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The FUJIFILM X-H1 takes all the stills capabilities of cameras like the X-T2 and the X-Pro2 and it
dramatically expands the video capabilities. In this video I'm going to
spend a bit of time talking about some of the stills top features and some of
the rundowns give you some tips and tricks. So if you want to find out more
about stills photography with the FUJIFILM X-H1 stick around.
Depending on your country there's a couple of different ways that you can purchase the X-H1
including body only or as I have here with the booster grip. If you do purchase
the booster grip kit there's actually 3 batteries inside the box. You're able to
take full advantage of the power capabilities right away. To attach the
camera to the booster grip you first have to take away a little cover from
the bottom of the camera there's a compartment in the booster grip that
allows you to store that little cover when you have it attached screw
these two pieces together and you're ready to take advantage of the full
capabilities of the booster grip just like that. The body of the X-H1 is made
with magnesium alloy. It's about 25 percent thicker than the previous models.
A new and improved lens mount design is improved for durability as well as being
a little bit lighter. The camera is moisture and dust resistant and works
down to minus 10° centigrade. An improved coating on the camera helps to
minimize the scratches. There's a new shutter mechanism with springs to help
minimize the shutter shock as well as micro vibrations. All these make for a
much quieter shutter sounding operation. The X-H1 features a 3.69 dot electronic viewfinder.
It's a 0.75 times magnification means
it's very lifelike and realistic. There's also the ability to turn the refresh
rate up to 100 frames per second making it even more realistic yet you still get
all the benefits of electronic viewfinders, being able to preview the
exposure the white balance and ensuring the photo was actually level. When you
use that in conjunction with the touch screen you can actually pull focus
during your movies because it's up to your eye. It's also customizable
by pushing the View Mode button on the top of the camera
you can actually cycle through a number of different viewing options
to determine how you prefer to have the viewfinder set up. The X-H1 is FUJIFILM's
first camera with in body image stabilization or IBIS. It works up to
five stops of image stabilization in the various five axis, depending on the lens
that you have mounted on the camera this means that lenses such as the XF16-55MMF2.8
or our F2.0 compact prime lenses, now have image stabilization.
It also works with lenses that in conjunction with lenses that do have
image stabilization built into the lens like theXF80mmF2.8 macro or the XF50-140mmF2.8
There is a way of turning the in body image stabilization off and you'd want
to do that whenever you have the camera mounted on a tripod because you don't
want to have the camera actually induce motion. So you would go into the menu and
actually in the camera setting of the menu is where you would find the IS mode
from there you choose either continuous, shooting only or if it's stabilization
off completely you would put off.
Similar to the GFX 50s the X-H1 now has a sub
monitor on the top of the camera. There's a lot of information on there and it's
very customizable. It does use an e-ink display so you'll notice that it stays
on even with the camera powered off. To change some of the settings within there,
you go to the setup menu then to screen setting on page 3 is where you'll find
the sub monitor settings. First let's take a look at the second line there
where it's sub monitor and you can choose whether it's white on black or
black on white.
Then you have the ability to change some of these parameters are
displayed on the top of the camera and from within there there are two settings.
One's for stills ones for video and there's different information displayed
across the top there. You then select the mode you are wanting to change then you
select which of the parameters you want to have displayed and then you can from
there toggle it between the various options that are available. Shutter speed,
exposure compensation, ISO, number of frames remaining, number of amount of
time left recording etc.
The back of the X-H1 features a 3" touch screen.
You can actually use it to touch to focus as well as touch to shoot. There's also 4
customizable sweep functions. If you sweep up by default it actually shows
you the three color histogram and as well as the blinking highlights
swiping up again turns that off. If you swipe down you now have the three way
level so in addition to left and right you also have up and down pointing
and there's other functions as well. Those are all customizable and you can
actually get in to change those by pushing and holding the display back
button and then scrolling to the various functions that you're looking for in
being able to choose whether you want it to show you the ISO or change the colors
depending on which way you're sweeping.
The X-H1 uses Bluetooth® to quickly
initiate Wi-Fi networks between it and a compatible smartphone. First time you set
it up you will need to set up it through pairing. To do that you go to the
connection setting of the camera in the setup menu then go to Bluetooth® settings
and then to go to pairing registration. If you don't already have the app
installed on your smartphone there is actually a QR code that shows up on the LCD
screen and you can scan the QR code to be able to download the app. I already
have the app installed here so I just go into the app, then to pairing
registration. It looks through and searches through any nearby cameras you choose
the cameras you're wanting to connect to it'll actually confirm that everything
is working properly and discussed between the camera and the smartphone
then I will actually transfer the date and time to my camera from my smartphone
if I'm wanting to and I hit OK after that if I am wanting to connect up I have a
few different options within there I can actually control the camera remotely if
I'm wanting to from my smartphone or I can actually awesome automatically
receive images from the cameras and as soon as I've taken a picture and shot
powered the camera off it'll transfer the images over to my phone. By default
that's a 3 megapixel file if you want, you can make it a full 24 megapixels but
24 megapixels will fill up your phone very quickly. There's also the ability to
have geo-tagging where it actually acquires GPS information in your
smartphone transfers it over at regular intervals to the camera so at that point
you know exactly where your photos were taken. This is a very handy feature for
traveling to set up geo-tagging you push the geo-tagging on the camera, on the
smartphone rather. You may need to go into your network settings and choose
the camera from the list of networks that are available once you've selected
that camera network you can go back into the app and confirm
everything is okay. It automatically transfers all of the information over
from my smartphone over to the camera and now all of the GPS information is
stored in my camera.
On the top deck you'll notice in addition to having
continuous high and continuous low there's now a continuous M mode.
This uses the electronic front curtain shutter which helps to minimize
shutter shock to make sure that your images are tack sharp. When you have the
camera set on continuous high, if you have just the camera, you can get 8fps
and there's no lag in the viewfinder. If you have the optional
booster grip you can have 11fps using the mechanical shutter and
14 frames per second using the electronic shutter. X-H1 also features
flicker reduction. If you're shooting sports in a stadium for example and the
lighting is not constantly on there's a little bit of a flicker because it's
fluorescent lighting you may notice that some of your shots, when you're
taking these fast action shots, are dark and the reason it happens is because the
light happens to be fluctuating at just the time that the exposure is being
captured. To minimize that you can actually go into the camera and turn
a function called flicker reduction .on On page one of the camera settings
you'll find flicker reduction. If you turn that on what will happen is as
you're doing a burst mode and you're shooting very quickly the camera will
pause ever so slightly till it notices that light has come back up to full
intensity. Then it will capture the image that means that you have a much higher
success rate of your image being sharp the exact image you're looking for it to
also be properly exposed.
If you shoot with the X-H1 in a studio environment or
you want to be able to control the camera from your computer you'll
appreciate the fact that the tether cable lock is actually included in the
box with the camera on the side door opening it up and then when you attach
it in here making a nice secure environment where the cable won't
actually inadvertently be pulled out. Speaking of tethering there are a few
different options for you with your workflow there's actually a free
download called FUJIFILM X Acquire that allows for direct transfer from the
camera to your computer to a hot folder depending on your workflow you would
then monitor that hot folder and import the images directly into your workflow.
There's also the ability to with an optional plugin to run directly into
lightroom to capture the images directly to
your Lightroom environment. TheX-H1 is also compatible with the FUJIFILM X Raw Studio
so if you connect your camera to your computer
you can actually use the processing power of the camera to get those film
simulations that you're used to rather than having to try and mimic those within your computer
Those are just some of the features that are available on
the FUJIFILM X-H1 for still photography hope you enjoyed.
Be on thelookout for my other video about the video side of things for the FUJIFILM X-H1
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