Carlos Morillo
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Hope it all works out! I've used it as a b-cam on multiple shoots and have been super happy with it.
Fuji X-T3 released
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scorsesefan
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"I was disappointed in how the X-T3 rendered reds". Hmm, I thought that was just me. The reds do look kind of off in F-Log in PP -- have to check this out...
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puredrifting
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Nice!
puredrifting
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At least they're not dinging YOUR credit card every month, that's better ;-)
Grug
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I've used the X-T3 on a handful of little doco shoots lately, both as a b-cam, and increasingly just by itself (with one camera on sticks and the other on the Ronin-S).
Over the next two days, we'll be shooting a little short film where it'll be our A-camera. I'm a little nervous about it (I've never shot narrative entirely on a little mirrorless/dslr before) but I've been impressed enough with the results I've seen to-date to give it a shot.
Wish us luck!
Over the next two days, we'll be shooting a little short film where it'll be our A-camera. I'm a little nervous about it (I've never shot narrative entirely on a little mirrorless/dslr before) but I've been impressed enough with the results I've seen to-date to give it a shot.
Wish us luck!
scorsesefan
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It's so tempting to use this as an a-cam. The colors are very good and the 4K has a nice creamy texture that's very pleasing. I have been using my X-T3 for verite lately and I feel kind of guilty leaving my FS5 on the shelf, but it's such a pleasure to handle and the stock 18-55 is a really good lens...
I continue to be amazed at how well the X-T3 holds highlight areas on faces. No burnout on the nose and foreheads. The only DSLR I know that retains so much detail in this way. Not sure what the magic ingredient is in their color science, because the dynamic range isn't particularly larger than other DSLR's/mirrorless cameras, but it definitely has increased it's usuability for me.
marvinhello
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What you are referring to is called latitude, not dynamic range.
X-T3 has a dynamic range of 11.2EV (5.3EV above 18% grey and 5.9EV below), using the same ARRI standard, ALEXA has 14EV with 7.8EV above and 6.2EV below.
Since the 35mm f/1.4 is a little bit of an older lens, the autofocus motors are slower and noisier than on the newer lenses like the 35mm f/2. So if you plan on using continuous autofocus, the 35mm f/2 will likely give smoother results.
The 35mm f/2 is also weather sealed and focuses internally, whereas the 35mm f/1.4 is not weather sealed and extends slightly when focusing. The 35mm f/2 is also a bit less expensive (at least when purchased new).
Image quality is very good on both lenses, so it mostly comes down to whether the extra stop of the f/1.4 is worth the other tradeoffs. I really wish Fuji would release an updated version of the 35mm f/1.4 with newer autofocus motors so that there weren't so many tradeoffs, but Fuji seems intent on coming out with a 33mm f/1.0 lens next year instead.
Viltrox is releasing a bunch of lenses for Fuji 56mm, 23mm, and 33mm all at 1.4. I am very curious to see how well they perform AF wise. Image quality isn't a huge issue for me. DOF is definitely appreciated. I have heard the 35mm F2 pulses pretty badly. While the 35mm 1.4 is slow, I wonder if it doesn't have the pulsing issue.
Samuel H
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I know people call this latitude, but it's just a direct function of the dynamic range of the sensor and the DR that's strictly required by the scene you're shooting. The reason I like it is that it's a better way to measure DR than shooting a DR chart, becaue in the overexposure+underexposure test you also see color clipping and shadow noise.
Grug
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Well, our short film shoot with the X-T3 went along without any major hiccups. The fiddliness of the HMDI connections was the only real irritation. And being able to have one camera setup on the gimbal permanently, and the other rigged up as a more conventional A-Camera, helped speed things along.
We shot FLOG recorded to UHD ProresHQ on the Ninja V (mainly because the internal 10-bit h265 codec is a dog to work with in post), and threw a bit of diffusion both in front of and behind the lenses, to add a little life to it.
Here a few grabs with the Eterna LUT slapped on them. I haven't really been a fan of the Eterna look to-date (I feel it sucks a little too much life out of skintones under normal lighting conditions), but I'm quite liking what it's doing here:
We shot FLOG recorded to UHD ProresHQ on the Ninja V (mainly because the internal 10-bit h265 codec is a dog to work with in post), and threw a bit of diffusion both in front of and behind the lenses, to add a little life to it.
Here a few grabs with the Eterna LUT slapped on them. I haven't really been a fan of the Eterna look to-date (I feel it sucks a little too much life out of skintones under normal lighting conditions), but I'm quite liking what it's doing here:
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Wow, these look beautiful Grug, nice work. Did you manually focus or is this all AF? Which lenses were used here mostly? What ISO did you try to light for?
Grug
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Focus was mixed (but not much), 95% of it was manual with the Sigma 18-35mm (in PL mount) on our A-Camera, on the two-shot of them walking down the street I had the B-Camera on the Ronin-S, with the Fuji 35mm f/1.4 on autofocus mode (with face tracking) so that we could get our poor-man's steadicam shot.
That's one area where it's really nice to have the autofocus as an option. It lets you get those stabilised walk and talks when you don't have the budget for a steadicam op and remote FIZ unit.
By my tests, the X-T3's "native" FLOG ISO of 640, is actually 400 by meter. So I lit for that at T/2. But with the streets being pretty dark, I ended up pushing the camera a stop to its 1250 ISO setting (800 ISO in reality) and bringing down my key lights, so that we could see more into the background.
So I own both of these 35mm lenses. The differences go beyond the weather sealing, focus and max aperture. They look different enough that I always reach for the 1.4 whenever I’m shooting people (90% of the time). There’s a reason it’s referred to as the “god lens”. It has for lack of a more technical term more character, and is tied with the 16 1.4 for my favorite lens in the lineup.
I keep the 2.0 for the weather sealing and I think it’s more technically perfect so may be better for landscape/architecture. It’s definitely faster focusing, but I haven’t tested enough to say which is better at continuous in video mode. In stills mode it’s very close in good light, with the 2.0 being more consistently fast with less hunting. I’d say the 1.4 is very fast on the xt3, but the 2.0 is nearly instant.
Fuji addressed the autofocus of the 1.4 saying that if they did improve it, the lens would either have to be much larger or lose some of its optical characteristics, which is why they opted to leave it be.
In my opinion the 1.4 has noticeably different, and subjectively better, image quality than the 2.0.
scorsesefan
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Fuji has released a 3.01 update for the X-T3: "The firmware update Ver.3.01 from Ver.3.00 incorporates the following issue:
1.The phenomenon is fixed that in rare cases, the message of “TURN OFF THE CAMERA AND TURN ON AGAIN” can appear in the drive mode of “S” when you repeatedly and rapidly take photos in a short time."
No mention of the the AF hunting issue. Either the fix is in the this update because they don't want to publicly admit the issue, or we have to wait for 3.1 for the fix :/
https://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/x/xt3/index.html
1.The phenomenon is fixed that in rare cases, the message of “TURN OFF THE CAMERA AND TURN ON AGAIN” can appear in the drive mode of “S” when you repeatedly and rapidly take photos in a short time."
No mention of the the AF hunting issue. Either the fix is in the this update because they don't want to publicly admit the issue, or we have to wait for 3.1 for the fix :/
https://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/software/firmware/x/xt3/index.html
ReelWorksMedia
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Look at that X-T3 rocking those blue LEDS. Lots of discussion on here about the universal sensor flaw that plagues cameras with blue clipping. Those shots look great and the X-T3 is handling those blue LEDS no problem.
X-T3 kinda rules.
X-T3 kinda rules.