X-H2s three weeks in...

pictograph wrote:

Thank you very much

for your very informative report of your X-H2 experience in REAL LIFE use !

You’re Welcome!

Your shots are very impressing both technically as „artistically“ as the portraits are authentical in an emotionally very touching way.

As for the IBIS/OIS:

I‘d like to know about EV rate with more modern Fujifilm lenses. As we all know, the 1.4/35 is one of the 3 lenses of the very beginning and dates in 2011/2012…

since it’s 1st Gen. AF was a lot slower than that of the newer gen. Lenses it might also take more time to send the exact Focussing distance to the body for exact calculation of the necessary movement of the IBIS.

I wouldn’t say a lot slower, it was slower yes and hit rate for tracking does go down with some of the original lenses, like the 18 and 35, but honestly optical clarity of those lenses required stopping down a few stops anyway.

Question: did you set the IBIS on „permanently on“ or not? This consumes more energy but Leeds at least with my X-T4 to better IBIS performance (even with the oldest primes) .

I tried both and the continuous could not keep up either.  At that point I would say the best option is the ISO Bump and shutter speed.

As for heavy use like fast AF, eye-AF, max. Shots/sec. and fast EVF frames, perhaps with film-Simulation PLUS IBIS …

I set the camera to only fire when focus was confirmed so it is about 15 FPS max, but that’s not bad.

… maybe even the enormous performant processor gets near its limits if you set all of them to max… ?

If this is the reason it might be easily possible to resolve the problem with a better firmware, which distributes the processors ressources in an better adapted way?

stabilization will likely never match the speed of this AF, as it is just too damn fast and even sensor stabilization technology is a reactive technology.

And at last: I think the new stacked sensor weighs more than the sensor of the last gen. Sensor… this might limit the IBIS with this first version of Firmware and should be possible to be corrected with coming firmware updates in the near future?

It might, but with a stabilized lens I do see a several stop difference in base performance.

Again thank you very much for your real-Life review !

As someone who loved the old Lay-out of their User-Interface of the X-series I see certain advantages for a well and thoroughly designed mixture with direct access to customer-settings by a wheel including confirming the choice with a click on it (like as before in older bodies for other functions).

The old layout is still superior in my opinion, but this has some strengths too.

This is the first time that I am thinking about a purchase of the X-H2 or X-H2s to (perhaps) replace my X-T4 instead of a coming X-T5…

That’s what I did.

cheers