Fuji x10 or x20 in 2021

[Corot2]

Any thoughts of those who own these cameras?

I like the zoom range and love my Fuji cameras overall

I thought it would be great for the street as a small companion to my x100v,

My street is usually black and white

Thanks

LC

 

[Howard V]

The X20 adds a superimposed readout of settings in the OVF, and switches over to an X-Trans sensor. Its images are characteristically more sharp and punchy. The X10 EXR sensor and EXR 1 processor combo will give you some of the greatest dynamic range you'll ever see from a small sensor camera. To my eyes X10 images were always a little less sharp and crunchy than those from an X20. But I found them more pleasant. Just one guy's experience.

 

[Corot2]

Thank you

I have been doing some looking at images and I do seem to prefer the images out of the x10 for black and white street photography

Hopefully I can find one somewhere in very nice condition.

Since the camera is quite old it may be a risky proposition

Your input was very helpful

Thank you

 

[Jeff Biscuits]

I haven’t tried the X10 because I’m not a fan of the EXR sensor and the absence of information in the OVF would frustrate me. I have the X20 and the X30.

I find the X20 really refreshing as a shooting experience. My way of using it is largely to set the custom modes (there are two, plus whatever setting you have for the PASM modes, so effectively three) to recipes that get me nice JPEGs, then treat it much like an only P&S film camera, which means using the OVF only and not looking at images until I get back home. It’s a fairly unique camera in being a compact with a zooming viewfinder but with just (and only just) enough information in the OVF to get by. I’ve yet to find a digital camera which is more like using a compact from the 1980s/90s. You don’t get to see lens flare, you can never be 100% certain what it focused on, accurate framing isn’t really an option, and you have to mentally visualise the whole exposure. When you get home and start looking at the images the results can disappoint and delight in equal measure. Just like picking up a set of prints back in the day.

Used in this way, it is refreshing, frustrating, joyous, erratic, and serendipitous. I don’t think there’s much if anything else out there like it—though I’ve just acquired my first X100-series which gives the option of working in a similar way. But then again, that brings a bunch of modern accoutrements like parallax correction and a rich information display that the X20 just doesn’t have. Which is great—just not the same.

The X20s “flaws” are its endearing points. Would I have one as my only camera? No. The X30 is far better in pretty much every respect, not least in terms of its ability to let you get the shot right first time. But it’s not special in the way that the X20 is.

As it happens, I was thinking that next time I get the opportunity for urban shooting I’ll probably take just the X100T and either the X20 or X30. I think they’ll likely make a good pairing.

 

[Corot2]

Thanks Jeff for the information

Your combo for urban photography sounds great

 

[JohanBelgium]

Hi, you will probably get more answers in the Fuji Finepix forum: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/1012

 

[Corot2]

Thanks. I will try that