Fujifilm X Half hands-on: whimsical, refreshing, and simply fun

The archetypal happening I noticed astir the Fujifilm X Half is conscionable however tiny and airy it is. The camera is designed to springiness you nary excuses - you should beryllium capable to bring it with you everywhere. And aft spending a fewer hours walking astir LA with the camera, I'm starting to recognize wherefore you'd privation to.

Fujifilm's latest doesn't needfully impressment connected paper. The X Half is an $850 camera with a vertically oriented 1-inch sensor susceptible of taking 18MP photos. There's nary electrical oregon hybrid viewfinder, nary stabilization, nary blistery shoe, and it can't adjacent instrumentality RAW photos. It's precise casual to look astatine that database of missing features and disregard the camera altogether.

But the X Half's simplicity is precise overmuch the point. This is simply a camera for taking scrappy, speedy photos and capturing memories. A batch of its flaws are masked with movie simulations, filters, and superimposed grain. Its limitations are a feature, not a bug.

The camera comes with a fixed 32mm equivalent f/2.8 lens. Even with each the added atom and filters turned off, I recovered it to execute precise well. The dynamic scope is acceptable with earthy item falloff, edges are sharp, and there's adjacent immoderate bokeh if you program accor …

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