Fujifilm X70 ()

Name: Fuji X70
Brand: Fuji

A compact fixed-lens digital camera with an APS-C sensor and manual control dials, designed for street photography.

Overview

The Fujifilm X70 is a fixed-lens digital camera made by Fujifilm and . Fujifilm announced it in January 2016 as a compact, viewfinder-less alternative to the X100 series. It shares design and functionality with the X100T. It is built around a 16.3 MP APS-C X-Trans CMOS II sensor and , and it puts portability and manual control first. The body is metal. It has dedicated dials for shutter speed, aperture, exposure mode and compensation, a programmable lens ring and eight customizable function buttons. There is no viewfinder. You compose on a 3.0" 1.04M-dot touchscreen LCD that tilts 180° upward, and that tilt also lets it work as a table stand.

Specifications

Image Sensor	16.3 MP APS-C X-Trans CMOS II
Sensor Dimensions	23.6mm x 15.6mm
Crop Factor	1.5
Image Sizes & Formats	Still JPG or Fuji raw. Native: 4896 x 3264 (16MP). Also Medium (8MP) and Small (4MP) sizes with 16:9 and square crop options.
Digital Teleconverter	Crop modes for 35mm and 50mm (equivalent) angles of view.
Swept Panoramas	180° sweep: 9600 x 2160 (vertical) / 9600 x 1440 (horizontal). 120° sweep: 6400 x 2160 (vertical) / 6400 x 1440 (horizontal).
Light Meter	256-zone TTL, average or spot.
Shutter	Hybrid (mechanical leaf shutter and electronic shutter).
Flash Sync	1/4000 sec
Screen	3.0" 1.04M-dot touchscreen LCD, 180° up/45° down tilt.

Design

The X70 has a metal body with retro styling, in silver/black or all-black. The dedicated dials cover shutter speed, aperture, exposure mode and exposure compensation. Eight programmable function buttons sit alongside them, and the programmable lens ring can control settings like ISO or Film Simulation. The hybrid shutter gives you a quiet leaf shutter or a silent electronic shutter. At small apertures, diffraction correction is applied via DSP.

Context

The X70 is a compact, fixed-lens model in Fujifilm's X-series. It was positioned as a smaller, viewfinder-less counterpart to the Fujifilm X100T and marketed as a discreet tool for street photography. Reviewers praised its build quality, manual controls and image quality. They criticized the missing viewfinder and the poor LCD visibility in bright light. It runs the same firmware as the X-T1, X100T and X-T10.

Market

, the X70 is noted for lacking a viewfinder, auto LCD brightness, a threaded cable release socket, in-body image stabilization and a battery percentage indicator. Flash control is menu-based, and there is only a single rear command dial. The filter thread is reverse 49mm. Fujifilm boxes were not sealed, which raised the potential for tampering. Some units have been reported as unrepairable.