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So, the Fujifilm X-E5 is now shipping and my own X-E5 – which I ordered in this color – will hopefully arrive soon.
NOTE: The Fujifilm X-E5 is now in stock at BHphoto and at Amazon you can find the X-E5 silver with XF23mmF2.8, the X-E5 black body and X-E5 silver body.
There is a lot I am looking forward to on my X-E5:
It really is the best X-E camera ever made… by far!
And for an X-E line lover like me that’s a GAS trigger I can’t resist to. So here you have my money again, Fujifilm!
But will all the goodness the X-E5 offers, there is actually one thing I am looking forward to a lot, and that we could read about also in the just released X-E5 owners manual.
You see, my Fujifilm X-E3 served me well, took some of my favorite shots (like the first image of the X/GFX series Dolomites image slideshow in this video) and was overall a great companion.
However, there was one thing that annoyed me: having to swipe through the custom function on the LCD display due to the lack of physical function buttons.
You see, on all my other Fujifilm cameras, I have completely disabled the touch function on the LCD. If it was for me, Fujifilm could remove the touch function altogether.
But the lack of FN buttons on the X-E3 kind of forced me to keep the touch screen enabled on my LCD to access certain custom functions.
Now on my (future) Fujifilm X-E5, I will have 5 custom functions just on the front lever alone
That’s 5 custom functions on a single lever!
It’s a small change on paper, but for my shooting flow it’s huge — and just one more reason why the X-E5 feels like the perfect evolution of the X-E line.
X-E5 STOCK CHECK
Amazon:
BHphoto
Pre-Orders
Amazon USA has had a strange policy when it comes to the Fujifilm X-E5, having taken pre-orders only for a few minutes and then completely removing any X-E5 combo from its store. But now it is back… and it’s either in stock or shipping very soon.
By basically not taking pre-orders, they might well have the shortest waiting list of all stores.
Interestingly, Amazon Europe never stopped taking pre-orders on the X-E5.
A while ago I checked which X-E5 combo you’ve pre-ordered most, and these were the results:
We can see: a total of 80% went for the X-E5 with XF23mmF2.8 lens, and 20% with the X-E5 body only.
So it is not surprising that right now, we can find the Fujifilm X-E5 body in stock for example at BHphoto here
But attention: at the time started writing this article both the silver and in black version were in stock at BHphoto. But now that I am publishing it, I only see the silver X-E5 in stock.
So the X-E5 bodies are selling out fast.
Also Adorama has only the silver body available, same goes for BestBuy here and Moment has nothing yet.
What was never in stock is the X-E5 bundled with the XF23mmF2.8. That’s likely because most people ordered the bundle, hence it will take longer to ship out all preorders
The Fujifilm X-E5 got its first firmware update today and it comes also with a new features guide.
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