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- So this is the FUJIFILM X-T2

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and it came out about three years ago and it's been my stills camera for the last three years.

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And I'm very happy with it. It's been my favorite stills camera that I've ever owned.

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I didn't upgrade to the X-T3 because it didn't feel like enough of a upgrade.

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But today we have Fuji's brand new X-T4.

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And I'm wondering if this is finally enough of an upgrade

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for me to switch. At 1699 US, it's not the cheapest camera,

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but Fujifilm is also very competitive in lots of their features

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compared to Canon, Sony and Panasonic. Well, we're starting off with no instructions in the box

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because this is a press sample unit, but no big deal,

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we don't need any of those. Oh.

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They sent me the silver one. I've always been,

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not like clean black finish on all the cameras,

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but I'm glad that Fuji offers two different colors.

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They offer the X-T4 in both silver and black.

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Physically, it feels a little bit heavier.

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I believe it's about a hundred grams heavier than the previous two models before.

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So my X-T2 versus, wait, this has a lens on it

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so it's a little bit unfair, take the lens off.

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Definitely feel a weight difference, but this also has a 2,200 mAh power battery.

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So that is a significant improvement on the 1,200 mAh power battery that the Fuji X-T2 has.

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Unfortunately for me, that means also that the batteries themselves are

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a brand new type of battery, this new NP-,

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whatever the number is editor. Thank you. It's apparently has double battery lifetime overall.

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So in the box we have a type C cable, cool.

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This new, this new X-T4 also has the type C port on it,

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which is really nice. It allows charging and it doubles as a headphone jack

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within adapter, which here is that tiny little adapter,

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not the biggest fan of that, honestly. I would have, as someone who shoots prominently video,

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it would have been nice to have included a direct dedicated 3.5 millimeter jack.

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But I also sort of understand the logic here. You kind of get the best of both worlds

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and then they save space on the ports themselves.

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We have the typical camera strap.

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What is this? Oh little charger, USB little ward.

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With the new type C port you can actually charge the battery through the camera,

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or you can just do what normal people do

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and buy a separate charger to charge more than one battery at the same time.

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That's probably the way to go. It doesn't seem to come with

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a separate charger. So actually, as it stands,

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you have to charge battery in the camera in order to charge it

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when you have just the camera. That's a little bit, I don't know about that.

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I mean, I'm all for the option to power your camera off of type C, type C is amazing,

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but that means you can't use your camera

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while your battery is charging, which is kind of annoying. Which okay, to be fair to Fuji,

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they've also included as an optional accessory, this X-T4 battery grip,

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which also includes,

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wow this thing is heavy. So this battery grip that Fuji's released

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in conjunction with the X-T4 also has a ded,

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is the only way that you can get a dedicated 3.5 millimeter jack on the X-T4.

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So one of the main reasons that I bought a Fujifilm camera to begin with

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when I was looking for a stills camera, is that there, the bodies themselves are so compact.

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And so when you look at having to add the battery grip,

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if you want a dedicated 3.5 millimeter jack,

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it just adds weight, it adds vertical height to the camera,

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that's sort of awkward cause then this is not usually a very friendly height

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adjustment to 15 millimeter rails, If you want to rig it.

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I mean, there's going to be people third-party manufacturers that are gonna make

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rigging parts that allow you to rig this well, but,

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I don't know, this is not, this is not the ideal video centric

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form factor that I personally liked very much. One of the benefits is like,

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look how small Fuji's lenses can be because it's APSC size sensor

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and the cameras themselves aren't that big. I mean, comparatively,

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this is an 85 mil lens that you'd use for video,

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which is a little bit unfair to compare this to.

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But I mean, to give you some context, this is Fuji's lenses.

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So small, so good. If you look at the top of the dials,

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they haven't really changed that much. The shutter button is apparently improved.

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What? I don't know, it actually on this press unit,

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the shutter feels a little bit mushier than my X-T2.

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Interesting. So the dials is overall the same. They added the ISO 160 unlike,

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instead of the low little bit like low logo here.

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So that's nice. You have a more precise idea of what your ISO is

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when you're at the low setting. I mean, you could always just look at it through the EVF.

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Wouldn't be a big deal. It has a little nice touch though. So there's a couple small dial changes

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with the X-T4 in the, my X-T2 specifically,

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there's this new stills and movie dial, which allows you to go from stills only shooting

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or only video shooting, which actually, having used the X-T2 briefly for video,

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that's a nice touch, because going through the menus before and having to deal with,

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oh, is this the video menu or is this stills menu? When you're trying to move quickly.

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A little annoying, so now, the menus themselves,

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all of the movies settings are here. For the stills menu, you have only still setting.

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All those nice, new, easy to think about still settings.

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And then when you want to go to movie mode, you go back to the menu and oh, look, movie settings,

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H265, 4k recording.

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All that stuff is much easier to access

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versus having to deal with both menu simultaneously

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with the X-T2. Guys, Fuji has finally listened to all our,

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all of the users that have said for years that every camera,

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every stills camera that can shoot video should follow something that Canon has been doing

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for how long now? Since, 10 years ago probably,

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they've had this awesome flip out screen. And when I got my X-T2, I was like, okay,

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they did this weird, like hybrid flip out screen thing that also allows you to do this angle.

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Like when would I ever use, I mean, in this mode, you might use that a little bit,

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but not nearly as useful for video,

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even stills as something like this.

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Well, the X-T4 has fixed that problem.

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Flip out screen. Guys, look at this.

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It's beautiful. I love it. I mean, okay. You know what, Fuji, I'm,

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I'm very happy that you finally listened and saw the way forward

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and now people can selfie video with your camera.

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How great is that? Also, in addition to it being a flip out screen,

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it is now also a touch screen. Ooh, that brand new camera click.

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The first time you put a lens on it, you hear that?

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Guys, I can listen to this all day. So the IPS is new on the, the new X-T4.

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I've lost my IPS for my X-T2 multiple times.

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So it just, it locks, it just presses in and then it doesn't go anywhere

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unless you want it to. And then you can take it off when you want to replace it with something else.

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But I mean, really why would you ever replace it?

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You just don't want to lose it. Overall, I am actually appreciating the fact that

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even though they made the camera slightly heavier, slightly bigger, the grip itself,

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if you can tell from right here is quite a bit bigger

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than the grip on the X-T2, which that was probably one of my biggest complaints about my X-T2,

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is while it's nice and compact and small, the grip also leaves something to be desired

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where something like even Canon's old DSLRs,

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the grip was much more significant, but I mean, you also think about how thick

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this camera is compared to this.

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Now this improved battery and extra size allows a nice, nicer grip.

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And that actually feels really premium, very nice.

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So a couple of things that Fuji has also added is

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they have those, their typical film simulations. Probio, Valvia, Astia soft, classic Chrome, pronag high,

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pro neck standard, but then these new ones, the Eterna and the Eterna Bleach Bypass,

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which are ideal for video use. I mean, you get this kind of weird, contrasty,

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bleached bypass look, if you want that baked into your video, which again, personally, I wouldn't use,

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but it's nice that they included it. For Eterna though, I might actually use for stills.

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It seems like an interesting picture profile for that,

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but I'm, I'm definitely a classic Chrome guy,

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classic Chrome. Anyone who use Fuji will probably know what I'm talking about. Classic Chrome, so nice.

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Okay, let me just dial in our white balance so we can start taking a couple of photos.

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Oh, look, they've changed the white balance.

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The way that the white balance is done, that's a little nice touch.

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That's really small versus my X-T2

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in custom white balance, you have to select from presets

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and you could never define exactly to the 50th Kelvin that you want.

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Guys, it's the little details in the settings like that, that really make me a happier shooter.

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So one of my favorite new features of the X-T4 is that it has a in-body stabilization,

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which is something Sony has had for a while, but Fuji has out done themselves.

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6.5 stops of in-body stabilization on this camera,

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which I'm going to try to take a photo at one eighth shutter now of Andy over here

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and see how that feels.

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Wow. And the shutter sounds nice.

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Here David, I'm gonna take a photo of you too. Oh damn.

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Look at David's glasses right there.

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Guys, pin sharp. That was very low effort on keeping my body steady.

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Impressive. One thing I want to compare between these two is just how the shutter sounds.

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This is my X-T2.

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It's pretty loud. And then let's see how the X-T4 sounds in comparison.

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Wow, guys,

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if you're an event shooter or just someone who wants to be

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very discreet when you're taking photos,

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that is a nice sounding shutter

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and that's a mechanical shutter, not electronic, electronic a solid obviously,

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but, yeah, that sounds good.

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I mean, again, so with all these improvements, the sensor is the same as the X-T3.

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So you'll get that very good 26 megapixel performance that you got out of that camera,

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just with all these little bells and whistles, which, and guys, I can't get over this screen, come on.

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Okay, so for those of you who own an X-T3 or have used an X-T3,

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you will probably be familiar with the improved 4k video,

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versus my X-T2, which was always a little unfortunate.

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I couldn't really ever shoot video that I was super happy with out of this camera,

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but with the X-T4, all of those video improvements

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that came from the X-T3 transfer here, but they've also added 1080p, 240fps.

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Should we test it? I think so. Let's just make sure our setting is on

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and we're at 29.97, 240p.

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Nice. All right. lttstore.com

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Ooh. That feels good.

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Impressed. 1080p, 240 FPS and a camera this size.

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That's pretty freaking awesome. So for all you sports photographers out there,

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the continuous shooting mode has improved from even the X-T3.

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It is now a whopping 15 FPS.

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Listen to that. 15 FPS.

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And guys, if you wanted to shoot with an electronic shutter,

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it is 30 FPS. Whereas my X-T2 unfortunately only has eight.

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And it's so much louder. Holy crap.

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So many shots of Andy,

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I can now see Andy at 15 FPS, no blackout on this EVF.

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So with the files on my X-T2,

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when you go into the raw recording setting,

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you have uncompressed and lossless compressed, but the X-T4

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has uncompressed, lossless compressed and then compressed.

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So guys, if you want the benefits of raw,

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but you don't want the file sizes, you can get a slightly, not quite as fat file,

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but smaller sizes and a lot of the main benefits like white balance change

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and better control of your exposure overall.

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So all these changes that they've made to the X-T4 might feel like small changes overall,

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but like the addition of Ibis and the fully articulating touchscreen.

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I mean, like all of these things together, especially from my use case of using the X-T2

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feel like very significant upgrades.

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I mean, things like the continuous 15 FPS mechanical shooting,

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just really nice. And the camera itself feels better in the hand

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than my X-T2 did with the extended battery life for longer shoots, that's going to improve the usability a lot.

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So thank you guys for watching this ShortCircuit on the X-T4.

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I'm probably going to upgrade to this cause I like, I really do.

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Man, this, this, this touchscreen and this variable angle screen,

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plus the in-body stabilization really bring this together to be

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a much more functional camera than the one that I already own.

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Great job Fuji. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. See you guys later.