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Eric said.... "fit for purpose...and the Fuji has dead spots in its uses, which I never experienced with Nikons."
I agree there are instances where using my Nikons is preferable to my Fujis.
Eric, can you tell us your instances where you find this lack of functionality?
The one that immediately springs to mind is the camera dies, if its turned off and on again too soon. It's a known fault that necessitates taking the battery out and replacing it to resurrect the camera. It has to be the body battery ...which means removing the grip first! Not 21century electronics and a pain. It's happened about 3 times to me.
The camera HAS to be on CL or CH to get a continuous view of a moving subject. Even so it's like a slow motion flicker movie. If I set it on S single shot it still loses the subject due to black out...even with boost on. This means I HAVE to take more exposures than I need to.
It may be I haven't had enough trial and error but I still haven't got the best AFC mode for flying birds. I don't think it refocuses fast enough in AFC. If I shoot a series of exposures of moving critters, there WILL be at least one out of focus image in every sequence.
Add to this the battery life and the not so light package when using long lenses and it means....I don't think the Fuji is an action camera.
I know there are X series wildlife photographers. I just think they could make like easier for themselves with a DSLR.
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Eric