Just Posted: Fujifilm X20 review

We’ve posted our 15-page review of Fujifilm’s X20 premium compact camera. This follow-up to the X10 adds a new X-Trans CMOS sensor, Hybrid AF system, and enhanced optical viewfinder, while retaining the fast lens, rangefinder-inspired body, and numerous manual controls of its predecessor. Is this the enthusiast compact camera you’ve been waiting for?

Click here to read our 15 page review of the Fujifilm X20

Fujifilm X20

Comments

if you look at the IR images it leaves all compact cameras for dead. 2400 lines. with comments like exceptional image quality.

I agree with the last commenter. The images are nice, but don’t really stand out. This will be a nice camera for people dedicated to the Fujifilm brand, or the high build quality/retro idea. It will be a harder sell to others. The IQ from a good number of compact cameras is in this ballpark. Some of them cost less.

I was hoping that it would give the sony RX100 but image results are somewhat mediocre. The no frills image samples on dpr are a good indicator if there is something special with a camera’s sensor lens combination alas there is none. I am sure it will handle better have some of that soul that people rabbit on about but image is important so my sony stays as a P&S camera, damn I was hoping to get rid of the clunky little begger

cool, silver star for an expensive compact with mushy images…

It’s priced consistently with its peers, has a larger sensor and brighter lens than virtually any other compact. It also has a more sophisticated viewfinder than any of its peers. Its images are consistent with the other cameras in its class.

Put that way the Silver Award seems less surprising, to me.

Why don’t you reply to his comment about ‘mushy images’?

That is why you are here, isn’t it?

He did it …
“Its images are consistent with the other cameras in its class.”

Where are the Dynamic Range charts?

We don’t always include them for compact cameras. It’s a very hard test to do for compacts, and doesn’t tell you much. For compacts, we generally focus on real-world shooting when discussing dynamic range.

if it used APS-C/43 sensor, it would have been just about perfect camera for me.

The lack of an olpf will make no appreciable difference to the overwhelming majority of real world users, etc., etc.

Excellent review..