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for those of you who've been watching ShortCircuit for over a year now since

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the channel is just over a year old last year we did

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a video on the gfx 100 which at the time

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was fujifilm's best medium format digital camera

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and i would argue that they might have topped themselves

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with a cheaper camera this year on top

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of this camera that i'm about to unbox they sent over

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this 80mm f 1.7

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i will tell you why that's important in a moment and they're

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really cool 45 mil to 100 f 4.

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okay so in the box we've got

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a manual warranty actually it looks like this is a digital

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manual and something about capture one

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everyone who i've ever spoke to who uses capture one prefers

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chapter one by a long shot over lightroom no there's no license

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it's literally just an ad to download the software okay let's see what's in

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the rest of this box we have a type-c charging cable

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a camera strap for six thousand dollars

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this is a lackluster camera strap i mean

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you like i usually say you're probably going to replace this but i might put it

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on the camera just to see how it feels okay we've got a couple of adapters

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for different countries

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a wall wart

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it's a type c and they include the cable but

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i always hate charges like this because it means you have to have a cdc cable

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which i'm sure many of you out there do but it's not the type of cable you still

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just have lying around your house all the time like you might have a couple of them for

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different devices around the house but if you lose this cable

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it's kind of hard to find like you can't go into a random grocery store

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and find the type cdc cable all the time you might be able to in some places

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let's see another charging adapter another charging adapter

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for those of you who don't know medium format all you really need to understand

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is it's a format that is larger than the typical full frame

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sensor size that you'll find in mirrorless and dslr cameras these days

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so for example the sony a7s3 that i covered in a recent video

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is a full-frame camera this is a medium format

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digital camera and it has a 102

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megapixel gigantic medium format sensor as you can

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see this sensor is much larger than the one

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that was in the a7s iii and it is a much higher resolution

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and that's one of the advantages of bdm format cameras that are

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much higher resolution and have a much shallower

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depth of field than your full frame cameras

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so while this is 900 grams it feels

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it feels not that heavy so let's look at the rest of the body on the top we have

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a very familiar mode dial for anyone who's used a fuji camera before

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this is their butt little button lock and then they have a manual

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aperture priority shutter priority

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program and then six custom

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profiles which is pretty awesome i don't

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actually know a camera that gives you that many you have these two buttons here this top one

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is set to do face detection or eye detection autofocus which is nice but

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i'm pretty sure you can customize it to anything and then this bottom button is currently

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set to change the display on this camera so right now it shows all

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of our settings and our film simulation and the mode that we're in which is

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manual but if you change it it can also display it like this which is kind of cool

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because then it's got these virtual dials i actually like this display better i

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feel like i'd use this one the most and then i believe this one is your

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histogram which just shows a top view if you're shooting from

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the hip like this if you wanted a bigger version of your histogram and you didn't want it on your

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lcd display this is a nice touch to have it available so you can check your

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exposure on the back of the camera we've got the

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same flippy screen that was originally in

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the gfx 100 i'm not the hugest fan

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of this display it's not bad there are certain situations where if like you're

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holding the camera like this and then you want to pop out the display

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to see your shot at a better angle that's nice but i find it overall less useful we

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have the focus dial here which just allows you to go from manual continuous

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or single a little joystick which feels pretty good the ae

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lock button the menu button display play quick

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quick settings which is all standard this camera has dual sd card slots which

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is very important especially if you're a professional photographer you do not

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ever want a lack of redundancy in your media

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which honestly should be a standard for all cameras at this point but yeah

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every camera manufacturer who does not have dual slots for the media

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is doing something wrong

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on the right of the camera with the sd card door we have a

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2.5 millimeter is this a mic jack what is this

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oh it's a remote jack okay so if you're doing a time lapse it's one of those like 2.5 millimeter

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you can just like have a trigger to the side or there's other

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camera accessories that will utilize that port i just realized that

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this battery is the same battery that i use in my fuji xt4

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which is super awesome so if you're an xt4 user

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and you want to add this camera as a second body or you want to

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upgrade you can keep your batteries

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we have ah here we go we here's where we have mic and headphone

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and then

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they did it guys they put micro HDMI

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on this camera press f

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that's unfortunate micro HDMI for those of you don't know not a great connector

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very easily breaks i'm not surprised there wasn't space for a full-size HDMI

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in this body specifically but maybe fuji can figure that out on

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their next revision and then a flash sync port so for all of

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you professional photographers out there who want a flash sync port for your lights

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or any other camera accessories that use it this camera has one it's not

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surprisingly it's not a photography feature that is on lower

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end cameras so it's not surprising to see it on a

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professional level medium format camera okay so enough about the camera

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physically we've gone through the whole thing it's got a quarter 20 point on the bottom like every other camera let's

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move on let's talk about this lens fuji sent

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over their 80 millimeter 1.7 now for those of you who don't know this

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lens is a big deal because it's the first i believe

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gf lens that fuji has designed

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that is below f2

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a full-frame camera with an f 1.4

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lens is already going to give you a ridiculously shallow depth of field

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and up until this point a lot of people have argued that fuji's medium format

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system is not that much better than full frame

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because their lenses were all f 2.8 at the

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fastest and what that meant was the depth of field between

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a medium format sensor with an f 2.8 lens

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and a 35 millimeter sensor with an f 1.4

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lens was very similar that changes today

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with this lens this lens is 80

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millimeters so that makes it about 63 millimeters compared to

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a full-frame camera

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or on a full-frame camera i should show it myself

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this lens comes with a little baggie

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it's a nice touch i won't complain it's always nice to have a bag to go along with your lenses

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we've got quite a large lens hood

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which is nice the lens

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itself wow

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gf 80 millimeter

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we've got a 77 millimeter front filter

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thread which is a pretty standard size that's awesome and

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honestly this lens isn't that heavy i would have expected it

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to be quite a bit heavier it's an 80

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millimeter medium form there's a lot of glass in here it has to cover

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a gigantic look how large this bayonet

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circle is it's huge

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ready for that click that beautiful click

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that sounds nice this feels like a great

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combination now the body does feel quite a bit heavier with the lens but

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not any heavier than dslrs that i've

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used like something like a 5d with a decent sized lens feels about the

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same as this and i feel like it feels pretty balanced in

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the hand one last comment i'll make about the actual body of this camera

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though is they probably used a less premium material on the edges of

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the camera here because they do feel like a little bit i don't know rougher is how i would

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describe it now that the lens is on the camera

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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

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of a portrait photo of chase here and i want to try fuji's

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new film simulation nostalgic negative i

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think it's called let's see wow this is really shallow honestly

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from the onset it feels like the autofocus is

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keeping up pretty decently even if i go

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like this oh it's hunting a little but that wasn't

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that slow is that an lttstore.com hat you know it and then look at me

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nice so before we take a look at these photos on a computer let's go outside

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and do a quick video test and to see how well the in-body is

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stabilization works okay yeah i'm really having a very hard

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time stopping wow this is shallow that was super hard

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to pull focus on because it's a focus by wire lens so

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there's no feedback this lens is not amazing for video it

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looks really good i really like this color profile i've

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been shooting fuji for about five years now and

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i think this might be my new favorite profile the skin tone

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looks pretty good already and when you punch in

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look at that detail this shot is at

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f 1.7 so the widest open you could be

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and it is so

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sharp i'm really impressed with this actually

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like this one came out a little bit soft so the autofocus on this camera is not

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perfect but i was kind of being unfair to it i feel like i wouldn't you

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wouldn't move as drastically forward and backward as i did a couple of times when i was just

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shooting photos it's not going to be anything close to something like a sony

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a7r or honestly anything sony makes but

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you shouldn't expect it to be because that's not what they're trying to do they're just trying to

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deliver decent auto focus on a medium format

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camera let's take a look at the other thing that we tried

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and that's video right off the bat at f

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1.7 this shot is so shallow you can see that

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like i was having a hard time finding focus because the lenses just

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like most fuji lenses unfortunately they're all focused by

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wire so you don't have that immediate feedback in

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the focus um when i was focusing it was actually

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lagging a little bit as i was changing focus which is really not acceptable when

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you're trying to pull focus on video manually um and that's kind of

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what in my opinion has always prevented fuji cameras from being good video

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options of course you can adapt lenses you can use older lenses you can use cine lenses

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but the lenses that they make for stills unfortunately

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aren't that great for video and while they might look good

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in like a static shot they are

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not the best choice when you're doing a lot of movement or

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just doing honestly any video because pulling focus is an essential part

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of shooting video there's a weird digital look

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to fuji's video and this camera

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doesn't seem to have that

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same like digital looking

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sharpness texture to the image and

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that's a really good thing but again guys it's a stills camera

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that can shoot video and it does it decently so like if you're shooting like

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a landscape or something that doesn't move a lot and

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you just want like a nice static shot of like a waterfall or something

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this camera would actually do a very good job of that for the enthusiast

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and the professional who want to take the plunge and

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start shooting medium format digitally this

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is probably one of your best options the

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only other camera that is similar to this one in its price range

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is the hasselblad x1d mark ii but that camera

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is a leaf shutter it doesn't have the same level of autofocus

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it doesn't have inbuilt image stabilization lenses are great

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on both systems but for my money six thousand dollars

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plus twenty three hundred dollars for this lens

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i think i'd pick this thank you guys for watching i hope you enjoyed this video

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if you want to watch more camera videos we recently did a video on the sony fx3

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and or you could watch last year's video on the gfx 100 if you want to see how it

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compares to this guy that was also a great camera thanks for

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