So the XF10’s autofocus speed isn’t bad, but it could be better, and if you do find it’s slowing you down for shoot-from-the-hip street photography, you can switch to one of two Snapshot modes instead. Good for: Street photographers using 'snap focus', landscape shooters looking for a lightweight photographic companion and generalist photographers that have enough experience to work around the camera's limitations. I was extremely disappointed by this at first, because I have tons of great film simulation recipes that I like to use (none of which are directly compatible with the XF10), but after awhile this setup grew on me.

They achieved that, but in the process made a camera that’s fantastic for the experienced user to just shoot with. The XF10’s edge-to-edge sharpness trumps the performance of many DSLR or mirrorless camera kit lenses. In the default Multi metering mode, the XF10 is quite susceptible to changing the exposure depending upon the location of the AF point. Nikon's latest Z-mount lens is a 600mm you can handhold for hours for wildlife and sports photography or pack away for travel when you want to leave the monopod and tripod at home.Its narrower 35mm-equivalent lens also has a faster aperture, with the potential to give you better results in low light and blurrier backgrounds. There are control differences to be sure, but the difference between a 28mm field of view and 35mm field of view is significant enough that the two cameras will produce very different types of photographs and potentially appeal to different types of photographers. You get a regular mode dial rather than the separate shutter speed and aperture controls of Fujifilm’s more advanced cameras, but this makes the XF10 simpler for those used to smartphones or other cameras.

They wanted something that a novice could pick up and use without trouble, something that wouldn’t seem overwhelming to the beginner. The natural comparison for the XF10 is the Ricoh GR II (we'll be comparing against the brand-new Ricoh GR III once we get our hands on one). I actually bought a really compact MFT (Panasonic Gx800/850 with tiny 12-32 zoom and it's opened my eyes to what modern functionality in a small camera should be!I also like the fact that I can switch between square and standard shooting by swiping left on the screen. The XF10 will remember your setting if you turn it off, so it's ready to go when you next power it on. Of course, they vary depending upon the Film Simulation mode that you select, but there’s one (or more) to suit most tastes.

The AF system itself is pretty sophisticated, with a choice of single point, zone and wide modes covering pretty much the whole image area. Unless you almost exclusively shoot street or travel photography, you probably wouldn’t get an XF10 as your main camera.

Thank you, but I do understand how Zone Focus works, however pixel density, lens design, lens sharpness, etc, etc, all play an effect on how really “usable” it might be for things like street photography or similar situations, the DoF from the film days it’s not quite the same with high megapixel digital sensors, perhaps I should’ve been a little more specific, most examples I’ve seen on line are slightly off, and seeing as you can’t program it for different distances makes me hesitant of getting one. This is something we've hammered Sony about for years (though they've made great strides to address it as of late). you talked about misfocused shots, someone asked how bad is it, then you posted some of the properly focused examples. I think that shoving this