One of the best tech items on our editors’ wishlists for the 2024 vacation season

It’s exhausting to not really feel jealous as, one after the other, all my colleagues ditched their outdated cameras for Fujifilm our bodies. The beautiful retro styling, compact dimension and analog movie simulations are all causes to fall deeply in love with their fashions. To not point out, once you’re toting round a decade-old Olympus to occasions, the flexibility to cost a digital camera through USB-C makes me delirious.

Which is why I feel it’s time to affix the gang, and I’m hoping somebody will convey me an X-T50 for the vacations. It’s the most recent entrant in Fujifilm’s middle-tier vary, with the high-end options I’m on the lookout for on a barely extra inexpensive bundle. It carries the identical 40.2-megapixel sensor, 6K 30p video and in-body stabilization you’d discover on the high-end X-T5.

Fujifilm is aware of the goal marketplace for the X-T50 needs to make full use of these movie simulations and has added them to one of many prime dials. If you happen to’re out and about, and wish to tweak how a picture seems, you’ll be able to flip the wheel to see what seems greatest earlier than you begin snapping. I’m a giant fan of the bodily controls, too, fairly than burying every little thing in tedious digital submenus.

So, I borrowed an X-T50 for 2 weeks to see if the truth matched as much as all the hype each on-line, and with my colleagues. The educational curve is fairly steep, and also you’ll must shortly marshal all the totally different controls to get issues working. There are nonetheless some key issues buried deep within the digital menus, like guaranteeing the in-body OIS is all the time enabled.

However that’s the place the unhealthy stuff ends, as a result of the pictures this factor produces are beautiful. I’ve taken some fairly spectacular portraits, panorama and structure pictures and I really feel like that is the digital camera I ought to have began my images journey with. There’s a lot to regulate, and a lot to do, that you just really feel enormously enabled by what it has to supply. I’m preserving my fingers crossed that Santa, or an itinerant billionaire, drops one off at my door this vacation season. — Daniel Cooper, Senior Reporter