Dave Maze

I guess that’s no big deal. I’ll use my smallhd focus monitor anyways. That monitor solves so many issues for every camera lol.

Ok Andrew... you convinced me. I need to test it out. I’ll add it to my list of cameras to try! Lol. Isnt there something weird with the focus peaking if I remember correctly?

I think it’s just two years too late unfortunately. Things have moved on. We need IBIS and AF these days I guess. It’s been almost like a second revolution in video from the dslr movement. I just hired a full time shooter/editor to help me with my YT videos and he’s never used a large sensor camera that doesn’t have good AF. He is fresh out of college and they learned on the C100mkii and 70D. I handed him my 1DC and he didn’t know what to do. I told him he needs to learn..but still, it’s going to be a whole new crop of kids coming up in the film industry never touching manual focus lol

Ok. I’m curious now. I missed the NX1 boat. Is it worth trying out? H.265 is totally native now and it’s really the only camera that really takes advantage of it. Im curious... what’s the articles or forum posts I need to read up on it? Wasn’t there a hack for it? Is there any speed booster options? Which lenses should I get? Would love to go native with the autofocus. I think it’d be a fun camera to review because it’s now fully relevant with h.265 with High Sierra. Is there a true log on this camera? Which profiles are best to shoot on? Any weird quirks I need to know?

Yes.

Wow. Got some great feedback here. I’m thinking I won’t be satisfied with the smaller WR lenses so I’ll get the 23mm 1.4 and 56mm 1.2 for sure. I think I’ll wait for the 8-16 for my UWA. Especially for the WR and the constant f2.8. Also, since I’m shooting 4K with the slight crop, 8-16 is more usable. I’ll also pickup the 16-55 as my workhorse.

Ok, so now that the X-H1 is here, along with the Fujinon cine lenses, I can count on Fuji to continue to innovate and be a player in the video space. I’m considering getting a full Fuji kit (and still hold onto my 1DC because...still the best) because I love the color science and jpeg image quality. Also, I hear the autofocus is good enough on Fuji to be reliable for pro work. I’m willing to invest in this system and treat it as my workhorse potentially Im conflicted with what lenses to get. The Fujinon Cine lenses are expensive...but not unobtainable. If anything, that’s all I could afford. Just the one 18-55 for now and maybe later the telephoto one. I’d get parfocal, better focusing, and Cine optics. Id loose autofocus though, and if I’m going to loose autofocus I’d rather just put a speed booster on it and use my CONTAX ZEISS glass. So that takes me to the Fuji XF mount lenses. The 10-24, 16-55, 50-140 make the most sense for the range, but they are big and heavy, plus... they zoom the wrong way.... not a huge deal but annoying for sure! So then I go to the smaller 23, 35, 50 WR lenses. Probably paired with the 18mm f2 to round it out. Are they any good? Compared to the top end lenses do they have sexy bokeh? Or should I just bite the bullet and go to the top end primes? which takes me to the 14mm f2.8, 16mm f1.4, 23mm f1.4, 35mm f1.4, 56mm f1.2. With all of these lenses I get most all the focal ranges I need, with fast optics. Is it worth the $4,000 to get these lenses over the smaller more convenient f2 WR’s? And at this price shouldn’t I just prefer the Fujinon Cine lens anyways? Is it worth doing this for the ability to have autofocus and fast aperture? I mean, I already have small fast primes using a speed booster and my Contax glass... so should I get the Fuji XF zooms then? As you can see... I have a problem. Good thing I review gear for a living now, otherwise my wife would throw me in an insane asylum.

@Mattias Burling @jonpais No time code but look at the blacks. This could be just a by product of the film simulation modes... but I’m seeing some brown in those blacks.

Is it just me or am I seeing some bad IR pollution in the video? It doesn’t look Blackmagic bad, but I’ll need to run some tests using an IR Cut filter

Awesome features that we couldn’t see in the leaks. Nice firmware implementation and because it’s Fuji, we know it’ll get better over time! Heck... in two years this may be a 6K camera! https://youtu.be/V5KOvcoUeh8

I just read through the brochure and was hoping to see something stating that the rolling shutter performance was improved. Do we know if this camera could have better rolling shutter in 4K than the XT2?

Only a few hours away from the official announcement. I anticipate lots of blogs like newsshooter and cinema5d to have some video tests and reviews since neither of them have covered the leaks. Nofilmschool and Andrew here obviously covered it so they aren’t under any NDA. should be an interesting camera and a welcome tool to have in our arsenal. Kinotika will pre order it and I’ll be doing reviews on it so let me know any specific things you want to see.

Ya and the raven really isn’t much of a discount either once you build it out. Red stuff is all hand built and comes backed with extreme warranty and repair. I wonder if we will loose that trust that’s there now with them. Still really cool stuff. Excited about the future here. I believe the helium sensor is one of the best out there these days. Especially with the new IPP2 color science. They really have come a long way thanks to the millions from Netflix and Amazon

This is huge news. I’m really excited about this. Red has raw recording down. It’s the only platform that works on all NLE’s and is as convenient as loading in raw stills into Lightroom. I’ve been dreaming of the day when they would put r3d inside of a dslr sized body. I hope this pans out and that it actually happens. It would make red lots of money I think and would potentially make shooting raw the new norm.

Doesn’t Fuji have really bad auto aperture clicking and banding from LEDs? I hope they resolved this. Vloggers tend to shoot in either full program auto or in my case, shutter priority. If when the aperture changes you see clicky steps then I won’t be very happy. Also I saw in the spec sheet that it has an “anti flicker” mode. I assume that may address the banding from LEDs.

After an extensive test in Alaska...I found that the Canon 6D Mkii SUCKS BALLS! Casey Neistat and Peter McKinnon are SO wrong. This camera is total garbage. I can't believe Canon would even release a camera like this with the price being what it is. Totally unacceptable. No ALL-I, worse ISO performance than 80D, No headphone jack. Its a total POS. Let me know your thoughts.

I would recommend against Vari ND and get a nice Tiffen ND kit with XUME magnetic filter adapters. I have this same kit and using the magnets are a breeze! Vari ND is always terrible because it takes the natural reflections out of people’s skin tones. Not to mention the price you pay for one with minimal image shift. Also Vari ND vignettes really easily. But mostly the reason I don’t use them is the way people look with them. It’s two polarizers put together so it’s going to remove those reflections.

Thanks for clearing that up! Makes a lot of sense now

Ahh come on Andrew! I made the switch to FCPX the day it came out and haven't looked back since. Its light years faster on slower Macs compared to Premiere and once you learn the workflow, I find it so much more intuitive. Im a huge fan of this program and it's put food on my table for over eight years now and Apple hasn't charged me a penny more than that initial $299 EIGHT FREAKING YEARS AGO! You hit that price in 6 months on Adobe. I have been Adobe"less" for a while now and love using Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. I also use Apple Motion for my graphics work. I made this VFX 3d heavy music video all on my base model $900 MacBook Air using Apple Motion 5 and FCPX. Would have been impossible using Adobe with their flawed CUDA crap. Adobe basically just wants everyone on PC's. I understand your frustrations, but it took me a solid 3-4 months to re learn how to edit. Im grateful I did. Apple FCPX is seriously lightning fast compared to Premiere. I couldn't live with that.

I know without a doubt the IQ on this camera will be better than Sony in my opinion. Sony is sticking to their guns with their color science for the most part, and it just doesn't excite me. Even though the a7Riii is such a wonderful camera. I wonder if they will be able to fit 4k at 60fps on this camera? Probably not..

If there’s already an X-H1 thread let me know. I did a quick search and didn’t see one. I for one am really excited about this camera. Here are the rumored specs from Fujirumors: -Better AF than XT2 -IBIS that can work with OIS as well for dual IS. -Same sensor as XT2 with same slight crop on the sensor in 4K -Internal F-Log -Phase Detect AF in video! (Hopefully with face tracking enabled in 4K!) -Top LCD -Internal 8bit 4:2:0 4K -Headphone Jack in body instead of on grip. February 15th IBIS alone is enough reason to get me excited about this camera. Not to mention the incredible color science and phase detect AF!! And all the incredible native lenses too. Really awesome. What do you guys think?

4K if you like 15fps! Lol

@kidzrevil Oh gosh Id have to dig through some old hard drives. I did a lot of work with the 50D raw as well...but those were fun times when ML was in their heyday. I promised myself 4 years ago that when I could afford it that I would buy the 1DC because I did a few projects with it when it came out and I fell in love with the image quality. I got asked to shot a doc in Mexico and Guatemala about two years ago and the budget set aside just for gear was more than enough to buy a used 1DC so I finally got my "dream camera" two years ago. I still shoot all my YT content with the 1DC...but I have been desperately avoiding switching to like a 1DX II or 5D IV because there are so many L's that I would take with the switch. Over the years I have shot Digital Bolex D16 a lot as well. IMO...the 1DC and the Digital Bolex are my favorite cameras to work with. They produce such consistently incredible results. Heres a film I shot all on the D16 and their Kish lenses and heres a music video I directed that was shot all on the 1DC At the end of the day, the only thing Im waiting to "upgrade" to at this point is RED DRAGON. I actually am a huge fan of the DRAGON sensor and feel like going R3D would be the only thing out there that would feel like a worthy upgrade for me with what I do. I just simply don't have the cash to make the switch at the moment, so for now....1DC it is...which isn't bad at all! By the way...I STRONGLY suggest you invest in either a kit of CONTAX ZEISS glass or Leica R's. The retro lenses take off that digital edge that you're fighting with the filters. The voigts are great though....but maybe you should try some retro glass. I have a 28, 35, 50, 85 CONTAX ZEISS kit and use them daily. (I need the 18 and then Ill be set)

My G9 review is live. Really like the colors off the camera. No point for any of us really. No real advantage for video...the AF may be a tad faster...but nothing to write home about Shot on 1DC in 4k in Canon Log

Looks sick bro. I remember shooting on the 5d3 with my old BMCC 2.5K and it was a dream setup. Keep it up bro