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From my experience with the XT1, it has a number of annoyances but its Achilles heel is the blackout time.
It's hopeless trying to keep track of a moving subject if the subject is large in the frame...if it moves out of shot during this blackout, it takes an age to find it and refocus. It's like working in handcuffs. Yes you can back off the zoom to make tracking easier, but you then have to sectionally enlarge to get the same image size with commensurate loss of quality.
I notice the extra battery grip for the XT2 now has two batteries....no doubt to facilitate the turbo performances that seem to be necessary to help reduce the blackout. Hmm.
It sounds like a step forward from the XT1 but I will need to test it with a battery pack on to see if it can replace a mirror body for wildlife.
Thanks for the report.
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Eric