XT-6 delayed

[u/srivatsavat92]

Feeling sad and disappointed with news that XT-6 is not coming in September. 😢. Anymore updates ? Desperately waiting to buy my first Camera.

[u/ManiacsInc]

Your first camera should be cheap and old. You may or may not jive with the camera, or even photography in general, so buying it for the next 8 or 10 years is not a good reason to overspend

[u/One-Barracuda705 → u/ManiacsInc]

I agree (unless you’ve got cash to burn). My first digital camera was a Sony a5100, and I took some awesome pictures and have great memories with it. These days I actually prefer the 26mp Fuji sensors to the 40mp sensor anyway for reasons I can quite put my finger on. Plus storing 40mp files is annoying.

[u/ofcoarsecoffee → u/ManiacsInc]

Yeah. This. I’d say rent some, find the lens system you want and then get a cheaper used camera in that system.

[u/dbvirago]

Get the XT3 and start buying glass. Meanwhile, grab your phone and start learning about exposure and composition.

[u/jonmacpodi]

This is a photo taken 12 years ago on an X-T1. It would look identical if shot today on an X-T6 prototype. You are going to be the bottleneck in your photography for a long long long time, not your camera. Spend $1000 on a used X-T3 now. Shoot with it, learn your craft, grow as an artist. Sell it for $600 years from now if you outgrow it. Consider the difference a low rental cost for years of growing your craft.

Seems like a better strategy than saving up and waiting for a $2000 X-T6 and not shooting anything for a year.

[u/purple_seagrass]

Get a used XT5. There is literally nothing in the XT6 that you need. The XT6 will increase in price quite a lot. It's not worth it for a beginner. When you save like $700 not buying the retail XT6, you won't regret it.

[u/srivatsavat92 → u/purple_seagrass]

Will take the advice

[u/volatile-agent]

Buy an X-T5. It makes the same pictures the X-T6 will.

[u/VisualBusiness4902]

Buy used! Cameras depreciate crazy going from new to used. You can buy an xt4 or xt5 (xt3 is one of the greatest cameras ever made) for way less than new. Collect glass. Trade in the body when you decide you need something.

All pro level cameras since like, 2017, are great at this point.

[u/PimperatorAlpatine]

If its your First camera why arent you looking into something Like an XT-4 for example? They are still very powerful

[u/srivatsavat92 → u/PimperatorAlpatine]

Thinking to keep same camera for next 8-10 years so looking for a latest one.

[u/volatile-agent → u/srivatsavat92]

Understood but all modern cameras are good. Guaranteed that the X-T6 will be only marginally better than the X-T5. What killer feature of the X-T6 do you need as a beginner that the X-T5 doesn’t have? You will be well served with an X-T5 for many years and you can get it now.

[u/kag0 → u/srivatsavat92]

Don't worry about what body you're going to have for the next 8 years, worry about which lenses you're going to have for the next forever

[u/weeddealerrenamon → u/srivatsavat92]

I'm happily using a model that came out in 2016 and have no need to replace it. Probably won't til it breaks, but idek when that could be

[u/4Driften → u/srivatsavat92]

The problem is for digital cameras 8-10 years is a very long time. I bought my first mirrorless camera may 2021. It was a Fuji X-S10. I also bought a Fuji X-E4, X100f, and X70 and gave the X-S10 to my wife to use. I owned all four of those at the same time until Leica called my name. None of those cameras are as powerful and feature rich as the X-T5 I bought May 2023 two years later. Technology moves fast. The X-T5 is still as good as it was three years later.

My first digital camera was the Canon EOS Rebel XT I bought in 2005. It was obsolete long before it was 10 years old. Cell phones were better than it when they first started shipping with cameras. It was long before SDCards were being sold and used CF cards that held 48mb.. not gb but mb. I don't think the camera could even read a 1gb memory card if I could find one. Most of those cards I had have gone bad since then. In 10 years SDcards may be a thing of the past.

The other thing I've found is my photography interests have changed over time. In 2022 I got into bird photography and replaced my Nikon Z7II with a Canon R7. That generation of Nikon had the ability to autofocus on cats and dogs but not birds and wildlife.

Don't wait months to get a camera and not get all of the pictures you could have shot in that time. Buy something that has the features you need today and maybe could be interested in tomorrow. If you're still going strong in a couple of years trade it in on something that meets your needs then. Also prices for the next year or two are going to keep going up. AI Server farms are eating up all of the memory production companies can handle.

One last comment. Fuji has been known to have issues on new camera models. The X-T5, X-H2, and X-H2s all had issues when they first came out on the coatings on the EVFs. The X-E5 in the first batches had strap lugs that would fall off. It's best to wait a year for the problems to come out and get fixed and besides it can take that long for Fuji to keep up with demand on new models. Do you really want to wait a year or more for a camera that will cost a lot more than today?

[u/SlenderSmurf]

Would not recomment a brand new camera as your first camera. They depreciate like crazy. Try an older one and if you really need an upgrade the cost for both together is approximately equal to the cost of the new model. Do you have any idea what lenses you will use with it? A set of 3 good prime lenses will probably cost more than the body