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What you don't know is that he recorded his latest videos before he got fat. That way he can get redemption sympathy while he is actually on Mars with Elon spreading covid to all the Martians so we can colonize their land.
fujis problem is the AF.. i dont see why sensor size matters (unless its really some 1/2.3" sensor) aslong as you have the lenses for your desired Toneh, the results won't differ, unless you only shoot in the dark.
The level of full frame worship in the camera world is wild. Nothing makes 35mm more "full" than anything else other than historical reasons. Fuji have dropped the ball on a couple of things in the last few years (build quality, AF and firmware backports) but not going for full frame is not one of them. FF market is fully saturated and Sony and Canon can fight it out. If you want video don't come to Fuji. If you want stills and are not shooting high speed sports or wildlife, Fuji is more than enough. Getting a bigger sensor will not make Fuji's AF better and neither will it improve somebody's shitty photo automatically.
I feel called out with that Fujifilm Medium format mini-rant, lol. Especially when you said that only 7 people in the world have it and 3 of them are trying to sell it off... I'm one of the 3.
Fuji cannot compete with Nikon in Fullframe lens, or Sony with fullframe body, or be as cheap as Canon. They sneak between competition by making high quality crop and Luxury tier camera. They was doing everything right and it shown.
Well if it isn't the Critical Drinker of cameras....The Critical Toneh. The best camera is the one you can afford and most clients cant tell the difference most of the time.
The Fuji strategy is 102% genius: be the instant camera company that also makes cheaper, better versions of Leica and Hasselblad - and brings you the mystique of film.
It was a decision to not compete in a crowded FF world but to leverage their knowledge, having made a lot of MF film cameras: 6x7, x8, x9 (first one was ILC), x17 ILC panorama, as well as a few AF645; cinelenses; cinefilms; and LF lenses. More interesting Q is why they're still in the photography/camera business. Other than Instax, they make more money in medical, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other fields (expertise learned from making films).
I absolutely love my GFX50S2. My collection of Mamiya lenses look wonderful, and the GF lenses are exquisite. I am a portrait and product photog and it's perfect for those use cases. Autofocus? Don't make me laugh!
There is a way to use manual focus override on a clutched Fuji lens that way too many reviewers (including you!) ignored: you need to turn on the AF+MF mode with your camera in AF-S mode, then clutch in your lens for MF. The distance scale will become useless, but now you can use the MF ring for manual focus override. It is quite possibly the most cursed thing I have ever seen in photography but it works. Now from a business perspective Fujifilm staying the course for APS-C for the mainstream was the best option that they could adopt. Jumping in to FX, even if their mount could accommodate it, would mean having to divert scarce resources to developing a whole line of FX-capable lenses specifically for these FX early adopters. Without a preexisting line of FX lenses like the other camera companies have with their film and DSLR lines, it would have fragmented resources and the market too much to try to even focus on quality. Could the X-mount accommodate an FX sensor? Not likely, unfortunately. The pogo pins for the electrical contacts would have conflicted with the sensor, and while there was a company that had a lens mount that small but still could mount FX lenses (Nikon F), they did have to do a bit of finagling to get the electrical contacts to work without interfering with the sensor. Instead of having pogo pins flat on a shelf on the lens mount, they had to put the contacts along the circumference of the lens and the mount. This probably means that Fujifilm made the conscious choice to go all in on APS-C and never go for full frame, and while you can say it was for the worse for them by not going for full frame at all, I think this was their best choice after all.
Let's be honest, the X-T4 was peak Fuji - highly retro and highly capable with better low light performance than the BS new 40mp sensors. I'm staying in the XF system only with that camera for now, but I'm worried about my upgrade options in the next 2-3 years if Fuji don't get their sh7t together.
I said exactly this about the X-T2. Picking up the X-T4 with how much bulkier it was, plus the new huge f1.4 primes and no 18f2 II WR on the horizon, I was done a couple years ago. They lost all their charm and mostly make worse discount Sony cameras now.
I have an X-T4, tried the H2 and H2S and ordered an H2S. The new cameras are so much faster, no matter what people are saying about the AF, I get a lot better results with them.
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the iPhone 16 pro doing 4K 120fps and calling it "Cinematic Slow Motion". When I was watching the keynote, I immediately imagined you doing 1080p 240fps while making fun of iPhone users 😂
The X-S20 is a bit of a mixed bag, zero water resistance and IBIS is garbage in video with heavy corner wobbling on wider lenses, video autofocus is not good, the FLOG2 ISO of 1200 is quite limiting without ND filters, you lose dynamic range in the 5.2k open gate mode, it's the older sensor so rolling shutter, etc - but the ergonomics and flip out LCD is so much nicer than any Sony body, I do not understand why Sony LCDs are so bad.
uhh, id love to see a full frame fuji but i kinda think they did the right thing too. The X-E, X100v, X-T, etc are all about portability. having owned lots of full frame cameras, i am now enjoying an olympus for the size and weight of the lenses. Sony A7 cameras are so small, but full frame lenses are too large for portability.
I can understand your perspective, but . . . Fuji was doing really, really good. It wasn't, in my opinion, a big deal for them to skip full frame. What they have done that is threatening to sink their ship is to stop the previously stupendous firmware updates that kept their awesome cameras getting awesomer even after being several years old. Then, they didn't update some of their cameras as quickly as users expected. Then they started shipping firmware that was making things worse, not better. I am on a ZF now and my X-T4 auction will be finished in about half an hour. I'm out. Loved the colors, but it's not worth it.
Fuji autofocus ineptitude and their gaslighting about these problems makes me hate the company and my X-T4. The magic is gone. She was good looking, despite personality flaws. We were rooting for her, but all respect went out the window when she started smoking crack and not fixing her shortcomings. I regret buying that 13mm Viltrox lens off you instead of spending 10x the amount on a Sony camera.
All previous gen didn't get AF cripple though. I know for sure my X-T3 still acts like fool from previous years and x-t4 is just X-T3 with added features
I believe Fuji looked at the FF market. They saw Nikon, Canon, Sony, and even Pentax glaring back at them. Fuji said, "no thank you" and carved a niche unto themselves. Kinda brill, actually. You want bigger toneh balls? Use bigger light bulbs. Problem solved.
Totally disagree - just been on a trip to a town on a beach in the Netherlands. Took an X-T5 with an 18-120mm lens. The colours and zoom range was incredible for. As a portable set up it was around 1Kg. If Fujifilm ever cancels APS-C - I will cancel Fujifilm. I have amazing photo AND video footage. Why do I need a floppy/flippy screen - only narcisists need those. I prefer to take videos of where I am rather than me :D So for me - Fujifilm does give me the "dream". Would not have taken a full frame camera with me. I have rented Full Frame cameras and they are WAY too heavy and too big for travel. I guess I am not your target audience.
Also I belivee the 70-300mm is virtually parfocal with the latest firmware upgrade. That combo gets you to 450mm full frame in a light set up. That is my next choice. Fujifilm do not suck at all. Even for video on an X-T5.
I wouldn’t like the loud mechanical shutter, bad rolling shutter, lower framerate for burst shots, missing focus bracketing, but I can imagine you prefer the resolution, AF and that otherwise it is very customizable too. Which lens brands did you get? Cost wise the camera is apretty big step up.
@@jayzn1931 For my purposes, the shutter button sound, rolling shutter, etc are irrelevant with regard to how I choose to use the camera. Not having too many problems with focus bracketing over here. Went with Sigma 24mm. Have some excellent vintage lenses I use as well. Picking up their 85 next…
My Nikon D800 is still my daily (released in 2012) and I'm yet to use a better camera, or see better images come out of any other digital camera. The thing is incredible. I also absolutely LOVE my fuji X100f, wonderful to use and superb I.Q. The gfx stuff is fantastic too. I think if you're in the videography space, then yeah...stick with Sony, king of autofocus. But if you're into making photographs and you're more keen on slow considered image making rather than spray n praying, then Fuji are excellent. They get out of the way. As any great camera does.
I loved them when they were still David against Goliath. Making incredible good cameras, the great design, the film simulations. And relatively affordable. They lost me with the half-baked X100VI, keeping the slow lens motor but squeezing the 40MP sensor into it. Their AF fiasco. And within months they were going from photography as a service to society to WE want to be Leica for the not so rich, but still rich hipsters.
Lost me when they axed their entire entry level cameras, which is rumored to be revived... I really _hope_ they won't fumble the supposed X-M5 and would be able to make it actually cheap, but it's modern Fuji and their stuff just gets more and more expensive.
Both Fuji and Olympus made fatal mistakes by ignoring the FF market...they basically cut out a market of 100,000-200,000 just in North America, deferring them to Canon, Sony and Nikon. Years ago I heard that Fuji brass poo-pooed FF sensors saying that there's not much difference between FF and APSC-C. There was a time when there was an economic incentive to go APSC but that difference has dwindled in recent years.
A reason for me to invest in Fuji was knowing there wouldn’t be a full frame option that they want me to „upgrade“ to. Canons lens lineup for APS-C is a joke, only now that Sigma lenses are finally coming, it is becoming interesting for more than casual hobby photographers. Canon, Sony and Nikon always leave out features and cripple the APS-C options with worse lenses (Sony being the best out of the three) just so you get their FF cameras at some point. Fuji APS-C at least has a lot of pro features that even some FF cameras don’t. EDIT: Fujis lenses sometimes are bigger than they should be though, for APS-C, imo. This is one of the bigger drawbacks to me.
When I was looking for a new camera, I did look at Canon. But, they were playing too many games and so I looked elsewhere. I look at ways to disqualify cameras. As you call it, a flippy screen was the first thing I looked for. If it didn't have one the camera was instantly disqualified. Every Nikon that I looked at put stones on the path of having a camera that would not be frustrating. At my age, 74 this will be my last camera. I don't look for Sony for anything. I refuse to buy any Sony product. They burned me 20 years ago and have had all but an anathema put against them. To make a short story longer. I settled on the Fujifilm X-s20. Auto focus is good enough for most shoots. Stabilization is also good enough for most shoots, video or photo. It's far from perfect, but I would recommend it for anyone wanting a good RU-vid camera that can shoot professional video and stills. For 80 percent of the people wanting this type of camera will be totally happy with the X-s20,. As for firmware upgrades, unless there is a problem, I don't upgrade. You just don't know what you are getting or losing. For serious video, where you are shooting documentaries, I would only use shoulder mount (ENG style) video cameras -- not a camcorder. The new style video cameras are off-balanced and hard to shoot in bright sunlight. Placing an eye piece that is far too small to see anything at the back of the camera is dumber than square wheels on a Studebaker (an old car company.) It completely unbalances the camera making it hard to hold and aim, it's only a little better on a tripod. I've used both the current style and the ENG style cameras and would pick the ENG shoulder mount camera every time over a screen that won't work in sunlight and an eyepiece in the back. Again, most people will be happy with the X-s20.
I've been using my Ancient Egyptian XT-3 and the 70-300mm with the 1.4x TC for wildlife ever since I grew up from being a landscape photographer. Although the autofocus is completely useless the images are half decent, providing someone detonates a nuke nearby to illuminate things. If the XF500mm f5.6 rumours are true and they manage to bring out a camera worth owning, with autofocus that actually does something other than miss, I may not abandon them the same way my parents did me. They've got 6 months to tickle my pickle or we're getting a divorce.
Canon R52 has video available from photo mode, just mash the video record button once or twice or at most three times and camera will eventually start recording video using the C3 video settings.
So disappointed with Fujifilm. It like an adult toy camera. lol. Although their fans are very loyal. The more crappy the cameras get, the more people talk it up.
I was thinking you're in a really intelligent guy but you're missing the point with this one. If they had a full frame camera no one would buy their medium format cameras. I own a GFX cam in fact I own two of them plus a crop sensor Fuji and I love all three cameras, but you know I'm a photographer, you can shoot 4K 60 now on a smart phone..... I love how you said there's only seven people who own multiple lenses that makes me feel pretty good...ha ha ..... And yeah, there is a little bit of ego in owning a GFX camera. But Fuji cameras were really built for Photography and I don't think they really care about video. I know that sounds funny but they don't. They release the guys.XH and XH2S models but they don't care about the video quality or specs, they just don't. Fuji film is all about Photography.
@@yawningmarmot Why not a 3x crop factor lens, they already have the 1.5x APS-C lets do 3x so we can have like a double telephoto on every existing X-mount lens, its genius! The wild life photographers will be pre-ordering right now.
Wait you shot this video on a Canon, why does it look like an android phone with telephoto adapter? I did laugh a few times I’m going to sub, nice video.
but I've seen the videos on how autofocus works in the new firmwares and I don't understand why Fuji doesn't just fire the entire autofocus engineering department and hire the Sony's or Canon's. At any cost.
xh2s have some of the best features for hybrid camera. photos are amazing, fast, and all. video: dynamic range is almost unmached, even with crop sensor it can pull out 14 stops when noise reduction is applied in edit. colors are amazing and easy to edit. Real world slow motion (most commonly used) is amazing, 60fps have the same quality and dr as 24pfs. 120fps is great. that is what people use the most for wedding videography, commercial video... there are two flaws (for the most people) the biggest is lens selection, cinema lenses, vintage lenses, anamorphics... almost all full frame. and zoom lenses especially, very bad offer in crop sensor size. that one is the biggest. And second, stabilisation is not great, it is somewhat acceptable but not on lumix level. so I feel like if you want photo and video camera, in that price range there are Lumix s5iix, Fuji xh2s, Canon r5c, nikon z8, sony a7 iv or a7rv.. and most of those are more expensive than fuji, offering better photos, but almost nothing better in video part. so, for the most people, that does not need 240fps, and similar stuff, just photos, videos, video quality, dr, 24fps and 60 to 120fps... there are only like few options and none seems better than xh2s. s5iix is maybe there with better stabe, and similar video quality, with ff advantage and 60fps downside. everything else is like, I dont know, I dont want to be biased but I dont get the fuji hate, xh2s has amazing sensor.
@@trym2121 you are probablly right. But for portrait, wedding and brand photography it is more than enough. For talking head videos, for less demanding scenarios it is good. But for everything other I like to use manual focusing anyway.
What best budget used apsc camera for someone who do photography (street photography)only as a hobby and not professional I have a canon 600d with a kit lens
I use a crop-sensor Canon T5i for street, and think cameras like these are the unsung heroes of street: optical VF with TTL viewing for accurate composition; fast, accurate pinpoint AF, great battery life, etc.
Let's address the Fuji elephant in the room..... why won't Ken "angry photographer" talk about cameras any more? He's been on a politics roll for years now. I miss his lens knowledge. Have a rockin' Monday.
Its just like a watch, after the third generation, the bezel comes in orange / pink / & blue, got a black band, it runs 64 days, hey go buy a Casio, im running this stock into the ground with kids hammers, one way or the other, im selling toilets in Kenya.
