My X-T1 review from an amateur perspective.

First, I do not earn money from photos. It is a hobby I enjoy for photos of my family, bushwalking, and trips overseas. Past cameras used are the Canon 300D, Fuji X100, Olympus E-M5 and Sony RX100.

I typically shoot in RAW and convert the files to JPEG in the camera, no external RAW editor used.

General impressions of the camera are very positive. It feels great in the hand and offers excellent controls with all of the exposure parameters right at one's fingertips. A standard 'Mode' dial may be a bit faster for changing exposure on the move, but a bit of practice makes the X-T1 as a speedy camera to operate.

The viewfinder is really nice, offering a big step up from smaller EVFs (such as in the Oly EM5). The tilt screen has both a high build quality and excellent resolution.

My main photographic priority is shots of my little daughter and our family life. This includes online sharing and printed photo albums.

The X-T1 is really great family shooting this with high burst mode rates and very fast autofocus. The face detection is a step down from the Olympus and Panasonic cameras, so the better solution is simply to move your focus point for the desired composition. To get best results, it pays to try all of the drive modes and autofocus modes on offer to find what works best for you.

Flash metering, auto white balance and skin tones all work beautifully. It is easy to get nice family photos with this camera, so I rate it as 'Excellent' for Kids/Pets.

Action/Sports is not something I normally shoot, and in fact I do not own a telephoto lens. It is not a dedicated action dslr, but good camera technique (appropriate shutter speeds, holding technique etc.) can be used to get the shot in a comparable way to thousands of other camera models released over the years. It gets a 'Good' here for the very fast autofocus burst rates.

Landscapes/Scenery is certainly something I like to shoot with the X-T1, even if I don't take it seriously. There are some issues here that I have seen in using Lightroom with X-Trans RAW falls. Other folks have worked their way around this by using alternate RAW converters.

Even with these nitpicks, the X-T1 resolution, and sharpness and colours are all excellent and I really enjoy the scenic shots I have taken with this camera so far. I rate it a 'Good' here

For Portraits, the Fujifilm skin colours and white balance are both wonderful. Some folks have reported excessive skin smoothing at ISO 6400 but I have not encountered it. I rate it an 'Excellent' for portraits.

Low light without flash is an interesting category. I was worried that a lack of image stabilization would be problematic when moving from the Olympus E-M5 but it has not been an issue at all. Actual ISO performance is really good, better than any camera I have owned in the past. I rate it a 'Great'.

Fujifilm certainly need to work on their flash system to incorporate wireless TTL exposure without the need for external triggers. That said, the Fuji flash metering is by far the best I have seen. Social flash photography generally means fill flash and bounce flash to me and the camera works fine in these scenarios. I rate it a 'Good ' here.

For Studio and still life, the excellent viewfinder and high resolution tilting screen are nice advantages. I rate the camera a 'Good' here.

My aggregate score looks like a 4/5, but for the family and travel photos that mean a lot to me, and as a camera that I love to carry and use, the Fujifilm X-T1 is a 5/5