SteveLew Loc: Sugar Land, TX

I have been a Nikon shooter for some time and currently use my d610 for landscape shooting. We will be traveling in Europe this summer and want a smaller form factor camera to use (plus GAS) and carry while on our trip. I have conduct thorough research of the top Olympus, Panasonic and Fuji camera lines and have settled on the Fuji X-T2 for its handling, build quality, dial configuration, focus speed plus other features and its color and B&W renderings. I would like to know from those Fuji owners what their experience has been.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Eager to hear this myself.
I shoot with Nikon for work (usually D810) but took a Fuji X-E1 ( I know, not the same as the XT-2 but same format and similar features) and just the 18-55 to Europe a few years ago.
Marvelous travel camera! The one thing I was wishing I had was a bit more on the wide end. I have since purchased a 14mm to add to the kit. The 18-55 is a great lens but the 14 is crazy sharp!
Menus and handling of the Fuji was the appeal to me along with the rendering, though I shoot mostly raw.

The stabilization in the Olympus is second to none ( I've had an E-M1) if that's important. Good luck!

SteveLew Loc: Sugar Land, TX

Thanks for your reply. I have seen some of the Fuji files and there is something special about the colors and the black rendition.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

My Brother in law loves his. He came from a Nikon d90 and Fuji x100t prior to that.

SteveLew Loc: Sugar Land, TX

Thank you for your reply. I am a very visual person and with the X-T2 dials it feels more retro and tactile. With this camera's build quality an special film camera B&W presets it appears that it would make a great travel camera and street camera.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

I'm waiting to hear of your experience after traveling with it. I intend to get an XT-2 as my next (last?) digital camera. I handled one in the store-- and I thought about running out with it-- but I'm not very fast and they know me....

rossk Loc: Melbourne, Australia

I have been using the XT2 for about 9 months. It is an excellent camera. Images from this camera with 23mm lens, 100-400mm lens, 35mm lens and 55-240 mm lens are brilliant. I am amazed at the results. I still use my D810 a lot for specialised work but increasingly the XT 2 is becoming my walk around camera. An interesting addition to the lens library is the 8mm Samyang fisheye lens which combined with the XT2 delivers wonderful images.

Grnway Loc: Manchester, NH

I have been a longtime Canon user and recently bought the X-t2. I, too, fell in love with the retro feel and analog dial settings. They brought me back to the old SLR days. My biggest concern was low light performance and focus speed. I do a lot of low light events, with mostly uncooperative subjects, as well as sports, and tend to use the 50-140mm (70-200mm equivalent on my full frame Canon). Image stability and focus speed were a big concern. After all, my 5DIII with the 70-200 is a pretty high benchmark to match. The X-t2 has measured up admirably. I also own the Fuji 100-400mm. I think it hunts for focus just a fraction of a second longer than the Canon with same focal length lens, but not a deal breaker.

Rock solid build, excellent lens quality, brilliant image IQ. I'm looking forward to getting the 16-55mm f2.8, which is currently on backorder, as well as the EX-X500 flash. I'm going to experiment with these once I get them and may sell my canon stuff. It's that good.

Cly72642 Loc: Georgetown SC

I bought the XT-1 a,year and a half ago and liked it so much that I recently bought the XT-2 and I like it so much that I am in process of selling off my Nikon gear in order to get a stable of Fuji lenses. I just bought the RoboShoot off-camera flash system and coupled with the Fujinon 56mm f/1.2 makes for portraits second to none. The XT-2 is well built, much lighter that my Nikon D800, and the fingertip controls for all major functions makes for ease of operation. I have two friends that are professional photographers; one Landscape and commercial and the other exclusively nature and they both have gone to Fuji's. I recommend this camera and it's lenses highly.

leftj Loc: Texas

I don't think the XT2 has been out for 9 months.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

That's kind of what I was thinking.

berchman Loc: South Central PA

I had been shooting two FF Nikons on two of my trips to SE Asia with Overseas Adventure Travel. Then came a trip to France, just my wife and I, so I brought only the Nikon D800 with the Nikon 24-120 F/4 zoom. Even that was cumbersome enough that often I would leave the Nikon in the apartment and just use my iPhone 6 plus. So I decided to get a Fuji XT-1. I used this on a three week trip to Sicily and Calabria with the 18-135 lens. I was able to walk about all day holding the Fuji in my hand with only a Gordy wrist strap. It was good for both street and landscape. Even though I shoot RAW, the jpgs coming out of the camera were really nice. While in Sicily, I read that the XT-2 has just been released. I immediately placed a pre-order with B&H for the XT-2, hoping I would get it in time for a trip to Iran starting at the end of September. It came two weeks before my departure and I liked it even more than the XT-1. Wanting a wider angle lens to supplement the 18-135, I bought a Rokinon 12 mm f/2 and put it on the XT-1. This came in very handy. I would take the XT-1 out of my bag. lay it flat on its back on the floor of a building with a beautiful ceiling, and using the Fuji cable release, get a great shot of the ceiling. The XT-2 I carried in my hand on the street, using the very versatile 18-135. A few weeks later I brought the same two cameras to a trip to Japan and, again, they worked out beautifully along with a new iPhone 7 plus. I am planning to sell the XT-1 and buy another XT-2 because it's too much of a pain for me to easily transition between two different cameras and I don't like changing lenses on the fly.

Even though I'm 79, I'm not weak and am fully capable of walking around with a Nikon D700 with the 17-35 f/2.8 on one shoulder and the D800 with the 70-200 f/2.8 on the other shoulder, BUT I DON'T WANT TO! The quality of the Fuji shots is all I could hope for as are the 16x20 prints made from them.

magpix Loc: St. Michaels, MD

I shoot professionally for magazines and recently sold all my Nikon gear after using the XE-1, XT-1 and most recently XT-2 for personal use. The results of the XT-2 convinced me I didn't need my Nikon D750 and D300 with all the heavy pro glass. While I traded in my Nikon gear for most of the Fuji lenses I still find that little 18-55mm to be quite amazing. Same with the 55-200. The 35mm f/2, 23mm f/1.4 and 56mm f/1.2 are razor sharp. The 16-55 and 50-140 are very good, but they are on the heavy side. The 100-400 is good, but frankly I think my Nikon 200-500 was just a little bit sharper. But overall, the Fuji X system not only produces incredible images, but it is somehow more fun to use than my Nikon. And my travel kit weighs 1/3 the weight of my Nikon travel kit.

Grnway Loc: Manchester, NH

Magpix hit it right! The Fuji is fun to use. It's taking some getting used to but having all the analog adjustments takes me back to my old 35 mm SLR. No scrolling through menus pressing tiny buttons, just quick adjustments on the outside of the camera using knobs. I have big hands, so that feature is really nice.

I might add that the battery grip is pretty important for performance and for balance when using the bigger lenses. I put the 100-400 on it without the battery grip and it was too front heavy and I felt that I didn't have enough camera body to hold with the heavy lens in front. The battery grip pretty much balances it out, besides helping prolong performance and battery life. Speaking of batteries, it's always good to have spares with mirrorless, since power is used for the EVF as well as every other camera function.

Jerrin1 Loc: Wolverhampton, England

You may care to take a look at Mathieu Gasquet's comparison between the Fuji X-T2 and the Olympus EM1 mark II on his Mirror Lessons channel on You Tube. He gives it a very good review along with the pro's and con's of owning one.