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Canon EOS M6 vs. Fujifilm XT20

Started May 19, 2017 | User reviews thread
2ndact scene1 Contributing Member • Posts: 802
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The user interface on any phone IMO is nowhere near as good as the Ricoh GR2 (and most other current digital  cameras) even if you can control the same variables on the phone touch screen. I am not against touch screens in general but relying exclusively on a touch screen is not ideal in my experience.  For example,  I love the simplicity of the EOS M interface but in practice,  I find the very limited physical controls to be a drawback and for me, make the camera difficult to operate, especially if I don't use it for a while.

Also a Nokia cell phone still in use today presumably has the Microsoft phone operating system.  I used to have a Nokia 830 ( or a model number close to that). The software was a great design but the app availability was horrendous. Just sticking to photography apps, I doubt that Lightroom is available and I seem to recall the Nokia camera app was abandoned.

A trip to Japan a few years ago with nothing but my Nokia phone is what started me on getting back into photography with a "real camera" .

However, i must admit, cell phone photography is evolving fast - one of the options I had when buying the GR2 was an iPhone 7+.  I decided against it for size (the 7+ is huge IMO)  and cost ($900?). Plus the rapid obsellence of iPhones based on Apple dropping support of older phones is a potential issue (have not researched so just my impression).

The GR2 is my first non Canon digital camera (excluding a Fuji P&S I did not get along with very well).

Given my investment on the Canon ecosystem, assume i will upgrade one of my canon cameras to newer model in  due course - it could be a crop DSLR, M series camera or another full frame camera (6D?).  But the GR2 fits my immediate needs.

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