x-e2 upgrade

merapi wrote:

Hi,

I have been using x-e2 for several years and I would like to upgrade a bit. I use it for landscape photography, low light (blue hour) and partly street and family pictures. I am not a profi photographer. What would you recommend, please? What about x-s10?

Thanks a lot

Richard
https://500px.com/merapi

I had my X-E2 in 2014, along with the 18-55 kit lens ... and soon after, I bought the excellent 55-200 and the 10-24. Those three lenses served me very well until last year, when I thought the time had come to think about an upgrade.  IBIS was very tempting for shooting in low evening light, and for using a few primes such as the 60 macro and 35 f1.4.

I went for a very mint used X-H1, and loved it, but in the end I valued the X-E2 for it's compactness and light weight, so bought an X-S10, again in absolutely mint condition, with roughly 5000 clicks.  In comparing the two, I became attuned to the X-S10, and sold the X-H1. Since then I have thoroughly enjoyed the X-S10 and it's has become almost second nature, much as the XE-2 had become.  Physically, It's about the same length as the E-2, but the grip means that it can easily be carried on one hand ..

It has of course all the film simulations, and I'm still experimenting with those, plus I've never completely used up a battery ..  I had thought about an X-E4, but at more than twice the price, and with far more weight, there didn't seem any benefit for my usage. On the question of its swivel screen versus a tilt screen of say the X-T2, I'm getting more and more used to the benefits of the swivel screen - especially low camera angles in portrait mode ...