That's the Kalamazoo river
Hello from Michigan
How do you pronounce the name of this place again?
Hello from Saugatuck in Michigan
We are here spending some family time this weekend, we are here with Rachel's parents
there are no plans for this weekend other than just walk around town
and I didn't think it was a good time for my regular photography
but I still want to do something
So I brought a different camera for these 2 days
so I brought this one
This is actually Rachel's camera, it's the Fuji X100T
I think I've talked about this camera before in this channel, but I don't think I've ever done an episode on it
So why not do it this time?
I'll be talking about this camera during the video and sharing my thoughts and experience using it
Rachel is going to make some pictures with it too
Let's do it
Good morning from Oval Beach
I've been shooting with the Fuji for a few hours now
This is very different to what I'm used to with the Sony, it's more tactile
it has all these controls
one thing I don't know if I like is the exposure compensation dial
it has fixed marks unlike the Sony, the Sony has a dial that is unmarked
it only changes the exposure when the camera is on
this one you can change it with the camera being off and then for example
I can move it to -2 and then when I turn on the camera is going to be set to -2
so that has advantages, you always know what the exposure compensation is just by looking at the dial
it has disadvantages, when the camera is off and you put it in your backpack or whatever
you can move it and you might not realize
you control the aperture here manually, and the shutter speed here
I usually have them both to automatic
That's how I shoot the Sony too, that'd be like P mode
All these controls are nice, but the way I shoot these kind of cameras
in automatic, in P mode
I don't know if they are very useful for me and I'm almost afraid of
changing the settings without even noticing it
another thing: the screen is fixed, it doesn't tilt
that is a big disadvantage when you're shooting high or low
The menus are not that great. People complain a lot about the Sony menus
but I find these to be as messy as the other ones
It's very well built
The viewfinder, I like it a lot
it's probably because it has very low resolution
It just makes the photos look better than they actually are
you know that I like photos that don't have a lot of detail
Losing a lot of resolution on the viewfinder makes them look better
but then on the computer they look sharp and they don't look as good, in my opinion
Very light, I just have it with the strap
It's very nice to have on you, it doesn't weight much
Anyway, we just came to this beach for sunrise
There are not many things to photograph here
So we're gonna head back and have some breakfast
I don't know what we are gonna do next, but it should be fun
By the way, one funny thing that I noticed last night
and am noticing now again is that
this camera chooses really funny shutter speeds
I just took a photo and it chose 1/105th of a second
last night it was doing like 1/27th of a second, 1/11th of a second
I'm not used to see those shutter speeds, my Sony camera goes for thirds of stops or something like that
So it's just funny to see how this camera
chooses those shutter speeds
We just walked 40 minutes on this road, just to find the cafe closed, they closed today!
Good thing there is another one just in front
Okay, so back in the room
this weekend the Spanish soccer league started
I was watching a game between my team and Real Madrid
but they are losing so
A couple things I forgot to mention
The first one is that we are shooting in JPEG
I love the film simulations in this camera
We have it set to monochrome with the red filter
I'm shooting with the exposure compensation set to -1
That's to create really dark shadows and lose some of the detail there
then in post I'm going to brighten the whites to make the exposure a little more right
and more balanced
Another thing that I really love about this camera is the built-in ND filter
I believe is 3 stops, but correct me if I'm wrong
That is allowing me to shoot at wide apertures like f/2, even in bright conditions like right now
I really like that
Oh, and we are shooting in 3x2 instead of square
I thought that a change would be nice
It's been a while since I composed and thought in 3x2 and I believe that switching it up
sometimes it could be good creatively for you, that's what I'm trying to do this weekend
It's been fun so far
This lens is a 35mm lens and we also have this little thingy here
That is... what's the name?
A conversion lens? I don't know
It converts the thing in a 50mm
The bad thing is that you have to take this ring off
There you go, and now you got yourself a 50mm lens
it's a little bit bulky
The problem is that you have to keep this somewhere, but anyway
So another thing that you have to do when you mount this on here
It doesn't have any electronic connections or anything
So you have to go in the menu, tell the camera that you're using this so it can correct the JPEGs accordingly
there is another conversion lens from
35 to 28mm, I believe
but these are not cheap and I don't know if it's worth it
those extra 7mm. If it went down to 24mm or 20mm, maybe, but 28mm might not be worth it
The images look pretty great with this
I don't know if the equivalent aperture is still f/2, or if it goes down to f/2.8 or something
Let's shoot with the 50mm for a while
All right, good morning
This is our last day here. Actually, probably last couple of hours, we are leaving early
It was hard to wake up today, but we are still walking to the beach
just to, to...
one last time shooting the Fuji around Saugatuck
and then at the beach I'll be giving you my conclusions and final thoughts on this camera
But first, I have to have a little bit of coffee
We're not going down to the beach because we're kind of clean
don't want to get our shoes full of sand or anything like that
My final thoughts on the Fuji X100T
I've used this camera on and off over the last 5 years, as I said it belongs to Rachael
It's been a good camera
The construction is good and it looks durable. It still works just fine
I like it, overall
Compared to what I'm used to, that is my Sony cameras I do like the tactile approach of this camera
Even though I don't really use any of the dials that much
I set them to auto and I just use the exposure compensation
The thing is sometimes
Cut it
It's funny
This conversion lens is very nice, so even though this camera is a fixed lens camera
It's 35mm, sometimes you need something else
That's why I like ILCs, that is Interchangeable Lens Cameras
because they are more flexible for the kind of photography that I do, travel photography
they let you shoot wide or telephoto, and this one kind of does the same thing
It's a little bit more inconvenient than having one of the other cameras
unscrewing the lens from here takes a little while
Any other camera with the button, lens is off and you can just put the other one on
Also it's not as easy to store, you have to take the ring off and there is no place for it
I have it in my pocket now, but it's something that you can easily lose
It's nice to have the the option at least
Another thing is the autofocus, it's not the main feature that I'm looking for in a camera
but the autofocus is noticeably worse here than my Sony cameras
even in the a6000, even worse in low-light.
Sometimes it just can't acquire focus
Otherwise, just for landscape and outdoor photography, the autofocus is just fine
What I've been doing this weekend that is shooting in JPEG with this camera
is something that I wouldn't do with my Sony cameras
because I don't like the JPEGs that come out from those cameras at all
These ones are just fine, I still prefer to shoot in RAW
and then tweak the images in Lightroom to make them the way I like, the way I want
This was all about this camera, if you have any questions about it
or if you have any other comments, or if you have one of these and you want to share your experience
Or maybe you have the new models, the S or the F. There are two new models after this one that look very nice
Please leave a comment down below and share your experience
Thank you so much for watching, and see you in the next one
So I keep switching between vertical and horizontal
sometimes I'm not sure which one is the best way and that is a struggle that I haven't had for a while
Also, I think I've broken my ND filter for the video camera
Sounds like it's loose inside
Time to buy a new one