Its charming, compact design, excellent autofocus and superb range of lenses make it an ideal everyday camera for most shooting situations, from action to travel photography. Despite being the little brother of the excellent Fujifilm X-T3, the X-T30 packs much of the same power into a smaller body.

Excellent photo and video quality; Fast and reliable autofocus; Impressive burst-shooting power; Great-looking camera that's fun to use; Superb range of prime lenses available

No weather-sealing; No built-in image stabilisation; A couple of handling frustrations

The Fujifilm X-T30 is available for preorder now in 3 distinctive colorways: Silver, Black, and the newly introduced Charcoal Silver which is basically gunmetal. Preorders are scheduled to ship at the end of June and will set you back US sans lens, although photographers new to Fujifilm's X Series...

If you can live with the record limit time or are using an external recorder, you can’t beat this camera for $900. We loved the image from the camera, the added dynamic range from F-Log and its vast and affordable lens selection.

If you have the budget for a mid-range camera, the 26.1-megapixel X-T30 delivers the same image quality as the X-T3 for $600 less. It has excellent handling, fast shooting speeds and autofocus performance nearly on par with Sony's A6400.

The X-T30 is a joy to use, user friendly manual settings. Small size makes it ideal as a travel camera - it's an an excellent camera in all respects, the auto focus has been improved, the joy stick is much better than the controls on the X - T20 - , there is only one niggle, which is the Q button...

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Both are excellent cameras. I'll typically recommend one product over another, but they are so close in capabilities and performance, and different enough in design philosophy, that there's room for two Editors' Choice winners here.

Proven 26MP APS-C image sensor; Quick, accurate autofocus; Up to 30fps Raw capture; EVF and built-in flash; Tilting touch LCD; Tactile controls; 4K video; Wi-Fi

Body isn't weather-sealed; Restricted maximum video clip length; No in-body stabilization; Small capture buffer; Memory card slot limited to UHS-I speed

As we generally find to be the case with Fujifilm offerings, there's a lot to like about the X-T30 and hardly anything to dislike. It's a superb camera that distils many of the best elements of the X-T3 into a smaller, lighter and cheaper camera.

Gorgeous; retro body; Tilting; touch-sensitive screen; 4K video

Single card slot; Limited buffer for action; Irritating Q button placement

Fujifilm has got plenty right here: a tough body, sound AF performance, great image quality straight out of the camera and lovely 4K videos, and all for a very reasonable price. We have some reservations around operation and the electronic viewfinder, but there's far more here to love than to be...

Great build quality; Superb value for money; Plenty of customization options; Excellent 4K video quality; Lovely default JPEG output; Speedy AF system

0.62x EVF magnification; Grip not ideal for larger lenses; Some controls can be fiddly; No sensor-based stabilization; Tripod thread awkwardly placed; No UHS-II support

As soon as the X-T3 was announced we could pretty much guarantee what the specification of the X-T20’s replacement would be. And sure enough, the Fuji X-T30 has the same sensor and processing engine combination.