Hi Friends Fuji Guy Michael here! Do you ever heard the expression good
things come in small packages? Well the X-T3 camera isn't all that big
to begin with but how about this? The new FUJIFILM X-T30. Look at that! Fits in the
palm of my hand! How good is it for video? Let's find out!
Alright so we're going to
take a quick look at the X-T30's video capabilities. We're going to go through
the menu items and talk about them. You're gonna find out that this has
really become a very very competent video camera perfectly good backup for
the X-T3 or just as a standalone for anything now. So if you look into the
menu the first thing you're going to see is now there's actually many pages.
It's many pages long not just a few items like it was on the X-T20.Tthere's all
kinds of great things now that you can set for your personal tastes and your
personal needs. First thing is this let's look at the resolution so it does do 4k
UHD at 3840 pixels across but now, this is something new, is it also does what's
called cinema 4k. Cinema 4k is a 17:9 aspect ratio because it's about 300
pixels longer than regular UHD 4k so this is a very cool feature. Now notice
we are limited though compared to the X-T3 on frame rates so it's only from 23.98
up to 29.97. We cannot do 4k 60 on the X-T30 but the bit rate megabits per
second has gone up to 200 megabit per second on the X-T30. Whereas the X-T20
was limited to only 100 megabit per second. now the X-T3 doubles the X-T30
bit rate. It goes up to 400 megabit per second again this is internal recording.
So to the SD cards. So 200 megabit per second on the X-T30
and that is using the h.264 codec. The X-T3 is capable of h.264 or h.265.
The X-T30 is h.264 8-bit only internal but 200 megabit per second. It will do 120P
or 100 frame per second in Full HD that's 1920 by 1080 at 120 frames per
second for that. Very cool slow-mo effect that comes in handy for sports and
nature. Stuff like that. Music videos are a good place to use
that as well. Look at the choice of Film Simulations.
Those of you who are regular users of FUJIFILM cameras know we have these
fantastic Film Simulations based on real film stocks. Well look what we added to
the X-T30 the Eterna cinema film simulation which is based on our motion
picture color negative, movie film stock. So it gives you this incredibly beautiful
tonal scale with incredibly beautiful accurate color reproduction without
having to do anything additional. It's really a fantastic beautiful movie
looking quality coming right straight out of the camera. Going further through
the menus what you'll find is, if you look, you'll see a bunch of tone control
settings that typically are the things you've been applying for still
photography. Highlights, shadows, saturation stuff like that.
Well now those same tone control settings that you can do for still
photography you cannot now apply separately into the video settings
on the X-T30. So it's separate from your still photography settings. Whatever you
do here in the menu will not carry over to the still photography. So this is very
very nice. It's dedicated tone control settings for video.
One of the new things that we got
from the X-T3 is something known as inter frame noise reduction. So
this is a very sophisticated noise reduction process where it looks at the
frame before the current frame, to see what the noise pattern
was there before applying noise reduction to the current frame. So on
regular noise reduction is sort of the same everything is the same across the
board no matter what frame you're shooting on. Inter frame applies noise
reduction selectively each frame on the fly as it's recording so it gives you
about a half stop better cleaner look, less less noise than you're used to
with the previous generation. It's really kind of nice!
This is one again that a
lot of people really care about especially in the pro ranks and that is
logarithmic encoding so Fuji log F-log with the X-T30 you can record in the
logarithmic encoding which greatly expands your dynamic range and your
tonal range. Now the image is really flat and kind of yucky looking for those of
you that are never shot professional video you must think this looks horrible
and it does. This is not something you give to your customer, but this does give
you the ability to do a lot of color correction a lot of image massaging to
maintain the shadows and the highlights and do things to the picture to make it
look as perfect as possible. So this is a really wonderful feature to have on
basically a sub $1,000 USD camera.
So because of the new sensor a new processor in the
X-T30 we are now also able to add AF tracking adjustments in the X-T30.
Something you could not possibly do in the X-T20 at all. So when you're in the
AF-C mode, where the camera is tracking, so you're shooting moving subjects, action,
sports. Things like that. You can now set the sensitivity and the responsiveness
of the AF system to be able to follow your action just the way you want it.
Whether you want a quick response or a fast response for autofocus you know it
tracks really well.
The other thing we've added is face detection not just face detection but eye
detection as well.
So the X-T30 now lets you do dual recording to two
destinations with 4k and HD. What I mean by that is you can record to the
internal SD card and out the HDMI to a second device at the same time. You can
have 4k going both places at once or one could be HD and the other could
be 4k. So you could have a master file and you can have a backup. That's a very
very cool feature to have. I want to point out the HDMI out on the X-T30.
Huge change, huge jump from the previous generations. This is 4:2:2
uncompressed 10-bit. Yes you heard me this is a make-or-break thing for a lot
of professionals. Not just 8-bit the external HDMI is 4:2:2 10-bit video.
The internal SD card is still 4:2:0 8 bit, like I said before, but HDMI out is
now 10 bit capable. Another new feature on the X-T30 is something called zebras.
This is something that came from video technology it's been around for them a
long time it's kind of like the little blinking highlight warning you see on
still cameras. So you can have the zebras go to the left or to the right and this
basically shows up at a threshold that you set So you can set it 50%, 90%,
100% and wherever the exposure hits that level you will
see the Zebras appear on the screen. It's not recorded. This is only something you
see on the LCD or the EVF of the camera. Very very helpful exposure tool.
Compare to the X-T20 the X-T30 gets the same level of audio settings as in the X-T3
camera. So much finer level of detail in setting the levels. You can do
internal-external separately and set all kinds of wind cut filters and noise
reduction as well. The X-T30 also now will record timecode and will send
timecode out via the HDMI. You can set the time code to be a
number that you choose or just have it be the current time of day which is the
way most cinema and broadcast productions use, they use time of day, so
this is very very good for editing purposes.
Finally one of the things that
it gets from the X-T3. Which is also kind of very very cool. Is it now gets what's
known as the silent control. The reason it's called the silent control is
because if you want to adjust the shutter speed or the aperture while
you're shooting, I usually have to use the knobs and you hear this..... Well we
don't want to do that.
So by enabling the silent control this lets you change
settings by touching the LCD. So you just touch your finger to the LCD quietly and
just scroll up and down you can change the shutter speed, you can change the ISO,
the white balance. All while you're recording on-the-fly changes really
really cool thing.
Thanks for joining me. Do check out the X-T30 at a dealer near
you. I think it's something you're really going to love!