Dem Bell

I don't see the point. Whatever the current or past offering in this market segment is/was, it does not change the fact that the sharpest image of a point on OP's sensor at the telephoto end looks ...

I recently put a poll together truing to identify the main reason dpreview members use a certain aperture. Might be useful to the OP: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4572114 That's correct, ...

irrelevant. It is the lens that matters.

For a 1/2.3" sensor? Having owned and extensively used 5 small sensor cameras, I would say 8-10 Mpx is the sweet spot for such a sensor. 12 Mpx is already well in the area of diminishing returns ...

Yes. The effective resolution of the sensor is limited by diffraction. Each point on the sensor is rendered by the light not as a point but as a blurry disc and the smallest size of this disc is ...

the one with a lens attached to it.

Like this one: According to the extension it is jpeg.jpg 😀 Perhaps the lighting and composition have something to do with the "professional" look of the image.

If I may take the numbers Bill already provided and give a "physicist" explanation with a couple of formulas. For a thin lens, the distance between the object and its image is given by: (2+m+1/m) * ...

"Everyday carry" is the bag I carry all day when out and about. Not a tool box I keep in my car, right? A camera with a couple of lenses, a spare battery, memory card, rear lens cap and a couple of ...

Fuji used to make a lot of small sensor cameras, the market they have now left behind. No more X10-type premium compacts, no more entry-level bridge cameras (Kodak took Fuji's place there, how sad). ...

I think there are plenty of M43 cameras and lenses for that. Leave Fuji X where it is.

Yes, it is. It is there so the photographer can bias the camera's metering system to achieve the image lightness they want, not the lightness the camera thinks is OK. This is true for any ...

That's what you think. That's what Canon engineers thought they did. You two are allowed to disagree. That's why digital cameras have exposure compensation. If you think that setting yours to -0.5 ...

QB-4W? Used by Velbon, Sony etc..

Really? Can you give a few examples? I thought it was always about better video capabilities and faster fps (A7S, D500, Z6) and never about IQ of still images.

Do you want a lens with autofocus or are you happy to focus manually? All Fuji X lenses have autofocus but some of the suggested lenses above are manual focus only.

Might not want to stop down to f/11. We've already established that f/5.6 is sufficient for CoC=9.4 µm. At f/11 your Airy disc (14.7 µm) will be bigger than the CoC that the 60 Mpx sensor can ...

Which expressed as percentage should be about 15-20% or just over what you lose in an eBay sale. So much less hassle though.

We can turn the question around: under what viewing conditions the background in this photo will look "tack sharp"? All such viewing conditions will correspond to the same circle of confusion: CoC ...

If Carlsberg made raw files, they would probably be the best in the world.