Today we are going to tell you the story of Paul, who sold all his Canon R gear for Fujifilm X.
So what motivated him to switch? You can see his videos and read a summary down below.
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Hidema shared a follow up to his this eye AF comparison between the following cameras:
In his original post, we critiqued the fact that he used the slower focusing XF 35mm f/1.4 lens.
So, Hidema listened, and, as spotted by our friends at CanonWatch, they now shared a follow up video, re-testing the eye AF.
Hidema writes he used “all camera default settings, except eye-AF on“.
This would mean that high performance mode (or boost mode) was OFF, hence the slower autofocus.
Today I talked to Hidema, and he was not sure about boost mode. So he contacted the Fujifilm employee, who helped him to perform this test, and apparently he has been told that boost mode was ON.
One more, important, thing:
Fujifilm has just announced they will release two firmware updates in December and January for Fujifilm X-T3.
The new firmware will bring these 3 significant autofocus improvements, and I expect the results to improve significantly.
Hidema made 6 different tests.
For your convenience, I have extracted practical screenshots of the results fo the 6 different tests as well as the average results and the time the cameras needed to reacquire focus after the subject returned into the frame.
OVERALL RESULTS
For the full results one by one, check out the screenshots and the video below.
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In times, where we are bombarded with marketing material about Full Frame mirrorless cameras, Jason wonders if he should switch to FF from his Fujifilm X-T2.
But instead of just following the hype (and the GAS), he decided to applied a methodology that helps him to decide more objectively if such a switch would make sense.
First he list the 5 most important characteristics he looks for in a camera according to importance:
He then assigned a rating to each of the above features for the following cameras: Fujifilm X-T3, Fujifilm X-T2, Sony A7III, Nikon Z7, Panasonic S1 and Canon EOS R.
He ended up with the following results:
Ranking:
The results showed him that he can save himself the $6,000+ he’d need to switch to the Sony A7III (+ lenses he needs), since it ranks even below the camera he already uses, the Fujifilm X-T2.
He concludes that he better spends that money for nice trip with his X-T2.
Of course everybody will get different results, depending on which top 5 features you select and which importance you assign to them.
So which one is the right call for you?
Use Jason’s methodology, download and edit his “Cure Your GAS Excel Spreadsheet” on dropbox here, and let’s see if Fujifilm is still the right call also for you.
Altough I find this a cool methodology, I personally won’t make this test, since I already know that what need to reach ultimate photographic happiness is an X-E4 with tilt screen and this XF 27mmF2.8 with aperture ring.
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