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 have topped themselves
with a cheaper camera this year on top
of this camera that i'm about to unbox they sent over
this 80mm f 1.7
i will tell you why that's important in a moment and they're
really cool 45 mil to 100 f 4.
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
chapter one by a long shot over lightroom no there's no license
it's literally just an ad to download the software okay let's see what's in
the rest of this box we have a type-c charging cable
a camera strap for six thousand dollars
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 wart
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 cdc cable
which i'm sure many of you out there do but it's not the type of cable 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 the type cdc cable all the time you might be able to in some places
let's see another charging adapter another charging adapter
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 the a7s iii and it is a much higher resolution
and that's one of the advantages of bdm 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 mode dial for anyone who's used a fuji camera before
this is their butt 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 autofocus 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 it can also display it like this which is kind of cool
because then it's got these virtual dials i actually like 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 dial 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
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 yeah
every camera 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 it's 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 want to add this camera as a second body or you want to
upgrade you can keep your batteries
we have ah here we go we here's where we have mic and headphone
and then
they did it guys they put micro HDMI
on this camera press f
that's unfortunate micro HDMI for those of you don't know not a great connector
very easily breaks i'm not surprised there wasn't space for a full-size HDMI
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 quarter 20 point 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 f 1.4
lens is already going to 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 f 2.8 at the
fastest and what that meant was the depth of field between
a medium format sensor with an f 2.8 lens
and a 35 millimeter sensor with an f 1.4
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 show it myself
this lens comes with a little baggie
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
itself 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 form there's a lot of glass in here it has to cover
a gigantic look how large this bayonet
circle is it's huge
ready for that click that beautiful click
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 sized lens 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 but first a message
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okay let's go test this camera so we're just going to do a quick demo
of a portrait photo of chase here and i want to 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 autofocus 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 lttstore.com hat you know it 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 is
stabilization works okay yeah i'm really having a very hard
time stopping wow this is shallow that was super hard
to pull focus on because 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
f 1.7 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 autofocus 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 going to 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 f
1.7 this shot is so shallow you can 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 um 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 um 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 cine 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 because 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 mark ii but that camera
is a leaf shutter it doesn't have the same level of autofocus
it doesn't have inbuilt image stabilization lenses are great
on both systems but for my money six thousand dollars
plus twenty three hundred dollars for this lens
i think i'd pick this thank you guys for watching i hope you enjoyed this video
if you want to 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 want to see how it
compares to this guy that was also a great camera thanks for
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