Fujifilm X-T3 Review - Review 2022

Fujifilm is updating its popular 10-T2 mirrorless camera in a large fashion. The X-T3 ($1,499.95, body only) has a new sensor and processor, squeezing 26.1MP into an APS-C class factor and supporting up to 30fps Raw image capture with minimal viewfinder blackout. It's non quite the affordable version of Sony'southward total-frame Sony a9, which shoots at 20fps with no blackout, as the sensor readout isn't equally speedy, but it'south a solid option for photographers capturing fast-moving action using the mechanical shutter and a speedy 11fps shooting charge per unit. And while it omits the in-body prototype stabilization offered past the a9 and the pricier Fujifilm X-H1, information technology'due south also smaller and more affordable than either.

All Most the Dials

Fujifilm is offering the X-T3 in both blackness and argent versions for the same price. This is a departure from previous models, which have started in black and later garnered a special edition Graphite Silver version at a higher cost after the initial launch. As with other premium 10 cameras, the X-T3 is protected from dust and splashes when paired with a Atmospheric condition Resistant (WR) lens.

The photographic camera features a slim mirrorless lens mount and a modest handgrip. It measures 3.7 past 5.two by 2.iii inches (HWD) and weighs 1.2 pounds, both figures without a lens mounted. Information technology looks and feels a lot like the X-T2. That's a good thing if you're a fan of Fujifilm's dial-based approach to photographic camera command.

On-trunk controls commencement on the front. You get a physical switch to change the focus mode, located at the bottom left corner, along with a front control dial and a programmable function button. I set up the front end button to switch between mechanical and electronic shutter, but at that place are whatsoever number of functions that yous can assign to it, or to near other buttons—the camera is very customizable.

A dedicated ISO control dial is positioned at the left side of the meridian plate. It features a central post that locks it in identify. A second dial, used to adjust the Drive manner, is nested at its base. The hot shoe is directly to its right, atop the EVF—there's no born flash, so y'all'll need to mount an external one in the shoe to shed lite on dim scenes.

The right side of the top plate is the shutter speed dial, also locking, with the metering pattern control punch nested into its base. In that location'southward likewise a dedicated EV adjustment dial, with settings from -3 to +3EV in tertiary-stop increments, a programmable Fn button, and the shutter release and ability switch.

Rear controls are also familiar to 10-T2 owners. The Delete and Play buttons are at the top left, above the LCD, with AE-L, the rear command dial, and AF-Fifty positioned in the same row, simply to the correct of the EVF.

The rest of the controls sit down to the right of the LCD. You get the Q button, which launches an on-screen menu to quickly adapt a number of photographic camera settings, a defended focus point selector, a four-style directional pad with a center Menu/OK button, and the Display/Back control.

All of Fujifilm's pop flick simulations are included—Provia, Velvia, Classic Chrome, Acros, Eterna, and the rest. These give your JPG images and videos a wait that mimics some of Fujifilm'southward most beloved stock. Y'all can adjust the amount of grain in images and also enable a color chrome effect to give colors that skew toward the ruby-red end of the spectrum more dial, just without losing item to oversaturation.

The LCD is a similar design to the one on the X-T2—information technology tilts up and down, and swings to the correct, but can't swing all the way out to face forward. It's the same size as the X-T2, iii inches, and the same resolution, ane,040k dots. As sharp as information technology is, I do wish Fujifilm had opted to use a swivel like the ane used by the entry-level X-T100, which maintains upward and downward tilt adjustment, merely can besides swing out to face up forrard. The 10-T3's screen does support touch this fourth dimension around.

Y'all can't use touch everywhere, but information technology's available to tap and set a focus point, change settings in the Q menu, and when playing back images on the LCD. Fujifilm also supports swipe gestures for camera command. A swipe from the top down brings up an on-screen level, while one from the bottom up shows a live histogram.

The EVF is all new. Information technology's an OLED with 3.7 million dots of resolution, and while its 0.75x magnification is a niggling smaller than the 0.77x offered by the 10-T2, it's a minor modify at best. The extra resolution—the 10-T2 has a 2.four-1000000-dot EVF—is palpable. The EVF lag time has been cut to 0.005-2d and its refresh rate improved to 100fps. Regardless of specs, the EVF looks fantastic to my centre—it'south clear and smooth, and shows a preview of what the camera is really capturing, including whatsoever image effects you may take applied.

The photographic camera features the normal array of wireless connectivity, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, for image transfer to and remote command via an Android or iOS device. It sports dual SD/SDHC/SDXC retention card slots, both supporting UHS-II transfer rates.

The battery is rated for 390 shots per CIPA standards, amend than the X-T2'south 340 or the X-H1's 310. A battery grip will proceed sale, but it'southward not needed to increase the capture speed as with other Fujifilm cameras. But, similar the X-H1, battery life will vary based on how you utilize the camera. Recording 4K video chews through battery life, but you'll go a heck of a lot more than 400 shots per charge. I was able to get a total day's use out of the camera with a mix of unmarried shooting, continuous drive, and video recording. If I was bringing the camera with me on vacation I'd carry at least one spare.

Concrete connections include a PC Sync socket, a USB-C port, a micro HDMI output, microphone input, and a headphone jack for audio monitoring. An external bombardment charger is included, but you can as well top off the NP-W126S prison cell in-camera via the USB-C port. Your external bombardment pack isn't just for your telephone anymore.

More Frames, More than Pixels

The 10-T3's big new characteristic is its autofocus system. Information technology tin can fire at a brisk 11fps with its mechanical shutter and 20fps using its silent electronic shutter, both with subject tracking and at full 26MP resolution. Fujifilm has expanded the stage detection focus surface area to encompass nearly the entirety of the prototype sensor, where it was limited to just the central surface area in the X-T2 and X-H1. In that location are a total of ii.16 1000000 phase detection pixels, the nearly nosotros've seen in any image sensor. Additionally, the focus system is rated to operate in low-cal as dim as -3EV, a full two stops dimmer than the -1EV supported by the X-T2. Both Face and Heart Detection are available in continuous focus mode (AF-C), useful for portraiture and upshot photography.

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The camera besides has a few tricks upwards its sleeve for even faster capture. I is a ane.25x crop manner, which cuts resolution to xvi.6MP simply bumps the capture rate to a staggering 30fps with continuous focus available, the fastest Raw imaging we've seen from whatsoever camera. It also supports pre-capture buffering—hold the shutter button down halfway and the X-T3 will commit frames to its buffer, simply will only write them to the carte du jour when you press the shutter all the manner in. It lets yous capture action slightly later on it happens, in a like fashion to the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II.

In field testing, the autofocus organization excelled. I shot with a few different lenses, including the forthcoming XF 200mm F2, and was happy to encounter the X-T3 track moving subjects, even when pushing the capture rate to 30fps. Not every frame was perfectly focused—but the first frame in a quick burst sequence would be more than likely to be a miss than ane in the center. In one case the 10-T3 locks onto a target, it keeps up with it.

I was able to get good results with default focus settings, but you can tune the tracking settings to match the type of activeness you're capturing. There are five preset recipes—Multi Purpose, Ignore Obstacles & Continue to Track Subject area, Accelerating/Decelerating Bailiwick, Suddenly Appearing Bailiwick, and Erratically Moving & Accelerating/Decelerating Subject area. All offer adjustable tracking sensitivity, speed tracking sensitivity, and zone area switching, and there'south a sixth setting bank that tin can hold a customized recipe.

Confront and Middle Detection are also included. They work actually well. The camera identifies and draws a box around a detected face, and smaller ones around detected eyes, to let you know information technology has found your subject. It keeps faces in focus even as they movement through the frame. My but complaint is that sometimes the face detection is also skillful—when photographing a roller derby, the camera lost track of some of the athletes' faces and locked onto spectators standing around the rink backside the action. I adapted my focus settings to hold on a subject longer to fix the issue, just disabling Face up Detection may exist a skillful idea when photographing sports where a player's face may be obscured, at least when spectators are likewise visible in the frame.

The X-T3 makes no compromises when it comes to speed. It powers on, focuses, and captures an image in a short 0.8-2d interval. Autofocus locks on in as trivial every bit 0.5-second in decent calorie-free and 0.2-2d in very dim conditions.

When using the mechanical shutter the top capture and tracking speed is 11fps. The X-T3's buffer holds about 35 Raw or Raw+JPG images before it fills and the capture charge per unit slows. All images write to a 300Mbps retentiveness card in as little as 8 seconds for compressed Raw images, upwards to 15 seconds for uncompressed Raw+JPG. The buffer holds about xc JPGs, with 7 seconds required to articulate it to retentiveness.

At that place is also a fully electronic shutter pick. It ups the speed to 20fps at full resolution, but only for 32 Raw or Raw+JPG shots at a time. You can go a little bit longer when shooting in JPG format; we got 49 shots in our tests. You tin can cut the resolution to well-nigh 16MP, while at the same time cropping the frame a bit (1.25x), and push the capture rate to 30fps. The Ten-T3 is withal able to rail action when shooting this quickly, but is once again limited to 32 Raw or Raw+JPG or 44 JPG images at a time. Buffer articulate times are almost the same as the 11fps mode.

Yous can enable a short pre-shot buffer when using the electronic shutter. When information technology's turned on, property the shutter downwards halfway not but focuses the camera, but starts buffering frames to memory. A full press saves the previous ten to memory. It works quite well when photographing action, as you don't accept to conceptualize what's happening next, y'all can catch a shot a trounce after you recognize you desire to capture an epitome. You lot practise need to have the camera set to high-speed continuous drive mode for this to work, and yous will notice that the normally silky shine viewfinder shows some choppiness when buffering.

Using the electronic shutter makes the camera entirely silent—assuming you dive into the menu and turn off the artificial shutter sound that is enabled by default. Simply it's not without some limitations. Certain types of low-cal, like the LEDs that were in use at Fujifilm'due south roller derby event, will cause ugly banding at the short shutter speeds you'll want to use to freeze action—the image above, shot at i/2,000-second, shows it at its worst, and information technology's still visible in the ane/500-second shot below.

Banding isn't the only concern when using the electronic shutter. Distortion tin be caused by the rolling readout—prototype information comes off line past line rather than all at once, and the procedure requires roughly i/60-second to complete. If motion isn't going to exist frozen at that speed, await skew to announced. The most obvious example of this effect is the bent appearance spinning helicopter blades can show when captured with a slower electronic shutter. This isn't an event only with the X-T3—its sensor is faster to read than many competing APS-C cameras. The merely camera nosotros've seen with sensor readout quick enough to freeze moving action with its electronic shutter is Sony's high-end a9, which has been tested to read the unabridged sensor in about 1/160-second.

The paradigm sensor is a 26MP BSI CMOS blueprint with an X-Trans colour filter assortment. It'southward the outset APS-C sensor we've seen with more than 24MP since the short-lived Samsung NX1 and its 28MP BSI imager. It features a native ISO range of 160 through 12800, and tin can be pushed as high every bit ISO 51200 and as low as ISO 80 in extended mode.

Imatest shows the new image sensor is a good one. When shooting JPGs with default noise reduction and image quality settings—that is, without any added grain simulation added—dissonance is curbed to less than 1.5 percent through ISO 6400. You lot do lose a flake of clarity when pushing the ISO that far, due to in-camera noise reduction.

The image output is clean and rife with detail through ISO 1600. At ISO 3200 nosotros start to encounter some loss of fine detail and contrast, and it gets marginally worse at ISO 6400 and ISO 12800. Output is a picayune blurrier at ISO 25600, but slightly stronger than what we saw from the 24MP X-H1. The height ISO 51200 should be skipped, as the output is quite blurry. You tin only access it via the H setting on the transmission ISO punch, which tin can exist fix to turn on the 25600 or 51200 setting, and we recommend leaving information technology ISO 25600.

I converted Raw test images using a beta version of the Adobe DNG Converter, and candy our ISO exam images in Lightroom Archetype CC. At low ISOs there is goose egg to mutter about. Epitome detail holds up well through ISO 3200, and images shot at or beneath that setting don't testify overwhelming dissonance.

Noise is visible at ISO 6400, simply particular is still strong. Output is rougher at ISO 12800 and 25600, but both show a petty more than item than shots captured with the 10-H1 at comparable settings. Raw image quality at ISO 51200 is definitely ameliorate than JPG, just even so shows a lot more noise than detail. We've included crops from both JPG and Raw tests in the slideshow that accompanies this review.

Acme-Notch Video, Without Stabilization

Video is available at 4K DCI quality at up to 60fps, a first for an APS-C sensor photographic camera. The 10-T3 records four:ii:0 10-flake footage internally to a memory card at upwardly to 400Mbps, and tin send out a make clean HDMI indicate at four:two:2 ten-chip to an external recording device. A flat F-Log profile is available for either recording mode, and you can also use moving-picture show looks (including the cinematic Eterna) to video. A firmware update, coming after this yr, will support simultaneous recording to both a retentivity menu and external recorder, something the camera cannot practice as of this writing.

Video quality is simply outstanding. I shot my examination footage using the 23.98fps 4K DCI setting at 400Mbps. I was very happy with the item and look of the footage—I opted to use the Classic Chrome flick simulation fashion, simply all of the looks bachelor for however images are bachelor for video, plus the flat profile.

But you will demand some horsepower to edit the footage. Premiere Pro CC choked on playback of my footage, and while my editing organization isn't the absolute height of the line, a 27-inch 2022 iMac with a Core i7 CPU and 16GB of memory isn't a budget car. The Ten-T3 doesn't back up the creation of proxy recording files, which are low-quality video clips saved forth with the expert ones to speed upward editing.

Autofocus is as well strong, especially with Face Detection enabled. It's very good at locking onto faces, to the point where I had to change my sensitivity settings to prevent the photographic camera from locking onto spectators when recording footage of the aforementioned roller derby match. You will take to have some care when recording moving subjects who aren't human, though. You can either set the camera to automatically identify the focus point, or tap on the screen to place a point of involvement. But the X-T3 doesn't identify a discipline and switch to tracking it automatically when you lot set the focus area manually—you lot'll need to move the focus expanse forth with your subject, either by tapping the display or using the rear focus joystick command.

Y'all can use traditional camera controls for video, merely I don't recommend doing so. The shutter speed dial doesn't offer the proper settings for one affair—you lot'll want 1/48-second for 24fps, merely the closest setting on the dial is 1/threescore-second, the right option for shooting at 30fps. If you lot plough on Silent Control, you'll arrange settings via an on-screen menu. It saves frame rate, f-stop, ISO, and pic simulation modes which are defended to video, and so you can quickly switch between still and video capture without having to reconfigure your controls for the different mediums.

Every bit capable as the X-T3 is for video, there are two large things missing. One is a forepart-facing screen. The X-T100's display, which tilts up and down and likewise faces forward, is a good compromise for both withal and video shooters, and information technology'due south a shame Fujifilm didn't include it. The second is in-camera stabilization. It's included in the Ten-H1, which likewise records high-quality video but doesn't offer quite the same level of autofocus performance, and is missed here. All of our sample footage is handheld, only you can tell when I switched from the stabilized XF 200mm, used for much of the roller derby footage and the opening clip of the trumpet role player, to the unstabilized XF 35mm F2, which was used for the pinball clip as well as the final two clips in our test reel. In-camera stabilization would go a long way to removing the jittery look we see in those clips.

A Notable Upgrade

The Fujifilm X-T3 is a worthwhile upgrade over the X-T2, which earned our Editors' Option recommendation when we reviewed it early final year. It has some features that are beyond what you'll find in other mirrorless cameras at this toll point from any brand. Shooting at 20 or 30fps may be an absolute overkill for many situations, but information technology tin help you go a difficult shot of fast activeness, especially when coupled with the pre-shot buffer mode. Fujifilm isn't the first to market with that feature—nosotros saw it in the Micro Iv Thirds Olympus OM-D E-M1 Marker Two—but this is the get-go time it'south shown upwardly in a camera with an APS-C sensor.

Just while it'due south a head-turning feature, it's not something you'll employ every day. The overall improved autofocus system is, and is more of a reason to consider an upgrade to the X-T3, or choose it over the X-H1. Fujifilm has opted to skip in-body stabilization with the X-T3, all the same, which is the big reason we still recommend the X-H1 as our Editors' Choice. Information technology non only smooths out video with whatever lens, but is beneficial for getting sharper handheld images.

The X-H1 came out earlier this yr, so we wait it'll be some fourth dimension before Fujifilm gives u.s. the X-H2, which will presumably lucifer or amend the X-T3 in autofocus and capture charge per unit. I call back sensor-based stabilization is a characteristic worth having, and despite the X-T3 packing some more than engineering within, the X-H1 is notwithstanding 1 heck of a camera. If you're willing to live without information technology, the X-T3 is an otherwise strong performer in speed, focus, image, and video quality. Simply if you don't need to upgrade now, consider holding out for a model with the X-T3's feature fix and a stabilized image sensor.

Fujifilm X-T3 Specs

Dimensions	3.7 by 5.2 by 2.3 inches
Weight	ane.2 lb
Type	Mirrorless
Sensor Resolution	26.1 MP
Sensor Type	X-Trans CMOS
Sensor Size	APS-C (24 x 16mm)
Lens Mount	Fujifilm X
Retentivity Card Slots	2
Memory Carte du jour Format	SDXC (UHS-II)
Battery Type	Fujifilm NP-W126S
Minimum ISO	80
Maximum ISO	51200
Stabilization	None
Display Size	3 inches
Display Resolution	i.04 million dots
Touch Screen	Yes
Viewfinder Blazon	EVF
Viewfinder Magnification	0.75x
EVF Resolution	3.69 million dots
Connectivity	Bluetooth, USB-C, Wi-Fi, micro HDMI, Microphone (3.5mm), Headphone (three.5mm), PC Sync, Remote (ii.5mm)
Maximum Waterproof Depth	0 feet
Video Resolution	4K
HDMI Output	4:two:2 ten-bit
Flat Contour	Yes

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