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Capture one pro 12 fujifilm review free.Fujifilm X-H2S initial review
It can shoot stills at up to 40fps 15fps with mechanical shutter , and capture full-sensor 6. As you'd expect, its autofocus has received a major boost, with subject-recognition and improved tracking.
The additional 'S' in the X-H2S's name implies there's to be a sister model but, as yet, it's unclear how the emphasis between the two models will differ. The X-H2S has a more advanced video spec than any previous Fujifilm model and the company says the 'S' stands for speed. As we've seen on other recent high-end cameras, the adoption of a Stacked CMOS sensor comes with a significant speed boost for the camera's readout. In this instance it not only allows the camera to capture full-resolution images at up to 40 frames per second but also boosts how frequently the sensor can provide data for AF calculations.
Fujifilm says the stacked version of the 26MP X-Trans sensor is 3. Together this pairing allows faster shooting, faster, more sophisticated AF, video at higher frame rates and with less rolling shutter even when reading the sensor with greater bit-depth.
There's also a new mechanical shutter. As with previous X cameras, you can set the camera to switch between fully mechanical, electronic first curtain and fully electronic at the appropriate points, or manually select your shutter type.
There's a suitably large buffer to accommodate this speed, too: with the camera able to shoot for JPEGs or Raws at 40 fps and over JPEGs in 30fps or 15 fps modes, and Raws at that lower speed. This means you can only shoot standard DR images, not HDR images for playback on wider-DR bit displays, that would make better use of the ability to capture bit images. The in-camera Raw reprocessing option lets you generate HEIF files from Raw, but again there's no way to create a file that really exploits the additional bit-depth or that of modern displays.
The camera will draw a grey box around faces it finds in the scene and light these boxes up in yellow if they're close enough to your AF point that it's going to focus on them if you initiate focusing. With the current firmware we found the X-H2S to still be a little prone to false positives pointing the camera at my feet, the camera was convinced my brogues had faces , but this is usually fleeting and shouldn't get in the way of focusing on your chosen subject.
In common with the majority of other brands, the latest generation of X-series cameras gains a series of subject recognition modes. Setting a button to access subject detection toggles it on and off: you'll have to go to the menus to change which type of subject the camera is looking for.
The original X-H1 represented a major step forward for video in the X-series, not least because of the inclusion of in-body image stabilization. This development continued, with the X-T4 offering stabilization and bit 4K capture at up to 60p.
The X-H2S moves things on from here considerably, adding internal ProRes capture options and letting you shoot bit or in your choice of All-I or LongGOP, for all its resolutions and framerates.
The X-H2S also adds the ability to record 4-channel audio and adds full-sensor 'open gate' shooting options. But, in perhaps the most telling indication that it's designed to work for both photographers and videographers, there's an optional cooling fan module that can be screwed onto the back of the camera, to extend recording times.
There's a 1. Adding the cooling fan extends the recording time back out to 50 minutes. The main benefit gain, then, is dependability while shooting: gaining the confidence that your camera isn't going to overheat if you're shooting in warm conditions.
The X-H2S gains the option to adjust the shutter speed in small increments to avoid clashing with the flicker of artificial lights. Then there's the addition of a new, F-Log 2 gamma curve. Fujifilm says the X-H2S produces its 6. F-Log 2 is a designed to incorporate this additional DR, and uses one stop less exposure to capture an additional stop of highlights.
Despite the higher bit-depth of the 30p and slower modes, Fujifilm says the X-H2S offers rolling shutter rates of around The higher frame-rate modes or use of the original F-Log profile see the camera use a bit readout mode, delivering rolling shutter of 5. In addition to internal H.
The camera's full-sized HDMI port conforms to v2. So does its speed allow it to offer something to make up for the inevitable image quality difference when shot at the same exposure settings? The X-H2's speed can be seen in its impressive maximum burst rate: a little behind the OM-1 but a long way ahead of the a7 IV.
Likewise the Fujifilm's video shows much less rolling shutter and can deliver 60p from its full sensor width both are using APS-C sensor areas for 60p but the Fujifilm is sampling more pixels and isn't cropping-in, compared with 24p mode or stills, so you don't need a wider lens to shoot slow-mo.
The X-H2 also joins the GH6 in being able to shoot ProRes footage if you want to let your memory card take the strain, rather than your editing machine. It doesn't offer waveforms or the same level of thermal stability as the GH6, nor does it have valuable albeit niche functions such as anamorphic desqueezed previews but, on paper, the X-H2S's video specs are extremely competitive.
Its F-Log2 mode, designed to exploit bit readout, should give it the edge over the Panasonic in high-contrast conditions, leaving a lot hinging on how well its video AF can perform. The X-H2S sees the return of the square top-plate status panel from the original X-H1 along with its command-dial led control method.
There's no shutter speed or ISO dial, meaning most settings are changed using the front and rear command dials. Unlike models further down the range, these aren't clickable dials, but this allows them to feel more substantial.
That gives the X-H2S ten customizable buttons and, in addition, you have the option to assign functions to the four directions you can swipe your finger across the camera's rear screen. The camera has a well-placed AF joystick and you have the choice of whether it simply moves the AF area or lets you edit the size of the AF point at the same time. Pushing in on the joystick can either revert the AF point to a central position, zoom-in on the selected AF point or edit the size of the AF point.
On the other side of the camera there are similar improvements for video and speed. Most significant of these it the adoption of a full-sized HDMI port. On the base of the camera is a fairly substantial connector with 15 metal contacts and what appears to be a USB-C socket. Don't make other plans for the connector though: it may look like a USB port but you can't just plug in a cable for data or power connections. It has the same fully-articulated 1.
This gives a x pixel resolution and can be run at up to 60Hz in one of the camera's 'Boost' modes. The viewfinder receives both a size and resolution boost. Its optics deliver 0.
Our impression is that the live view appears to make full use of this resolution but drops a fraction during focusing. Boosting the refresh rate to fps in Boost mode lowers the resolution a little, with resolution during focusing dropping still further. There's also a 'p equivalent' mode which dims the viewfinder, suggesting the camera is inserting black frames between a fps feed to give more separation between frames, making it easier to interpret motion.
It's good in that the camera lets you set up three banks of Auto ISO settings, each with its own maximum ISO value and minimum shutter speed threshold. However, there's no way of biasing this Auto value to use a shutter speed that's faster or slower but still related to focal length, as you can on the best implementations.
Auto ISO can be used in Manual exposure mode in both stills and movie modes, letting you choose your shutter speed and aperture, then using Auto ISO to maintain your chosen image lightness. It's a 16Wh unit, which helps the camera deliver a battery life rating of per charge using the camera's LCD and using the viewfinder.
As always, these standard battery ratings can rather under-represent the number of shots that you'll get in a lot of shooting scenarios. It's not untypical to get twice the rated number of shots, and we find a rating of over will provide enough power for several days of frequent photography.
You're likely to only need to worry about it if you're shooting video for long periods or are shooting a long, intensive event, such as a wedding. You can power the camera directly from a suitably powerful USB PD source, which takes further pressure off the internal battery.
The optional VG-XH vertical grip adds capacity for two extra batteries, in addition to the internal one, and increases the battery life 2. This is a further advance over BSI technology and allows memory or processing capability to be placed behind the light-sensitive photodiode, rather than having to be squeezed-in around it. And, as before, the result is a big increase in speed. And, just as with the other Stacked CMOS models, it risks being a little underwhelming at first glance.
The are unlikely to be major differences in image quality, and the vast majority of the features appear essentially the same as the models that have gone before. It gains Nostalgic Neg from the recent GFX models, but this is the first Fujifilm to be launched for a while that doesn't gain a new Film Simulation though this could be because they're running out of good film stocks to mimic, and frankly we'd rather they didn't drift any further into 'effect' territory.
Fujifilm's frame rate claims tell us a lot about what's going on, under the hood. This suggests there'll be reduced dynamic range when you use the camera's electronic shutter. I doubt I'll ever use the seven 7! Yes, the headline figures get faster and video frame rates get higher, but for many people this will be unnecessary: pro sports photographers were shooting at around 15fps quite recently, so 40 fps could end up being excessive in a lot of situations.
What this overlooks, though, is the degree to which faster readout and processing makes every aspect of a mirrorless camera that bit better: autofocus can be made more responsive and more sophisticated if it's receiving more frequently updates about what's in front of it, rolling shutter rates in video improve, meaning even your 24p footage looks better and promises higher DR, in the case of the X-HS2 and the viewfinder experience can become smoother as well as more detailed.
It's familiar in all the ways you might hope, but everything just feels a bit better. Even without engaging the subject recognition modes, it's immediately apparent that the autofocus is significantly better than before. The past few years have seen autofocus improve in leaps and bounds, both in performance and in ease-of-use. We'll need to do more testing, but our initial impressions are that Fujifilm may have caught up to where the best of its rivals are, in terms of power and ease-of-use.
This would represent a huge step forward for the brand, as it's not always been their area of strength, and the big three brands have all made major steps forward even since the X-T4 was released. People waiting for a successor to the X-H1 will be delighted by this camera.
Frankly, anyone committed to the X-mount should be pleased with how capable it shows the system to be. The only question is: how much of this capability can be trickled down to the rest of the range, without imposing the cost of Stacked CMOS on them?
We make the originals available for private users to download to their own machines for personal examination or printing in conjunction with this review , we do so in good faith, please don't abuse it. I am awaiting the forthcoming Fujifilm X-H2 because, I really don't care that much for video in a camera body. I can get the latest Go Pro for that which is actually preferable because of its size, accessories, etc. Been looking at other cameras too, but I always come back to Fujifilm because of those beautiful film simulations.
My wife and I are going to Italy in Spring for three months, so I want to build up a great lens collection by then for the X-H2 and the X-S10 or its successor I'm going to get my wife for Christmas. I'd like to get the Tamron mm for carrying around most of the time. Fuji can you now make an adapter for my Canon lenses.
OM-1 also looks nicer I actually like it more than the Canon R7. And probably others, like Commlite or Vello or Kipon. Thanks for the reply. Will still eventually get the R7 it's cheap enough I've been waiting over two months for it preorder. I will also get either the new stacked sensor OM-1 or the new XH2s both have a decent mm lens.
I like the look of the new Fuji mm. I can then sell everything I have to do with Canon once I feel confident with the new system. The AF comparison is the most important for wildlife I need to test that myself I just don't see reliable reviews.
It's not ok for them to fudge stats like this.
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