Fuji X-S10
26 MP, 20 FPS IBIS APS-C stills, 4K/30 video
Specifications Performance Compared
Fujifilm X-S10 (X-mount APS-C, 16.4 oz./465g with battery and SD card, $999) and old (non-R) XF 27mm f/2.8. bigger. I'd get mine at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay. It comes as a body-only, as a body with 18-55mm f/2.8~4 or body with XF 16-80mm f/4.
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Fujifilm X-S10 and old (non-R) XF 27mm f/2.8. bigger.
Fujifilm X-S10. bigger.
Sample Images top
Specifications Performance Compared
(more at High ISOs)
These are just snapshots; my real work is in my Gallery.
These are all shot hand-held as NORMAL JPGs; no tripods, FINE JPGs or RAW files were used or needed. (the X-S10 can shoot raw files if you want them).
Bighorn Sheep, 1:43 PM, 21 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 70-300mm R OIS WR at 127mm wide-open at f/5 at 1/550 at Auto ISO 320, +0.7 stops exposure compensation, (LV 12.0), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5 (mostly Ritchie Roesche's "Ken Rockwell" setting), exactly as shot. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Cactus, 1:46 PM, 21 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 70-300mm R OIS WR at 300mm wide-open at f/5.6 at 1/850 at Auto ISO 320, +0.7 stops exposure compensation, (LV 13.1), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5 (mostly Ritchie Roesche's "Ken Rockwell" setting), Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Palms and Flowers, 9:44 AM, 22 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 70-300mm R OIS WR at 94mm at f/11 at 1/280 at Auto ISO 320 (LV 13.4), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5 (mostly Ritchie Roesche's "Ken Rockwell" setting), exactly as shot. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Orange Flowers, 9:46 AM, 22 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 70-300mm R OIS WR at 300mm at f/8 at 1/1,100 at Auto ISO 320 (LV 14.5), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5 (mostly Ritchie Roesche's "Ken Rockwell" setting), Perfectly Clear. bigger, full resolution or camera-original © JPG file.
Costco, 2:36 PM, 18 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 10-24mm R OIS WR at 24mm at f/16 at 1/180 at Auto ISO 320 (LV 13.9), 200% Auto Dynamic Range, Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Lenticular Cloud, 7:37 PM, 20 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 10-24mm R OIS WR at 20mm at f/11 at 1/38 at Auto ISO 320, +0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 10.5), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5 (mostly Ritchie Roesche's "Ken Rockwell" setting), Perfectly Clear, more saturation added in Photoshop CS6. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Outdoor Patio Heaters, 8:20 PM, 22 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 27mm f/2.8 at f/2.8 at ¼ of a second hand-held at Auto ISO 320 (LV 3⅓), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5 (mostly Ritchie Roesche's "Ken Rockwell" setting), Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
In-camera stabilization makes it pretty easy getting perfectly sharp results like these hand-held at a ¼ of a second.
Old Town, 8:42 PM, 22 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 27mm f/2.8 at f/2.8 at 1/8 of a second hand-held at Auto ISO 640, +0.7 stops exposure compensation, (LV 3⅓), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4. SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5 (mostly Ritchie Roesche's "Ken Rockwell" setting), Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Some Kind of Agave, 8:51 AM, 26 May 2021. Fuji X-S10 in square crop mode, XF 27mm R WR at f/16 hand-held at 1/13 at Auto ISO 320, +0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 10.1), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5, Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Pool, 10:43 AM, 26 May 2021. Fuji X-S10, XF 27mm R WR at f/8 at 1/900 at Auto ISO 320 (LV 14.2), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5, Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Orange Granite, 6:54 PM, 27 May 2021. Fuji X-S10 in square crop mode, XF 27mm R WR at f/8 at 1/70 at Auto ISO 320, -0.7 stops exposure compensation to keep the reds from saturating (LV 10.5), "Velvia" film simulation, COLOR CHROME EFFECT STRONG, COLOR CHROME FX BLUE STRONG, AUTO White Balance with +1 Red and -1 Blue, 200% Dynamic Range, TONE CURVE: Highlights -1, Shadows -1, COLOR +4, SHARPNESS +4, HIGH ISO NR -5, CLARITY +5, Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Introduction top
Specifications Performance Compared
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Fujifilm is unique in offering many very different cameras varying greatly in what sorts of controls they have — or not. Unlike Sony, Canon and Nikon, all of whose cameras are pretty much the same within each brand except for minor differences in features, Fuji cameras vary wildly amongst themselves in terms of their most basic and critical controls. If you choose well you can get a Fuji camera that has more dedicated controls than anything from the other brands, or you can choose this X‑S10 that shamelessly deletes the MF / AF-C / AF-S switch so you have to go into menus to set this. It's like having a car without a gearshift lever that expects us to stop and look in a menu to shift it between basic modes while we're trying to drive.
Also different about the X-S10 is a lack of a shutter-speed dial which is replaced by a mode dial. Most Fujis have a shutter dial, and the sort of educated photographers who choose Fuji know that setting the shutter dial to A gets automated control of shutter speed for PROGRAM or APERTURE-PREFERRED modes. The X‑S10's unmarked top rear dial does the same things as the shutter dial, just not always as quickly, but inexperienced photographers may find it easier to understand.
What's usually the exposure compensation dial on other Fuji Cameras is now unmarked. It usually works as a compensation control, except in manual exposure mode, in which it becomes the missing shutter speed dial. Clever, and it's so clever you never have to think about it; the rear dial just does what you expect it to do in each mode.
The X-S10 has sad electronic processing which makes the live finder image soft enough that I never really trust if it's in focus as I'm shooting. The recorded images are sharp and the playback images are sharp in the finder, but the live view images are too soft as you're shooting.
I prefer the older X-T30 for about the same price because it has a focus mode control sorely lacking on the X-S10, however if some particular feature stands out for you more on on the newer X-S10 (like in-camera stabilization), go for it. This is what's great about Fuji; they probably make a camera just as you want it.
I'd get my X-S10 at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay. It comes as a body-only, as a body with 18-55mm f/2.8~4 or body with XF 16-80mm f/4.
New intro top
In-camera Image Stabilization.
No Focus Mode (MF / AF-C / AF-S) lever, but
New, unmarked Function dial on top left can be set to your choice of over four pages of things, including ISO, Focus Mode, AF Mode, White Balance and much more.
4K & 4K DCI video options.
Rated to work as cold as -10º C (14º F); most cameras, Fuji or not, are only rated to 0º C (32º F).
Good intro top
Built-in flash.
Same image look, feel, quality and High ISO performance as every other 26MP Fuji camera.
Plenty of dials - but they're not dedicated and marked like these on most other Fuji cameras.
New, unmarked Function dial on top left can be set to your choice of over four pages of things, including ISO, Focus Mode, AF Mode, White Balance and much more.
In-finder data displays rotate with the camera.
Good power control; you can just leave it on and it sleeps and wakes as needed by magic.
Electronic shutter goes to 1/32,000.
Timed manual exposures set directly as long as 15 minutes.
It has a real hinged & spring-loaded connector door, not a crummy rubber flap for which many more expensive cameras settle.
Bad intro top
Soft live finder image means you never know if you're really in focus. (Finder playback sharpness is fine).
No AF mode (MF / AF-C / AF-S) lever, and
No rear White Balance, ISO or etc. buttons; they've been put into "swipe functions," but the new, unmarked Function dial on the top left can be set to your choice of over four pages of things, including ISO, Focus Mode, AF Mode, White Balance and much more.
Awful menu system.
Hard to get to the SD card because it's so close to the card door hinge.
Offshored to China; not made domestically in Japan.
Missing intro top
No Focus Mode lever.
No ISO dial.
No rear WB, ISO, etc. buttons; they've been put into "swipe functions."
Not threaded to use a standard threaded cable release.
Menus don't rotate when held vertically (but live shooting data does).
No automatic brightness control for rear LCD.
No 4:3 or 4:5 "Ideal Format" crops.
No ability to save and recall camera settings to and from a card.
No illuminated buttons.
No second card slot.
No GPS.
No always-responsive instant manual-focus override.
Specifications top
Specifications Performance Compared
I'd get my X-S10 at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay. It comes as a body-only, as a body with 18-55mm f/2.8~4 or body with XF 16-80mm f/4.
Lens Compatibility specifications top
Fujifilm X-S10. bigger.
The X-S10 only works with Fuji X-mount APS-C lenses.
Image Sensor specifications top
26 MP.
6,240 x 4,160 pixels native (25,958,400 pixels).
15.6 x 23.5mm CMOS BSI "X-TRANS."
ISO specifications top
ISO 160 ～ 12,800.
Also ISO 80 (L), 100 (L), 125 (L), 25,600 (H) and 51,200 (H).
Auto ISO.
Still Formats specifications top
JPG and/or 14-bit raw.
Uncompressed, lossy or losslessly compressed raw.
Video specifications top
Up to 4K DCI at 29.97p.
1,080 at up to 239.76p.
Longest take: 30 minutes.
Autofocus specifications top
425 phase-detection sensors.
Finder specifications top
0.5" OLED.
2,360,000 dots.
0.62× magnification.
+4 ~ -2 diopters.
17.5 mm eyepoint.
Shutter specifications top
Mechanical Shutter
1/4,000 ～ 15 minutes in Manual mode.
To 60 minutes in Bulb.
Only to 30 seconds in Aperture- and Shutter-priority modes.
Only to 4 seconds in Program mode.
1/180 flash sync speed.
Silent Electronic Shutter
1/32,000 ～ 15 minutes in Manual mode.
Only to 30 seconds in Aperture- and Shutter-priority modes.
Only to 4 seconds in Program mode.
Remote Releases specifications top
Beat me; try an app.
Frame Rates specifications top
To 8 FPS with mechanical shutter.
To 20 FPS with electronic shutter.
To 30 FPS at a lower 1.25x cropped resolution with electronic shutter.
Flash specifications top
Built-in pop-up flash:
Flash popped-up on Fujifilm X-S10 with old (non-R) XF 27mm f/2.8. bigger.
1/180 sync speed.
LCD Monitor specifications top
Fujifilm X-S10 LCD. bigger.
3" diagonal.
1,040,000 dots.
Flips out 180º as shown and then tilts up 180º (for self-portraits) or down 90º for shooting held over your head.
Connectors specifications top
Fujifilm X-S10. bigger.
3.5mm Mic connector.
USB-C 3.2 Gen 1.
Micro-D HDMI.
USB-C to 3.5mm headphone adapter included (but not shown).
Wi-Fi specifications top
Yes.
Bluetooth specifications top
Yes.
GPS specifications top
Nope.
Storage specifications top
One SD (up to 2GB), SDHC (up to 32GB) and SDXC (up to 512GB) cards.
Operating Environment specifications top
-10º ～ 40º C (14º ～ 104º F).
10 to 85% RH.
Quality specifications top
Fujifilm X-S10. bigger.
Made in China.
Power & Battery specifications top
Battery
Rated 325 shots:
NP-W126S Li-Ion battery. Same as used in the X-E3, X-T30, X-T3, X-100F and X-T2; it's a newer version of the NP-W126 used in the X-Pro1 and X-E1.
7.2V, 1,260 mAh.
1.4 × 1.9 × 0.6 inches.
36.4 × 47.1 × 15.7 millimeters.
Rated 1.7 oz. (47g).
Charging
Charges via USB-C or optional Fuji BC-W126 Charger.
Size specifications top
3.35 × 4.96 × 2.57 inches HWD.
85.1 × 126 × 65.4 millimeters HWD.
Weight specifications top
16.4 oz. (465g) with battery and SD card.
14.6 oz. (415g) stripped.
Packaged weight: 41.6 oz. / 2.6 pounds / 896g.
Included specifications top
X-S10, body cap and strap.
Maybe an 18-55mm or 16-80mm lens if part of a kit.
Fuji NP-W126S battery.
USB cable.
USB-C to 3.5mm headphone adapter.
Announced specifications top
10 AM, Thursday, 15 October 2020, NYC time.
Price, U. S. A. specifications top
May 2021
Body-only: $999.
Body with 18-55mm f/2.8~4: $1,399.
Body with XF 16-80mm f/4: $1,499.
Performance top
Specifications Performance Compared
Overall Autofocus Manual Focus
Auto ISO Ergonomics Finder High ISOs
Lens Corrections Mechanics Stabilization
I'd get my X-S10 at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay. It comes as a body-only, as a body with 18-55mm f/2.8~4 or body with XF 16-80mm f/4.
Overall performance top
The X-S10's technical image quality is the same as Fuji's best cameras, but the lack of an external focus mode control drives me crazy.
Autofocus performance top
Autofocus is the usual from Fuji.
Not having an external Manual / Continuous / Single focus mode switch makes this camera very difficult for me to shoot.
Manual Focus performance top
Manual focus is poor because you have to fiddle in menus just to find it!
Fuji lenses don't have AF/MF switches because every camera in the Fuji system used to have a focus mode lever right on the body where it belongs, but now that this camera has had that amputated, you're dead in the water unless you revert to menus.
Auto ISO performance top
Auto ISO is the usual from Fuji.
Ergonomics performance top
What's good are:
It has a real hinged & spring-loaded connector door, not a crummy rubber flap for which many more expensive cameras settle.
Plenty of dials.
Otherwise, ergonomics don't win any prizes.. Not only is the menu system abysmal, the lack of some critical controls makes this a slower camera to shoot:
No AF mode (MF / AF-C / AF-S) lever, but the new, unmarked Function dial on top left can be set to your choice of over four pages of things, including ISO, Focus Mode, AF Mode, White Balance and much more.
The shutter button feels weird. I have to press mine down harder than I expect just to wake the camera into its "half pressed" mode.
The power switch feels weird and doesn't move as easily as I'd expect. This seems trivial, but it's not when you think you've turned-on the X-S10 and miss a shot from it still being off!
Fuji removed most of the rear direct-control buttons (WB, etc.) and replaced them with maddening touchscreen swipes. Here's how to use them.
Typical for many digital cameras, ISOs at normal speeds (where these ISOs pretty much look alike) are set in third-stops, but at the highest end where they look very different from each other, they only set in full stops.
The rear dial turns the wrong way when setting ISOs in the menus.
No spring-loading on the battery/card door latch; you have to slide the tiny lock home manually when you close the battery/card door otherwise it springs back open.
Finder performance top
The finder optics are basic and not that sharp as focussed, but the real problem is that the DSP used to process the live view images lacks sharpness so the live image is soft.
This means we can't tell if we're really in focus of not until we play it back, which is sharp.
Good news is that the shooting data rotates when held vertically, even if the menus don't.
High ISO Performance performance top
Complete Images details dark detail performance top
High ISO performance is about the same as the other 26MP Fuji cameras, which is pretty good.
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files:
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (26 MP or about 9 MB each).
600 × 450 Pixel Crops (10× magnification) High ISOs details dark detail performance top
What we see at the high magnifications below is that fine details go away as the ISO increases. This happens with all cameras and our own eyes and is an artifact of the noise reduction working harder as the ISO increases.
The most detail is at ISO 80 (L) and becomes softer at every higher ISO. This is normal and how noise reduction works in every camera.
ISO 80, 100 (and 125) are "pull" ISOs, and thus have more highlight contrast. This usually increases perceived highlight detail, and can lead to clipped highlights if you have too much subject contrast, as in the case of the window reflection in the glass of the clock face.
By ISO 1,600 most of the detailed scrollwork between the clock numbers is gone.
At ISO 51,200 the minute marks are mostly gone
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files:
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (26 MP or about 9 MB each).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same high magnification would be about 21 × 31" (1.7 × 2.6 feet or 50 × 80 cm).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 42 × 62" (3.5 × 5.2 feet or 1.05 × 1.6 meters).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insane magnification would be about 83 × 125" (6.9 × 10.4 feet or 2.1 × 3.2 meters).
Dark-Area 600 × 450 Pixel Crops (10× magnification) High ISOs details dark detail performance top
Here are different crops from the same images as above, now showing the dark grillwork of the fireplace.
The most detail in the fine screen is at ISO 80 (L).
The screen is gone by ISO 3,200.
The bricks behind the grill go away by ISO 12,800.
At ISO 51,200 (H) you can only barely see the iron bars!
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files::
Click any for the camera-original © JPG files (26 MP or about 9 MB each).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same high magnification would be about 21 × 31" (1.7 × 2.6 feet or 50 × 80 cm).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 42 × 62" (3.5 × 5.2 feet or 1.05 × 1.6 meters).
If these 600 × 450 pixel crops are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insane magnification would be about 83 × 125" (6.9 × 10.4 feet or 2.1 × 3.2 meters).
Lens Corrections performance top
There's Fuji's usual "Lens Modulation Optimizer."
Its only options are ON (default) or OFF.
Mechanical Quality performance top
Fujifilm X-S10. bigger.
Metal
Strap lugs, top cover, mode dial fascia, hot shoe, top rear dial, lens mount, door pivot shafts, front half of bottom cover, tripod socket.
Plastic
Pop-up flash housing, front dial, mode dial substrate, power switch, shutter button, doors, smaller buttons, LCD cover, LCD frame, rear cover, rear half of bottom cover.
Serial Number
Fujifilm X-S10. bigger.
Sticker stuck on body behind the LCD, which is actually OK because you're not going to wear it off hidden back there.
Made in
Made in China.
Image Stabilization performance top
The X-S10 has built-in sensor-shift Image Stabilization (IS, VR (Vibration Reduction) or Steady Shot).
At least with the "perfect-normal" focal length of the original XF 27mm f/2.8 (non-R, non-IS) lens I get a real-world improvement of five stops. I get 100% tripod-equivalent sharpness handheld 86% of the time at a quarter of a second!
"Percent Perfectly Sharp Shots" are the percentage of frames with 100% perfect tripod-equivalent sharpness I get when I'm shooting hand-held while free-standing with no support or bracing. This is a very strict test; in actual shooting at typical print sizes I get acceptable sharpness at much slower speeds, but for the purposes of seeing how much improvement an IS system gives, this is the most precise method.
Hand tremor is a random occurrence, so at marginal speeds some frames will be perfectly sharp while others will be in various stages of blur — all at the same shutter speed. This rates what percentage of shots are perfectly sharp, not how sharp are all the frames:
With XF 27mm f/2.8R WR (non-IS):
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots | 1 |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
0 |
0 |
83 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
17 |
50 |
100 |
100 |
The X-S10's internal stabilization adds about a 3½-stop real-word improvement, which is really good!
With XF 27mm f/2.8 R (non-WR, non-IS):
| % Perfectly Sharp Shots | 2s |
1 |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/8 |
1/15 |
1/30 |
1/60 |
1/125 |
1/250 |
| Stabilization ON | 0 |
8 |
8 |
86 |
86 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| Stabilization OFF | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
20 |
33 |
50 |
83 |
100 |
I see a 5 stop real-world improvement, which is impressive!
Playback performance top
Scrolling is too slow as you try to skoot around inside a zoomed image with the thumb nubbin.
Otherwise, it's the same as other Fuji cameras.
Data performance top
Formatted cards are titled as "Untitled," so it's tough to figure out which card is which when you shoot more than one camera as I do.
They should be titled as "FUJIXS10," but noooo!
Power & Battery performance top
Charge via USB-C from any 5V source; no Power Delivery (PD) charger needed.
A green LED at the top right rear lights while charging, and turns off when done.
The X-S10 draws a 35mA trickle even when done charging.
Compared top
Specifications Performance Compared
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User's Guide top
Specifications Performance Compared
I'd get my X-S10 at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay. It comes as a body-only, as a body with 18-55mm f/2.8~4 or body with XF 16-80mm f/4.
See also Fuji's X-S10 manual.
Touch Screen Settings
Strap and Clips user's guide top
Forget Fujifilm's cockamamie split rings and oddball tools you need to attach them.
I use LEICA's brilliant original 14312 strap (the same one included with their immortal $8,000 cameras) which attaches immediately without needing any tools and doesn't need any guards or fiddling to avoid damaging your finish.
LEICA's strap is also ultra-comfortable and just the right weight for this lightweight camera.
Charging user's guide top
Just plug it into any USB port with any random USB-C cable.
A green LED on the back means it's charging. It goes out when done.
Card & Battery Door user's guide top
The card and battery door lacks a spring catch, so you have to remember to lock the catch manually any time you want the door to stay closed.
Menus user's guide top
It's a bear trudging through all the menus, sorry.
You can't hit MENU again to get out of the menus to shoot, press the shutter or hit the BACK (not MENU) button.
MENU always starts back at the top, unless you have a MY MENU set at MENU > WRENCH > USER > MY MENU > ADD.
Programming Fn Buttons & Touch Swipes user's guide top
You can set this in the menus the hard way, or just hold DISP/BACK a few seconds, and BINGO!, you'll be right where you can set them all!
Autofocus user's guide top
There is no AF-S/AF-C/MF switch on the front of the camera or on your lens; you have to resort to the menus. Sry.
The best settings to try for sports and action AF tracking are AF-C with wide/tracking. Also try AFC custom settings for speed, and try a faster-focussing lens: the 18-55mm is good, the 15-45mm isn't as good.
The nubbin can't select AF areas in the WIDE/TRACKING mode. You have to manually go into a more restricted AF-area mode to be able to select areas.
Flash user's guide top
The pop-up lever for the built-in flash is on the top left of the camera, on the left outside the top left dial.
Slow sync and rear-curtain modes are set at MENU > FLASH BOLT ICON > FLASH FUNCTION SETTING > SYNC.
Flash exposure compensation is also set there.
If you have flicker reduction or the silent electronic shutter activated (or possibly in other modes as well), the flash simply won't turn on. and the camera won't tell you why. Sorry; it simply expects you to guess what you need to deactivate so flash can work.
CLARITY Setting user's guide top
The CLARITY setting (MENU > I. Q. > PAGE 2/3 > CLARITY) adds or removes "snap" or contrast without affecting shadow and highlight levels.
The CLARITY setting is an old trick, which is a small amount (like 10%) of an unsharp mask with a huge radius (like 500 pixels).
Because of the huge convolutional kernel, the X-S10's processor needs to look at and perform matrix multiplication on about a million pixels for each and every individual output pixel in the final image.
If this math sounds complicated, it is, and because of that it takes about 2 seconds of processing time for each frame, during which the camera locks-up and shows | STORING | the whole time.
If you need to shoot fast, be sure to set CLARITY to 0.
Advance Modes user's guide top
You cannot set a continuous advance mode if you have CLARITY set to anything other than 0. This is because it takes about two seconds for each image made with a non-zero CLARITY setting to process, so the X-S10 locks out the continuous modes — but won't tell you why the continuous modes are locked-out!
You also can't get the continuous modes with flash.
Good luck.
Level user's guide top
There are two levels of levels.
You usually can get a crappy one-axis level simply by tapping the DISP/BACK button a few times once you've activated the level at MENU > SET UP > SCREEN SET UP > page 3/3 > DISP. CUSTOM SETTINGS > ELECTRONIC LEVEL (check the box).
This basic level isn't very precise, and it will show GREEN OK even if you're not quite level.
The good 2-axis level is even more deeply hidden. To see it, you have to assign it to a control button or a Touch Function by holding the DISP/BACK button a few seconds, which gets you to a screen at which you can assign functions to Touch Functions or real buttons. Once you've assigned ELECTRONIC LEVEL to a button or swipe, tap it or swipe it to see the good level.
Hint: to get Touch Functions to work, of course watch that video, and specifically for the X-E4 you have to set MENU > SET UP > BUTTON/DIAL SETTING (not Screen Setup) > page 2/2 > TOUCH SCREEN SETTING > TOUCH SCREEN SETTING > ON and TOUCH FUNCTION > ON.
Live Color RGB Histograms as you shoot user's guide top
You can see live color RGB histograms before you press the shutter (something neither Sony nor Nikon can do except in playback when it's too late), but you have to activate this by programing an Fn button to call-up the color histogram.
You set this by holding DISP/BACK a few seconds (or the hard way at MENU > WRENCH > BUTTON/DIAL SETTING > FUNCTION (Fn) SETTING), and then programming a function button (or touch-screen swipe) of your choice to HISTOGRAM.
Now press that button to show the color histogram as you shoot.
Warm/Cool Tone B&W Images user's guide top
This lets your as-shot B&W images be toned warmer or cooler, instead of just being neutral gray.
First choose a B&W option in the Film Simulation menus: MENU > I.Q. > FILM SIMULATION > and choose any of the many B&W options.
Now choose how warm or cool you'd like them at MENU > I.Q. > B&W ADJUST WARM/COOL.
Image Review (showing the just-shot image) user's guide top
Turn this on at MENU > WRENCH > SCREEN SET-UP > IMAGE DISP. > choose display time, or CONT leaves the just-shot image up until you press another button.
IMAGE DISP only works in the finder with Eye Control ON, otherwise it only shows on the rear LCD.
Battery Percentage Readout user's guide top
There is a percentage indication, but it is very well hidden.
The only way to see it is only on the rear LCD, only when the camera is ready to shoot (not on playback and not in menus), and only in the one data screen that comes up as you press DISP BACK to change the screen functions.
If you can get the percentage to display, it will be in the top right of that screen.
Recommendations top
Specifications Performance Compared
I'd get my X-S10 at Adorama, at Amazon, at B&H, or used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay. It comes as a body-only, as a body with 18-55mm f/2.8~4 or body with XF 16-80mm f/4.
The X-S10 is for people who value in-camera stabilization more than I value having an AF Mode switch. I don't find in-camera stabilization very important as my lenses are optically stabilized — but I really need to change focus modes immediately with a lever, so I prefer my X-T30 — but that's just me.
Fuji's unique color rendition is wonderful for people photos. I much prefer the colors I get from my Nikons and Canons (and even Sony) for everything else I shoot; but again that's just my taste shooting JPGs and using in-camera controls. I'm not impressed by Fuji's film simulation modes; I need more than just simulations.
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