XE-2, XE-3, or X-E4... The Dilemma

Swerky wrote:

A satisfying and well rounded conclusion. Indeed Fuji got this type of cameras generally right. Although apart from Fuji, only Sony I believe makes compact rangefinder style cameras with APS-C sensor, and for some reason I stay away from Sony when it comes to photography.

For me it's the decision making that goes into their designs, the way the menus's are organized, the way the camera feels in the hand, the head scratching limitations- common theme across all modern Sony's. I don't want to fight my camera to get it to do what I want, I want a camera designed to do what I want as a photographer- which is the entire point of making a camera (or, at least, should be) :).

I briefly owned an X-E2s that I generally enjoyed. But shooting in bright light would hit the eye sensor and the evf would shut off. Since I don’t like Band-Aids either, like wearing a cap to shadow the eye sensor, compensating for a bad design, I was quickly put off by that and sold the camera. I also noticed that I often missed a tilting screen, specially for the street shooting style of the camera and its compact form factor that would ease up trying different angles to shoot from.
I believe the evf on the X-E2(s) has a higher magnification than on later X-E models?

X-E models got more and more minimalist looking from one iteration to the other, ending up removing useful features on the way, except for the added tilt screen on the X-E4, but the removing of a wheel and grip.

Yep, removing some things adding others, that's why the are all so different.