Fujifilm continues with its magic touch, which has allowed it to churn out beautiful and, above all, high-quality cameras in recent years. The Fuji X100 (in the original version and the S/T variants) is now almost a legendary series: used worldwide by many professional photographers (and even some celebrities such as Annie Leibovitz and Prince Henry of Wales), it is a camera system that has earned a great reputation thanks to the top-quality pictures produced, the portability and the objective beauty of the machine itself.
Fujifilm, five years after the first X100 model, introduces a new version. A smaller camera that doesn’t give away anything on the quality side: the Fujifilm X70 uses the same X-Trans CMOS II 16 MP sensor and a fixed 28mm f/2.8 lens.
I have only noticed a small lag difference between the single photos taken in a quick shot sequence with the X70 and the X100T sister: with the same memory card (I used the Lexar Professional 1000x), the X70 has a period of black-screen time that is a fraction of a second longer than its older sister. I have double-checked that all settings on the camera are the same and that the High Performance mode was enabled on both machines.
Speaking about the lens, the Fujifilm X70 has a 28mm equivalent. The lens quality is very high: it is sharp even at the full aperture of f/2.8 and creates a very nice contrast in the images and some beautiful colors, something that we are luckily well used to with Fujifilm cameras.
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