Fujifilm X-T4 Birds in Flight Review and Tutorial
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:04 General Settings
5:54 Drive Settings
10:28 Autofocus Settings
18:39 Analysis & Keeper Rate
27:32 What About Video?
29:25 That's a Wrap!
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This video is probably the best on CZcams for explaining the various autofocus settings for the Fujifilm X series of cameras, particularly for wildlife shots.
Thanks!
I completely agree. This was better than half of the videos dedicated to autofocus.
THE BEST PERIOD.
Tks for your help I will try your settings.Great tuition.
Pre Shot ES 🤯 thanks for this information 👍
This is the most useful video I have ever watched. Thank you for your amazing efforts to analyse which settings to use and when. The normal styles of photography are easy, generally, to work out but the level of experimentation here is exemplary. Brilliant.
Glad it was helpful!
This is such an incredibly useful and well produced video. Thank you!
Hands down this is the BEST video I have ever seen for the various functions of the Fuji and when to use them for fast moving objects - especially birds. Totally practical and wonderful to see actual examples of the results of the various settings. Otherwise, there is a ton of guesswork involved and you did a brilliant job of showing how each of the settings have their own advantages and disadvantages.
This took some serious effort as well for the graphic information and post-production. Great work and I appreciate your time and effort! Subscribed.
Thank you so much for the kind comment!
Great; detailed and concise, thank you for posting this.
Thanks for your work, really helpful video. I learned a lot and saved a lot of time by avoiding trial and error. Thank you!
Thank you for this video. It's exactly what I was looking for. 👊🏻💪🏻
Thank you for your tutorial, I did learn something today!
This is simply the best of the best tutorials! Thank you for preparing the video and text version which are quite helpful!
You're welcome. Glad you find them helpful!
Thank you for making this.
I think yours is the best on the subjects like metering and mechanical/electronic shutter.
Such an amazing Bird! The 200mm f2 images looked amazing!
Thank you for taking the time and the detailed explanation!
I‘m waiting for my 70-300mm to arrive and go out and test your suggestions.
Let me know how do you find the settings. And the 70-300mm too! ;-)
Mathieu Thank you. Just got the XT4 and i was lost but you have helped me find a way.
the best video on bif i have seen regarding the xt-4 100-400 combo
As someone who's a beginner at bird photography and a X-T4 this video is perfect!
Such a helpful tutorial. Thank you so much!
Very detailed and well researched piece about birds shooting. Thanks
Great video! Thanks for sharing this information.
Cracking video and information. Thank you for all your hard work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don't have the X-T4 but a lot of the settings and techniques apply to other Fujifilm cameras such as my X-Pro2 so it was very useful. Great video.
I've only just found this, but I can't tell you how enlightening it has been to help me to understand my camera so much more. I don't have the XT-4 and probably never will, but I have the XT-2 and I am pretty sure a lot of what you have said on here will help me with that as some of the settings are similar or the same. It is appreciated how much time, effort and thought it must have taken you to make this excellent tutorial.Thank you! Gigrin Farm in Wales is one place I would like to visit, once Covid-19 has abated. I am going to watch your tutorial again, and hopefully my birds in flight photography will improve with your help! :)
Thank you, glad the video is helpful. Some of the settings I mentioned like the AF-C Custom Settings are also available on the X-T2.
Thank you very much Mathieu. Obviously you are an excellent explainer! Will bookmark your tutorial.
*WOW! Thank You. This is super helpful and so well done! THANK YOU!*
You're very welcome!
A fantastic tutorial! Many thanks for sharing your hard work.
Glad it was helpful!
Mathieu this is really helpful for me just before to plan my travel to Namibia! I'll review and watch again and again this video as is just perfect moment for me especially having 2 xt4 cameras + 50-140 / 100-400 lenses + 1.4 TC! Thank you very much for this tutorial!!!
Happy to help!
Spectacular video. Thank you so much for the amount of work you put into this. Definately a subscriber.
Awesome, thank you!
This is an excellent video. The best one I have seen about birds in flight and probably autofocus settings in general. Very easy to follow and understand.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent data, information and production. Well done and thanks 👏. Subscribed!
Thank you!
This really helped, although I have the XT3 the settings are the exact same except the native MS being 15 fps vs 11 fps. Thank you!
Amazing tutorial, really helpful to learn BF Shooting
A really useful video as I have just bought the 100-400 for my XT4. Many thanks.
Great! You will be very happy with it!
best tutorial hands down. Thanks
Thanks. Going to photograph at bird sanctuary tomorrow. Very helpful.
Great video, and thanks so much for all of these tips and explanations. 👍👍
Amazing tutorial, thank you!
Excellent review! Allthough owning a Fuji X-E3 camera with somewhat more limited options, I learned a lot about the purpose of varioius settings, and of course, from your "mistakes". Most appreciated!
Very well done! Thank you so much!
Amazing shots with this camera thanks for the tips
Thank you so very much.You explain clearly and in depth. Most appreciated.
OUTSTANDING! Thank you.
Great video! You combined camera review with photography technical tips which is awesome...
Glad you liked it!
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons other videos with this tutorial-review style would be nice for beginners-medium photographers
Thanks! I'll keep that in mind :-)
excellent video by the way. hope you continue with more. your have done the work, that is quite clear.
Thank you!
Thank you for this detailed information.
Thank you so much. You gave me reasons for the settings and that made all of the difference.
Glad I could help!
Thanks a lot for such detailed explanation!
Very good video Mathieu. I like the way you have presented this and the detailed analysis sections. I've sent the link to others i know who will certainly benefit from it.
Much appreciated!
Excellent and details review! Thanks for sharing! 👍
Thanks for watching!
Well done and great video. The content is so exquisite that I have to look it again for detailed notes to betaken. You have the ability to show and test it on the field. Which is excellent. I personally find BIF an excellent field practice as to my favorite photography topic - sports!
This 30 minutes + video must gave you a ton of work! Always humble and modest to asking subjects to be addressed, however updating sports settings for the X series and lens I'm always wishing for a detailed video such as this one. Congrats on the content!
Thank you for the kind comment! Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons I'm the same guy with the XT3 that uses mainly for sports and have been dealing with a few challenging issues of getting the athlete's face in focus, specially shooting windsurf. Got better results after you tips, but I think that above a certain level of fast action sports...yes is the gear...but the photographer makes...50% of the final result como to really. Maybe? ;)
Fantastic, great analysis, great presentation. thanks a lot
I have an XT3 and waiting for my 70-300 to be delivered. I want to try BiF photography. Very good level of detail, especially that you show lot of images while testing, even live view. Thanks a lot
Thank you very much for your terrific work, Mathieu!
Glad you like it!
I hardly comment but this video is the bomb. Detailed and supported by data. I enjoyed this!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very well done video! Congrats
thanks!
This was a very handy video! I've been trying to research whether the X-T4 can handle action sports and there's so little out there talking about focus performance for fast and randomly moving subjects. Thanks!
Glad I could help!
Absolutely amazing tutorial. Thanks a million!
You're very welcome! Thanks for commenting.
Very informative video! 👍
I just loved the video. Best in depth explaination and testing I have seen till date. Waiting for the sony a74 on that list as it comes with bird eye autofocus
Thanks! I’m currently testing the A7 IV ;-)
Thanks a lot! Very useful tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
Great review and very usable for the xt3 since it uses the same autofocussystem. To add to your final comments on grip, I use the batterygrip on my xt3 together with the 100-400 and it makes an enormous difference holding the camera. I also recently got the 70-300 lens and the 1.4tc and that is my carry arou d lens for bird photography. If I am stationary I would use the 100-400.
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't had the chance to test the 70-300mm yet but I'm looking forward to it.
Thank you! Very helpful and informative!
You're very welcome!
Thank you. Very good tutorial.
I agree with the comments before me that your videos are the most useful I have so far come across for evaluating the X-T4. I have never used Fuji before, so this is a new camera and interface to me. Your reviews, especially this one, have been extremely helpful to me in considering the configuration and settings I choose.
For improving grip, for larger lenses, I got a SmallRig L-shape hand grip for the X-T4. It provides a deeper hand grip and the base has an Arca-Swiss plate mount. It feels very robust, being all-metal. It was about 10% of the cost of purchasing the MUCH deeper battery grip -which I don't think I need. It has a hole in the base for access to the battery and two screw thread for other mounts. It even has its own screwdriver magnetically attached to the plate.
Thanks. Yes, L-shape grips are a good (and affordable) solution.
Great shoots.👍👍👍
Awesome tutorial
excellent video thanks.
a great video with lots of great info
Thank you. Very informative. Do you have or could you give a review on the low light performance of the xt-4. Specifically wildlife/bird photography in low light woodland.
Well done review. Good job.
Fantastic explanation 👍
Great video thanks
really good! thanks
I have watched hundreds of hours of content covering Fujifilm cameras on all kinds of subjects. All said, this is one video I thoroughly enjoyed and learnt from. Thank you for doing so many thorough tests on auto focus and sharing them in such a clear and beautiful manner. Keep producing these videos. Fujifilm needs to uplevel their auto focus game. The Sony auto focus algorithms make the Fujifilm look like a joke. That said, I wonder why so much professional photographers and reviewers still love and consider Fujifilm even an option vis a vis Sony. I own an XS10 myself.
Congratulations.my best education video on my X T4 for birds shooting...
Excellent job, very informativ Professionally done, two thumbs up thank you
You are magic. Are you a professional lecturer? What you have made is very precious. I am just about to buy the Xt4 and I will be your student from now sir. Thank you so much.
wow, great shots
Awesome video for a bif novice. Thankyou
Nice, thorough video Mathieu and you got some amazing shots at the Red Kite feeding station! Need to visit there at some point... Did you find the IBIS useful at all when tracking BIF? I know the 100-400mm already has daily good stabilisation.
I kept the IBIS / OIS off. With shutter speed of 1/2000s and faster, it’s not necessary.
Also I feel more content now with my 100-400 after seeing little difference in the comparisons with the 200 f2.
Mathieu, it is awesome, how you share and explane everything. I realy learned a lot. The cream on the cake is the written pdf. Thanks so much.
Glad you enjoy it!
Very informative, thank you. I wish Fuji had concentrated more on improving focus tracking with the X-T4, as it stops me from giving up my Nikon and going full on with Fuji. Hopefully, the next camera (X-T5 ?) will address the issues. Then I'll swap all my Nikon for Fuji. I have the X-Pro2 which I love, bit it's not an action camera
I have an X-S10 which has many of the same settings as the XT-4, so I set one of my custom settings to your bird settings and I'm looking forward to see what results I get. Thank you for a comprehensive tutorial.
Let me know how it goes!
Outstanding.
Great video. Although I don't have this camera. But I am planning to buy it soon
Very informative.
Thanks for your really thorough evaluation of various configurations for BIF. I'd been having some fun figuring it out w/ 100-400 and agree zone is best in cluttered scene. I hadn't tried the 1.25 crop tho. Since i usually end up cropping some anyway doesn't seem like loss of resolution would matter much. Does reduce file size help with number of shots before buffer fills?
Yes it helps with the buffer a little.
This is a very detailed analysis - I took notes! I would love to see this same analysis done on an X-H2 or X-H2S with the same 100 - 400 mm lens. I would imagine the settings would be optimized differently.
Very helpful and fulfilling. Could you please do the same for kids portaits.? Thx
Thank you!
Fantastique vidéo ❤️🙏
Fantastic tutorial! Are you planning to review Fujifilm 70-300?
Excellent!
Excellent explanations, very helpful. I could live with being forced to watch fewer ads !
Thanks, interesting video!
On a side note, I'm very interested to see what would be your score for the new Canon R6 (or R5).
I have the R6 and I'm planning to do a BIF test soon!
Great video! Is autofocus working normally in pre shoot ES mode?
Thank you for this excellent video. I'm currently using a Canon 7D Mark II and considering switching to mirrorless. I like the specs on the X-T4, and with prices what they are, I'm giving a serious look to switching to Fujifilm. I am wondering though about the ability to crop heavily with BIF, and the extent to which the resulting images could be enlarged in prints, even with the higher megapixel size of the Fujifilm vs. the 7D Mark II for example. Thanks!
The Fuji sensor can deliver very good results when it comes to sharpness and details, especially with a lens like the 100-400mm. The RAW file can be a bit more tricky to post process depending on the software you use, because of the X-Trans pattern.
Very good. Thank you. Informative, precise, useful. Had a feeling Sony would win the race.
Great tutorial, Mathieu. I will be using the X-T4 w/70-300 for horse racing. Would you recommend that I set up the camera in similar fashion to what you suggest in this video?
I don't have experience with horse racing, but I think the video can still be of help because I explain all the various settings and what they do. I guess it also depends on what kind of race it is, how fast the horses are, if you need to deliver the images right away etc.
Amazing video! Your are a good educator!
I have one question: Do you turn off the image stabilation in the lens when shooting since the X-T4 and The X-H1 has IBIS? I have read that shooting with a shutterspeed above 1/250, you have to turn off the image stabilation in the lens. Is that correct?
I always try to shoot at 1/2000s or similar so I leave the stabilisation off, you don't need it at that speed, plus Fuji doesn't have an option for vertical-only correction.
It can be useful around 1/250 is you're taking pictures of static subjects, especially at 400mm. Also keep in mind that the OS on the lens works in conjunction with the IBIS of the X-T4 or X-H1: if you move the lens switch to off, the ibis also turns off.
Thanks for great explanation! I have a question about AF-C custom: At 14:00, you explain that for birds you use the settings 0 - 2 - Auto. But under the test results at 21:42, you showed that you got the highest keeper rate with settings 0 - 2 - Front (!) with AF 7x7. So do you advise Auto or Front?
Sorry for the confusion. To be honest, I had good results with both Front and Auto settings. I'd choose Front if the subjects are closer to me, otherwise Auto will work too. Feel free to try them both and see which one gives you the best result.