Here is a little roundup to catch up with the latest first look reviewers about Fuji’s newest gear trinity.
It includes a Nikon Z9 shooter going hands on with the Fujifilm X-H2S and explaining us why 40fps do matter. It’s the first video in the “video section” down below, and it is also summarized for you in case you don’t have time to watch it right now.
But here on FujiRumors we treat all lenses with the same dignity, so we will start the roundup with this lens. More precisely, the with the coverage of Taylor Jackson, who says:
there are four ways to zoom
1) a zoom ring designed to feel like a manual zoom ring
2) behind the zoom ring, there is a zoom lever
3 )there is a zoom button to zoom at a constant speed
4) ou can zoom via touch screen controls
exposure stepping still exists [on this pre-production copy]
minimal focus breathing
very versatile
Fujinon XF150-600mmF5.6-8
keithwee – Fujinon XF150-600mm ƒ5-6.8 R LM OIS WR Review – Reach Maximus
And since smaller youtube channels seem to often stay on the piece better than the big ones, today I’ll share a video of an even smaller youtube channel, in fact so small, that this time even I missed this video, but a fellow FR-reader made it notice to me today.
Passionate bird photographer liewwk Nature runs a 860 subscriber channel with hundred of bird photography videos.
A lot of it has been taken in tropical forest environment, often in tricky and low to very low light conditions and with a complex and distracting background.
In these objectively difficult conditions, Iiewwk Nature writes:
The new system just weight 2.4KG which allow us to shoot 150-600mm (225-900mm 35mm equivalent) which is one best available
This system allow me have >50% success rate 1/125 at 900mm which is my recommended minimum shutter speed for handheld.
The AF is fast and accurate (on bird eye), it may not best in market but it is very good and accurate even at low-light & complex environment.
For the Auto-focus, I think this is a huge upgrade compare previous X series. The Animal Detection just simple amazing
Keep in mind that this is the success rate mentioned is for shooting at 900mm.
In my eyes it already looks pretty amazing. And considering that this is an early pre-production firmware (on both, camera and lens), I guess it can get only better from this point on until the final firmware is released.
You can find the video down below and his blog post about his experience at liewwkphoto.
Eye Autofocus
The second video below is of Lee Zavitz, who used the Fujifilm X-H2 with the XF18-120mmF4 for a portrait session and he is says that eye AF is crazy and it detects the eye even when the eyes are mostly blocked by her hair.
He says he is really impressed by eye detection and he did not expect it to be that good.
It’s still a beta firmware, but it is on par with competitors in terms of eye autofocus.