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It’s similar a shrunken, stripped-down X100.
Fujifilm has a caller pint-size summation to its X-series cameras coming successful precocious June: the X Half. It’s an 18-megapixel “half-frame” camera with a portrait-oriented sensor and viewfinder and a fixed 32mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens.
Despite being digital, the X Half is each astir the vintage movie aesthetic. The $849.99 camera is truthful dedicated to an analog-like manner that it’s got an full secondary surface conscionable for picking 1 of its 13 movie simulations, and it doesn’t sprout RAW photos astatine each — conscionable JPGs, for a much what-you-see-is-what-you-get experience.
Fujifilm’s explanation of a half-frame is simply a spot antithetic from the accepted one. Usually, a half-frame movie camera similar the Pentax 17 captures images measuring 18mm x 24mm (around fractional the size of full-frame / 35mm format). But the X Half uses a 1-inch-type sensor measuring 8.8mm x 13.3mm, which is astir fractional the dimensions of the APS-C sensors successful different Fujifilm cameras similar the X100VI and X-T5. So I conjecture it counts connected a technicality.
But similar the Pentax 17 and different existent half-frame cameras, the X Half is each astir taking casual, amusive snapshots and bringing it with you everywhere. It weighs conscionable 8.5 ounces / 240 grams and is tiny capable to acceptable successful astir tiny bags oregon adjacent immoderate oversized pockets. The X Half is adjacent successful size to a accepted disposable camera, but dissimilar a one-time-use movie camera it has a due solid autofocusing lens with aspherical corrections, and it adjacent shoots immoderate basal 1080 x 1440 video. (Though, successful my briefing connected the camera, Justin Stailey of Fujifilm North America described the lens arsenic having “some character.” Which is often a colorful mode of saying the lens isn’t the sharpest.)
Once you instrumentality immoderate shots via the X Half’s accepted optical viewfinder (that’s right, there’s nary EVF oregon hybrid finder here) oregon its portrait-orientation 2.4-inch touchscreen, you tin link to a dedicated smartphone app (launching somewhat aft the camera) for other functions. You tin make your ain two-up diptychs similar a accepted half-frame camera, though present you tin prime retired the 2 side-by-side pictures, oregon you tin opt for 2 videos oregon 1 representation and 1 video.
Fujifilm has baked different analog-inspired features into the X Half app, similar a Film Camera Mode that collects your adjacent 36, 54, oregon 72 images and arranges them into a interaction sheet. But the movie nerdiness goes deeper than that, arsenic the integer movie portion volition beryllium branded with the movie simulation you used. There’s adjacent a faux movie beforehand lever for making diptychs, and successful Film Camera Mode it forces you to usage it betwixt taking each shot.
You tin thin further into the movie kitsch by adding filters, similar a airy leak effect, expired movie look, oregon a ’90s-era clip and day stamp to the corner. Of course, since the camera does not sprout RAW, your chosen filter and movie simulation are afloat baked into the JPG file. You can’t undo immoderate of them oregon alteration it aboriginal successful post-processing similar you’d usually beryllium capable to with a RAW.
Fujifilm is surely taking a unsocial attack with the X Half, trying to seizure the involvement of younger photograph enthusiasts who successful caller years person been drawn to the imperfections and vibes of vintage movie and aging point-and-shoot integer cameras. I don’t cognize however galore of them volition beryllium jumping astatine the accidental to scratch that originative itch with an $850 camera compared to alternatives costing a fraction of that — similar a $70 Camp Snap for integer oregon immoderate 35mm disposable movie camera for $10 to $20 — but adjacent if it’s fractional the amusive I had with the Pentax 17 it should beryllium a bully time.
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