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Anyone moved from the X100V to the X-E4?

Started 3 months ago | Discussions thread
sshapiro Senior Member • Posts: 1,018
Re: Anyone moved from the X100V to the X-E4?

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

sshapiro wrote:

2. Since the X100V uses teleconverters, I don't have to worry about getting the sensor dirty when changing to a different fixed focal length. Sometimes I shoot in very windy weather and there is a lot of dust or sand in the air.

Oddly, I’m broadly of the opposite view (though I can see both sides). There are times when I don’t want to be changing lenses, for sure, but on the whole I’m more paranoid about getting dust into the X100 because you can’t get at the sensor. (And I’ve briefly had an X100S with a dirty sensor so I know it can get in.) I might be paranoid because I’ve used a number of collapsible fixed lens cameras which are prone to dust (the Ricoh GR, for example, although unlike the X100 the GR is fairly straightforward to access the sensor), but I’m quite comfortable with cleaning a sensor once in a while.

I did have the teleconverters, but I found the screw threads far too cumbersome to be dealing with in the middle of the street; bayonets are much easier.

I can't speak to the issue of getting dirt inside the X100V, because it hasn't happened to mine. I did have some problems getting the teleconverters attached until I realized that if I position the "MADE IN JAPAN" text directly at the bottom of the X100V, the teleconverters screw on easily. I now find getting them attached or removed is about as easy as working with a lens.

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