WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:03.790 - So this is the FUJIFILM X-T2 00:00:03.790 --> 00:00:08.800 and it came out about three years ago and it's been my stills camera for the last three years. 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.720 And I'm very happy with it. It's been my favorite stills camera that I've ever owned. 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.090 I didn't upgrade to the X-T3 because it didn't feel like enough of a upgrade. 00:00:16.090 --> 00:00:21.780 But today we have Fuji's brand new X-T4. 00:00:21.780 --> 00:00:25.980 And I'm wondering if this is finally enough of an upgrade 00:00:25.980 --> 00:00:31.570 for me to switch. At 1699 US, it's not the cheapest camera, 00:00:31.570 --> 00:00:35.610 but Fujifilm is also very competitive in lots of their features 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:40.890 compared to Canon, Sony and Panasonic. Well, we're starting off with no instructions in the box 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:44.180 because this is a press sample unit, but no big deal, 00:00:44.180 --> 00:00:46.563 we don't need any of those. Oh. 00:00:48.590 --> 00:00:52.530 They sent me the silver one. I've always been, 00:00:52.530 --> 00:00:55.710 not like clean black finish on all the cameras, 00:00:55.710 --> 00:00:58.920 but I'm glad that Fuji offers two different colors. 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.950 They offer the X-T4 in both silver and black. 00:01:02.950 --> 00:01:06.710 Physically, it feels a little bit heavier. 00:01:06.710 --> 00:01:13.750 I believe it's about a hundred grams heavier than the previous two models before. 00:01:13.750 --> 00:01:17.470 So my X-T2 versus, wait, this has a lens on it 00:01:17.470 --> 00:01:20.053 so it's a little bit unfair, take the lens off. 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:27.070 Definitely feel a weight difference, but this also has a 2,200 mAh power battery. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:35.110 So that is a significant improvement on the 1,200 mAh power battery that the Fuji X-T2 has. 00:01:35.110 --> 00:01:39.620 Unfortunately for me, that means also that the batteries themselves are 00:01:39.620 --> 00:01:43.227 a brand new type of battery, this new NP-, 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:52.680 whatever the number is editor. Thank you. It's apparently has double battery lifetime overall. 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.980 So in the box we have a type C cable, cool. 00:01:55.980 --> 00:01:58.980 This new, this new X-T4 also has the type C port on it, 00:01:58.980 --> 00:02:05.200 which is really nice. It allows charging and it doubles as a headphone jack 00:02:05.710 --> 00:02:09.540 within adapter, which here is that tiny little adapter, 00:02:09.540 --> 00:02:16.730 not the biggest fan of that, honestly. I would have, as someone who shoots prominently video, 00:02:16.730 --> 00:02:22.250 it would have been nice to have included a direct dedicated 3.5 millimeter jack. 00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:26.600 But I also sort of understand the logic here. You kind of get the best of both worlds 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:29.870 and then they save space on the ports themselves. 00:02:29.870 --> 00:02:31.983 We have the typical camera strap. 00:02:33.140 --> 00:02:37.360 What is this? Oh little charger, USB little ward. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.920 With the new type C port you can actually charge the battery through the camera, 00:02:40.920 --> 00:02:44.860 or you can just do what normal people do 00:02:44.860 --> 00:02:48.760 and buy a separate charger to charge more than one battery at the same time. 00:02:48.760 --> 00:02:52.930 That's probably the way to go. It doesn't seem to come with 00:02:53.990 --> 00:02:57.340 a separate charger. So actually, as it stands, 00:02:57.340 --> 00:03:01.430 you have to charge battery in the camera in order to charge it 00:03:01.430 --> 00:03:06.730 when you have just the camera. That's a little bit, I don't know about that. 00:03:06.730 --> 00:03:12.030 I mean, I'm all for the option to power your camera off of type C, type C is amazing, 00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:15.960 but that means you can't use your camera 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:20.910 while your battery is charging, which is kind of annoying. Which okay, to be fair to Fuji, 00:03:20.910 --> 00:03:27.030 they've also included as an optional accessory, this X-T4 battery grip, 00:03:27.030 --> 00:03:31.480 which also includes, 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:35.770 wow this thing is heavy. So this battery grip that Fuji's released 00:03:35.770 --> 00:03:38.920 in conjunction with the X-T4 also has a ded, 00:03:38.920 --> 00:03:43.820 is the only way that you can get a dedicated 3.5 millimeter jack on the X-T4. 00:03:43.820 --> 00:03:47.430 So one of the main reasons that I bought a Fujifilm camera to begin with 00:03:47.430 --> 00:03:52.230 when I was looking for a stills camera, is that there, the bodies themselves are so compact. 00:03:52.230 --> 00:03:56.560 And so when you look at having to add the battery grip, 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:00.160 if you want a dedicated 3.5 millimeter jack, 00:04:00.160 --> 00:04:04.000 it just adds weight, it adds vertical height to the camera, 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:09.589 that's sort of awkward cause then this is not usually a very friendly height 00:04:09.589 --> 00:04:13.140 adjustment to 15 millimeter rails, If you want to rig it. 00:04:13.140 --> 00:04:16.610 I mean, there's going to be people third-party manufacturers that are gonna make 00:04:16.610 --> 00:04:20.200 rigging parts that allow you to rig this well, but, 00:04:20.200 --> 00:04:24.780 I don't know, this is not, this is not the ideal video centric 00:04:24.780 --> 00:04:28.340 form factor that I personally liked very much. One of the benefits is like, 00:04:28.340 --> 00:04:33.220 look how small Fuji's lenses can be because it's APSC size sensor 00:04:33.220 --> 00:04:37.110 and the cameras themselves aren't that big. I mean, comparatively, 00:04:37.110 --> 00:04:40.410 this is an 85 mil lens that you'd use for video, 00:04:40.410 --> 00:04:44.880 which is a little bit unfair to compare this to. 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:48.420 But I mean, to give you some context, this is Fuji's lenses. 00:04:48.420 --> 00:04:51.660 So small, so good. If you look at the top of the dials, 00:04:51.660 --> 00:04:56.143 they haven't really changed that much. The shutter button is apparently improved. 00:04:57.618 --> 00:05:03.460 What? I don't know, it actually on this press unit, 00:05:03.460 --> 00:05:06.643 the shutter feels a little bit mushier than my X-T2. 00:05:08.310 --> 00:05:15.570 Interesting. So the dials is overall the same. They added the ISO 160 unlike, 00:05:15.570 --> 00:05:19.370 instead of the low little bit like low logo here. 00:05:19.370 --> 00:05:24.180 So that's nice. You have a more precise idea of what your ISO is 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:28.080 when you're at the low setting. I mean, you could always just look at it through the EVF. 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:33.240 Wouldn't be a big deal. It has a little nice touch though. So there's a couple small dial changes 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.773 with the X-T4 in the, my X-T2 specifically, 00:05:36.610 --> 00:05:42.440 there's this new stills and movie dial, which allows you to go from stills only shooting 00:05:42.440 --> 00:05:49.880 or only video shooting, which actually, having used the X-T2 briefly for video, 00:05:50.280 --> 00:05:54.180 that's a nice touch, because going through the menus before and having to deal with, 00:05:54.180 --> 00:05:58.090 oh, is this the video menu or is this stills menu? When you're trying to move quickly. 00:05:58.090 --> 00:06:01.600 A little annoying, so now, the menus themselves, 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:07.250 all of the movies settings are here. For the stills menu, you have only still setting. 00:06:07.250 --> 00:06:10.920 All those nice, new, easy to think about still settings. 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:16.310 And then when you want to go to movie mode, you go back to the menu and oh, look, movie settings, 00:06:16.310 --> 00:06:19.800 H265, 4k recording. 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.900 All that stuff is much easier to access 00:06:22.900 --> 00:06:26.180 versus having to deal with both menu simultaneously 00:06:26.180 --> 00:06:31.000 with the X-T2. Guys, Fuji has finally listened to all our, 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:36.000 all of the users that have said for years that every camera, 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:43.040 every stills camera that can shoot video should follow something that Canon has been doing 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:47.790 for how long now? Since, 10 years ago probably, 00:06:47.790 --> 00:06:54.090 they've had this awesome flip out screen. And when I got my X-T2, I was like, okay, 00:06:54.090 --> 00:06:59.780 they did this weird, like hybrid flip out screen thing that also allows you to do this angle. 00:06:59.780 --> 00:07:04.290 Like when would I ever use, I mean, in this mode, you might use that a little bit, 00:07:04.290 --> 00:07:07.950 but not nearly as useful for video, 00:07:07.950 --> 00:07:11.140 even stills as something like this. 00:07:11.140 --> 00:07:15.900 Well, the X-T4 has fixed that problem. 00:07:15.900 --> 00:07:18.920 Flip out screen. Guys, look at this. 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.770 It's beautiful. I love it. I mean, okay. You know what, Fuji, I'm, 00:07:22.770 --> 00:07:26.930 I'm very happy that you finally listened and saw the way forward 00:07:26.930 --> 00:07:30.570 and now people can selfie video with your camera. 00:07:30.570 --> 00:07:34.980 How great is that? Also, in addition to it being a flip out screen, 00:07:34.980 --> 00:07:40.230 it is now also a touch screen. Ooh, that brand new camera click. 00:07:40.230 --> 00:07:42.780 The first time you put a lens on it, you hear that? 00:07:44.670 --> 00:07:49.090 Guys, I can listen to this all day. So the IPS is new on the, the new X-T4. 00:07:49.090 --> 00:07:52.540 I've lost my IPS for my X-T2 multiple times. 00:07:52.540 --> 00:07:55.940 So it just, it locks, it just presses in and then it doesn't go anywhere 00:07:55.940 --> 00:07:58.940 unless you want it to. And then you can take it off when you want to replace it with something else. 00:07:58.940 --> 00:08:02.080 But I mean, really why would you ever replace it? 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:05.680 You just don't want to lose it. Overall, I am actually appreciating the fact that 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.750 even though they made the camera slightly heavier, slightly bigger, the grip itself, 00:08:09.750 --> 00:08:14.290 if you can tell from right here is quite a bit bigger 00:08:15.210 --> 00:08:20.190 than the grip on the X-T2, which that was probably one of my biggest complaints about my X-T2, 00:08:20.190 --> 00:08:25.010 is while it's nice and compact and small, the grip also leaves something to be desired 00:08:25.010 --> 00:08:28.420 where something like even Canon's old DSLRs, 00:08:28.420 --> 00:08:32.340 the grip was much more significant, but I mean, you also think about how thick 00:08:32.340 --> 00:08:34.053 this camera is compared to this. 00:08:35.410 --> 00:08:40.130 Now this improved battery and extra size allows a nice, nicer grip. 00:08:40.130 --> 00:08:43.840 And that actually feels really premium, very nice. 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:47.400 So a couple of things that Fuji has also added is 00:08:47.400 --> 00:08:55.040 they have those, their typical film simulations. Probio, Valvia, Astia soft, classic Chrome, pronag high, 00:08:55.560 --> 00:09:01.740 pro neck standard, but then these new ones, the Eterna and the Eterna Bleach Bypass, 00:09:01.740 --> 00:09:08.430 which are ideal for video use. I mean, you get this kind of weird, contrasty, 00:09:08.430 --> 00:09:13.000 bleached bypass look, if you want that baked into your video, which again, personally, I wouldn't use, 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:17.080 but it's nice that they included it. For Eterna though, I might actually use for stills. 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:20.480 It seems like an interesting picture profile for that, 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.540 but I'm, I'm definitely a classic Chrome guy, 00:09:23.540 --> 00:09:28.120 classic Chrome. Anyone who use Fuji will probably know what I'm talking about. Classic Chrome, so nice. 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.800 Okay, let me just dial in our white balance so we can start taking a couple of photos. 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:36.200 Oh, look, they've changed the white balance. 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:39.530 The way that the white balance is done, that's a little nice touch. 00:09:39.530 --> 00:09:42.890 That's really small versus my X-T2 00:09:42.890 --> 00:09:46.210 in custom white balance, you have to select from presets 00:09:46.210 --> 00:09:52.900 and you could never define exactly to the 50th Kelvin that you want. 00:09:52.900 --> 00:09:59.160 Guys, it's the little details in the settings like that, that really make me a happier shooter. 00:09:59.160 --> 00:10:04.350 So one of my favorite new features of the X-T4 is that it has a in-body stabilization, 00:10:04.350 --> 00:10:09.020 which is something Sony has had for a while, but Fuji has out done themselves. 00:10:09.020 --> 00:10:12.860 6.5 stops of in-body stabilization on this camera, 00:10:12.860 --> 00:10:17.810 which I'm going to try to take a photo at one eighth shutter now of Andy over here 00:10:17.810 --> 00:10:19.603 and see how that feels. 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:25.723 Wow. And the shutter sounds nice. 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.560 Here David, I'm gonna take a photo of you too. Oh damn. 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:34.290 Look at David's glasses right there. 00:10:34.290 --> 00:10:40.400 Guys, pin sharp. That was very low effort on keeping my body steady. 00:10:40.400 --> 00:10:45.020 Impressive. One thing I want to compare between these two is just how the shutter sounds. 00:10:45.020 --> 00:10:48.170 This is my X-T2. 00:10:48.170 --> 00:10:52.533 It's pretty loud. And then let's see how the X-T4 sounds in comparison. 00:10:53.910 --> 00:10:55.853 Wow, guys, 00:10:57.890 --> 00:11:01.630 if you're an event shooter or just someone who wants to be 00:11:01.630 --> 00:11:04.910 very discreet when you're taking photos, 00:11:04.910 --> 00:11:07.190 that is a nice sounding shutter 00:11:08.260 --> 00:11:12.520 and that's a mechanical shutter, not electronic, electronic a solid obviously, 00:11:12.520 --> 00:11:15.520 but, yeah, that sounds good. 00:11:15.520 --> 00:11:20.260 I mean, again, so with all these improvements, the sensor is the same as the X-T3. 00:11:20.260 --> 00:11:26.020 So you'll get that very good 26 megapixel performance that you got out of that camera, 00:11:26.020 --> 00:11:31.070 just with all these little bells and whistles, which, and guys, I can't get over this screen, come on. 00:11:31.070 --> 00:11:35.050 Okay, so for those of you who own an X-T3 or have used an X-T3, 00:11:35.050 --> 00:11:38.110 you will probably be familiar with the improved 4k video, 00:11:38.110 --> 00:11:41.760 versus my X-T2, which was always a little unfortunate. 00:11:41.760 --> 00:11:45.270 I couldn't really ever shoot video that I was super happy with out of this camera, 00:11:45.270 --> 00:11:48.440 but with the X-T4, all of those video improvements 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:55.863 that came from the X-T3 transfer here, but they've also added 1080p, 240fps. 00:11:56.780 --> 00:12:01.690 Should we test it? I think so. Let's just make sure our setting is on 00:12:02.892 --> 00:12:06.630 and we're at 29.97, 240p. 00:12:06.630 --> 00:12:10.150 Nice. All right. lttstore.com 00:12:15.190 --> 00:12:18.893 Ooh. That feels good. 00:12:20.620 --> 00:12:25.050 Impressed. 1080p, 240 FPS and a camera this size. 00:12:25.050 --> 00:12:29.950 That's pretty freaking awesome. So for all you sports photographers out there, 00:12:29.950 --> 00:12:34.810 the continuous shooting mode has improved from even the X-T3. 00:12:34.810 --> 00:12:39.163 It is now a whopping 15 FPS. 00:12:40.390 --> 00:12:43.610 Listen to that. 15 FPS. 00:12:43.610 --> 00:12:48.200 And guys, if you wanted to shoot with an electronic shutter, 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:53.513 it is 30 FPS. Whereas my X-T2 unfortunately only has eight. 00:12:55.760 --> 00:12:59.000 And it's so much louder. Holy crap. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:00.563 So many shots of Andy, 00:13:02.400 --> 00:13:06.013 I can now see Andy at 15 FPS, no blackout on this EVF. 00:13:07.010 --> 00:13:10.320 So with the files on my X-T2, 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:13.350 when you go into the raw recording setting, 00:13:13.350 --> 00:13:18.560 you have uncompressed and lossless compressed, but the X-T4 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:23.010 has uncompressed, lossless compressed and then compressed. 00:13:23.010 --> 00:13:26.210 So guys, if you want the benefits of raw, 00:13:26.210 --> 00:13:31.300 but you don't want the file sizes, you can get a slightly, not quite as fat file, 00:13:31.300 --> 00:13:35.160 but smaller sizes and a lot of the main benefits like white balance change 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:38.870 and better control of your exposure overall. 00:13:38.870 --> 00:13:44.190 So all these changes that they've made to the X-T4 might feel like small changes overall, 00:13:44.190 --> 00:13:50.180 but like the addition of Ibis and the fully articulating touchscreen. 00:13:50.180 --> 00:13:54.530 I mean, like all of these things together, especially from my use case of using the X-T2 00:13:54.530 --> 00:13:57.143 feel like very significant upgrades. 00:13:59.390 --> 00:14:03.870 I mean, things like the continuous 15 FPS mechanical shooting, 00:14:03.870 --> 00:14:07.530 just really nice. And the camera itself feels better in the hand 00:14:07.530 --> 00:14:13.160 than my X-T2 did with the extended battery life for longer shoots, that's going to improve the usability a lot. 00:14:13.160 --> 00:14:16.430 So thank you guys for watching this ShortCircuit on the X-T4. 00:14:16.430 --> 00:14:20.040 I'm probably going to upgrade to this cause I like, I really do. 00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:24.130 Man, this, this, this touchscreen and this variable angle screen, 00:14:24.130 --> 00:14:28.460 plus the in-body stabilization really bring this together to be 00:14:28.460 --> 00:14:31.880 a much more functional camera than the one that I already own. 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.202 Great job Fuji. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. See you guys later.