X-T4 from Sony A6600?

Stokkes wrote:

Hello,

Just looking for some advice - i've been flip/flopping at lot over the past year on gear, thankfully making most of my money back. I've had an A7iii (sold it - too big/bulky, expensive lenses) and in December bought an A6600 and Sigma 30mm f1.4 for a trip to Hawaii. While in Hawaii I rented for 2 weeks a Sony 70-300 (full frame). The 70-300 stayed mostly on my camera, and for landscape/wide shots, I used my iPhone 11 Pro since I didn't have a wide lens.

Overall, there's a lot I like about the A6600, but my trip really showed me that I'm more of a zoom person than a prime person (using mostly primes indoors in low-light). I'm looking at the 16-55 f2.8 G and it's $1450 here, and that got me thinking about Fuji and the X-T4 (and the 16-55 2.8 which is about 1100 here). I feel I could easily sell the 6600+30mm and recoup most of the money I paid for it - effectively, going from Sony to Fuji would cost me about 300-400$ - which is something I am considering.

My likes of the 6600:

• The AF is so unbelievable - the lock on tracking AF, EyeAF and Animal eyeAF (yes I know Fuji doesn't have this)
• The DR - I was able to pull details from the shadows with little loss of quality from my trip, this was great.
• The IQ is amazing - personally I don't buy in to the colour science - most images look appealing if you're not comparing them to something else.
• The small size - one reason I got rid of my A7iii was due to bulky/heavy and expensive lenses

There are things with the 6600 that really annoy me:

• Lack of dials - it really only has 1 dial that you can customize for aperature/ss/etc. There's another one, but it's so finicky (the menu dial) that it's easy to accidentally press it and activate a separate function
• No joystick - moving the focus area is painful and since I use my left eye in the viewfinder, the screen is mostly covered and difficult to use the screen to set the focus point
• Sony doesn't seem too invested in APS-C - yes there's the 16-55 (expensive) and the 70-350, but I think they just released these lenses to shut up the A6xxx users - it doesn't seem to me that they're heavily invested in the format. There's also no good wide lenses for APS-C - only the 10-18mm f4 which is hit or miss IQ wise.

The X-T4 looks really good and overall I think would be cheaper in the long run - yes there's the initial $400 to switch over, but lenses are generally cheaper, and the X-T4 has a lot of the things I miss from the a7iii that are not on the A6600 - extra dials, joystick, etc.

However I do have some questions:

1. Is the X-T4's autofocus closer to Sony's?
2. How is the X-T4's tracking (lock on + track)?
3. How's the DR?
4. Is it normal that Fuji lenses seem to be a bit "softer"? Sony's seem sharper (e.g.: the sony 16-55 2.8 vs fuji 16-55 2.8)
5. Is the X-T4 significantly bigger than the 6600? I know from a weight perspective it's about 100g, but overall size, it seems the X-T4 is more in FF size territory for the body (yes I know lenses are typically tiny)
6. Most importantly - I am a pure iPad user for my workflow and I use Lightroom - is this going to be a problem with the RAF files? (I shoot raw) - lots of comments on this forum give me great pause on this.
7. What would be the best portrait/indoor prime as a starter that provides great IQ, shallow DOF?

Thanks!

Just a few pointers:

The fuji XT4 should be of similar size to the A7III. And the sony a6600 has a wider range of zoom lenses than the fuji system. You have the superb 18-135mm, you have the tamron 28-75mm f2.8 and the new tamron 70-180mm 2.8. You have sigmas support too for general purpose lenses. On  the fuji system you really only have the one 16-55mm 2.8, and if you want longer you have the slow 55-200mm or the super bulky 50-140 2.8.

Thay said, i love fuji and I think you'd be better served - you body wise - with any XT camera.