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Anyone moved from the X100V to the X-E4?

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PeterLeyssens Senior Member • Posts: 1,691
Re: Anyone moved from the X100V to the X-E4?

Interesting thread. I have an X-Pro2 with an admittedly confusing combo of Samyang 12/f2, XF35/f2 and 55-200. While I love each of these lenses, the 55-200 always stays home because it's huge. And I'm starting to feel the same about the Samyang (rather big and very specialist) and the X-Pro2 (just... big, even with the 35/f2). So I was initially looking at the X100V. But they're entirely unobtainium these days.

The X-E4 sounds just right. I got worried when I ready your complaint about the custom settings. I had to look it up - my X-Pro2 actually has those as well. But I never use them. So that's one more worry gone. I hardly change anything on my camera while I'm shooting, so I don't care about the so-called lack of controls either. As long as I can work in A and change film simulation easily, I'm mostly good. Some use of exposure compensation, very rare change in ISO. Oh yes, and I almost never use the OVF on my X-Pro2. The X-E4's EVF is a bit bigger, so that's nice.

With the X-E4, I'll be adding an 18/f2 and a TTArtisan 25/f2, which are both extremely small lenses. I am in doubt between 28/35 equivalent lenses. The 25/f2 gives me an extremely cheap way of getting both. And both render in a bit of a nostalgic way. I'm not a fan of the XF27/f2.8's rendering - it's uninspiring. I might add the TTArtisan 50/f2, as it does a similar thing to the 25 and it looks nice in portraits. But then I'm already happy with the 35/f2 for portraits and don't usually need anything longer. We'll see.

 PeterLeyssens's gear list:PeterLeyssens's gear list
Fujifilm X-Pro2 Fujifilm XF 55-200mm F3.5-4.8 R LM OIS Samyang 12mm F2.0 NCS CS Fujifilm XF 35mm F2 R WR
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