A Fujifilm for someone who likes photographs and hates editing
The picture comes out of the camera already looking the way they wanted.
Fujifilm offers something nobody else quite does. There is a dial of colour styles on the top of the camera. You turn it, you take the picture, and the photograph already looks the way you hoped it would.
That suits a particular person: somebody who loves photographing and has no interest at all in sitting at a computer afterwards. It is also, quietly, most people who say they used to enjoy photography and gave it up.
So the answer is
A small camera they will want to carry
The colour dial, a firmer hold, and a lens small enough that the camera still disappears into a bag. This is the one to choose if the risk is that a bigger camera would stay at home.
The present
Camera
Fujifilm X-T50
The colour dial from the X-M5 with more detail and a steadier hold. Photographs come out looking the way they wanted them to look.
Lens
Fujinon XF 35mm f/2 R WR
Tiny, weather-sealed, and quick. Sees close to what the eye sees, so photographs feel natural.
Memory card
SanDisk Extreme PRO 128GB SDXC UHS-II
The card the pictures are saved onto. This is the right one for their camera, and it is fast enough that the camera never has to pause and wait.
What goes with it
Not needed on the day. Add one if you want the present to feel finished.
Strap
Peak Design Slide Lite strap
Clips on and off in a second and adjusts with one hand. The strap that comes in the box is the first thing most people replace.
Bag
Peak Design Everyday Sling 6L
Swings round to the front and opens with one hand, so they can reach the camera without taking the bag off. Holds a camera, a spare lens, and a phone.
What it gives up
It is a good deal smaller and lighter than the X-T5, and it gives up the sealing against rain to be that size. One lens also means one view.
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Two other ways to go
Spends more
For someone who wants to slow down and look
Dials for everything, a great deal of detail, and the portrait lens that people buy Fujifilm cameras for. This rewards patience rather than speed, so it suits a person who enjoys the act of photographing.
Why not this one. It is bigger in the hand and heavier in a bag than the X-T50, which takes the same picture. The size buys sealing against rain, a dial for everything, and a second card slot. It is also slower to work with, on purpose.
Another way
One camera, one lens, nothing to decide
There is no lens to choose and nothing to carry beyond the camera itself. It is beautiful enough that it gets picked up, and a camera that gets carried takes far more photographs than a better one left at home.
Why not this one. The lens does not come off, so the view they get is the only view they get.
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