Fujifilm X-T20 Mirrorless Digital Camera, Black

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Above are 100% crops showing, from left to right, no grain, weak grain and strong grain. The original image was shot at 200 ISO with the ACROS simulation. Below is a colour shot of the Brighton Pavilion with the Provia simulation at 200 ISO, followed by three more crops presented at 100% to show the grain effect on a colour image. It is easy to include the Touit 50mm macro on the list as it is – at the time of publishing – the only macro lens for the system to provide a 1:1 ratio (Fujifilm is developing an 80mm lens but the release date has not yet been confirmed). Touit 50mm Macro The XT20 is fitted with Fujifilm’s X-Mount which, with the APS-C sensor behind it, applies a 1.5x field reduction factor to lenses – so my favourite three lenses in the catalogue, the XF 10-24mm f4, XF 35mm f2 and XF 56mm f1.2 will deliver coverage equivalent to 15-36mm, 53mm and 84mm respectively. The X-T5 features a digital zoom function that uses the camera's 40.2MP sensor to deliver up to 2x of digital zoom with little to no loss in resolution, when recording video in 4K. The X-S20 does not support this function. In Single Point and Zone modes you can reposition the AF area by tapping on the touchscreen or using the cross keys. The ability to tap to reposition the AF area is a major upgrade over the XT10 – not to mention the XT2 – and it’s amazing to think this is the first time Fujifilm has offered the facility on one of its interchangeable lens X-series bodies. Street photographers in particular will love having the touch functionality, especially for discreet shots with the camera resting on a table and the screen angled up, but as noted earlier, you’ll want to disable the eye sensor first or your finger could inadvertently switch composition to the viewfinder.

The Fujifilm XT20 doesn’t have an exposure mode dial. Instead, like earlier X-mount cameras, it adopts the same technique used by older film SLRs for many years. The body has a shutter speed dial and (most of) the lenses have aperture rings, and both offer an A option. Set both the shutter speed dial and the lens to A and the XT20 enters Program mode. Set the shutter dial to A, but turn the aperture ring (or use the front control wheel) and you’ll be in Aperture Priority. Set the lens to A, but turn the shutter speed dial and you’ll be in Shutter Priority. And finally if you turn both the shutter speed dial and aperture ring away from A, you’ll be in full Manual. If you’ve used this system before it feels natural, but even if you’re coming from a system with a PASM mode dial, it’s easy to get to grips with. The new Fujifilm X-S20 improves on the first-generation X-S10 in a number of significant ways, narrowing the gap to the more expensive X-T5 in the process.

This primarily means that the XS20 is able to offer the same sophisticated auto-focusing and additional 6K video codecs which the XT5 also supports. Pixel Shift Multi-shot There’s also a B option on the shutter dial for Bulb exposures which can last up to 60 minutes so long as the shutter release is kept pressed by hand or using an optional cable release; sadly it’s not possible to trigger exposures longer than 30 seconds remotely using the smartphone app, nor pre-program a Bulb timer. A firmware update for the higher-end XT2 allowed the T position on the dial to directly access longer exposures, so I hope to see this implemented on the XT20 in the future. The X-T20 offers 4K video capture (3840 x 2160) at 30p as well as Full HD (1920 x 1080) at 60p, both of which support film simulations as well. There’s an input for a microphone, but not for audio monitoring. The AF motor is fast, the lens delivers sharp results from f/2.8 and most importantly, it has an affordable price. The 27mm is an excellent choice whenever you want to keep your set-up as small and portable as possible. The field of view is unusual (41mm equivalent) but can serves you well for street photography.

All of the sample images in this review were taken using the 24 megapixel Fine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 10Mb. Bulb mode : 1 sec. fixed, TIME : 1sec to 1/32000sec. Mechanical + Electronic Shutter 4 sec. to 1/32000 sec.(P mode), 30 sec. to 1/32000 sec.(All modes) During a Bulb exposure, the XT20 usefully displays the exposure time so far on-screen, and in a welcome update over the XT10, XT1 and other X-Trans II bodies, you can now also record RAW files at the L (100 ISO) setting (allowing you to extend exposures with the flexibility of greater post-processing), although the dynamic range may be reduced compared to shooting at the base 200 ISO. This is a benefit of the latest X-Trans III sensor and image processor. Don't want to change all manual settings yourself? You don't have to. With the Advanced SR Auto mode you can just use the camera much like a point-and-shoot model, wherein the camera simply selects the right settings based on what it recognises in the scene. I'm not a fan of the film emulation and special picture modes; except for people pictures for which this camera excels I'm not happy with it for my style for nature, landscape, architecture and other genres as its JPGs are too subtle for me.Lens corrections are all put in a "LENS MODULATION OPTIMIZER" option set at MENU > I.Q. > LENS MODULATION OPTIMIZER. The Fujifilm X-T20 is a brilliant little camera that makes great people pictures in any kind of light. I should also mention that by inheriting the older body, the XT20 also inherits an older SD slot that may be compatible with UHS-II SD cards, but won’t exploit their potential speed. I confirmed this in my continuous shooting tests which you can read more about later. This is now another key difference with the XT2 which not only now supports dual SD cards with the convenience of side-access, but one of them will exploit the extra speed of UHS-II cards. Of course you’d expect that for a flagship body, but it’s important to mention Panasonic has also taken the opportunity to upgrade the Lumix G80 / G85 to exploit the speed of UHS-II cards and while it unsurprisingly only has one slot, it’s also conveniently accessed from the side, rather than below.

The LCD screen has a handy Info view which presents all of the key settings at once, or you can switch to the Standard or Custom Live View modes, with the latter offering 14 customisable options (these are also used for the electronic viewfinder). The X-T20 has a built-in eye sensor so that you only have to hold the camera up to eye-level to switch between the rear LCD and the electronic viewfinder (or you can press the View Mode button on the side of the pentaprism).To be slightly fair, the app does seem to know the game’s up after a short while, forcing the World icon on the camera’s screen to turn red and flash. This is the system telling you the co-ordinates may be out of date, but it’ll still continue to embed them unless you tell it otherwise. In my tests, the icon started to flash once I had moved a few hundred meters from the starting position, but by this point the co-ordinates were effectively useless, at least in an urban environment. Choose this with subjects that are hard to keep in the focus area or if other subjects are likely to enter the focus area. There are 10 ISO settings available on the Fujifilm X-T20 for JPEGs and RAW files. Here are some 100% crops which show the noise levels for each ISO setting. JPEG

The X-S20 uses a lower-quality 2.36M-dot OLED electronic viewfinder with 0.62x magnification, 100fps refresh rate and a built-in eye sensor. LCD Screen In conclusion, the Fujifilm X-T20 offers a lot of the X-T2's core functionality at a much more attractive price-point, which together with the new touchscreen should make the X-T20 appeal to an even wider audience. Highly Recommended! The X-T20 actually has two kinds of shutter, mechanical and electronic. When using only its mechanical focal-plane shutter, the X-T20 has a very adaptable top shutter-speed limit of 1/4000th second in all shooting modes. There's no built-in ND filter, so if you want to use the XF 35mm lens at F/1.4 in very bright sunlight, for example, then it's a good idea to buy an actual glass ND filter. The X-T20 utilises a focal-plane shutter rather than the leaf shutter that the X100/S cameras have, much like a regular DSLR camera. This results in slightly noisier operation than on those very quiet cameras, although the shutter on the X-T20 is pretty stealthy by DSLR standards, and a much slower flash-sync speed of 1/180th second (versus the X100/S's 1/400th second). To make the camera less obtrusive there's a Silent menu option which turns off the speaker, flash, AF-assist lamp and most importantly the shutter-release sound, instantly making the X-T20 perfectly suited to more candid photography.If you've ever considered a Fujifilm camera but been put of by its plethora of manual controls - something that a lot of people love with a passion - then the new XS20 will certainly be more up your street. The third option is Browse Camera, which presents exactly the same thumbnail view as tapping play in the Remote Control option described earlier. Like that option, you can view thumbnails in two different sizes, tap to enlarge for a closer look and choose to import if desired. You can import JPEGs at either 3 Megapixels or the original size, but again not RAW files. The app also allowed me to import movies, but I couldn’t find them on my phone afterwards. There's a small lever on top of the X-T20 for turning on the dedicated Auto Mode. In this Advanced SR AUTO mode, the X-T20 automatically selects the optimum shooting settings from 58 preset scenes, including the best AF mode. More confident beginners can then use the rear Command Dial to select a specific scene type. While this new switch makes it easy to enter full Auto mode, we did find ourselves accidentally turning it on quite a lot, as the switch is very similar to the On/Off switch and also positioned near it.