The Fujifilm X-M5 is the smallest and lightest interchangeable-lens camera Fujifilm makes. It weighs about 355 grams with battery and card, launched in October 2024 at $799 for the body, and puts a film simulation dial right on top. It’s Fuji’s answer to Sony’s ZV-E10 II, aimed squarely at creators and first-time camera buyers who want the Fuji look.

It’s a funny little camera. Very capable in some ways, very stripped-down in others.

Most Fujifilm cameras are built around dials and nostalgia. The Fujifilm X-S20 isn’t. It has a normal mode dial, a deep grip and a flip-out screen. It’s Fuji’s camera for people who want Fuji color and Fuji lenses without the retro controls, and who shoot as much video as stills.

Released in mid-2023 at $1,299 for the body, it upgraded the popular X-S10 in the places that mattered: a much bigger battery, the newer X-Processor 5, better autofocus and a serious jump in video.

The Fujifilm X-T5 is a camera for people who like holding a camera. Shutter speed dial on top. ISO dial on top. Exposure compensation dial on top. You can set everything before you turn it on, and you can read your settings at a glance with the camera switched off. Fuji went back to that classic layout with the X-T5 after the X-T4 drifted toward video, and photographers noticed.

It came out in late 2022 and has been one of Fujifilm’s best sellers since. A successor, the X-T6, has been the subject of rumors through 2026. Until it lands in shops in numbers, the X-T5 remains the photographer’s X-mount camera to buy.

The Fujifilm X-T50 takes the best part of the X-T5, its 40.2MP X-Trans CMOS 5 HR sensor, and puts it in a smaller, lighter, cheaper body. Fuji launched it in May 2024 at $1,399 for the body, and it weighs about 438 grams with battery and card. It also swaps the ISO dial for something new: a dedicated film simulation dial on top.

That dial tells you who it’s for. People who want to pick a look and shoot, and who care more about the feel of their photos than chasing specs.

No camera of the last five years had a launch quite like the Fujifilm X100VI. Announced in February 2024, it sold out almost everywhere and stayed hard to find for months. Social media did most of the marketing. People who had never owned a “real” camera wanted this one.

It’s easy to be cynical about that. Don’t be. Under the hype is a very good camera.

The X100VI is a fixed-lens compact with a 23mm f/2 lens, which gives the field of view of a 35mm lens on full frame. Classic street and travel framing. The body is the same small, retro shape the X100 line has used since 2011. What changed is inside: the 40.2MP X-Trans 5 HR sensor from the X-T5, and in-body image stabilization for the first time in an X100.

Every system needs a great “normal” lens, the one that sees roughly the way your eyes do. On Fujifilm X-mount that lens is the Fujifilm XF 33mm F1.4 R LM WR. On an APS-C body it gives the field of view of a 50mm lens on full frame. Fuji launched it in 2021, and it has been one of the most recommended X-mount lenses ever since.

For years the go-to Fuji normal lens was the old XF 35mm f/1.4, a lens with lots of character and slow, noisy autofocus. The 33mm is its modern replacement. It’s sharper, it focuses far faster, and it’s weather resistant.

The original XF 56mm f/1.2 from 2014 was one of the lenses that made people switch to Fuji. It had that creamy look portrait shooters wanted, in a system that was otherwise small and light. The Fujifilm XF 56mm F1.2 R WR, launched in September 2022 at $999, is the full redesign: sharper, closer-focusing and now weather resistant.

On an APS-C body, 56mm gives the field of view of an 85mm lens on full frame. Classic portrait framing, with enough distance from your subject to keep things relaxed.