Fujifilm X-T3 Mirrorless Digital Camera, Silver (Body Only)
$1,766.66
Last updated on May 27, 2024 5:20 am Details
- New 26.1MP X-Trans CMOS 4 sensor with X-Processor 4 image processing engine
- 4K movie recording – internal SD card 4K/60P 4: 2: 0 10bit recording and the first Mirrorless digital camera with APS-C or larger sensor that is capable of 4K/60P 4: 2: 2 10bit HDMI output.
- 2.16M phase detection pixels across entire frame and Low-light phase detection limits has been increased over X-T2 by 2 Stops, from -1EV to -3EV
- 3.69 million dot OLED Color viewfinder with 0.75x magnification and blackout-free burst shooting
- 16 film Simulation modes: including eterna/cinema, B & w adjustment: -9~+9
Specification: Fujifilm X-T3 Mirrorless Digital Camera, Silver (Body Only)
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Norman –
As someone upgrading from an X-T1, the additional and/or upgraded features are absolutely phenomenal. I have been using the Fuji system for 6-7 years now and love it, however the X-T3 blows me away. I would definitely recommend to anyone looking to move up from an X-T1 (or any model lesser – although I can’t really speak to the X-T2) or for anyone looking to try out Fuji.
Fabio R –
Great photo and video quality. The video output was disappointing though, HLG 10-bit is not supported yet so you have no “effective” way of getting 10-bit “out of the box”. Then you also need to do some post processing to get the right color grading. In other words don’t expect to shoot your kids at the park and then watch them in beautiful vivid color on your NVidia Shield, it’s just not designed for that use-case.
Coming from a Panasonic G85, shoot it and watch it seems far easier without any post in between. I don’t always shoot video that is worthy of that much effort, sometimes its just my kids messing around.
If you’re looking for excellent quality for both video and photo’s; and you have the time to do post production this is a fantastic product. I just wish there was a way of shooting high quality usable 10-bit video, that was my main ask of this camera.
Darshit Nayak –
I had just started freelance video production work before buying this beast. To give a little background, I started shooting videos on canon 600d, have used Canon 5d Mark iv on rent for some projects, I’ve helped a company setup their video studio 3 years back and made them buy Panasonic Gh4 as that was the best option available back then in this range and they wanted a 4k camera. Last year, I also got a chance to shoot with a really expensive Sony camera, FS7. That immediately made me a Sony fan and for my personal use I had almost finalized a6500. Just then Fuji announced xt3, I had already heard good reviews of XH1, and because one part of my mind was tired of seeing everyone on YouTube using Sony cameras and the difficulty in getting accurate skin tones sometimes, I watched almost every video available on xt3 on YouTube, and was convinced that this is something special. Followed my heart and bought this along with fujinon 23mm f1.4, best investment of my video production career so far. You can’t go wrong with this.
Not providing tech specs as anyone who has even bothered to look up for Fuji camera for video work already knows a thing or two about it. The only issue people have is regarding trust in the brand considering it’s forte has been just photography in the past. All I can say is I’ve just completed 1 year with xt3, don’t see myself upgrading to anything else anytime soon, and to put things in perspective I bought the body only for 1,17,000/- INR last year, below 1 lakh it is a steal.
Amazon Customer –
I have been a Fuji X system user from many years, since XT1 was launched. This is my so called upgrade from XT1 but I still love the XT1, the colors from XT1 are more to my liking than XT3. But XT3 is super fast, supports two SD Cards and the Fuji X Raw Studio with accurate color reproduction and detail. The XT1 RAW files were always a mess to work with in Lightroom, that was one or the biggest reasons I purchased XT3, the RAW conversation using X Raw Studio is as good as JPEGS out of camera. Unfortunately X Raw Studio doesn’t support files from XT1. If you are a fan of accurate film style colors, and easy and super quick to use dial style settings. Fuji X System is for you.
Bear –
Excellent unit and surpassed my expectations. – There is a definite improvement in colour , slight but it is there and in blowup stands out. Got the 16-80 lens and excellent. The range makes a very good walk around lens and with the lightness, easy to carry. Highly recommend. I have been a Nikon user for over 50 years and was very pleased when Nikon lens can be moved over to the Fijifilm with the adaptor.
Eva –
Thanks Fuji! Made the switch from Nikon and I’m so happy I did.
Akash Agrawal –
DISCLAIMER – I am writing this review after spending a vacation with this camera.
I’ll divide my review into parts or I’ll never be able to make it cohesive enough.
Build Quality:
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The first thing you notice when you take it out of the box is the build quality of the body. It ‘feels’ solid. The top and bottom plate is all metal. The middle of camera is metal wrapped over by a rubbery texture that makes it great to hold.
Then you notice the lens. As someone who’s been using Nikkor DX 35mm 1.8 prime (which is a great lens, tbh), the all metal lens body was a revelation. Yeah, it makes things heavier. But the weight gives it some welcome heft when you handle it. No, Fuji is not the only company that makes metal lenses. But yes, fuji lenses are extremely well made and can go toe to toe with any lens’s build quality out there.
Design
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This is one of the better looking cameras on market. Obviously, the looks are subjective. But I’ve yet to come across a reviewer who had bad things to say about the looks of this camera. The dials are ‘retro-looking’, but actually make things way easier than the mode dials. Again, I am writing from experience. Aperture priority and Shutter priority are easy enough to understand on most cameras. But when you want to control both Aperture and Shutter, while leaving ISO on auto, and when you want to customise ISO too for that one shot, having dedicated dials saves time.
The dials make the entire experience extremely tactile. It ‘makes you wanna shoot’.
Kit Lens
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This is hands down the best kit zoom lens you can get with any camera of any brand. I mean, look it up. Firstly, the lens goes to f2.8 with 18mm. Second, it’s all metal with classy optics. While most kit lenses cost around 10k – 25k standalone, this kit lens costs upwards of 45k most of the times.
And the quality of the pictures matches the build. Many photographers have praised this lens, and it’s easy to see why. There’s little distortion and I didn’t find any color fringing. This lens takes you places. Literally.
That said, I plan to purchase a prime soon. Not because I don’t like my kit lens (I love it) but prime fits my shooting style better. When I’m not lazily trying to zoom at things while sitting in chair, I find that I make better shots. Also, this lens isn’t weather resistant, which is a bit of a downer. But hey, it’s still the best kit lens there is.
Functionality
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X-T3 gives you a lot of customisability. The ‘Q’ button gives you a bunch of quick settings. And you can customise the placement of each of these settings and even swap them out for other things you might find more useful. For even quicker changes, there are dedicated function buttons as well as touch screen gestures, all of which are customisable. I feel customisation is one of those things that differentiate a workhorse from a beginner camera. You can adjust things to make your workflow easier.
Having two memory card slots is awesome. I use one for raws and other for jpegs. That way, I have my raws to process, but if something goes south with my primary card, I still have my backups for jpegs. Thankfully, when I delete a raw, the camera also lets me delete its corresponding jpeg from card 2 automatically (you can turn this off) so both my cards are consistent with each other.
One of the not-so-good things here is placement of playback and delete buttons. Everything is on right side, but these two buttons are all the way on top left corner, making it extremely hard to access. Plus I end up triggering the EVF sensor every time I do that. Thankfully, I was able to assign one of the function buttons to playback, so I don’t have to live with Fuji’s questionable choices.
Screens
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Yep, this camera has two. If this is your first mirrorless (as it was for me), know that there is no optical view finder (that little lens on top of camera you use to see things). Instead, it’s a small, extremely high resolution OLED screen. That means everything you can do from main touch screen, you can do in EVF. Changing settings, jumping through menus etc. It also means camera shows you how your photos are gonna look. So if you apply a film simulation (like B/W Acros), the live view in EVF reflects that.
The touch screen in this camera is usable, although I find myself never using the touch screen features. I sometimes use joystick to select focus, but mostly keep the focus in center and just lock and recompose.
Battery
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There’s no two ways about this. The battery is not very good on this camera. I mean, it’s not abysmal. It got me two days of outdoors with on and off shooting in performance mode, with me turning off my camera when there were long pauses between shots. So if you’re thinking of shooting your next vacation with it, no, it won’t fail you in middle of day.
That said, the battery is no where near my old Nikon D5300. This is mostly because of that high res EVF that I primarily use. Expect to charge the battery overnight or every two nights when you’re shooting and you should be fine. They supply a wall charger too, although the camera lets you charge battery in-body using a USB-C cable.
Accessories
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I got a 16 gb SD card. Put it in slot two as my JPEG backup. Had to purchase a 64 gb high speed card for slot 1 for raws. The raw files of this camera are consistently over 50 mb, so the space fills quickly.
They also gave me a camera bag. It has room enough for everything in box, plus one extra lens when/if you buy one. That said, the bag is not good at all. The top flap doesn’t have a chain and is closed only through a hook. The belt on this hook loosens every time you life the bag using top handle. The strap is also not long enough, making me wear this camera pretty awkwardly around my body.
I plan to switch this bag out soon too.
Final thoughts
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Do you need a 1 lac+ camera to make good photos? No. Great photographers can take better photos on an instax than I can take on my X-T3. However, I’d argue that if you have the money to spend, and find a camera (doesn’t have to be this) that ignites your passion and makes you wanna go out and experiment, shoot and enjoy photography, then by all means, get one. You certainly won’t regret the purchase.
As always, before buying this camera, do some research. I love this, but it may not be the right one for your needs. Look at Sony’s alpha series, Canon’s R series and Nikon’s Z series. Most importantly, look at the lens selections. When you buy a camera, you’re buying into a system. You are not gonna use canon lenses on fuji, so make sure which ever system you wanna get into, has the lenses you need. That said, Fuji has a very good lens selection. The best part is that they don’t have any full frame cameras (at all). So they focus pretty hard on their APS-C lens lineup, which has already made it one of the best out there.
Go shoot!
Dipesh –
It’s a great camera but I got a defective body. The infamous F=0 problem was there. I would recommend everyone to get it from a authorised store if you are getting an older model like xt3 2 or 1. As the seller is trying to clear his left out stocks in which most of the body might have the same problem. I was lucky to return it on time. If you are getting the latest XT4, you are safe to buy it online as those are large in numbers. So getting a defective body is highly unlikely.
Nailia P. –
Received the XT-3 about 10 minutes ago was super excited the camera looks amazing BUT there is a spot inside of the glass of the lens. Due to the cost, I requested an exchange & hope all will go well.
Vizou –
This is my first mirrorless camera and even though I’ve had it less than a week, I am blown away. I am a professional designer, musician and visual artist, and I used it for heavy filming in a 3-camera setup for two days following the day I received it (even though I didn’t yet understand all of the settings!) and am very pleased with the results (I filmed 17 videos in two days and edited them all into a 30 min concert in Final Cut Pro X on the third day). The amount of settings/options is a bit overwhelming for a newbie, but there are a LOT of YouTube videos from seasoned pros available specifically for this camera model (XT3) so if you’re new to it, just plan to spend some time watching videos. I opted for the XT3 over the XT4 for two key reasons – 1) I needed to be able to remove the door that covers the USB-C port and mic/headphone jacks as I often shoot from a fixed location and have external audio hooked up; the XT4 does not have the headphone jack, only the USB-C which I needed to supplement the battery; 2) I decided I could live with the OIS (stabilization) only being on the lens rather than the camera body. There is not a lot of difference between these two models otherwise.
The seller shipped quickly and it actually arrived earlier than stated, however, my package was missing the North American adapter plug for the charger (which is really cheapy). It included the European one which doesn’t help, but I had my own adapters that let me use it anyway. This wasn’t the seller’s fault – the package was shrink-wrapped by Fujifilm so they didn’t know anything was missing.
PROS
– The “physical/analog” settings/dials on the top of the camera so you don’t have to menu-dive all the time.
– Solid, high-quality build and feel.
– Amazing support from Fujifilm Canada in Ontario when I had a question (immediate email response after submitting a contact form on the website).
– Gorgeous colour and plentiful options for auto or manual use in every mode; an excellent hybrid without needing two cameras to do my work.
– Excellent programmable function keys.
– Lots of not-too-expensive lenses available (when compared to some other brands)
CONS
– Battery life not amazing (but I am using a USB-C charger along with the in-camera battery to supplement when shooting in fixed location); expensive OEM batteries.
– Tilt rather than flip-out screen (the XT4 has flip-out) which might be less practical for vloggers, but you could add a small mirror attachment on top (15$) or use a small monitor if you really needed this. I think the flip-out is also at risk of being broken off – the tilt on this one detaches on the left side, too, so it can be viewed from the side. Not a deal breaker for me.
– For people with large hands and not accustomed to a modern, smaller 35mm, this size camera can make you feel a bit clumsy. I added a SmallRig L-bracket with wooden handle to allow me a better grip and the ability to add mic and other items if I like. It helps keep me from accidentally bumping the many dials and buttons.
Gibson59 –
Just a beautifully designed camera that exudes class and quality. It’s pretty much the perfect camera but I ultimately returned it because I need IBIS. I already own the X-H1 that has the built in stabilization and I was looking for a more compact solution but the photo quality was no better than the X-H1 and so it was not a good fit for me.
Jorge Pedbra –
Ya ha pasado un buen rato de que la compré y estoy muy satisfecho, es una cámara híbrida que toma muy buenas fotos y excelente video; la resolución de las fotografías me ha funcionado bien tanto para fotografía de paisajes como para productos en set, y los códecs/posibilidades de video sobrepasan mis necesidades.
Al principio pensé que las Fuji tenían un proceso de revelado digital raro, porque las fotos al momento de editarlas se veían… Peludas. Pero resultó que la forma en la que Adobe interpreta el formato Fuji no es el indicado para un buen flujo de trabajo, entonces si estás leyendo esto busca un programa que se llama Capture One que interpreta las fotos Fuji sin ningún problema.
RonDel –
There is not enough good things to say about this camera. Its simply a beast. Every review, every youtube video I watched led me to get this camera. I was stuck between the Sony A73 and the XT-3. I chose the XT3.
The video features of this camera are exceptional. the 4k abilites shouldnt be on a camera this price. i do freelance video on the side and this camera can do everything my client asks.
The Fuji colour profiles are incredible, the image straight out of the camera is stunning, no need for post-production edit on alot of photos.
I wont list all the features, i encourage you to lookup a ton of youtube reviews. for the price, there is no comparison. This will be my main camera for many many years. Not to mention, Fuji has some of the best glass on the market.
lastly, the looks of this camera. Wow. So retro. I get stopped all the time by peopel who are stunned by it.
Get this camera, you wont be disappointed.