FujiFilm X-T2

The Fuji X-T1 brought real class and style to the mirrorless camera market, and now the X-T2 adds speed and resolution.

- Phil Hall

The X-T2 sits alongside the X-Pro2 as Fujifilm’s joint flagship camera, offering two distinct options for photographers. The former, with its rangefinder design, is less obtrusive and better suited to Fujifilm’s prime lenses, while the more SLR-like X-T2 is designed with its growing range of fast zoom lenses in mind.

The X-T2 gets the 24.3Mp APS-C X-Trans III CMOS sensor first seen in the X-Pro2. This sensor has delivered some impressive results in the X-Pro2, and with a 50 per cent larger pixel count, is a welcome upgrade from the 16.3Mp sensor in the X-T1.

The X-T2’s electronic viewfinder has the same 2.36 million-dot OLED display with 0.77x magnification, but it’s now twice as bright, there’s an automatic brightness adjustment function and it features a higher baseline frame rate of 60fps (compared to 54fps on the X-T1). And there’s now a Boost mode that increases this to 100fps, so even fast- moving subjects are displayed smooth, though this does drain the battery faster.

The rear display has been updated, too. The 3-inch display keeps the same 1.04 million-dot resolution, but it has a new double-jointed articulated design, making it possible to pull the screen outwards and away from the body when the camera is tilted on its side for portrait format shots. Interestingly, Fujifilm hasn’t included a touchscreen, arguing that there just isn’t the hunger for it on X-series cameras. The X-T2 is the first Fujifilm X-series camera to shoot 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) video recording, offering a bit rate of 100Mbps (compared to 34Mbps on the X-T1) at 30, 25 or 24fps. It offers recording times of up to 10 minutes, although if you attach the optional VPBC- XT2 battery grip, this is extended to 29 minutes and 59 seconds. There’s HDMI output, audio volume live monitoring and adjustment, a 3.5mm microphone socket in the body, and a 3.5mm headphone terminal in the optional grip.