Fujifilm updates its entry-level X-T30 with 6K video and a film simulation dial

The caller X-T30 III is the aforesaid size arsenic the erstwhile exemplary and features the aforesaid 26.1MP sensor. | Image: Fujifilm

Fujifilm has announced the 3rd iteration of its entry-level X-T30 interchangeable lens camera. The original debuted successful 2019, portion the X-T30 II launched successful 2021 with minimal upgrades. The new Fujifilm X-T30 III besides isn’t a implicit reimagining of the camera, carrying guardant the erstwhile model’s 26.1-megapixel X-Trans CMOS 4 representation sensor. But it comes with Fujifilm’s latest X-Processor 5 that powers immoderate invited caller functionality.

The mode dial atop the erstwhile exemplary has been replaced with a Film Simulation dial connected the X-T30 III, akin to what Fujifilm present includes connected shooters similar past year’s X-T50. The dial provides speedy entree to 20 antithetic looks simulating the quality of shooting connected film, including black-and-white options for erstwhile you’re feeling particularly artsy. The dial besides has 3 positions for customized looks you tin make by adjusting settings that see movie grain, colour tone, highlights, and saturation.

The X-T30 III is archetypal and foremost a camera geared towards inactive photography with shooting rates that inactive max retired astatine 20fps erstwhile utilizing its physics shutter, but that faster processor has allowed Fujifilm to present improved video capabilities. It tin present seizure 10-bit 6.2K footage astatine 30fps, portion framework rates leap to up to 60fps astatine 4K, and 240fps astatine 1080P for slo-mo.

There’s inactive nary in-body stabilization connected the X-T30 enactment — you’ll request to measurement up to the $1,399 X-T50 for that. But the X-T30 III does connection faster autofocus, the quality to prioritize a subject’s look and eyes, and AI-powered taxable designation and tracking including animals, birds, cars, trains, insects, and airplanes, and drones.

Other improvements see amended artillery beingness with up to 425 shots captured successful Economy Mode wherever the show of autofocus and the camera’s tilting LCD show are reduced. The pop-up flash from erstwhile models has besides been carried forward, and if you privation much than conscionable the look of film, the X-T30 III tin link straight to Fujifilm’s Instax Link printers and harvest shots to acceptable the company’s quadrate and wide instant movie formats.

The X-T30 III is expected to vessel successful November 2025 but is presently disposable for preorder starting astatine $999.95 (without a lens) from retailers similar B&H successful 3 colour options: each black, achromatic and silver, and achromatic and charcoal silver. That makes it astir $100 much costly than the X-T30 II that launched astatine $900 a fewer years ago. The X-T30 III volition besides beryllium disposable arsenic portion of a kit that includes Fujifilm’s caller XC 13-33mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS lens for $1,149.95 successful mid-December 2025.