For me, one of the biggest draws of Eren's videos are his absolutely stunning photos. The aesthetic, lighting, composition, and color of all of his photos epitomize the spirit of Fujifilm. He has a way of maximizing each camera to create, frankly, works of art and storytelling that are cinematic, soulful, and mesmerizing. I know Eren does a lot of commercial work, but I also hope he is and/or has been exhibiting in gallery spaces or putting a book together, because all of the images in his videos are simply sublime.
I have used my XT5 now for about 2 1/2 months and I absolutely love this camera. It is a beautiful piece of tech and there is only one or two little minor things that I don’t like about it at the things that you would find in every camera, but there has been made that there are things you won’t like, but overall I’m absolutely loving it and I’ve come from full frame where I didn’t think I would go back to using a crop sensor and I shouldn’t say it like that like go back. As if it’s some sort of scaling down, but this is a beast of a Camera for a crop sensor. Honestly it performs like a full frame camera in most situations. I have used I x35 now for about 2 1/2 months and I absolutely love this camera it is a beautiful piece of cake and if there is only one or two little minor things that I don’t like about it things that you would find in every camera that there has been made that the right thing he won’t lie but overall I’m absolutely loving it and I come from for frame where I didn’t think I would go back to using a crop sensor and I shouldn’t say like that like go back. As if it’s some sort of scaling down but this is a beast of a camera for a crops answer honestly it performs like a full frame camera in most situations. The thing I love about this camera is it makes me want to pick it up and take photos … often when I’m editing my photos, I will put my Fuji film camera next to my Mac and it actually talk to me like come out and take me out and take photos. This camera makes you want to go out and take photos and I never thought I’d say that, but honestly it does you want to play. And that’s ingenious by Fujifilm. It is such a good camera and I can highly recommend it. I would consider myself semi professional/professional, and I do lots of different types of photography, and I haven’t found anything This camera can’t do
Loving my XT5, I don't do video so I am happy with the two SD card slots. The ibis is amazing, and the sensor is superb (like you said about cropping in). AF is much improved and more than good enough for me. I don't miss the power grip, easier to carry a spare battery, (why make a camera bigger)? All in all, I am a happy bunny.
Traded in my X-Pro 2 for the X-T5 and paid a small difference in price. I am amazed by the snappiness and quality enabling me to crop in more. Been using it with 35 mm 1.4, it has been a delight. The best part for me has been the IBIS enabling much lower shutter speeds handheld. Couldn’t be happier.
so I purchased my xt5, and so far, no regrets. I use a range of fuji and viltrox primes for events and I have found the xt5 way more reliable than xs10, with the viltrox lenses. I have recently started using my 18-135 for outdoor strolls, and although this is no the sharpest of lenses, I love the quality of the output. So ... no complaints so far... I really haven't tried the video as yet.
Nice review. Excellent shot at 7:11! I picked one up and have really enjoyed it so far. It's an incredibly capable camera that can do anything I want. Very curious to see what Fuji does with the XPRO/XE lineup.
Nice Video. Have the xt5 now for some time and do not regret the purchase. It is exactly the right update to my xt3. There is no perfect camera, it depends on what you do with it and need. I love this camera. The weaknesses are acceptable to me.
A shame about the materials not living up to earlier models. I feel that my silver X-T2 can stand a lot of beating. So maybe I will wait just a bit to see how solid XT-5 is on the longer run. Good video 👍🤩
Haven’t found that at all. Silver model and it’s fine and I’ve been going out in landscape situations in gnarly weather and mine has not scratched at all and I chuck mine around. I’m not one of these primadonna photographers that make sure that the camera doesn’t get out into the wild honestly I don’t know the issue, but I suspect it might be the black paint not the silver is being used.
I don't know what you mean when you say the X-T5 has no way to track a specified subject. All you need to do is choose the Tracking focus setting and set focus mode to continuous and it will happily put a little box on your subject and follow them around the screen, for as long as your shutter release is half-pressed. I love the X-T5 because it's comfortable in my hand for 10+ miles of walking, with almost any lens I put on it. I agree it doesn't feel as robust as my old X-T4, although I didn't own the X-T4 for long (I upgraded). On my X-T5, after only a year of use, I've put silicone lubricant in the shutter release button and the focus mode dial on the front. Because they were getting a bit sticky. The rest feels as new. I love using its three Auto ISO groups during daytime street shoots (and its exposure triangle knobs in low light etc). I love how I can program a button to toggle me between my current set-up and the Group 1 in the Quick Menu, as that allows me to set Group 1 with a lot of alternative settings that I might need in a tight spot. When I'm doing my Communications job professionally, in complex light situations I like setting my X-T5's Bracket settings to produce JPEGs with three varieties of film simulation. I can usually then pick one that's ideal for quick social media use.
Colors are same on all latest Fujifilm cameras and this is mainly due to the White balance shift towards to magenta.The best accurate White balance was on the Xpro-1 , the rest is like the rest of the main stream Japanes cameras toward magenta.
Personally I think CF Express would be overkill for the X-T line, not to mention it would just add unnecessary bulk and weight. At which point one should just jump over to the X-H line.
I love my XT5. I shoot my kids at football and I rarely miss any shot with tracking, continuous AF, and customising tracking. And not even using face detection.
Glad there’s no battery grip. And I say that because aesthetically they’re ugly as soon as you do that, it looks like a full frame camera and it loses its feel completely. I think what I tried to do is create an old school camera but with modern tech, and I think they nailed it. I’m actually a fan of not having a battery grip in the camera. The battery life on this is actually really good and honestly I don’t feel that this is a camera that bird photographers are going to buy anyway or sports photography you might do some occasionally but this cameras kind of really not that kind of camera. In my opinion you can use it for sports and wildlife. No problem but it’s not aimed at that so you don’t need a battery grip and the battery life. They removed it to retain the aesthetic’s at the camera and I can understand that I reckon battery grips are ugly and I hate holding cameras that have battery grip. You just don’t know where to put your hands
As a Fuji shooter for 8 years ( xt1, xt20 x100f & xh1 ) I decided to make the plunge for the xt5. But after having it for about 2 weeks the back lcd screen got shattered ( it’s still at Fuji being fixed ). Although I must’ve caused it, I don’t know how. I don’t remember even bumping it against anything. Have you had any build-quality issues with your, or any other xt5? Thank you. Great content. Subbed.
You're not the first. There are too many users having build quality issues with the XT5 and not worth splashing out so much on a camera that can break so easily.
My main gripe is that there are a couple of buttons that I had to turn off because I kept hitting them inadvertently. The worst is the front dial, which I would like to use only as a dial, but sometimes press by mistake. Then it takes time to find my way back to what I was trying to do.
Briefly considered selling my x pro3 black Duratect to finance this one, but meh...as awesome as the xt5 is, I don't need it right now. New sensor, ibis, better battery, new software and much more are all awesome features, but I love my x pro3 so much. I will wait for a new x pro camera and see what Fuji does with it. Good video :)
Frankly, I'd think seriously of selling the XPro3 if ever I owned one as much as I really like its design aesthetic. It's because its like a ticking timebomb personally which involves what maybe considered major components on a camera -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iGDZ9RelrNk.htmlsi=ITnIdbxEzSsK3PEC
Excellent video. Had a question though regarding how u use the camera as a hybrid and switch quickly between video and photo. I presume u have a ND filter on for video for the 180 shutter rule. When u switch to photo mode, do u find yourself having to remove the ND as well? Trying to figure out how I can speed the switch between 2 modes
Check out Manfrotto’s magnetic filter adapters-you attach one to your variable ND and another to your lens. You can then quickly apply and remove your ND when going from photo to video and vice versa.
Thank you for the video. Please advise which lenses really cope with the 40 million X-T5 matrix? There is a lot of information out there that most of the existing Fuji optics are not very good for this camera. Thank you!
I heard the legacy X lenses don't resolve all that well and take advantage of the bigger processor. That there are limited new lens options that work well and take advantage of the new sensor. is that true?
You admired Fuji XH2S through out the video and on the final thoughts section you conveyed that your daily camera is XT5 even though you have both. If I have a choice to buy either one of them as a photography first camera, what should I buy? XT5 or XH2S.
I have both, and the XH2s is truly a hybrid workhorse. But, I don’t love it, it’s just another camera… Whereas, the XT5 I absolutely love it. There’s just something about that camera that is special. Technically, speaking, it’s slower than all aspects of the XH2s, but none of that matters. If it’s just for photography, XT5 wins, hands down for me. The screen, the dials, the sensor. Those three things alone for photography do it for me. I’m not sure if that helps, but it is from experience.
Your street photos are most striking, showing mastery of colour inter alia. .... How useful do you find the custom settings 1-7? They seem to include some items but exclude others, not just the analogue controls, but also e.g. Drive Settings, whether to use 10 fps or 15 fps can't be tied down to a custom setting. I've now watched several set-up videos and it's perhaps surprising that the advice given is so greatly divergent: let's just give three examples from a wide collection: (1) the Quick Menu is ultra useful/ I don't use it at all; (2) set IQ to Fine + Raw/ Fine + Raw is useless (I suppose these want RAW only); don't touch the touch screen!/ the touch screen is excellent now and very useful. Incidentally I read an earlier review which was more critical than you were about the tacky material used in making the black model - this led me to buy the silver version. Older folk see this silver throw-back camera in action and think that it must be a very old model!
Huge thanks John! I tend not to use the custom settings, I try keep the process as streamlined as possible. Im in the process of making a detailed episode on the XT5 settings I use. Interesting on the silver model being more robust!
Will it be a big bump in low light compared to the xt4 thinking of selling and upgrading but if it’s not a big jump night time wise / low light might stick with it
Fuji compromised build quality eith thos camera in sacrifice for the tech. No thanks, more than happg with my XT4, even with the screen because i can hide it and keep it protected when travelling. I would rather compose my images better than rely on cropping. I will never need 40mp files taking up all my storage and having to upgrade my computer to use them.
