Fujifilm X-T20 – Advantage, Review, Features, and More

Fujifilm X-T20

The Fujifilm X-T20 is 1 of our favorite cameras at the moment. And with the X-T20, Fujifilm has managed to distil many of these key features into a slightly more compact.

An affordable camera that’s likely to hit the sweet spot for many photographers.

ADVANTAGE

• Rich and detailed images
• Tactile controls
• Excellent handling
• Advanced AF system
• Film simulation modes

DISADVANTAGE

• Limited touchscreen control
• EVF magnification
• Battery life could be better

Fujifilm X-T20 review

• Fair as when it followed up the X-T1 with the X-T10. Fujifilm has taken a lot of the good stuff from the X-T2 and packaged it in a lighter, more affordable body to give us the X-T20.
• Somewhat than leaving a 16-month gap between launching the two cameras, it did with the X-T1 and X-T10, though.
• The Fujifilm has hardly missed a beat, announcing the X-T20 just over four months after the X-T2.
• Thus should X-T2 owners now be kicking themselves over their purchase, or are there enough differences to separate the two?
• Fujifilm X-T20 (Black) at Amazon for ₹53,219

Features

• APS-C X-Trans CMOS III sensor, 24.3MP
• Touchscreen control
• High-resolution electronic viewfinder

Fair as we’ve seen with the X-Pro2 and X-T2, the X-T20 incorporates Fujifilm’s latest 24.3MP X-Trans CMOS III APS-C sensor:

• The issue delivers a significant boost in resolution from the X-T10’s 16.3MP sensor and transports the original camera in line with pretty much the greatest of its competitors.
• The ISO range gets a boost with a native sensitivity range of ISO200-12,800, compared to ISO200-6,400 on the X-T10.
• And also, while the long-drawn-out range stretches to the same sensitivity bounds of ISO100-51,200. There’s around welcome news here, too – unlike on the X-T10.
• However, the expanded range was restricted to JPEG-only files, and the X-T20 allows you to shoot raws and JPEGs at this extended range.
• Here X-T20 sticks with the same 2.36 million-dot OLED electronic viewfinder as we saw on the X-T10, interestingly, while the resolution matches the EVF used in the X-T2.
• Here magnification isn’t quite as imposing, at 0.62x compared to 0.77x, and not fairly a competition for the Lumix G80/G85’s 0.74x elaboration.

Build and handling

• Magnesium top and bottom plates
• No weather-sealing
• Weighs 383g

Fair as we’ve seen with the X-Pro2 and X-T2. Fujifilm has chosen to tinker with and refine an existing design for the X-T20. Rather than go back to the drawing board and come up with a completely new one:

• As such, the X-T20 takes on the slightly hunched, DSLR-style design of the X-T10. He was looking like an X-T2 that’s been told to lay off the chocolate biscuits.
• While there’s no weather-sealing present, as on the X-T2, the X-T20 sports magnesium top and bottom plates.
• Which lengthways, with a comfy (if modest) grip and the tactile covering used, style the X-T20 feel similar a very solid and quality piece of kit – it surely doesn’t feel like a cheap version of the X-T2.

Autofocus

• 325-point AF
• Eye-detection AF
• 5 AF-C presets

You might be forgiven for thinking that Fujifilm would give the X-T20 a stripped-down AF system compared to its flagship siblings:

• Nonetheless, that’s not the case at all, with the X-T20 featuring the same advanced system as the X-T2.
• The Fujifilm has made some big strides with its autofocus systems over the past year, so the autofocus system’s upgrade here over the one employed on the X-T10 is a welcome change.
• Here hybrid AF system employs both phase-detection and contrast-detection points, with up to 169 phase-detect points decided in a large square formation (13 x 13) in the centre.
• Complemented by two grids of 6 x 13 contrast-detect points also side to deliver a total of 325 concentrating points across a large area of the frame – that’s up from the X-T10’s total of 49 points.

Performance

• 8fps burst shooting
• 350-shot battery life
• Sound metering system

Here X-T20 uses Fujifilm’s proven TTL 256-zone metering system, which performs admirably, even when directed at high-contrast scenes:

• Now it can tend to underexpose the shot, but we’d luckily take this to avoid blown highlights and recover part in the shadows later.
• The uncertainty you’re going to be shooting many portraits, the metering is pitched to provide a bias to overexposing the shot for a more gratifying high-key result.
• The problem easy to fine-tune the exposure, though – as we’ve mentioned, set the exposure compensation to ‘C’, and it’s quick to adjust.
• Besides, the joy of mirrorless is that the EVF will display the exposure in real-time. Thus you won’t get any nasty surprises when reviewing your images.

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