Coming Fuji X-T5 to Have 3-Way Tilt Screen

Fujirumors is predicting that the tilting viewing screen will be restored to the upcoming Fuji X-T5, due to be announced and shipped in November. It claims that the likelihood of this happening is "100%."

The new camera is also rumored to have 40 MP, and no vertical grip is planned. I've owned a vertical grip for my X-T1 for years and have yet to use it a second time, so I guess this doesn't alarm me personally.

Given that I still own an X-T1 and haven't really "taken" to the X-H1 for whatever reason, I ought to begin saving up for an X-T5. I have a lot of Fujinon X lenses.

More holistically, I hope that the existence of the X-H2[s] will mean that Fuji feels okay about not stuffing the X-T5 to the gills with gee-whiz features. Fujis were always fun to use, and that was arguably their best "feature."

Mike

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Comments

[SteveW]

The X-T5 should check a lot of boxes for you. The beloved tilting screen. IBIS. 40mp's might be nice. The larger battery and a bit more grip being frosting on the cake. And it might have a better EVF if it uses the one from the X-H2.

I'll be sticking with my X-T4. I'm fine with the flippy screen, and 26mp is plenty for me.

(I think Fuji is doing the logical thing going back to the tilt screen for the X-T5. The screen will be the same then as the X-T30ii and likely the X-T50 whenever it is released. The flippy screens will be relegated to the X-H2's it would seem, although the X-S10 also has one, so maybe the flippy screens will be for the PSAM models, but who knows.)

[MikeR]

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[Albert Smith]

"...I ought to begin saving up for an X-T5. I have a lot of Fujinon X lenses..."

Or, hear me out, get one or two X-T3 bodies and be done with new cameras. You get the three way LCD (that vertical tilt missing from the X-T1 is very useful) and a noticeable but not ridiculous increase in resolution for a great price.

I chose the X-T3 over the X-T4 and as a stills only guy, I never regretted it, in fact I bought a second one for redundancy and longevity. I won't be looking at the X-T5. I should be dead before the second X-T3 dies.

[Steve Rosenblum]

Yep. If the tilting viewing screen is confirmed in the announcement count me in.

[Tom Bell]

Well I must say that I loved the three way tilting screen but eventually went with T4 as I really appreciate the IBIS meaning lower ISO.

Ontop of this approaching seventy I justified this, and all other major purchases, to my other half with the throw away line “ this should see me out” ….

So sad to miss out on the return to tilting but I can live without it

[Stephen Scharf]

I think Albert's advice to get an XT-3 at a great price is a good one. I'm firmly in the "don't pay for more engineering specification" than you need camp with respect to product requirements. One doesn't need a Porsche GT2 RS to commute to work, a Honda ILX does just fine. Granted, it's not "glamorous", but what does glamor have to do with it?

With respect to the X-H2 series, I think Fuji was caught between a rock and a hard place with respect to the "flippy screen". IIRC, one of the DPR video guys, Chris, said he simply would not consider giving a top rating to a camera that did not have a flippy screen. Because as we know about all the YT reviewers.....it's all about them. Even though, in most cases, they are not actual customers.

Personally, I wish Fujifilm had made the video-centric X-H2S with the flippy screen, and the stills-centric X-H2 with the 3-way tilting screen, but that would have likely made the product specification, BOM, and parts management a lot more complex.

As I learned the hard way working in Biotech both as a scientist and a Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belt (teaching scientists and engineers how to be better...scientists and engineers-what a concept!), all product development involves a set of design and functional compromises. There are no perfect products that meet all customer needs in all use cases.

Overall, I think Fujifilm does a very good job considering and meeting customer's requirements. More than I can say for Sony, who put forth an ethos that "it's all about them".