- This is the Fujifilm XH-1.
This camera has all the Fujifilm fans
like go crazy about, "Oh my god, in-body stabilisation!"
But for somebody else, eh, just a XT-2 with
in-body stabilisation, and what's
so good about it?
But I can tell you there's more to it.
Fujifilm is known for making some of the most
loved still-cameras.
They start to dip their toes
into the 4K water with XT-2.
Now comes the X-H1.
Are they finally going head-first into the game?
Haha, look at that.
That is a, what's it called, dolly light, dolly lamp?
That light in front tells you
this camera is actually rolling.
I haven't seen any other camera put this feature.
Of course the in-body stabilisation works
with the OIS on the lens.
Well it's probably not as stable as the GH5
because the GH5 is just crazily stable.
Especially if you turn on the digital stabilisation.
This one don't have any digital stabilisation,
just like my Sony.
Actually I have used these to shoot my Hong Kong travel
photography episode in Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday.
I shot the whole of it with this.
My two days of shooting with this X-H1,
I'm mostly happy with the stabilisation.
As I mentioned before, I don't really like the
GH5 stabilisation.
It's got a little bit of distortion at the corner sometimes
even with just optical stabilisation.
In some situations I do find a tiny bit of distortion.
Still, it's rare and not that noticeable.
It's just a shame when this comes from light to dark area
when I use auto-exposure, when it
changes exposure automatically, it just change in steps.
It's kind of clicky, steps of changing,
unlike my Sony camera, when it change exposure,
it changes smoothly.
This is one thing that bother me a lot with the XT-2.
It's a shame it still do that.
Sometimes when I zoom, it makes this kind of weird flicker.
Another thing that's disappointing is battery life.
On paper, the battery life doesn't look good already.
And in reality, as I mention I had shot with this
yesterday, and I feel like the battery life is almost
like my Sony a7 camera, which means it's bad.
I'm not sure exactly how it compares to my Sony camera
but it feels really similar.
Not good.
Although this is not just an XT-2
with in-body stabilisation.
There are nice little details that
can be so great to shoot with.
Shooting 4K at 200mb per second.
And it shoots F-Log without a grip,
because XT-2, if you want to shoot F-Log
you have to use the grip, and it got new
Eterna Film Simulation.
I like this new Eterna Film Simulation.
It's kind of like those Cinelike profiles
from other cameras.
This gives you flat picture for quick color-correction
when Log file is just just too much hassle.
But, if you want F-log, you can,
although it's still 8-bit file,
banding could occur pretty often.
It's got something called a movie silent control.
Basically, you don't have to use the dials on the top,
you use the touchscreen at the back.
Control, everything when shooting movie.
But since this is a touch screen control,
I would love to see bigger tap area.
But same problem with the Sony camera,
with the default setting, is that
when you change aperture, I want to see
the histogram when I change exposure.
And there's a spec, linear focus by wire setting,
let me show you.
For Sony cameras, you have to get that G Master lens
with the manual focusing actually linear,
but until now I'm not even know that it is possible
with just a software, with a setting, inside the menu.
Now you can do really accurate focus racking, manually.
Because it's finally linear!
So of course, you can take photos with this,
this is a camera, right?
The thing is, it's really great to switch between
video mode and still mode as well.
Because it's got separate setting for still and video.
There are a lot of settings that bracket "movie"
This tell you that when you setting this up
it only affect when it's in movie mode.
For some of these kind of, film simulation,
now you're using Eterna for bracket movie.
If you now change it to still photo mode,
and then you come back into here,
you can see the film simulation is using something else.
What's more, when you're in movie mode,
there are a lot of settings that's just for still photo,
that basically just grey out,
so that you don't get confused.
This is what I call user friendly.
Now something interesting is that if you're shooting
PAL system, like me, if you have to maintain
180 degrees shutter angle, there's no 1/50 here,
so what do I do, do I go always go to 60 and then change it
with the dial, you can do that.
But what I usually do is, for example,
I was shooting photos, when I want to shoot video,
I will change to video mode from here, and then
I'd have to turn it to T.
That's for time, I guess.
When you change it to T, you can change the shutter speed
with the dial.
So last time I had set it to 50.
Change it to T, it goes to 50, automatically.
And, yes, you can still have this 48,
1/48 for shooting 24 frames per second.
And as you know, Fujifilm cameras really great photos.
Really, nice colour.
Now the shutter is really quiet.
As they claim, this is a newly designed mechanical shutter.
(hip music)
You can take 14 fps with an electronic shutter, but with,
mechanical shutter, 8 fps without a grip,
with the grip, 11 fps.
Continuous, auto-focus mode seems great.
A few shots here and there get out of focus.
After all, this is not a spot oriented camera,
so I'm happy with this performance.
If you do electronic shutter, it can go up to 14 fps,
and without the grip as well.
Now, this is simply amazing.
This feels like a Sony.
The Fujifilm X-H1 feels like a good
balance between still and video.
It's great for the Fuji shooter
that wants in-body stabilisation,
and for those who want to shoot some videos too.
There are loads of new features
especially for video shooting,
and I love how easy it is to switch between
still and video with separate settings.
It is not yet a video oriented camera like
the GH5 or the a7S series, but this is probably
one of the cameras with the best balance between
photos and video.