The very best tech presents on our editors’ wishlists for the 2024 vacation season

It’s laborious to not really feel jealous as, one after the other, all my colleagues ditched their previous cameras for Fujifilm our bodies. The beautiful retro styling, compact measurement and analog movie simulations are all causes to fall deeply in love with their fashions. To not point out, whenever you’re toting round a decade-old Olympus to occasions, the flexibility to cost a digicam by way of USB-C makes me delirious.

Which is why I feel it’s time to affix the gang, and I’m hoping somebody will convey me an X-T50 for the vacations. It’s the newest entrant in Fujifilm’s middle-tier vary, with the high-end options I’m in search of on a barely extra inexpensive bundle. It carries the identical 40.2-megapixel sensor, 6K 30p video and in-body stabilization you’d discover on the high-end X-T5.

Fujifilm is aware of the goal marketplace for the X-T50 needs to make full use of these movie simulations and has added them to one of many high dials. For those who’re out and about, and wish to tweak how a picture seems, you may flip the wheel to see what seems greatest earlier than you begin snapping. I’m an enormous fan of the bodily controls, too, quite than burying all the things in tedious digital submenus.

So, I borrowed an X-T50 for 2 weeks to see if the truth matched as much as all the hype each on-line, and with my colleagues. The educational curve is fairly steep, and also you’ll have to rapidly marshal all the totally different controls to get issues working. There are nonetheless some key issues buried deep within the digital menus, like making certain the in-body OIS is at all times enabled.

However that’s the place the dangerous stuff ends, as a result of the pictures this factor produces are beautiful. I’ve taken some fairly spectacular portraits, panorama and structure pictures and I really feel like that is the digicam I ought to have began my pictures journey with. There’s a lot to manage, and a lot to do, that you simply really feel enormously enabled by what it has to supply. I’m holding my fingers crossed that Santa, or an itinerant billionaire, drops one off at my door this vacation season. — Daniel Cooper, Senior Reporter