Welcome back to the FujiGuys. My name is Francis Today we are going to shoot the
X-Pro2 2 in Montreal. Actually, we're right now into my old neighborhood, Hochelaga.
and then we're heading to the subway and then we'll go out downtown, to go into
Chinatown, maybe the old port and Place-des-Arts. We'll take the X-Pro2 for spin.
So, keep on watching.
Now. The X-Pro2 isn't exactly a new camera, but I just wanted to go out and
shoot some street photos. Personally, in our lineup, this is the perfect
camera for street photography. I never really shoot at night also which
is something I wanted to do for quite a while in the city. A lot of
action. Amazing. So, yeah basically I really
wanted to just try out the X-Pro2 at night, see how the ISO performance would
be. I'm guessing the ISO, I'm shooting Auto ISO and I'm guessing the ISO will
probably be up at 12,800. I set it to auto from 200 to 12,800
because I know how good it performs because I've
used it in wedding. But I just want to shoot it now and like I said I don't
often shoot street photography at night so it's a good opportunity to just go
out and shoot it and make a video out of it.
The X-Pro2 was designed as a rangefinder type camera, so that's pretty much what
the difference is between the X-T2 and X-Pro2; is really the look of it
It was designed based on the old film rangefinder cameras, so with that being,
the X-Pro2 got the hybrid viewfinder. So, you have an optical viewfinder and an
electronic viewfinder and you can switch between both of them and also you
have a third mode which is the hybrid so you have the optical viewfinder with the
little window at the bottom right corner which can give you your exposure
information and your focus confirmation. So you can decide whether you use the
electronic viewfinder or the optical viewfinder. Personally, for me at night
like this I would like to shoot the optical viewfinder better because I can
see what my eyes see instead of the sensor. And sometimes where there's not
enough light the EVF will be a little bit laggy because it has a hard time
having enough light so you get a little lag. During day time though I prefer using
the EVF because like I tell everybody I would never go back to a D-SLR because I
love the EVF so much because it gives you the exact preview of what my photo will
be. But, you know, like I said, at night sometimes the sensor has a hard time
getting enough light so optical is good. Also, the optical viewfinder gives
you sort of frame lines so you can see a subject moving into the picture before
it gets in actually. So, it's the best of both worlds. You choose whatever is best
for you and then you just make your choice
Now the X-Pro2, much like all of our X-series cameras features the film
simulations which is great, give nice color profiles to your images whether
it's ACRO black and white, you have the filters also you can apply to
your black and white; the red the green the yellow. But, you have other film
simulations, like: Classic Chrome, Astia. My personal favorite right now, used to be
Classic Chrome, but now I'm shooting Astia, and also have my little recipe like
I said in last video I like to put +2, +2 on the shadow and highlight
tones and also -2 on the colors, using Astia, which gives a nice look to
it; which is my favorite for the moment. And for black and white, as usual it's
going to be ACROS; same +2, +2 with the red filter.
What's great also is that, in the camera itself, you can process your raw. So if
you shot in ACROS, which is black and white and you want to get back your
images and colors and you would like to have it and Velvia for example you can
just go into the menu, in the raw conversion and you can change over,
underexposed, you can play with the film simulations, the highlight tones, all the
lighting settings you would use in software like Photoshop or Lightroom,
you can actually play in the camera itself.
Now, the trio f/2 lenses the 23, 35 and the 50 f2 WR lenses are actually a perfect
match for the X-Pro2. First, they're weather sealed. Second, they're really
small. And third. they're prime lenses which is perfect for a rangefinder style
camera. With the frame lines and everything is just fits perfectly and
lastly; you know the image quality is is stunning for really cheap actually. You
can get these lenses for not a whole lot of money and you get stunning images out
of them. So, really compact design, super compact camera and you can go and shoot
wherever whenever you want not worry about the weather; whether it's raining
or snowing you can just go out and shoot.
So, the X-Pro2 has Wi-Fi features so you could do a couple different things with
it from your smartphone: you can remote control it you can send pictures to it,
you can either transfer them full size or resize them to 3 megapixels if you
plan on only using them for Instagram for example which doesn't need much more
than that anyway. Also, a really cool feature is that you can actually send
photos from your X-Pro2 to the SP-2 share printer; so you can print your
images directly from the camera on instax Mini film; which is really nice
when you're doing, for example, street photography, and you want to give you
want to take a portrait of someone, a stranger, you want to print the image and
give it to them so they can go home with their picture. Which is something that's
really going away physical print so I think it's a really nice thing; using the
Share Printer for street photography and handout prints to people
Also, I forgot to mention earlier but the X-Pro2 was the first camera to get the
magical joystick in the back; which led the way for the X-T2 and the GFX now; but
it was actually the originator for the joystick.
Alright guys, that's going to be a wrap for my little session of street
photography with the X-Pro2. I hope you enjoyed this little tour of Montreal and
the Place-des-Arts, Chinatown, the underground subway and guys if you'd
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C'est Francis pour les Fuji Guys.