Hi, I’m photographer David Flores, hanging out in the park with my pals B&H we’re going
to play a little basketball and tryout Fuji’s brand-new X-H1.
We’re actually shooting this video on the X-H1 let's go check it out.
The X-H1 is Fuji's Flagship camera and it definitely feels that way.
They taken all of the design logic from previous iterations like the XT-2 and the GFX.
Put them into slightly larger magnesium alloy body.
Feels wider it's a much larger handgrip which is a good thing.
The handgrip feels incredible.
If you’re coming from a larger single-lens reflex camera, your hand falls right into
the grip perfectly.
It's comfortable--you're ready to shoot.
One of the things that I've come to appreciate about the camera is the EVF extends out from behind
the body.
So, your face doesn't smash against the LCD screen when you're making photograph.
The cameras using a newly developed shutter.
Which is extremely quiet.
It's almost Leaf shutter quiet.
You can make it even quieter by enabling Electronic First Curtain Shutter.
Uses an electronic shutter to begin your exposure closes it with a physical shutter.
If you're shooting it at shutter speeds higher than 1/2000th of a second, that's cool the
camera automatically flips over to Mechanical shutter so you're not having any of the weird
Jello-y effect in your shot.
The LCD screen is incredibly photo centric.
Doesn’t flip around, it's not really the best option for a vlogger.
But, if you're shooting in portrait orientation, you can tilt the screen towards you.
I think that's very comfortable if you shoot in a studio space.
That's nice.
If you like composing vertically with an LCD screen this is one of the best that's out
there.
That looks good!
If you like to shoot in a portrait orientation the vertical battery grip gives you all of
the ergonomic controls make that kind of composition, that kind of shot easy.
You’ve got a joystick, shutter release, dials, everything you want but most impressive
thing is that it enhances performance.
Switch over to boost mode and you're shooting up to 11fps.
For video shooter's it extends the recording time for 4K video recording, go from 15 minutes
all the way up to 30 minutes of recording which is nice.
Essentially, there's 3 batteries working, one in the camera body and 2 in the grip.
The camera is cycling around which battery it’s drawing power from.
That helps with heat dispersion and keeps your image clean an artifact free.
The shutters incredibly discreet.
The new design it does produce a sound but not so much so that it would bother an athlete
or take them out of their game.
If you were shooting like the sidelines of the game, no problem.
If you're in the mix of things the camera's not going to take away from the action at
hand.
So, if you used previous cameras, the X-H1 is using a new algorithm for autofocus tracking.
You can customize this in the menu settings based on the type of subject that you're shooting.
We found it very accurate and it on par with a very good DSLR.
Overall the feel is incredibly premium, it’s like using a 1 series integrated camera either
from Canon or Nikon.
It’s a solid feel.
It’s a solid build and the camera is incredibly responsive.
So, if you're used to be image quality from the X-Pro 2 and X-T2, you’re getting very
much the same here.
But, the ergonomics in the overall performance of the camera make for a much better user
experience.
So, 5-axis, in-body camera stabilization.
This is something folks requested for a long time from a X-series camera.
it's a feature that really goes beyond improving image quality.
From the user end if you're composing with a longer lens.
I felt this today shooting with the 56mm f1.2 and the 90mm f2.
Really helps keep things straight I was able to keep my concentration on the subject.
When I would move it would follow with me and I don't know what Fuji’s doing here
but this is better than any system that I've tried looking through the viewfinder.
With the X-H1, Fuji’s really gotten serious about video and one of the things that they've
been pushing higher dynamic range.
In film moving image.
F-log what you can record internally to SD Cards.
Forced us into a base ISO of 800.
Throughout the day we shot most everything and Eterna we tried to get that at dynamic
range 400.
But, that again forced us to a base ISO of 800.
So, what we did as a compromise we kept it in Eterna.
We're shooting at a dynamic range 100.
And even at DR 100 we were forced to use ND filters.
More than any X-Series camera before it the X-H1 has a ton of professional video features.
We shot most of the day DCI 4K at 200 Mbps.
We demo the internal F-log what you can see here.
The Camera even does 5x slow motion at 120fps in HD.
I particularly enjoyed recording my friends in slow motion because, they're not professional
basketball players.
And, this made them look good.
Well I had a great time shooting some b-ball with my friends B&H today.
You know, the XH-1 it’s a fantastic jack-of-all-trades camera.
It’s Very photo-centric.
I think it's more and more users embrace the professional video features of the camera,
Fuji will add more of those through firmware or through Future models.
For more on the X-H1, photography and all things imaging, Visit B&H.
I'm photographer David Flores, See you next time.