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Fujifilm x s10 frame11/11/2023 The shutter burst rate is good, with 8 FPS available with the mechanical shutter but a jump up to 20 FPS available with the electronic shutter. The limiting principle here, as always with Fuji cameras, is insufficient buffer depth. I was able to get fairly repeatable results in this environment with one-third second exposures (and a 50mm lens, and with Fuji’s crop factor that is about a 76mm full frame equivalence), so that equals nearly 5 stops of assistance. It is CIPA rated at 6 stops of assistance, essentially right between the now discontinued X-H1 (5.5 stops) and the X-T4 (6.5 stops). Fuji had to miniaturize the IBIS system by about 35% to get it to work here, but it does work very well. You can even input the focal length if you are using a manual focus or adapted lens and don’t have electronic contacts. This is a hugely desirable feature, as it provides true sensor-based optical stabilization that works with all of your lenses. The headline feature here is that the X-S10 is one of the few Fuji models that has IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization). It’s particularly handy for those that prefer to shoot JPEG and not process RAWS, as the film emulation style doesn’t effect RAW images. This is a bigger deal on Fuji cameras than most other systems as they have more varied (and often better) emulations that can really give you a certain “look” for your JPEGs in camera. There’s also a dial there that is mostly used for selecting a film emulation style. I only rarely use a built-in flash because they probably ruin more pictures than they help! ![]() Not particularly powerful, but useful in a pinch if you use it right. ![]() The top left side of the camera has a lever that will pop up the built-in flash, which has a 16.4′ (5 m) at ISO 100 guide number. Both of these buttons would be more useful if they were raised a bit and easier to find by touch. That same observation also applies to the video record button located by the shutter button, which is very small and sits flush with the top of camera. I find the travel a little too long, making it harder to activate than other Fuji models, and that is further complicated by the fact that it is winter (in Canada!) and I’m often wearing gloves. It’s fairly flush with the top of the camera, meaning that you have to depress it by shaping your finger a bit. I don’t like the shutter button quite as well here, though. Everything works fine, however, and you’ve still got a better ergonomic setup than what you’ll find on the Sony a6xxx series. This more standard scheme feels a lot less “Fuji”, but will probably also make the X-S10 feel more accessible to those unfamiliar with the Fuji way of doing things and will probably also serve to make the camera less intimidating to those photographers put off by the more analog approach Fuji has taken in the past. Fuji falls in the middle currently, allowing you to select focus areas, touch to capture, and to navigate the Q (quick) menu, but no navigation of main menus and there is noticeable input lag when compared to the better response of Canon’s screens. Sony has very limited touch capability, with touch essentially being limited to moving a focus point around or selecting a focus area (no menu navigation of any kind). Canon has the best touchscreens they are the most responsive and allow full menu navigation via touch. ![]() The touch capacity falls somewhere in between the Canon and Sony extremes (the two primary systems I shoot with personally). It makes monitoring much easier without resorting to an external monitor. One other favorite of mine is to have the screen out to the side and facing up while using a gimbal. That flexible screen gives you many more options for positions where you can film or photograph while still being able to see the screen. I would not have known this and would have wasted even more time with the rest of my monologue to a dead camera if I hadn’t seen the screen go black. My anecdote here is that while filming the standard review video (which I did on the X-S10) I ran into an issue with that smaller battery (made worse by filming in the cold) which died prematurely on me.
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