My Quick Review of Fuji X-E4 kit

Adso of Melk wrote:

Good review.

I believe that many who criticize the X-E4 have never had it in hand. My impressions are similar to the X100V, which costs more because it includes the lens and has a better viewfinder (in addition to the optical viewfinder), but in quality of finishes they are very similar, If there are differences they are minimal.

...and a leaf shutter, and a built in flash (that can sync at 1/1000 with the lens wide open without vignetting), and a 4-stop neutral density filter, and greater weather resistance, and an all-metal chassis, a rear dial, more customisable buttons...

You get a lot of desirable features for your extra money!

Lou Capeloto over in your X-E4 vs X100V thread stated that he regarded the X100V as being better built than the X-E4, and he owned both cameras simultaneously.

I had both the X-E3 and X100F together for a couple of years. Flimsy X100F battery compartment door aside, both were very well made. However (that battery door notwithstanding), the X100F was a more "premium" feeling unit. X100 cameras have an all-metal chassis, whereas the X-E range uses a polycarbonate chassis with a metal top and bottom plate, which probably partly accounts for some of the difference in build quality perception. If memory serves, the buttons on the X100F were also a tad larger and thus felt more positive.

Perhaps the X-E4 has closed the gap in "feel", although I'm sceptical. Fuji clearly differentiates between the two lines and markets the X100 line as being a step up. I'm not knocking the X-E line. I really liked my X-E3 and if I didn't have too many cameras already I'd have kept it. If you hid the EXIF data, no one could tell that an X-E3 image wasn't from an X-T2 or X-H1. It punched well above its weight and for the price was a bargain, I thought.