I know I'm being a bit of a wet blanket when I say that we shouldn't get any hopes up for something revolutionary from Fuji in the area of CP. Unless they've recently hired some disgruntled Apple employees, their track record in this area of photography is unremarkable; there's no real evidence of a significant investment in in-camera processing, other than their (remarkable!) color science. I've said it many times, but there are more in-camera features in their lower-end Bayer cameras (made by a third party, hmmm ) than in any X-Trans camera. The X-T200 is the pinnacle of "Fuji's" computational photography cameras thus far. At this stage, I'm actually more interested to see "Fuji's" next Bayer cam, to be honest.
The flagship cameras feature CP in the form of HDR Raw exposure stacking. What CP does the XT200 feature?
X-T200 does exposure stacking for video to give HDR video. No X camera has that. Of course, it does not make sense for X-T3/4 since they have F-log, which one can use to recover even more details in post processing.
Also, X-T200 has gyro sensor stabilization like Sony A7C. It gives much better performance for digital IS. Again, no X-camera has this.
X-T200 also has a neat film simulation/art filter preview interface.
It has portrait enhancer, bright mode, and some unique Advanced Filters which no X camera has:
[FISH-EYE]
[DYNAMIC TONE]
[HDR ART]
[CROSS SCREEN]
[RICH & FINE]
[MONOCHROME(NIR)]
[FOG REMOVE]
You may argue about the usefulness of these features(I think any extra feature is good to have).
But it can't be denied that X-T200 remains the most advanced computational photography camera by Fujifilm to date. Fuji does crazy stuff at times. It will be great if they release new "fun" Bayer camera with even more computational photography stuff.
Thanks for the list here Kamerakiri, I was going to reply with similar, but I'll add two other cp features: Light trails and in-camera time-lapse video. Perhaps these don't fall strictly under the cp umbrella, but they certainly involve real-time in-camera image processing, not available on X-trans cameras.
Light Trails mode: similar (or identical) to Olympus' Live Time/Bulb, where the shutter can be set to stay open for a certain amount of time, or can be activated on or off manually, while the photographer watches the image "build" in real time on the LCD. The shutter can be closed once the shooter is satisfied with the image.
Time Lapse video: the camera can process and render finished 4k/30p time lapse videos in-camera from interval shooting, while keeping the individual image files separate, in case the photographer wants to use them in pp later. The X-T100 also had this feature (the X-T200's regular video features were much more improved over the X-T100 though).
This TL feature is also available on some Nikon, Panasonic and Olympus cameras, and I believe on some Canons as well. Not sure about Sony, they used to have an extra app one had to purchase in order to shoot by intervals and create in-camera TL videos. The Nikon Z5 was the first Nikon camera to offer the same TL feature set as the previously-released X-T200, though with some more flexible settings. The impressive thing about Nikon's implementation was that the finished TL video was being rendered
while the camera was shooting the still images in the interval timer, not
after the intervals were finished. If one stopped the interval timer the TL video up to that point was ready to watch immediately. One can deduce that a lot of processing power is going on under the hood.
In any case, I think it's correct to say that the X-T200 (made by the Xacti Corporation, as stated
here by FR) had/has some CP and in-camera processing features not yet available on any X-Trans camera. To be clear, I am not bashing Fuji at all, as I love my Fuji gear 9I'll never sell my X-H1!), and returned to it after several months dabbling in the Z system. However, I think when we look objectively at Fuji's efforts in CP thus far, the company proper has a significant leap to make if they are going to meet or surpass the other brands.
