Welcome back to the Fuji Guys Channel
My name is Billy. Today we are in Montreal, Canada
and I want to introduce you
to one of our latest team members, Francis.
Francis, welcome to the team. Thank you, man.
We have two great cameras today
to play with.
They're both kitted with a 16-50mm lens.
These cameras generally
allow you to shoot basically in any situation.
So we're going to try to shoot with the kit lens
but we're also going to try out
some of the prime lenses and more
professionally lenses to kind of give you
a rough idea of how your images can improve
by just you know buying a slightly
better lens for your camera.
Yeah! Let's do it. Since we're here
I think it's a great opportunity to
take a landscape shot so I'll be using
the kit lens and to keep it consistent
I'll be using the same camera as Billy
and when you shoot landscape you want to
keep your aperture closed so you can get
everything in focus.
So that's what I'm going to do.
So Francis was shooting with a kit lens.
With the 16-50mm lens, you're shooting
at the wide-angle portion at 16mm.
I have here Fuji's 16mm F1.4 lens.
This is a prime lens so there's no
moving parts. It's going to be very very
sharp. I'm going to close down the
aperture to F-16 allows me to get
everything in focus.
That's the same thing as shooting
of course in the landscape mode if your
camera has that and let's see if we can
get some good shots out of this lens.
So right now we're going to try to take
some portraits because everyone likes
pictures of people. Yeah!
Again we're using the same camera and we're
going to use different lenses. He's going to use
a kit lens and I'm going to use a portrait
lens and see, you know, how much better
the pictures would look like you know if
we were to upgrade from kit.
So let's give that a try.
Let's do it! I'm going to try
the 16-50. I'm going to put it to 50
to get the maximum compression and get the
shallower depth of field and... I'm
gonna be the model! Haha! So now I can see
it's a little bit blurry in the back,
which I like.
Yeah when you zoom in with your kit lens
it does help to compress the shot.
Yeah! and it also helps to reduce
the depth of field to make it more
shallow right. Now I'm just going to real
quick, test it with the 56 at 1.2 and
let's see if I do see a difference
Oh my God. Yeah, definitely!
Everything is blurred. Yeah it's amazing!
Yeah, you definitely see the difference.
So just like Francis, I'm going to be shooting
again with the kit and then I'm going to try
out the portrait lens to see what
difference it makes.
Of course again I'm going to show that
50mm and it really helps compress the
scene and really gives me more
shallow depth-of-field. So that's a
little tip if you wanted to shoot some
portraits and of course you can also
shoot it in a portrait
orientation as well. How do I look?
Really good Francis.
There you go. Alright, that was the kit
lens. I'm going to go and try it out with the
other camera now. This is with the
56 1.2 portrait lens and see...
Wow! It really does isolate the
background and again having that more
shallow depth-of-field really makes the
image pop, makes them the subject really
stand out.
I can definitely see the difference so I
already even without even taking the
picture on how much shallow
depth-of-field I'm getting. This
is really a stunning lens so definitely
you know a perfect upgrade to
your kit lens if you really want to take
some good portraits. So Francis, we got to
play with the the two lenses and
even before I took the shot, I already noticed
automatically how much more shallow
depth of field that was with the portrait lens
especially on 1.2. It's pretty obvious.
Obviously the great thing about mirrorless cameras is that
what you see through the screen is reflected
instantly
Yeah. But again, you know even using the
trick with the kit lens and zooming it out
to maximum trying to create more
shallow depth of field and
create that compression to your portrait
definitely the portrait you know even
before looking at images it's a huge
huge upgrade so yeah for sure if you want to
get much better portraits I think for me
definitely go with the
portrait lens
yeah definitely
Alright Francis, let's see if we can get some macro shots
Yeah. I'm gonna shoot with the kit lens
here again. This time I guess you have
the Fujifilm macro lens. Yeah, the 60mmF2.4.
Want to take pictures of a Flower?
Obviously macro's for flowers. Yeah.
What else do you shoot? Goes along with it.
We got one here. Oh there's a nice bee
let's see if we can get a shot of that.
What is... Oh! You see that bumblebee?
Let's see if we can get a picture.
I'm going to try to get closer and closer to it
and again you know with the kit lens there's
a minimum focus distance. You see?
I do see it. Where's it gone?
OK, it's gone now. Oh it's here! ... No it's gone.
Alright, just going to concentrate on the flowers.
Yeah. Again, I'm zooming in
and I'm trying to focus on this one right here
so I'm just going to physically go to it
and see how close I can get. So I get
about there, that's where I can get
focus and I'm zoomed in at 50mm.
Yours is at 60mm because its a 60mm
macro lens so I'm trying to kind of
duplicate some of your shots. So, if you could take
a picture of that. Let me try that. And let's see if we
can compare the shots. It really looks
nice on mine. It has some
good shallow depth of field. So that as close as I can get.
The colours of Fuji cameras are quite amazing
but
Oh wow yeah, there's no comparison
Billy: Yours is much closer and the background is so creamy
Yeah. It definitely is an upgrade. Mine
is not that bad at all. I'm going to shoot
(Oh it's actually good) wide open now because I got 60mm and
then I can physically come closer and I
get to about this distance right here. So
I can shoot like this or I can shoot with a
zoom. I zoom out to step back about here to
get my shot
so again the standard lens is pretty
good but if you're into macro, you want to
take a close-up shots of flowers bugs
and even you know coin collections, stamp
collections, definitely you should invest in
a macro lens. It does look sharper and
the bokeh in the other focus area looks
incredible actually on yours (It's gorgeous) and you get little
more minimum focus distance which is nice to get
you know to get really close (tighter, yeah)
yeah (tighter framing) so I definitely think that
a macro lenses is key
Just definitely an upgrade to your
standard lens. But still, the 16-50mm is
pretty good. Yeah
Still does really good.
Well Francis, we were shooting with prime
lenses are day comparing it to the kit
lens
Yeah. We were doing landscape shots with
the 16mm. We were doing some portraits
with the 56mmF1.2. It's a beautiful lens. Stunning.
I mean if you wanted to even have
that image stand out a little bit more with
more compression. We also offer the 90mmF2
as an option. We didn't use that today, but
there's that option. We also did some macro
shots. I mean, the kit lens did
quite well with the macro, but you know
the 60mm really got that stunning bokeh
Yeah, the cream. Which is just incredible
right (yeah) so I really like that and of
course you know we have some other prime
lens options that's within this range
the 16-50mm which is what the kit is and
it's you know not going to break the
bank. Different focal length, you got the
35mmF2 one of my favorite lenses
it's an all around good lens and it's just
going to give you that step up from the
kit by allowing shooting at
lower apertures right (absolutely) so you can get
more shallow depth-of-field. That's what
kind of I like is to isolate subject from
the background. There's even a 23mm yeah
in Montreal right, it's a perfect little lens. It's
going to be very good for street
photography I've been waiting for this
one. It's small. It's way smaller than the
the 23mmF1.4 (Yes) which is very nice if you
want to go and be stealthy and
lightweight. It's really, definitely a good add
up to our lineup. And later on of course
you know the 56mmF1.2 will actually have a
50mmF2 lens which will complete this trio
of what we call these "Designer Lenses"
Very compact, they're not going to break the
bank, but they're going to give you that
step up from the kit lenses. So you know
if you want to go all the way up you
know you can always just go midway with
Fuji's newer primes are coming out and
by all means when I say midway, the
quality of these glasses are impeccable.
Really good, really good. But, that's
enough talk about prime lenses right. So
you know this is a zoom lens we like the
convenience some times to be able to
resume in zoom out, but there are options
right. So we do have Red Badge zooms that
are a step up from the kit that can offer
you sharper images and you know the best
way to do that of course is to go in and
shoot and test it out (Yeah) we do that
now
Let's do it! So earlier we were playing with the
kit lens and of course comparing it to
some of our Fujifilm prime lenses.
Obviously the macro, the landscape shots
that we did, even the portrait shots
but actually you know if you look at
zoom lens itself is actually different
variations in versions of them. Here's
the kit 16-50mm (yeah) it actually has a
variable aperture (yeah) where this one
here which is Fuji's Red Badge zoom, the
16-55mm is a constant F2.8 so you can
actually upgrade from a kit lens to a
more professional zoom lens as well
without having to go to primes and of
course the size is one big difference
between the two, but what you get is
constant aperture. That means you know
when you're shooting low light
situations you have much more light
coming in.
Yeah and if you zoom in you keep the
same aperture all the way through so
you don't lose any... Really good shooting right? Yeah so you can
actually shoot still wide open where (Yeah)
with that I think it closes
to a F5.6. Exactly. So you get more
depth of field, it's harder to isolate the
background even though you know we're
zooming in and try to compress the shot.
So with this one you get the compression
but you still get the 2.8 at the end
so you get the shallower
depth-of-field. You know so if you want to
be more versatile you know you can also
again upgrade your kit zoom to a more
professional zoom and again you get
that little more in quality. So we'll
take a look and see that (yeah). Let's go
some shots now and (let's just take some shots and compare) see if we're
getting good shots here. Of course you,
where are we right now actually?
We're at the (Jacques Cartier Bridge) Jacques Cartier Bridge.
This is basically (Le ponts Jacque Cartier)
and I'm just shooting wide open
right now I don't really have to but...
(Me too)
you know I think the distance we're at, I don't
think we're going to have any issues you
don't really need to isolate the
background from the foreground but you
know at least I have 2.8 I get you know
a shutter speed of 1/18 hundredths of a second.
Billy: What do you get when you shoot the bridge up there?
Francis: Uh which ISO are you at?
I'm just at 200 ISO. Okay so me, I'm at 400
so I get 1000 and I am at 5.6. So that's
a difference there you know you have to
be closed down a little bit
again it doesn't really matter too
much in these situations, but you know I
Red Badge zoom like this you know it's
not just the size of the lens, but
bigger glass you know is better image
quality for sure. Hopefully that we
can see that in the images later.
Yeah. But also you know it was raining
It was earlier (yeah) you know
this is a weather-resistant lens so that's another
nice upgrade from the standard kit. Yeah.
So there we go. I think you know we'll
take a look at these images later on and
see how they compare. I don't think
(see the difference) it's not that big of a difference
but you know if we probably zoom in closer
we'll probably see that you know
that the Red Badge zoom (it's sharpness) maybe a
little sharper right./ Yeah definitely. So if you're really
into getting you know the sharpest
picture. Especially useful when you want
to blow up images very large because you
can really see (the details) things that are very
soft when you start blowing up pictures
right. With this, you keep it sharp
even if you look like really close
you still get the details (yeah) at the
very end of the lens all the way through.
So it's an option for you again if you
don't want to go prime with some of the
options but (If you want to go a little more...) have a more versatile lens.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, this is a perfect fit.
So we're going to do some panning with both
of these cameras you got the 16-50mm, I got the
16-55mmF2.8. And we got a biker coming.
Yeah, bike's coming around. Let's see if we can get a shot.
Let's try that.
Thank you! Merci beaucoup. I was a bit too late
for that. I was a little slow on that too.
I didn't zoom out so here's another one.
Again, I'm going to focus on one point.
I'm going to set the shutter speed to 1/6th of a second.
I'm at 160th too.
I'm closing the aperture down because it's very bright here,
I'm almost pretty much at F/22.
and I'm just going to wait for some bikers
to come by and what we're going to do is
we're going to use a panning technique and
what that is is it allows us to follow the subject
and keep them sharp as possible where the
background because it's being panned gets
blurred out so it gives a little bit of
action. So here's a subject that's coming
by here. Let's try that.
and we're just going to pan him
right to the point where... you go
Did I get it? and let's see if we got that shot.
That's pretty good.
See I'm right over here and he's going
there so you know what I'm going to set
my focus there instead...
I'm going to do the same thing, I'm going to pre-focus.
...and wait for them to get in.
Yeah I'm at F/16 right now so it should
be sharp. So manual focus. And again you
know we pre-focus so we just want to
pan the subject to the point.
There again.
The faster the better because the
background gets a little bit more blurred.
More motion. Yeah.
Oh that one's kind of cool.
This is kind of fun whether it's a kit lens
or you know whether you have the
professional Red Badge zoom that we
have here. Again for panning, it doesn't
really require anything. Of course, this
lens is gonna be a little bit sharper
especially when you zoom out the quality
of the way because of the larger glass
you know obviously allows light to focus
better on to the sensor itself and
that's going to of course allow you know
hopefully for sharper images as a
result. So Francis, we spent the
whole day shooting out with similar
camera, but we obviously interchanged the
kit lens to different primes, to different
zoom lens like
the one I have here today. We obviously
got to see you know in real life what the
images look like. Hopefully we can see
some differences between a kit versus say
a prime lens or even a professional zoom
lens like 16-55mm that we have here.
Yeah. What do you think about the shoot
today? Well I think if you know you're on
the budget, you're starting photography,
this is definitely a great option.
Yeah absolutely, I mean it is a nice versatile lens, right?
The image quality is still good.
I mean you don't have all the options
that you get from primes and constant
zoom lenses (yeah, yeah) but still to start
off... it's amazing it's really good
you can do pretty much anything with it.
Absolutely and you know what when
we shot macros earlier I mean the kit
lens did pretty good, but you know we did
also see that if you really want to
elevate your photography you know your
pictures that you've taken with the
camera, really you got to look at other
different professional lenses. Some of
the prime lenses, we noticed right away
at least for the macro lens, it's
incredible how nice the bokeh was.
The 1.2! We saw the 1.2 which is an
awesome portrait lens and obviously it's a
very fast lens compared to the kit.
Yeah. But really the out-of-focus area on
that is just amazing. Yeah.
You know for the landscape
shots for most part again, it's a slight
update, but still you know you have some
of the sharpness that you get with prime
lens and that's why people go with that.
So again we talked about blowing
pictures larger and and really seeing
some the soft spots when you blow them
up. It is very important to start
with a good picture, right? Yeah, exactly.
So yeah in conclusion I mean this is a
good lens, but if you go with
professional lenses, you definitely get
the quality you pay for. Yeah, so try to
check out some of these lenses in the
retail store just to see you know I'm
sure you can bring your body in and you
can try some of the lenses on demo at
retail just to see for yourself.
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