Fujifilm X-T5 Body Only - Black

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The Sony A6700 only has a single SD UHS-II memory card slot, whereas the Fujifilm X-T5 has dual memory card slots, both of which support UHS-II SD cards. Battery Life

The X-T series has sometimes enjoyed flagship status, and indeed the X-T4 was the top-line Fuji camera from the time of its release, while also being a slight departure from earlier models. Its silhouette is a bit larger and a front-facing LCD was added to meet the wants and needs of videographers. So here’s a single 40 Megapixel frame on the left and the Pixel Shift version on the right, both taken moments apart using the same XF 23 1.4 lens. As seen on the X-H2 before it, Pixel Shift certainly has the potential to capture and reveal even finer details on some subjects, but equally suffers when anything on the frame is in motion, such as people walking on the pier and the waves on the sea. For still photographers, the Fujifilm X-T5 is the most capable and one of the most enjoyable APS-C cameras in 2023 thanks to a class-leading high-resolution sensor, a time-tested and well-matured design, and a competent autofocus system that we hope has scope to get better with age (via firmware). Yes, if you want the best image quality from an APSC sensor, have the ability to crop your images but still print big or simply prefer the 3 way tilt screen and the other enhancements. Perhaps not if your images are mostly viewed digitally The new sensor (which also features in the XH2) has a resolution of 7728 x 5152 pixels versus the 26mp XT4. This means you will be able to produce prints, @250dpi, that are 31” along the longest edge without any upscaling. Cramming 40mp into an APSC sized sensor, without compromising image quality, is no mean feat. To put that in context, the XT5’s pixel density on a Full Frame would result in a 90mp sensor and on a GFX it’s almost 160mp.It includes a lot of the capabilities of the more expensive X-H2, such as the 40MP sensor, with a handful of omissions – primarily on the video side of things – that draw a sensible distinction between the two models. There'll undoubtedly be some people who would have preferred an X-H2 with dials, or who'll insist that only video features should have been removed, and that the X-T5 should include the ability to add a battery grip, but to us the differences are enough to create a meaningful distinction between models, allowing the X-T5 to have a lower price tag without treading on its big brother's toes. So here’s Brighton Pier photographed with the X-T5 fitted with one of the sharpest lenses in the system, the XF 23mm f1.4 LM WR. As I zoom-in for a closer look, it’s important to mention that while you can mount any lens on the X-T5 and enjoy more than 26 Megapixel’s worth of detail from them, you will want one of the better models to make the most of the full 40 Megapixel resolution. The X-T5 handles in much the same as its predecessors, favoring manual dials in sensible positions to help you to take full control of your image-making. On the top of the camera, there are three dials to set the shutter speed, ISO and exposure compensation. On the shutter speed dial, there's a switch to go between stills and movie recording, while the shooting mode (continuous, single, etc) can be switched from the bottom of the ISO dial. The Deko platform is provided by Pay4Later Ltd, t/a Deko which acts as a credit broker, not a lender and does not charge you for credit broking services. Pay4Later Limited is registered in England and Wales (company number 06447333) and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (register number 728646). For more information please go to www.dekopay.com/support or visit www.dekopay.com. Although it looks a lot like its predecessor, the X-T5's body is slightly smaller, with a slightly more finger-shaped indentation at the top of the hand grip and a more relaxed slope to the viewfinder hump. It retains the look of a classic SLR, though. It's also around 50g (.11 lbs) lighter than the X-T4.

Ghosting artefacts are still present in the 160MP version, but less intense and spread out over a larger area. The sea is rendered more convincingly, at least. You might be wondering why you'd buy the Fujifilm X-T5 over the X-H2 – as they both share the same sensor and processor. What’s the difference? There's a major ergonomic difference between the two cameras, as the X-H2 has a mode dial while the X-T5 has a shutter dial. Fujifilm announce the latest mirrorless digital camera to join the X Series line-up, which boasts improved image quality, ISO 125 as standard sensitivity, the fastest shutter speed of 1/180000sec and the use of Pixel Shift Multi-Shot to expand photographic variations. Not everyone "needs" 40MP, but it is an improvement if your photography takes advantage of extra resolution. I tested a bunch of my lenses and the sensor registers additional detail. (I appreciate the point that noise on a higher MP sensor is less visible than on a lower MP sensor.) Finally, while autofocusing with some X-mount lenses is a smooth, silent affair, not all Fujifilm glass is up to the challenge during video capture. Older lenses, in particular, tend to give off the dreadful sound of a dentist's drill as they meander haphazardly through awkward focus hunts.Shot at ISO 6400, towards the top end of the ISO 125-12,800 standard sensitivity range, the standard setting for High ISO Noise Reduction does a pretty good job of minimizing graininess, but it comes at the expense of a loss of fine detail, which is largely smoothed out. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) Fujifilm's 40MP BSI chip, used in both the X-T5 and X-H2, adds very little read noise translating to flexible Raw files with plenty of dynamic range for editing. The Fujifilm X-T5 is designed and built primarily as a stills camera, but it’s more than capable for shooting movies. For lightweight standalone filming, it can capture 10-bit 4:2:2 video at up to 6.2K 16:9 at 29.97p/25p/24p/23.98p direct to an inserted SD card. It also features F-Log2 for enhanced tonality and greater freedom in post-production. 4K UHD 16:9 and 17:9 options are available at 59.94p/50p/29.97p/25p/24p/23.98p. Downsize to 1080p Full HD resolution and you get an additional 240p slow-mo option. Cameras – LCD screen is heavily worn either by de-lamination or has scratches to it. Rubber grips are starting to come away from the body. Here I used the X-T5’s bird recognition AF, and shot in 24MP crop mode. Fujifilm X-T5, XF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 R LM OIS WR at 110mm, 1/1250sec at f/5, ISO 1000

The old one-over-the-effective-focal-length rule to avoid camera shake has become less accurate as sensor resolutions have increased, and on the day I required a shutter speed of around 1/100 to completely avoid shake with this lens and IBIS disabled. Despite the lower price, Canon's EOS R7 runs the X-T5 pretty close in spec terms, with a faster burst rate, decent video specs and a sensor only 7MP behind. Its autofocus is also very good in stills mode. The X-T5 offers a more analog shooting experience, a larger, higher-res viewfinder and our favorite rear screen arrangement for stills shooting. The Fujifilm also has access to a far more comprehensive system of lenses designed with APS-C in mind, which further enhances its credentials for enthusiast photographers. Moving onto autofocus, the X-T5 unsurprisingly inherits the same system of the X-H2, and as far as I could tell, the same performance too. As such one of the highlights is subject detection for animals, birds and a variety of vehicles, although like the X-H models, this is separate to the existing human face and eye menu making it feel a little bolted-on. All subject types should really be on the same menu like other systems. Fujifilm’s Natural Live View option is also available, which aims to mimic the experience of shooting with an optical viewfinder, with reduced saturation and brightened shadows. This can be particularly handy when you’re shooting in high-contrast situations, and I’d consider assigning it to a function button (I use the View Mode button) on the viewfinder housing. Overall, the X-T5 gives an excellent viewing experience that’s probably better than anything else you can get at the price point. Fujifilm X-T5: Autofocus With in-body image stabilization (IBIS), Fujifilm's latest autofocus, an impressive battery life and a sensor that provides lots of leeway for cropping, the X-T5 is also the ideal upgrade from older X-T cameras. For outright dynamic range and low-light performance, full-frame cameras like the Sony A7 IV still hold the edge. But for hobbyists who need a camera system that's smaller, more affordable and a lot more fun, the Fujifilm X-T5 is the new gold standard. Fujifilm X-T5 release date and price

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The X-T5 supports a few different video modes, including 6K30 and 4K60 with a crop, as well as 4K30 using the full width of the sensor. The camera employs H.265/HEVC compression, not ProRes like the X-H2, but still supports 10-bit color and a flat F-Log profile. If you don't want to spend time grading, you can also use any of the film simulations for video. XF 30mm F2.8 R LM WR Macro, f/5.6, 1/105-second, ISO 160, Classic Negative The camera is equipped with a high-magnification 3.69-million-dot EVF with 0.8x magnification. Compared to the previous model, the viewfinder has improved suppression of parallax and distortion, which typically occurs when an eye position becomes displaced while using the viewfinder, for stellar visibility. In my tests I occasionally found banding on some panoramas with constant flat colours like a clear blue sky, but this can sometimes be alleviated by manually fixing the aperture, shutter and ISO values, The X-H2's ProRes modes are also absent, along with any of the X-H2's options that required the use of a CFexpress Type B card. Instead the X-T5 writes everything to a matched pair of UHS-II SD card slots. Fujifilm says the camera can shoot 6.2K/30 video for 90 minutes or 4K/60p for 60 minutes at 25°C (77°F); these numbers drop significantly at higher temperatures, and there's no option to add a fan to compensate.

If that’s not enough for you the XT5 also features Pixel Shift Multi-Shot, which uses the camera’s in-body image stabilization (IBIS) mechanism to shift the image sensor with precision, to shoot 20 images that can be combined to create a final 160mp image for the ultimate in image quality. In practice this feature is not always relevant to landscape photography where grass and foliage might be moving between frames resulting in a blurring in the image. However, for architecture this is a great feature. An upgraded stabilisation algorithm improves IBIS which rises from 6.5-stops in the previous model to 7-stops of high image stabilisation performance. Video mode stabilisation offers improvements to panning through: In practice, we found that in-camera high-ISO noise reduction helped to give fairly clean looking JPEGs without much luminance or chrominance noise, but at the expense of a significant loss of fine detail and texture, due to the smoothing effect of the noise suppression. As expected, the X-T5 loses out to most full-frame cameras for the retention of fine detail with reduced noise at high ISO settings. Like all camera systems you will need to use the best lenses to see the greatest benefit from the larger sensor. Fujifilm has published a list of lenses that will work best with the new sensor. There are camera upgrades and excuses for camera upgrades. However, the launch of the Fujifilm XT5 represents, in my view, the biggest leap in XT technology since the upgrade from the XT1 to the XT2.

The Sony A6700 has a native ISO range of 100-32,000, and both can be pushed two stops further to ISO 204,800 and drop down to ISO 50 if required.