Your precious and honest opinions about differences between Fujifilm and others (Sony, Canon, Nikon)

I just came back from a trip to Turkey with the XH2S. It's a wonderful travel camera. Maybe a little big but it can do it all. I could do handheld 4k slow motion of seagulls flying in front of Sulimaniye's mosque as well as normal stills. The one thing I had an issue with Fuji was night photographer but switching to 1.2 and 1.4 lenses seems to have solved the issue. I was previously using 2.8 or higher. The XH2S also seems to have more "3d pop" than I remember on my XT4.

What I don't like is there are some focus misses. I used subject detection on a cat in an ancient Roman city with columns in the background. The camera said it got the head but nothing was really in focus. Some of my food shots were just blurry. The focus peaking is great but the definition of in focus is too liberal. It's not a big deal for travel to make sure to take some extra shots but I'm sticking to the Nikon Z9 for wildlife. Nikon has a better selection of lenses and when it confirms focus it's got it.

I have a Z6II and I'd probably prefer it over the XT4 but not the XH2S. Slow motion video at 4k is amazing with waterfalls or whatnot. Also I need a wide prime and the 20mm is just too slightly too tall and forces me to use a gigantic camera cube. Sony's A7IV does not do 4k 120p so I am guessing the next generation of Nikon will not either. I might switch to Nikon fully if they can match the XH2S and have more lens options but Nikon is a slow conservative company and that could be 5 years from now.

I miss the joy of shooting a compact prime on an XE body with one hand. It's too much work to keep two types of batteries on a trip. Might look into the slimmed down XT5.

I'm sure this is a masterpiece but I finally figured out how to get night photos on Fuji at a quality level acceptable for myself