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Originally Posted by jyl
I played with a Fujifilm XT1 last night at the darkroom, while waiting for my negs to dry. It belonged to the person running the darkroom. She also had a Nikon FM and the two cameras were almost the same size and weight, with a very similar control layout. I really liked the Fujifilm! Two issues: she said that above ISO 800 the images are noisy (not something I'm reading in reviews), and there isn't an obvious focusing aid in the viewfinder (hard to believe I didn't simply miss it)
I also learned that there are third party split-image focusing screens for the Nikon Df, which would address one issue I have with that camera.
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Regarding the two issues, I'm calling BS on both. First, you can configure the XT1 with a few different focusing aids. You can set it up to automatically zoom in (in the viewfinder) when you turn the focusing ring. In addition, you can set that zoomed in view to either have a split image (like the focusing screen in old film SLRs) or "focus peaking" which will show colored highlights and make it obvious when you have sharp focus. As soon as you hit the shutter release half way, it goes back out to normal view. It's very intuitive and faster for manual focus than any traditional DSLR I've used.
Regarding noise above ISO 800, there are better cameras in this regard, but the Fuji is very good. If she was having problems with this, she was either exposing wrong or had something wrong.
FWIW, I have an XT1 and I also have a Nikon D600 and lenses.