Fujifilm X-H1 Vs. Panasonic GH5 Vs. Sony A7sII Video Features Comparison

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Fujifilm X-H1 vs Panasonic GH5 vs Sony A7SII

It’s time for comparisons, and this time Vistek compares the video features of Fujifilm X-H1 with the Panasonic GH5 and the Sony A7SII.

Here is a summary for those of you, who can’t watch the video right now, but make sure to check it out later at Vistek Youtube.

Profiles Comparison

  • X-H1: Super impressed with ETERNA profile. Great latitude and color. Shadow boost pretty nice and in post he even got some highlight detail back. He lost some highlight details in face, but he could probably get that back with further tweaks
  • GH5: Panasonic Cine-D profile. Highlights quite blown out. Mid-tones seem quite milky
  • A7SII: Set to PP5 and Cine 3. Highlights are super clippy and the profile shows the least amount of dynamic range. Despite that, he was able to tweak the exposure without roasting the skin highlights
  • WINNER: X-H1, because ETERNA profile has the most dynamic range and requires less tweaking in post. FujiRumors summary: it makes life easier ;)

LOG Comparison (8 bit for Sony and Fuji, 10 bit for Panasonic)

  • WINNER: Sony S-Log3, but he says that “I’m still not convinced that F-log isn’t quite as good though it would be nice to see it supported fully by Resolve“

High ISO

  • ISO 3200: Sony looks good. Fuji has more grain and some artifacting. GH5 has most artifacts and grain
  • ISO 6400: Sony looks like 3200. The X-H1 holds up quite well. No real color shifts. The GH5 has major color shifts.
  • ISO 12500: for 24MP APS-C sensor, the X-H1 actually holds up quite well. Like on Sony no real perceivable color shift. It has more grain, but not unusable. You can probably clean up a lot in post and come up with a nice image. GH5 no comment.
  • WINNER: Sony A7sII, but no surprise. The downside of the Sony: it’s a 12MP sensor, hardly serious photography specs. Best all-rounder for stills and video is the X-H1.

Video Autofocus:

  • X-H1: not as responsive as he would have hoped, but when it works, it works. [Firmware Update, Fuji?]
  • GH5: often sluggish or completely non responsive
  • A7sII: snappy and accurate. By far best AF in video of the 3 cameras
  • WINNER: A7sII

IBIS:

  • Larger sensor is going to be less stable than smaller sensor.
  • WINNER: GH5, followed by X-H1 and last A7sII.

Button Design and Layout

  • X-H1: simple, clean and easy to use
  • GH5: very intuitive, but also a bit cluttery, which slows the reviewer down a little bit. Has a fully articulating screen. Good for vloggers.
  • A7sII: everything is in weird places. It doesn’t feel intuitive.
  • WINNER: He does not want to declare a winner, because it depends on your taste… but the X-H1…. ;)

Fujifilm X-H1: BHphoto, AmazonUS, Adorama, Focuscamera
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“Don’t Touch that Camera!” and About the Inspiration Behind the Fujifilm X Series Design – Best Looking X Camera Poll

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Fujifilm X Design

Fujifilm designer Masazumi Imai participated to the Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore, where he explained what inspired him to design the X-series. You can read the full article at Fortune (thanks Olaf). Here an excerpt:

For Fujifilm design manager Masazumi Imai, cameras are just as much about expressing the spirit of the photographer behind the lens as they are capturing what’s in front of it.

[…] “The X-Series design completely embodies the true essence of the camera,” says Imai. “A design that preserves the good should not be changed.”

[…] The line is iconic because of the way it couples a vintage design feel with cutting edge camera functions.

When designing the X-series, Imai wanted to tap into a childhood memory ubiquitous among photographers: discovering their father’s camera.

“Father used to keep very good camera in his room. He would say, ‘Don’t touch that camera!’” Imai recounts. “That’s the camera I saw when I was a child.”

Imai wanted to capture that wistful longing and translate it into the device’s blueprint. He also wanted to design the camera in a way that appealed to all five senses. The manual dials, the synthetic leather, and the sound the camera makes when taking a photo are all designed in a sensuous way.

And which one is according to you the best looking Fujifilm camera?

Note that I split some camera lines, since I think they introduced significant design changes. For example, the X-E1/2 and the X-E3 are different options in the poll.

The Best Looking Fujifilm Camera is...

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Fringer EF to Fujifilm X Smart Adapter AF Performance Improved Again with Firmware V1.30

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Fringer EF-X Smart Adapter

Fringer just released firmware update 1.30 for its EF-X smart adapter, which further improves the AF accuracy using the lenses listed below.

They also say that the adapter, which sold like hot cakes, will be in stock again in late March / beginning of April. Full release notes below and at Fringer blog here.

Fringer Firmware Details

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Iridient X Transformer adds Fujifilm X-H1, X-A5, X-A20 Support + ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1 Released and Compared to Lightroom & More

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Iridient Digital

Brian just released Iridient X-Transformer 1.0.1. It adds support for Fujifilm X-H1, X-A5 and X-A20. Iridient Developer 3.2.2 will be out shortly.

New Features:

  • Support added for the Fujifilm X-H1.
  • Support added for the Fujifilm X-A5.
  • Support added for the Fujifilm X-A20.
  • New option added to override the camera make metadata in addition to the model. Can allow for better support of DNG files in software that may unnecessarily prevent loading or may omit features based on the DNG make and model information.

Improvements:

  • Updated camera calibration and profile information for models newly supported in Adobe’s latest DNG Converter 10.2 update (X-H1, X-A5, X-A20).
  • Options to turn off Lightroom color and luminance noise reduction should less agressive in there impact on Lightroom adjustments, particularly with both of these options disabled.
  • Updated to the latest version of Intel’s IPP library (2018u1).
  • Updated to the latest version of the libjpeg-turbo library (1.5.3).
  • Updated to the latest version of the LibreSSL library (2.6.4).

Bug Fixes:

  • Made further attempts to address macOS specific issues specific to the Lightroom plug-in where loading images located on some NAS drives using non-Mac native file systems (NTFS, ext4, etc) may fail.
  • Fixed issue where baseline noise and baseline sharpness metadata was being included even with these options set to “Do Not Include”.

On1 + Comparison

ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1 is out. The new ON1 compared to Luminar, Topaz and Lightroom at joelwolfson.

Fujifilm X-H1: BHphoto, AmazonUS, Adorama, Focuscamera
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