hi i'm a sony shooter at heart but something about fuji cameras just keeps drawing me into them
i've tried the xe2 before the xt3 more recently but i ended up selling them and i just kept
comparing them to my sony cameras and i didn't love them but i've now found this fuji camera
that i think i actually quite like and it's this guy the x100v and it's because it's so different
to my sony cameras you just can't compare them this is actually a lot of fun to shoot with
let's talk about why i like it for a while now i've had this idea that i want to start
taking more and more photos things of the kids as they're growing up family shots out
and about that kind of thing all the crap that you typically take with your phone
but i want to take that with an actual camera and enjoy the process of doing so
i find my sony cameras that when i pick them up i'm in the mindset of working and i tend to
not enjoy the process of shooting for myself with them especially when it comes to the edit process
i don't enjoy shooting for myself i don't know why that is and then in my head something somewhere
decided that this would be a good camera to fill that void and it kind of has been now i'm
not gonna claim to be an expert on this camera nor am i constituting this as a review this is a sony
shooter using this camera for fun so play nice fuji community that's gonna very likely attack
the comment section down below so here's why i find this works for me and why i enjoy using this
versus my sony cameras this is a tiny little camera here's the 55 zeiss f 1.8 next to it
for comparison there it's got the lens hood attached but so you can see
here's a 12 pro max next to it it's a small camera and it fits in a jacket pocket a hoodie pouch
wherever you want to put it easily i don't have to bring a bag with me i don't even have to attach a
strap in actual fact i like it without a strap attached so the fact that i don't really have
to think about this when it comes out with me is a big deal it just it can go with me wherever i want
it to go so this is an aps-c camera with a 23 mil f2 lens now that equates to 35 mil which i find
for what i'm taking photos of is pretty good in terms of framing most things now the best bit is
that the lens is fixed it doesn't detach from here so i can't put another lens on which means gas
gear acquisition syndrome doesn't start to creep in i'm not browsing b h searching for the next fix
i can't look for other lenses because it just it's not possible aside from buying a couple
of accessories i've got a level on the uh the hot shoe there a screen protector you can buy
different shutter buttons to go on the top there i've tried with and i kind of like it without
and and also a adapter that goes on the front here which essentially allows you to screw things onto
the filter thread it is reverse threaded meaning filters lens hoods they won't just screw on you
have to buy an adapter first and then you can screw things on so aside from that there really
isn't anything else you can buy for this so not having cats is kind of uh a good thing
fuji is known for its film simulations which are essentially a bunch of settings that the camera
uses to create looks create styles emulate old film stocks now there are ones that you can kind
of put in yourself which are called like recipes uh they're versions of existing emulations that
people change a little bit and i've ended up finding one that i really enjoy using
for pretty much all situations if i can find the name of it it was a while back now
i'll put it on the screen here essentially adds a bunch of grain the colors are very very muted
and it just has a real old look to it that i just like straight out the camera for pretty much
everything and that look does remind me of film now i don't say that because i show on film now i
say that because i learned to shoot photos on film with an slr camera with an actual mirror in it
digital slrs weren't a thing literally learned how to shoot with an slr camera proper film you expose
it in a bag in a classroom this is when i was in college i would have been 17 in england and you
go in the darkroom and you use all the chemicals to develop it that's how i learned how to shoot
photos and the look that i use it reminds me very much of that i actually treat this like a point
and shoot i know there is a bunch of people out there that do the same with this camera
i have the shutter speed and the iso set to automatic so i can control this if i want to you
lift this up and change it around i don't i have it set to automatic all i control is my aperture
which you do directly on the lens here by turning this little ring now because they're automatic it
does mean that there's going to be grain in there sometimes but the simulation i'm using
already adds a bunch of grain anyway so i really don't care these are images for myself i just
want them to look how they look straight out the camera and that's exactly what i get so you can
actually leave the power on on this all the time and just have auto power off set to 15 seconds
so then i just tap the shutter and it's ready to shoot and i get my image i focus on the subject in
front of me the composition if the lighting's right if it's not i just use the exposure
compensation here to either darken it or brighten it and that's it i take the photo and you might
not like the photos that have been coming over the top throughout this video but for me i just love
how they look now another reason i quite like it is because it's such a different breed of camera i
really can't compare it to my sony cameras there's no lenses to change around the grip is tiny so
you hold it completely different it's actually really not that ergonomically friendly to hold so
you tend to hold it very differently when you're capturing photos shooting with the ovf the evf
you tend to hold it very hard i also like shooting at the hip like this with a screen at a 90 degree
angle there they're all really enjoyable to use because they're so different to what i
typically use with my big cameras it has an ovf so an optical viewfinder and an evf which you
can switch between by just pulling the lever here i'll try and show you on the screen how that looks
but an ovf is just very reminiscent of shooting with an slr camera a digital slr camera so
it literally allows you to be kind of in the moment you're seeing everything
live not through a screen so that's a nice thing as well nice little thing about the ovf
as well if you are using the optical viewfinder but you're not entirely sure if something is in
focus you can just push the lever here to the left or push it opposed to pulling it and it
gives you a little tiny box in the corner of the ovf which is now a digital evf inside of the ovf
and it allows you to see what's actually in focus i'll try and put that over the top so you can see
and maybe i'm just in the honeymoon phase of this still i mean i've had it nearly two months
but in general it's just fun to use i guess a real easy way to explain it is that i see this as a
tool and this is a hobby a couple of other things i like about this if you're thinking about picking
one up other things you might like to know if you are shooting in automatic so when you hold the
shutter button there it focuses you can actually click and hold the shutter and then turn the focus
on the front here and it'll give you access to manual focus as well if you want to use this
for video as well it's actually a pretty capable camera you get 4k up to 30 frames a second you get
all the fuji's film simulations you can use f-log and it has a built-in four-stop nd ah something i
don't like it's fuji menus and one big hate i have with the fuji menus especially when you first get
this camera if you're trying around different settings playing about with different things
if you go into one menu change something and then you want to go back and see how that now affects
the camera and you don't like it you want to go back and change it when you go back into the menus
it doesn't take you to the same place you have to go back through all the menus to get to where you
just were so that's something i really don't like about fuji menus this is the only camera i have i
actually use a lens cap with and it's probably because it's so small but it's also because it
just looks really nice on the camera when you're not using it like that is a good look in itself
it does come in black as well like fully black i do sometimes think i should have got the black
instead but there's a lot of debate that says fuji cameras that have an odf in there typically look
better in the silver and black variant it does look good the silver is actually a uh a very it's
not shiny at all it's brushed it's almost like a matte silver it's really hard to explain until you
feel and see this in your hand so this is the fuji x100v will the novelty wear off i don't know this
is the longest i've had a fujicam where i haven't thought about selling it so we'll see that's
it really all right i appreciate you watching i'll uh i'll see you in the next one take care
you