ON TRIAL FUJIFILM X-T5
While Fujifilm's X-mount APS-C mirrorless camera system has diversified into a number of model streams, at its heart is still the popular X-T series that began with the X-T1 in early 2014. Since then there have been some subtle shifts in emphasis, but the constant has been the classical styling based on traditional dials and the overall look of a 1970s vintage 35mm SLR. If you love it, you really love it and if you've also been looking enviously at the X-H2 with its 40.2 megapixels of resolution, the great news is that now you can have both.
Of course, it's a bit of a no-brainer because Fujifilm just had to put the X-Trans CMOS 5 HR sensor into an X-T series body, didn't it? The X-T5 is, consequently, much more characterful than the X-H2 and less hardcore.The X-H2 is built to do a job and do it as efficiently as possible, the X-T5 is designed to ensure you have a bit of fun along the way… it's much more of a photographer's camera than a videographer's. That said, in terms of its photographic capabilities, the X-T5 has pretty much everything that the X-H2 has thanks to sharing the same sensor and the same X Processor 5 engine.
The sensor uses a BSI-type design to improve sensitivity and give a native range that's equivalent to ISO 125 to 12,800, with extensions to ISO 64 and 51,200. The maximum image size for stills is 7728×5152 pixels with a choice of five aspect ratios - 3:2, 16:9, 1:1, 4:3 and 5:4 - along with three image sizes and two compression settings for JPEG capture. RAW files are captured with 14-bit RGB colour, and the options of either lossy compressed or lossless compressed, or uncompressed. As with the X-H2 twins, you can capture 10-bit HEIF files as an alternative to 8-bit JPEGs. The High Efficiency Image Format uses a more efficient compression algorithm than JPEG to deliver both a wider dynamic range and a wider colour gamut… without having to resort to artificial processing that needs to be applied to a JPEG. An HEIF file contains roughly twice as much data as a JPEG with the same file size. Both HEIFs and JPEGs
