for example but I was happy with the wide field of view to capture your scene plus the lens has manual clipped aperture control if you haven't yet worked with the manual aperture it's really awesome and dialing in that auto settings will enable aperture priority furthermore the lens is a really smooth focusing ring that is a positive although it is kind of awkward to reach and I think it's totally unnecessary but I was really surprised to find that you cannot remap the ring to change any of the settings so it's locked to only control the focus and I would much rather have this set to perhaps changing your ISO on the fly or choosing different creative filters if you go into that effect and I'm surprised that it's not available in the former maybe that will roll out sometime in the future because the x30 camera which is much cheaper and we reviewed earlier has that option you're able to choose what the lens ring does instead of just controlling the focus however on a positive note the controls are very well laid out starting with easy to access power switch that surrounds the shutter button so you kind of never miss a moment fiddling around to turn on the camera the two dials beside it are your shutter speed with an easy to distinguish auto mode and exposure compensation to the right that has come in handy multiple times while outdoors the switch on the side is very important to remember this is your focus set between manual continuous and se I love that we have this feature not buried somewhere in the settings but easily accessible right on the body on the other side behind this door is a mini mic and remote jack micro USB for data and charging and micro HDMI for TV playback the rest of the controls are laid out just fine surrounding the 3 inch 1 million dot screen with clicky buttons plus an extra dial for your thumb and that is my other negative point on the x100t regarding operational mechanics it's way too loose scroll steps are not defined and it's very easy to miss dial your desired settings now one of the unique features of the x100t is the dual viewfinder that you switch using this dial thing and the front you can either have an electronic viewfinder this automatically turned on when you approach the eyepiece and there are many positive features on it like gridlines showing you all the settings histogram and etc but the color is really an accurate contrast is way off and you seriously cannot judge the final image with the electronic viewfinder I would say it's only good for composing your shots and when you're outside and bright sunlight the optical viewfinder however is a bit different but also far from perfect as it doesn't work when in macro mode so make sure macro mode is disabled composing your shots will prove inaccurate and difficult regardless if framing assist is enabled and then just ended up using the electronic viewfinder when outdoors to get my composition right and to get a sense of depth of field that you don't get with the optical viewfinder because you're literally just looking into that corner of the camera body it doesn't fully represent what the lens is seeing so don't use it just use the electronic viewfinder or the screen the back handling feels normal however the textured mid section is more slippery than I like and the lack of a thumb bit at the back should make you accustomed to being more careful and handle the x100t with two hands for support but enough about the camera let's talk about what you can capture with it so first the focus is fast even in low-light I was impressed the burst mode gets up to five frames per second in the lowest quality JPEG and of course much slower when capturing raw and the ability to shoot raw is a must for this day and age and this price point and look at how vibrant the colors are captured the dynamic range is excellent and having that f 2.0 aperture for really shallow that the field is awesome complemented by a large aps-c size sensor that can handle high ISO pretty well all the way up to 6400 where digital noise starts to appear but the detail is still there and having that F 2.0 lens pays off beautifully for evening photography and I really enjoyed shooting with the x100t even though I think the EVF should have been much better but the body size the pancake lens turned this into almost ideal camera for travel because once you learn the field of view and how far you need to be away from your subject for that perfect capture you kind of forget about the drawbacks and be in the moment of getting awesome pictures the battery life is nothing outstanding spending half the day on the beach drain the battery completely and I didn't even fully fill my SD card the video modes got 1080p at 60fps and on paper sounds excellent but look at that footage it looks terrible seriously they could have made it better for camera that cost this much that's not okay so the x100t is not the most versatile camera and it certainly has faults with the viewfinder it lacks needed ergonomics for comfortable one-hand operation and the video mode is a joke and battery life is too short but after reviewing the pictures and reflecting on how much fun I had shooting with it it all seemed to go out of the window because the lens and the sensor combination on the x100t is brilliant because in photography despite the tools that we use it's the sort of the final outcome and how you feel when capturing those moments that really matters and I feel the fujifilm x100t captures that essence of just going out and taking pictures and enjoying yourself while doing so perfectly with this camera and so that concludes this camera review we hope you enjoyed and let us know which of the pictures you enjoyed the most with the car below is always thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe for more similar content and we'll 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