Reviewers Liked
- Very nicely designed body
- Smooth, silent manual zoom
- Bright optical viewfinder
- Very bright lens, especially for a zoom
- Above average high ISO performance for a compact camera
- Improved dynamic range with EXR
- Sharp photos
- Good video quality
- Retro styling
- Solid build quality
- Much improved menu system over X100
- The kind of camera you grow to like more over time
- Versatile wide-aperture zoom lens
Reviewers Didn't Like
- The white disc problem
- Demosaicing artifacts more common than other cameras
- Slightly soft corners at telephoto
- Anamorphic distortion at wide-angle
- Overly complex electronic options
- Unusual white disc/orb problem makes photos look awkward
- Some "jaggies" in photos
- EXR sensor's most useful features require drop in resolution
- So-so low-light performance
- LCD could be sharper
- Expensive
- RAW shooting speeds are pretty slow
- Continuous AF in lowlight not quite up to par when shooting videos
- LCD could be higher resolution
- A bit too much image processing at higher ISOs
- Below average battery life
- Rear physical button interface is slightly messy
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