As soon as I am at home today (it won’t take that long) I will drop a major Fujifilm X-T5 rumor. I want to be online to see your reaction when the rumor drops.
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You’re right. Every comparison is unfair.
Different sensor sizes, or different megapixel, or different features, or different sensor technology, or different price range, or different…. you got it, there is always something.
But since comparing the very same camera with the very same firmware would be awefully boring, I thought we enter the world of unfair comparisons and compare the upcoming 40 megapixel Fujifilm X-H2 with other 8K capable mirrorless cameras.
So we take a look at:
Of course the specs list of the Fujiiflm X-H2 is not complete. Nokishita will soon take care of it and help us to extend it and when that happens I will share an updated article.
However, even now we have quite some core specs available, which help us to get a very clear idea on how the X-H2 will perform.
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Fujifilm won* seven “Red Dot: Brands & Communication Design 2022” Awards.
Well paid, Fujifilm!
*LOL
** Yes, I know that the more these awards companies give away awards, the more they will get money from other companies to promote their products using their logo. But I am 100% sure that these award companies refuse to earn more money by giving away more licenses and prefer to make a super tough selection, make less money and make a honest service to customers who trust those logos.
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You might remember when back in July we told you that the Fujifilm X-T5 won’t have the vertical battery grip option, making it the first Fujifilm X-T camera ever without one (the X-T1 was the first Fujifilm X camera ever to even offer a vertical battery grip, the VG-XT1).
For 76% of you guys the lack of battery grip is not a dealbreaker, but there is still a respectable 24% of potential X-T5 buyers, who would not buy the X-T5 because of that.
For those 24% the hope was high that the rumor is wrong, given the fact that it came from a new source.
However, we can now confirm by trusted sources, that the Fujifilm X-T5 will indeed have no vertical battery grip option.
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This summer my Fujifilm APS-C X gear dominated and found its way in my camera bag most of the time.
May it be my X-T4 used during my holidays on the Elba island in Tuscany with my wife and son, or my top-combo X-E3 with XF27mm2.8 R WR used in many of my short 1 day family friendly mountain hikes.
But not this time!
In fact, I just came back from an extensive multi-day mountain hike in the Dolomites, and this is what I packed:
So how did it go?
Well, the reason I mostly instinctively grab my X series gear is because, in addition to offering a great image quality, compared to my GFX gear it is simply lighter and more compact, plus there are some lenses I truly love in that system, like the XF35mmF1.4 R (which never stops to stun me), the Fujifilm X-E3 with XF27mmF2.8MKII (my go to combo to document my everyday family life) and the XF18-135mmF3.5-5-6.
But the lightness and sheer perfect balance of the APS-C X system made me forget one thing: how portable and flexible actually also Fujifilm’s medium format system is!
As you can see, this is how I hiked for several hours a day: a medium format camera and lens on my hip, the tripod most of the time in my camera bag as IBIS took care to compensate for my tired and shaking hands… and in my heart the certainty that no matter how tricky the light will be, no matter how challenging the conditions, no camera will be able to handle it better than my Fujifilm GFX100S does (unless you use one of those monstrous digital MF cameras, but good luck hiking with those… if you can afford it!)
So we can only be grateful to Fujifilm for making medium format so accessible in terms of size and price.
For your convenience, here are all the rumored Fujifilm X-H2 specs available on the internet (and 100% of those rumored specs have been leaked by FujiRumors ;)).
Fujifilm X-H2
Keep in mind that, since it uses the exactly same body of it’s faster brother, the Fujifilm X-H2S, many specs not listed here can be figured out by looking at the X-H2S.
So for example we know it will take one CFexpress Type B and one UHS-II card, it will have a wonderful EVF, a PSAM dial, fully articulating screen and what more.
Also, it will obviously have the same AF tracking features of the Fujifilm X-H2S, so subject/animal tracking will also be on the X-H2.
The list above mainly focuses on the differences between the Fujifilm X-H2S and the Fujifilm X-H2.
And keep in mind, the X-H2 and X-T5 will share the same core specs (sensor and processor), so I’d not be surprised to see quite of those specs come also to the X-T5. For example, I’d expect the Fujifilm X-T5 to have base ISO 125, improved ISO performance and I hope also pixel shift and 8K video (although this is just a wish of mine, not at all a rumor, so please don’t sh*tstorm on me if the X-T5 does not have that).
In any case it is worth also for X-T line lovers to follow the X-H2 rumors, as the X-T5 might encapsulate lots (hopefull all) of the goodness the X-H2 will unveil on September 8.
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When I shared the rumor of the Fujifilm X-H2 having base ISO125, there were complaints of people saying that other brands offer base ISO100 or even ISO64.
But maybe we should not moan (for now), and I will try to explain why.
CIPA, the technical association of the Japanese camera industry, introduced in 2006 two new measures of the sensitivity of a digital camera, recommended for use instead of the ISO speed rating. They are standard output sensitivity (SOS) and recommended exposure index (REI).
So two different standards: ISO SOS and ISO REI.
Companies like Canon, Sony and Nikon use REI standard, whereas companies like Fujifilm, Pentax and Olympus use SOS standard.
ISO SOS is considered more objective. ISO REI gives more “freedom” to the camera manufacturer (hence it is considered less objective).
Standard output sensitivity (SOS) is an objective measure defined in essentially the same fashion as ISO speed (for one of the two bases of ISO speed), but which normally will have a value about 0.71 of the ISO speed.
Recommended exposure index (REI) is the value the camera manufacturer recommends be used as the exposure index setting. It is not specified to be determined in any specific objective way, but may be chosen empirically to give what the manufacturer feels will be the best exposure results for most users in most cases*.
You can go through all the technicalities yourself in the document linked below.
But what it means in short is that you can’t really compare ISO125 on a Fujifilm camera with ISO125 on a Nikon/Canon/Sony camera.
Will ISO125 be more comparable to ISO64 on Nikon as some say in the comments here on FujiRumors?
Well, I don’t know that.
But what I know is that on September 8th at 2PM New York time we will know a lot more about how well ISO125 on the X-H2 performs (starting from the improved low/high ISO performance).
*source – New Measures of the Sensitivity of a Digital Camera – Douglas A. Kerr, P.E. (dougkerr)
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We already told you that the Fujifilm X-H2 will shoot 8K/30p video.
Here is an update regarding the video specs of the Fujifilm X-H2 and we are also going to compare them with the ones on the Fujiiflm X-H2S.
If you want the highest video resolution possible, you better go for the Fujifilm X-H2 with 8K video. But if slow motion or the least amount of rolling shutter possible is your priority, then it’s best to go with the Fujifilm X-H2S.
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RAW Power added support for Fujifilm X-H2S.
RAW Power is an App that brings Aperture style interface and functions to Mac Photos (it can also run as standalone). Above you can see an image I took and that I tweaked using RAW Power directly in my Photos App.
You can open RAW power and edit within the Photos App by clicking “edit” in the Photos App, then click the three little dots and select RAW Power (image instruction here)
We have covered the App in the past:
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According to trusted information we have received, the Fujifilm X-H2 will have 13 stops of video dynamic range.
The Fujifilm X-H2S is better in this regard, as it offers 14+ stops of video dynamic range.
When it comes to stills, we confirm that Fujifilm will market the X-H2 as having improved low/high ISO performance. We remind you that the base ISO of the X-H2 will be ISO125.
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