new XA2: what good is a selfie screen with no touchscreen.

Blackdog68 wrote:

Why no touchscreen?? What good is flipping the screen if you can't move the AF point?? At least not without some blind fumbling at the 4 way controller. I guess it's just for framing purposes and you're supposed to depend on face detect or auto detect mode, but Fuji really needs to add the touch option, especially to this level camera with no EVF.

I have and XA1 and it's a great little camera. I used to have an Oly EPL5 which could swing its screen up like the new XA2, but you could enable the touch screen and I have quite a few shots of me with my children where they get a kick out of touching the screen to take the shot, and the smiles are great. I find that the XA1 face detect works pretty good and I can blindly take the same type of shots using either the 14 or my samyang 8mm, and I guess for framing purposes, this is an improvement, but add touch to this mix and it's a vastly improved user experience. This is an intro level camera, and people today expect touch screens. They can always be disabled for those who don't like them, but this is an unfortunate mistake on Fuji's part IMO.

Compared to the X-A1, what's good about anything on the X-A2? If I want to take selfies, I'll use my smartphone - the ugly need not apply. Face recognition/eye recognition is useless if the camera doesn't resort to a standard AF mode when a face or eye isn't detected.

Only good thing I see on the surface is that the useless macro button on the 4-way control is gone. If Fuji believes that they're going to sell any more of these than the X-A1, they're dreaming in FujiColor.