- For those of you who've been watching ShortCircuit for
over a year now, since the channel is just over a year old,
last year we did a video on the GFX 100, which at the time
was Fujifilm's best medium format digital camera.
And I would argue that they might've topped themselves,
with a cheaper camera this year.
On top of this camera, then I'm about to un-box,
they sent over this 80 mil F1.7,
I will tell you why that's important in a moment.
And their really cool 45 mil 2100 F4.
Okay. So in the box we've got a manual,
warranty, actually it looks like this is a digital manual
and something about capture one.
Everyone who I've ever spoke to who uses capture one
prefers capture one by a long shot over light room.
No, there's no license.
It's literally just an ad to download the software.
Okay. Let's see what's on the rest of this box.
We have a type C charging cable,
a camera strap.
For $6,000, this is a lackluster camera strap.
I mean, you, like I usually say
you're probably going to replace this,
but I might put it on the camera just to see how it feels.
Okay. We've got a couple of adapters
for different countries, a wall wort,
It's a type C and they include the cable but,
I always hate charges like this because
it means you have to have a C to C cable
which I'm sure many of you out there do,
but it's not the type of cable that you still just
have lying around your house all the time.
Like you might have a couple of them for
different devices around the house but
if you lose this cable, it's kind of hard to find like,
you can't go into a random grocery store
and find a type C to C cable all the time.
You might be able to in some places.
See another traveling adapter, another traveling adapter.
Ooh. For those of you who don't know,
medium format, all you really need to understand is
it's a format that is larger than the typical full frame
sensor size that you'll find in
mirrorless and DSLR cameras these days.
So, for example the Sony A7S3
that I covered in a recent video, is a full frame camera.
This is a medium format digital camera.
And it has a 102 megapixel gigantic medium format sensor.
As you can see, this sensor is much larger,
than the one that was in A7S3,
and it is a much higher resolution.
And that's one of the advantages of medium format,
cameras that are much higher resolution,
and have a much shallower depth of field
than your full frame cameras.
So while this is 900 grams, it feels,
it feels not that heavy.
So let's look at the rest of the body.
On the top, we have a very familiar model
for anyone who used a Fuji camera before.
This is their little button lock,
and then they have a manual aperture priority,
shutter priority program,
and then six custom profiles, which is pretty awesome.
I don't actually know a camera that gives you that many.
You have these two buttons here.
This top one is set to do face detection
or eye detection auto focus, which is nice,
but I'm pretty sure you can customize it to anything.
And then this bottom button is currently set
to change the display on this camera.
So right now it shows all of our settings
and our film simulation,
and the mode that we're in, which is manual.
But if you change it, you can also display like this
which is kind of cool because it's got these virtual dials.
I actually liked this display better.
I feel like I'd use this one the most.
And then I believe this one is your histogram
which just shows a top view.
If you're shooting from the hip like this
if you wanted a bigger version of your histogram
and you didn't want it on your LCD display,
this is a nice touch to have it available,
so you can check your exposure.
On the back of the camera,
we've got the same flippy screen
that was originally in the GFX 100.
I'm not the hugest fan of this display,
It's not bad, there are certain situations
where if like you're holding the camera like this,
and then you want to pop out the display
to see your shot at a better angle,
that's nice, but I find it overall less useful.
We have the focus out here which just allows you to go
from manual, continuous or single,
a little joystick, which feels pretty good.
The AE lock button, the menu button, display, play,
quick settings, which is all standard.
This camera has dual SD card slots, which is very important.
Especially if you're a professional photographer.
You do not ever want a lack of redundancy in your media.
Which honestly should be a standard for all cameras
at this point but.
Every time a manufacturer who does not have
dual slots for the media is doing something wrong.
On the right of the camera with the SD card door,
we have a 2.5 millimeter.
Is this a mic jack, What is this?
Oh, it's a remote Jack.
Okay, so if you're doing a time-lapse,
of one of those like 2.5 millimeter,
you can just like have a trigger to the side or,
there's other camera accessories
that will utilize that port.
I just realized
that this battery is the same battery that I use
in my Fuji XT4, which is super awesome.
So if you're an XT4 user,
and you wanna add this camera as a second body
or you wanna upgrade, you can keep your batteries.
We have, ah, here we go.
Here's where we have mic and headphone and then.
They did it guys. They put micro HTMI on this camera.
Press F that's unfortunate.
Micro HTMI for those of you who don't know,
not a great connector, very easily breaks.
I'm not surprised there wasn't space for a full-size HTMI
in this body specifically,
but maybe Fuji can figure that out on their next revision.
And then a flash sync port.
So for all of you professional photographers out there,
who want a flash sync port for your lights
or any other camera accessories that use it,
this camera has one it's not,
surprisingly it's not a photography feature
that is on lower end cameras.
So it's not surprising to see it on a professional level,
medium format camera.
Okay, so enough about the camera physically.
We've gone through the whole thing.
It's got a two quarters holding port on the bottom
like every other camera let's move on.
Let's talk about this lens.
Fuji sent over their 80 millimeter 1.7.
Now, for those of you who don't know,
this lens is a big deal, because it's the first,
I believe, GF lens that Fuji has designed,
that is below F2.
A full frame camera with an F1.4 lens,
is already gonna give you a
ridiculously shallow depth of field.
And up until this point, a lot of people have argued
that Fuji's medium format system is
not that much better than full frame because
their lenses were all F2.8 at the fastest.
And what that meant was the depth of field between
a medium format sensor with an F2.8 lens,
and a 35 five millimeter sensor with an F1.4 lens,
was very similar.
That changes today with this lens
this lens is 80 millimeters.
So that makes it about 63 millimeters
compared to a full frame camera,
or on a full frame camera, I should correct myself.
This lens comes with a little bag.
It's a nice touch I won't complain.
It's always nice to have a bag to go along with your lenses.
We've got quite a large lens hood, which is nice.
The lens, wow.
GF 80 millimeter.
We've got a 77 millimeter front filter thread,
which is a pretty standard size, that's awesome.
And honestly, this lens isn't that heavy.
I would have expected it to be quite a bit heavier.
It's an 80 millimeter medium format,
there's a lot of glass in here.
It has to cover a gigantic,
look how large this band at circle is. It's huge.
Ready for that click, that beautiful click.
Oh, that sounds nice.
This feels like a great combination.
Now the body does feel quite a bit heavier with the lens,
but not any heavier than DSLRs that I've used.
Like something like a 5D with a decent size lens,
it feels about the same as this.
And I feel like it feels pretty balanced in the hand.
One last comment I'll make
about the actual body of this camera though
is they probably used a less premium material
on the edges of the camera here,
because they do feel like a little bit,
I don't know rougher, is how I would describe it.
Now that the lens is on the camera,
let's go test it out.
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Okay, let's go test this camera.
So we're just gonna do a quick demo
of a portrait photo of Chase here.
And I wanna try Fuji's new film simulation,
nostalgic negative, I think it's called let's see.
Wow. This is really shallow, honestly, from the onset
it feels like the auto focus is keeping up pretty decently.
Even if I go like this, Oh, it's hunting a little,
but that wasn't that slow.
Is that an lttstar.com hat?
And then look at me. Nice.
So before we take a look at these photos on a computer,
let's go outside and do a quick video test,
and to see how well the in-body stabilization works.
Okay, I'm really having a very hard time stop for a sec.
Wow. This is shallow.
That was super hard to pull focus on
cause it's a focus by wire lens.
So there's no feedback.
This lens is not amazing for video, it looks really good.
I really like this color profile.
I've been shooting Fuji for about five years now and,
I think this might be my new favorite profile.
The skin tone looks pretty good already,
and when you punch in, look at that detail.
This shot is at F1.7, so the widest open you could be,
and it is so sharp.
I'm really impressed with this actually.
Like this one came out a little bit soft so
the auto-focus on this camera is not perfect,
but I was kind of being unfair to it.
I feel like I wouldn't, you wouldn't move
as drastically forward and backward
as I did a couple of times when I was just shooting photos.
it's not gonna be anything close to something like a Sony,
A7R or honestly anything Sony makes.
But you shouldn't expect it to be
because that's not what they're trying to do.
They're just trying to deliver decent auto-focus
on a medium format camera.
Let's take a look at the other thing that we tried
and that's video.
Right off the bat at F1.7 this shot is so shallow.
You can see, see that like I was having a hard time,
finding focus because the lenses just like most Fuji lenses,
unfortunately they're all focused by wire.
So you don't have that immediate feedback in the focus.
When I was focusing, it was actually lagging a little bit
as I was changing focus, which is really not acceptable
when you're trying to pull focus on video manually.
And that's kind of what, in my opinion,
has always prevented Fuji cameras
from being good video options.
Of course you can adapt lenses.
You can use older lenses, you can use Sydney lenses
but the lenses that they make for stills, unfortunately
aren't that great for video.
And while they might look good in like a static shot,
they are not the best choice
when you're doing a lot of movement
or just doing honestly any video
cause pulling focus is an essential part of shooting video.
There's a weird digital look to Fuji's video.
And this camera doesn't seem to have that same
like digital looking sharpness texture to the image.
And that's a really good thing.
But again, guys it's a stills camera that can shoot video
and it does it decently.
So like if you're shooting like a landscape,
or something that doesn't move a lot
and you just want like a nice static shot
of like a waterfall or something,
this camera would actually do a very good job of that.
For the enthusiast and the professional
who want to take the plunge and
start shooting medium format digitally,
this is probably one of your best options.
The only other camera that is similar to this one
in its price range is the Hasselblad X1D Mac II.
But that camera is a leaf shutter.
It doesn't have the same level of auto-focus.
It doesn't have inbuilt image stabilization.
Lenses are great on both systems but
for my money, $6,000 plus $2,300 for this lens.
I think I'd pick this.
Thank you guys for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
If you wanna watch more camera videos,
we recently did a video on the Sony FX3 and,
or you could watch last year's video on the GFX 100,
If you wanna see how it compares to this guy.
That was also a great camera.
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