Which X Body?

jjz2 wrote:

mmditter wrote:

Which Fuji camera would be best for me? I need a small camera, but one that's made good, has controls and a fast lens (f2.8 or faster). The XE-3 and XE-4 with the 28mm f2.8 pancake seem to be options. The X100T and V seem like good options, too.

But what I'm really getting at is the age old adage that the best camera is the one you have with you. These days, that's usually my phone. But the problem is always the same. The camera that's small enough that it's always in my pocket never seems to be the camera I really want when it comes time to shoot. Not enough physical controls, slow lens, bad viewfinder, slow AF... Meanwhile the DSLR that does everything I want it to do and need it to do stays home in the kit bag.

The Ricoh GR cameras probably fit my needs closely. But they don't have ovf's or evf's. Just a screen. The newest one has lost it's flash and has poor battery life.

I want a viewfinder I cant look through. I also would like a built in flash (although that's less important).

To my knowledge the XE3/XE4 with 27mm and x100f/v are the smallest aps-c kits you can carry yet still have a built in EVF. Then the XT30. Canon had the M5 for awhile but think they killed off that line.

I think you're on the right track, any of these are pocketable in shorts or jackets, not jeans though...need to go ricoh or maybe xf10 for that.

My carry around everywhere all the time is the XF10. Used to be X70. WIsh Fuji would upgrade these. All Fujis have poor batteries but I always carry an extra one or two. For my interchangeable lens carry all, I refound my XA1 in a closet, which I got instead of the similar XM1 and really enjoying it again, as my XT10 bit the dust.