Popular youtube photographer Thomas Heaton is a Canon 5D MK IV shooter and hardcore Lightroom user.
And yet, it happens that he was attracted by the Fujifilm system, because:
I have purchased a new Fujifilm XT3 and I am changing the way I make videos and take photographs when hiking. My camera gear was always too heavy and in this video I test out a lightweight photography set up which should help me when putting in those long miles.
So he got himself a Fujifilm X-T3 and brought it with him on his trip to Nepal. How did it perform?
prior to the start, he had concerns with battery life, weather sealing, reliability…. turns out the X-T3 worked absolutely flawless!
batteries not even an issue. He filmed and photographed for a whole day with 1 battery
he hiked on very dusty mountains roads, also with non weather sealed lenses, but he never found dust on his sensor, even if he changed lenses on the field
however, the non weather sealed lenses got dust inside the lens elements, but that’s “kind of to be expected, but it never affected the images“
very cold temperatures, but no problem, flawless. He is impressed
it’s the hardest trip he has ever done. Everything is a challenge. Also photography was very challenging
And now to the post processing part.
Thomas is an Adobe aficionado, and the last thing he wants, is to spend money and time on another software. However, upon recommendation, he downloaded a free Capture One trial.
And just as many of us, he experience his little wtf moment ;).
In fact, his landscape images look so much better in Capture One (he says about 30% better compared to Lightroom), and his Fujifilm APS-C files ended up looking like his Canon full frame files!
a photo he took of a monkey, he likes the results in LR more
then he compares a landscape image in LR and C1, and while he was slightly disappointed with the LR images, he starts laughing when he sees the C1 image and says “the image in Capture One is fantastic“
images in Capture One are cleaner, sharper, and they look like better files… it looks like a Canon 5D MK IV file!
he is not paid by Capture One, he actually does not want to use Capture One, but it just looks so much better. He does not want to purchase Capture One, but he might to have to.
The other one is… well… as soon as I can, I will let you know ;).
In the meantime, Nokishita spotted further details about the menu interface of Fujifilm’s unreleased FF190003 camera.
The menu looks identical to the one of the Fujifilm GFX50R, with one more additional menu item, that you can see below and at the google drive file here. Nokishita writes:
Fujifilm’s unpublished digital camera “FF190003” passed FCC certification. Appearance images are not open until January 17, 2020. [Correction] The menu screen is that of “GFX 50R”, and only the last one appears to be a new model screen
With the new firmware, Fujifilm also released the new features guide for Fujifilm X-T3. At the beginning it was available only in Japanese, but now you can get in English here as well as other languages.
