Hi of photographer David Flores and today I'm sitting down with Justin from Fuji and
we're taking a First Look at Fuji's brand new XH-1.
Where does the XH-1 fit in the Fuji's camera lineup?
Well the XH-1 is our new flagship camera.
What are some of the needs that came up in designing a new flagship?
Well I mean there's lots of needs.
We felt that we needed a body that was a little bit bigger, a little bit more robust.
That was size right but also it gives us a chance to sort of use some more technology.
So being able to add IBIS to a camera.
So, the in-body image stabilization in this camera
It's a first for us.
But it requires a lot of other hardware--requires you know 3 motors to drive the sensor around.
A new dual processor in there to actually run the system.
But also requires a bigger shutter.
So, we had a completely redesigned shutter in this camera that gives a sensor that room
it needs to be able to shift around.
It's an incredibly quiet shutter that you built in there.
We need that quieter shutter, we need that low impact shutter not to be imparting vibration
because that affects the in-body stabilization also.
So, by having that shutter really adds to the features the camera and the ability to
hand hold the camera.
So being able to basically give you 5-stops of image stabilization to a lens like the
16-55mm f2.8.
That didn't come from the factory with OIS in it.
So really giving you that feature and being able to give your 56mm f1.2 that I know you
love, Image Stabilization that's a great thing.
And there's other things that come along with making the body a little larger.
Looks like there's some DNA from the GFX in here.
Is this the same E Ink type of screen that was seen on the GFX?
Same E Ink type display yeah but really this camera from sort of functional form shape
it's kind of the child of X-T2 and GFX.
That really blending a lot of things together that it is, you know you're not going to feel
unfamiliar with it if you're a T2 owner.
And if your GFX owner you're going to feel at home too.
But really kind of blending the two design principals together.
Keeping the manual control dials, adding that display on top.
Being able to customize that display and see what you got.
But also, the bigger sort of hand grip; that sort of deeper grip to it that a lot of photographers
are used to now.
And that feels fantastic but under the hood there's a lot of other pro things going on.
Completely new autofocus system and new algorithms, new everything driving it.
So, it's using the same sensor as the XT-2, but we sort of turbocharged all that stuff
under the hood.
So it's just looking at things differently.
It's allowing it to track differently and track better and faster but it's also adding
electronic first-curtain to it as changed some of the ways Is the shutter works.
And being able to reduce blackout time.
If you are shooting sports and action, The camera is much quicker.
With electronic shutter we're getting a blackout time about 100ms,
So it really sort of feels like you're shooting a DSLR at that point.
For folks that don't know electronic shutter it's not a full electronic shutter you have
a physical shutter that's finishing out that exposure.
What's the benefit for the user, starting with that electronic first curtain shutter?
Well, there's a couple different benefits.
But the biggest one that the user will see is the speed.
At faster shutter speeds the camera will automatically click over to mechanical shutter?
We set it up, automatically the camera can click over to mechanical, so you don't get
artifacting from the effect.
One thing I noticed looking just right here at the back of the camera is the LCD screen
on the back is a little bit different.
Looks like we're 16x9 back here now?
Actually, were looking at being wider.
Because this camera we now added DCI 4K So, true cinema 4K aspect ratio.
In terms of video, this is also a proper professional flagship style camera for video.
We've added a lot of little features with video so now doing log internal is probably
one of the biggest ones that customers are asking for, giving them that feature.
But also, being able to do 120fps high speed.
The F-Log was awesome on the X-T2.
Essentially, it's a great format if you knew you were going to be doing some aggressive
color grading or post-production on a file.
But, the only negative that was you how to run an HDMI out into an external recorder.
Here you can go right in on the SD card.
Right on the SD card in log, yes.
So we have log capture internal said you want to be run-and-gun to be quick and don't have
space for an external recorder, we got you covered now.
We got the new Eterna film simulation which is based on one of our old Motion Picture
film stocks.
It really is a low-contrast, low saturation film stock Ideal for sort of a moving-picture
application.
But also, we've now added it so that there's actually film simulations dedicated to the
video function.
So, you can have one film simulation set for still images, the second one set for video
and you don't have to be constantly changing them.
you Can flip back-and-forth, you always get what you want.
So right up here, I can switch between the video mode, the video mode going to have like
let's say a F-Log internal on.
But when I want to start shooting stills, I just come over to any of the still…
You can be in Acros, you can be in black and white if you need to have Eterna or have whatever
you like set for your video shooting and you have both those separate of each other.
So, we've made the whole sort of image menu separate.
You can have that you don't have to shoot I have to remember "Oh shoot!"
I have to remember to change my film sim.
Oh, that's already changed.
You don't have to worry about it.
We were going through the video menu earlier we were checking out the camera there's 4
video pages on this.
4 pages of video menus, yeah.
So, we now have some different bit rates we can record at 50/100/200 Mbps
200 Mbps in camera?
In camera.
That's amazing.
So just looking at really trying to focus on some of the video functions and how can
we improve those things and make them even better on this camera?
They've also with the focus system updates, they've looked at making linear focus pulls.
This focus by wire technology, videographers aren't big fans of it because it tends to
ramp and move really kind of weird.
Some of the new tech in this is being able to go linear on the focus wheels, so that
you get some smoother track and pan.
But also looking at the AF algorhythm, So with the autofocus continuous setting in camera
if you don't have the time or you can't be manually pulling focus If you're going to
use AFC, we have the ability there to set the tracking speed so that we can do we don't
have the snap focus of a still image where jumps and focuses from you to me.
It actually can rack that focus much smoother.
You can also use the touchscreen for photo and video.
Yeah, we have a touchscreen on the back now and in having the video control.
Having silent touch video controls.
Being able while I'm recording video to pinch in and zoom-in to see what we've got.
What an incredible set of features.
Yeah, really addressing sort of requests and needs that users have been given us.
If, you're a flagship user, if your professional or if you're enthusiast that requires the
high capabilities of still photography and 4K image making, I think the XH-1 is an amazing
flagship option.
Well thank you so much for coming by and giving us the tour Justin.
Thank you.
I'm photographer David Flores, see you next time.
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Walk towards me.
Look above.
Ready?
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