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- Hey guys, what's going on?
Welcome to another unscientific review.
This time, we're talking about the brand new FujiFilm XT3.
I don't even think this camera's actually out yet right now,
and this camera is super exciting.
If you like features, this thing is jam packed
with features, I think it's actually the first
APSC camera that does 4K 10bit internally.
Very interesting, I've actually never used a
FujiFilm camera before, so I was pretty skeptical
going into this review, but with features like 4K 10bit,
4K 60P, 120P, LOG, apparently good color science,
all for $1500,
I think it's worth giving it a chance,
and before we even get into it, I just want to say
this video is not sponsored in any way,
this is not even my camera, it's just
on loan for a couple weeks, so I'm
going to be as unbiased as possible.
I get paid nothing, I got nothing for free,
this is just my opinion about this camera so far.
First impressions right away when you see this camera is
it just looks like a really nice camera,
and I'm just talking about, you know, the shell of it.
It looks really nice, it's just like a boss camera.
If you roll up with this camera to a shoot,
people are gonna be like, what is that camera
you're using, it looks so legit.
It just looks, honestly, like a legit camera,
not that that matters at all except for maybe ego,
but it's still cool, I appreciate it,
and I even like that they have these little dials,
it gives it that, like, kind of analog, cool
old school feel, even though I found it just easier
to use the scroll wheels, but it's still really cool
having all these dials, there's just
so much going on in this little body already.
You got dual card slots, if you care about that.
I don't know why people care about
that so much, but it has it.
No flip LCD screen, but it does kind of swivel and tilt,
but just please all camera companies,
put in a real flip LCD screen, it's
just really handy for all those awkward angles
and stuff where you can't really see the screen so well.
Okay, but where do we actually start with this camera?
I guess the 4K, so this camera does 4K 10bit internally,
and then it can do also 4K 60P, so
sixty frames per second, and the
4K's being recorded at a whopping
400 megabits per second, that's
a lot of data, a lot of information compared
to something like the Sony's, they're
only doing a hundred megabits per second.
Essentially, it's four times the quality.
I don't know if you can quite compare it like that,
but it's a lot more information that you can then use
to color grade and all that stuff in post.
Yeah, it's really, really impressive.
So there's a ton of room for color grading with this camera,
the 10bit, the 400 megabits per second,
it's just really impressive, and
the image itself looks really nice.
I found the dynamic range was super impressive.
I actually think it's more than the Sony A73
that I've been kinda playing around with more.
Do not take my word for this, at all,
this is just kind of an unscientific eye
looking at the two different cameras,
and the footage that's coming out of them,
but I feel like the dynamic range
is really impressive in the FujiFilm XT3.
I think I read on the Cinema5D site that
it's around 11 point something,
so it's doing a really good job, and even in the 120P,
yes, this camera can do 120 frames per second,
the roll off into the highlights
and the information there, it was really impressive.
I just think the image coming out of this camera, yeah,
it's worth looking at, and downside to all that
information in these crazy Kodaks is that
it does bog down Premiere quite a bit.
It doesn't play very well at all in Premiere right now.
I'm hoping they'll do some sort of updates
in Premiere so we can get this going a little bit better.
So, you're gonna have to probably use proxies,
or convert to pro res or something like that
if you want to edit with this Kodak.
So that is something to think about,
it's really high quality, but it might bog down
your workflow because you can't
just play it in Premiere very smoothly.
4K 60 frames per second even though it's not 10bit,
again, image looks really nice, very impressed with it,
and I'm just really happy that all these camera
companies are kinda battling it out and just
jam packing these cameras with so many different features.
Yeah, 4K 60P, yeah, not too many cameras have that.
And again, the 120 frames per second,
I think it's doing it at 200 megabits per second,
which is, again, more than the Sony,
which would do it at a hundred megabits.
Not quite as much as the 1DX2, which I think is
around 350 megabits,
but it's very high quality.
While I was color grading it, it really held up well,
it wasn't falling apart right away, even
in the LOG profile, very impressive, and even in
a 4K timeline, the 120P footage in 1080 held up really well,
and it's probably a lot to do with
the 200 megabits per second,
but yeah I was surprised at how good it looks.
It doesn't really look like 1080 for some reason.
Now, the downside is that there is a bit of a crop
in the 120, it's not quite the same APSC sized crop
that the camera normally shoots in,
but it's not a crazy crop either,
so it's not that big of a deal for me.
And then moving on to 1080 at 24P,
I didn't get to test it out too much,
I didn't have too much time left, but again,
it looked really good, I was impressed with it.
It almost looks better than 1080,
and with the F LOG and the dynamic range, and the colors,
yeah, it's a really impressive image, and I think,
correct me if I'm wrong, but it's doing it at 10bit,
and at 200 megabits per second,
so that's a lot of information for 1080.
There aren't too many cameras that
do these kinds of data rates, and
when you think about FujiFilm, you automatically think about
colors, they've been making film stocks forever,
so that's like the first thing I think about,
and I heard a lot about FujiFilm, the colors
for their digital cameras also, that it was really nice,
and I'm always a little bit skeptical when people say
that kind of stuff, but testing it out,
I really like the colors coming out of this camera.
I mostly filmed in F LOG, which is their flat profile
getting the most dynamic range,
but then they also have this kind of like
film look called eh-turn-uh, which was really cool,
but for me I would rather just use the F LOG,
get all that information, and then we were actually
using a LUT from FujiFilm, which converts that F LOG into
that Eterna color space, so it's kind of like
taking that LOG footage and making it more
of a standard saturation and contrast,
but still giving it kind of this film look.
It's not just a normal REX709 look,
but I do appreciate the fact that it does have
Eterna built in because if you're
on a really tight deadline, and you don't
have much time to color grade, which LOG footage
can take more time, you can use this color profile
Eterna and yeah, it looks really great
straight out of the camera, but again,
I would just rather have more information that I can
then play around with in post.
So, an interesting question that I wanted to answer
is, how do the colors compare with something like
the 1DX2, and then the Sony A73?
And I think the results are pretty interesting,
so I filmed in LOG on the FujiFilm and on the Sony,
Canon doesn't have a LOG so I couldn't film on LOG,
but it's on like a neutral flat profile,
and I would say that Canon's colors are maybe
still the best out of the three, the reds are
a little bit too saturated I find, so you
kinda have to desaturate the reds a lot of times,
but the FujiFilm was right up there,
it was almost even more natural for the skin tones,
when comparing it to the Sony color science,
it's like way better in my opinion,
and now, of course, these are all subjective things,
but I felt like the FujiFilm's color science was
the closest to real life, it was the most accurate
representation of what was actually going on in real life.
So, again, very impressed with this camera.
I had heard about the color science,
but still I'm always skeptical,
and it definitely proved itself, I would say.
And then let's talk about auto focus.
Auto focus didn't used to be that big of a thing for me,
but nowadays the more I film myself, and even when
I'm using something like a Gimbal,
I really want good auto focus because I want
to be able to do all these different kinds of cool shots
without having to worry about staying the same distance
from my subject the whole time because I can't
manual focus while I'm on a Gimbal.
So, auto focus is actually really important for me.
So, again, I tested the 1DX2, the Sony A73,
and then the FujiFilm XT3, and again,
very, very interesting results.
I'd say Canon was the best with auto focus,
they're still the king with auto focus,
but I expected the Sony to be a lot better
than the FujiFilm, and actually I think the FujiFilm was
better than the Sony, which is really interesting.
I was not expecting this at all because
the Sony is pretty good for the most part,
but the FujiFilm in all the Gimbal shots
and everything that I did, and then the
stupid little test I did walking back and forth,
the FujiFilm was better.
So, that was an interesting surprise,
and then let's talk about low light.
I just did a quick little test and again,
the low light wasn't too bad, it's
definitely not a low light monster.
I think the Sonys are better in this case,
but even going something crazy like
12,800 ISO, it wasn't horrendous.
It's not good, but it's not horrid either.
You could use it if you really needed to
maybe denoise it a little bit.
So, yeah, it's really interesting.
I don't know if the sensors are just
getting so much better now that they
all can do kinda low light in a better way,
but yeah, another interesting little
surprise from the FujiFilm XT3.
And then, very important, let's do a vlogging test.
Now, some of you right away are wondering,
why the heck is this guy doing a vlogging test?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Hold on.
I get it, you might not be into vlogging,
but there are a lot of people who are
interested in vlogging, and that's really
what I try to do when I'm trying to
review cameras like this guy.
I want to know who is this camera for?
Who is it actually meant for, who is it good for?
Is it good for wedding shooters,
is it good for vloggers, is it good for music video making?
I wanna know who is this camera good for
because let's face it, pretty much
all the cameras coming out nowadays
are like super good, like crazy good.
If I would've had this camera for my first camera,
man, I'd be a pretty happy camper.
So, that's why I do things like this,
like a vlogging test, which isn't very
conventional for a camera review,
but it's a great way to figure out who is it for.
Also, it's just a good way to test out some of the features,
like, for example, auto focus.
How does it deal with different lighting situations,
like that flat lighting situation I had earlier,
and now it's a little bit, it's a little bit harsher.
So, yeah, vlogging's a cool way
to just test out some different things
in the camera because you're really putting
it to real world use and there are different
kinds of uses in vlogging than you are with, let's say,
shooting a music video, so yeah, it's interesting.
Oh, and if you're interested, which you probably are,
everything so far has been filmed on this lens,
the Fuji-non 16-55 F28, great lens.
Yeah, alright, let's get back to the office,
but let's not get hit by a car.
Alright, so vlogging test complete.
I hope you're okay with me doing a vlogging test.
I found it to be pretty good actually for vlogging.
It was holding focus really well,
even in more challenging conditions.
The color science was great, it's really easy
to color grade just using the Eterna LUT.
It's a really good place to start,
and overall I liked using it, I didn't vlog with it
for too long, but I liked using it.
And that, to me, is really important,
is how does it actually feel using it.
When you're taking it out in the field,
are you struggling with the camera the whole time,
or is it pretty simple to use.
Now, okay, I know I've been talking this camera
up a lot, there's a lot of things
that surprised me about it, but give me the downsides.
What are the things that I found weren't so good?
Well, first off, the flip LCD screen.
There's no flip LCD screen, I don't want
these little swivel screen things.
Now, this one does go like, sideways like that, but
honestly who needs that kind of swivel?
I want it to flip out, be able to turn any direction.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the LCD screen,
and then probably one of the biggest things
that people are gonna be mad about is that there's no IBS.
There's no in body stabilization,
and that was definitely apparent when I was vlogging
because it is an APSC sized sensor, I can't
go super wide, which kind of takes away some of that shake.
You're gonna get that shake because
there's no stabilization, there's no even electronic
stabilization, which is a shame.
I wish it had something like that, even if it doesn't
have actual in body stabilization, but I did some
handheld tests, and they weren't that bad.
You can still use handheld footage,
especially if you're doing 120P or 60P.
It kind of hides a lot of that shake,
but yeah it sucks not having IBS.
I actually really like IBS.
The base ISO is fairly high, so it starts at 640,
so you can't go any lower than that, so again,
in a really bright situation, you're
gonna need a lot of ND if you wanna shoot wide open.
So, that can be a little tricky,
but it's not the end of the world.
And then, for me, I think the biggest
downside is that it's not full frame.
Full frame is a really nice look that I really enjoy.
I like vlogging with full frame.
I like my cinematic B roll with full frame,
so I've kind of gotten use to the full frame look.
So, for me that's a down side, but
for a lot of other people, it actually doesn't matter
that much, or they might even prefer it.
It's more of a personal preference, I think,
than a negative or positive, but
just for me, I would rather have full frame.
But man, 4K 10bit, 4K 60P, 120P, F LOG,
great color science, auto focus works really well,
and all for $1500.
It's hard to not recommend this camera,
and that's really the question, is, who is this camera for?
That's kind of what I try to figure out every time,
and I would say this is a really versatile camera.
I was trying to figure out which kinda category
does it fit in, but I think it works great for
kinda indie shooters, if you're filming weddings,
great color science is great for weddings,
F LOG, having a lot of dynamic range, great for weddings,
music videos, if you're filming music videos,
or any of that kind of really creative stuff,
again, having great color science and 60P and 120P,
and all those different Kodaks, huge advantages there,
corporate videos, I could even see this for,
vlogging, I could actually see this being a vlogging camera,
even though you can't see yourself, that's a big down side.
It still worked really well, and especially if you
just want to vlog in 1080, the
1080 Kodak seems really strong,
so I might even try this for vlogging,
but it's a very versatile camera.
So, I don't really know what category to put this in.
I would just say try it out, see if you like it.
For $1500, it doesn't get much better
than this camera right now.
I'm kind of speechless right now.
I was not expecting so much out of this little guy,
and especially because I've never used FujiFilm,
I was really skeptical, but, yeah.
This is a camera to keep your eye on.
I would say this camera will be much more popular
than I would have ever thought.
But as always, if you're interested in this camera,
test it out for yourself, figure out does it work
for your film making style, and yeah, I'd
love to know your opinion on this camera.
Leave a comment down below.
What things do you like about it?
What things don't you like about it?
Yeah, I'm really curious to know what you guys think.
I guess that's it for this review.
I feel like this is going to be a really long video,
there's just so much to talk about,
but I really wanted to talk about all the cool features
in the FujiFilm XT3, so if you enjoyed this video,
hit that like button, subscribe to the channel,
and yeah, leave your thoughts below,
and go and test out the FujiFilm XT3.
I wanna hear what you guys think about this camera.
Alright, that's it for this one,
I'll see you guys later, bye.
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