@@jrperezphotography Photography. I never do video. But my use case is completely different. I shoot tiny birds in thick brush at times, which can be a difficult scenario for many cameras.
Really great images Jorge, I’m still undecided between the X-T5 (I love the dials) or one of the X-H’s, so for now it’s my trusty X-T4 (which works just fine). Be well.
@@jrperezphotography Thanks for the prompt reply. Most of what I photograph are birds (not necessarily in flight), squirrels, iguanas, alligators, etc., some landscape and/or seascapes, for people (street stuff) I’m using my X100VI wannabe, an X-T1 with the XF23 f/2 (until I can get the “real thing”).
the problem is that you see a green box on the camera but the actual picture isn't in focus, same for the human and eye autofocus it's worst of the market. even if the overall focus is better than their older cameras they are still years behind all the competitors liek sony canon and even lumix and nikon
I’ve got hundreds of sharp photos and the video shows lots of sequences of photos in sharp focus. I also shot photos in pre capture auto focus that were in sharp focus. I’m also frustrated at times with the auto focus but if you talk to and hang out with enough photographers who are honest many of them will experience frustration with their camera system. I’m in no way defending Fuji and I’m frustrated with the auto focus system my self to the point that I’m considering other brands but part of the problem is that no other brand offers with Fuji does at this price range with Sony. You must spend $6500 to get a camera that performs with auto focus and motor drive at the level of Fuji XH2S the same with canon, the best option is Nikon and from videos I’ve watched it seems like you have to do a multitude of things to capture a picture and focus and their most affordable camera to compete with a camera like the XH2S is the Nikon Z8 at $4000. The price of the lenses for all of those systems are way higher than you can purchase with Fujifilm. The Fuji XF 200 mm 2.0 lens with the 1.4 extender is 420 mm at 2.8 it would cost you $15,000 to purchase one from the other brands, Fuji is running out of time though, and this needs to be corrected very very soon. Also, this year I’ve done some of my best bird photography using the Fuji system. Reason being that I used it so much that I became a better photographer using the camera and became much more comfortable with different settings people need to practice and learn realize that they’re making mistakes along with the camera
@@jrperezphotography OM-1 is cheaper and has better autofocus. Sony has 10 year old cameras that while they don't have tracking have better autofocus. Someone did a test online with a a6000 to vs their H2S and the H2S just kept hunting and going all over the place, where as the a6000 was fine enough. a6700 cost $1k less and has Sony's class leading autofocus. I don't disagree with having to spend more for a full frame to get the same drive speed. But that's because it's full frame, Fuji is only cheaper because it's APSC, don't think that gives them an excuse to have underperforming autofocus, especially when Panny/OM-Systems can come out of nowhere and drop better af as soon as they put PDAF into their cameras (Even MFT.)
As someone who's had H2S for about a year now, and has used Sony autofocus. I have to ask you if you've tried other system's autofocus when you said you find H2/H2S af outstanding. So far my experience has been quite bad with the camera having false positives thinking that the subject is in focus when it's not. And with firmware 6.00 things got even worse. I definitely get well under a %50 hit rate just for small birds sitting in trees/on branches. Assuming Fuji probably won't/can't fix this issue due to probably hardware limitations, I am gonna have to move on from them sadly. Because H2S af isn't remotely competitive. It's like fools gold, the tracking looks fantastic through the EVF. But the actual autofocus is doing something different.
Thank you for your question. I can totally understand where you’re coming from. I shot Canon EF system for over 30 years had everything from 200 mm F2 .0 to 600 f4 I shot with theCanon R but we all know that the camera was not ready, I used Sony A7Riv and the Sony A7iv for about a year with the 200-600 mm lens. The auto focus was oustanding on the Sony, but those cameras are not good for bird photography because the frames slows down and you get blackout when taking photos of fast frame rate I’ve not had an opportunity to use high-end Sony,Canon or Nikon cameras. To be honest with you. I did a lot of bird photography with the full system, mostly larger birds, which would be a better situation than the small birds that you’re talking about,.perhaps the Fuji camera has perform well because of the fact that it is larger birds, and also that I shot so much this season that I ended up witch a lot of great photos. I do agree with you that the Fuji autofocus system can be unreliable, but people may also not know what they’re doing with the camera. if people are relying on bird eye auto focus tracking all the time that’s a big mistake no matter what system. lots of times you end up having to select the box and place it on the bird and if it’s a flying bird you must have high shutter speed and close down the aperture so you can have more depth of field to help you with the focus. I look forward to hearing back from you, please keep it positive so we can help each other out. I am contemplating perhaps switching over to Nikon at least for Bird photography. Thank you
To be clear, you're saying you're only getting 50% keeper rate for small birds that are perched? I don't shoot Fuji anymore(thinking about it again, which is why I'm here), but my X-T3 and X-T4 did better than that for birds in flight. What lens are you using?
@@jrperezphotography sorry, that was for the first post who said they had "well under a %50 hit rate just for small birds sitting in trees/on branches." I'm just curious what lens/settings/etc. they have to get such poor results. My Lumix G9 does better with moving targets, and it doesn't even have phase detect AF.
I've found my X-H2S AF is slightly worse with the new update. Hopefully they will get it fixed with the upcoming update.
With photography or video? Ive been impressed for the most part with autofocus for photography. using g the XH2s
@@jrperezphotography Photography. I never do video. But my use case is completely different. I shoot tiny birds in thick brush at times, which can be a difficult scenario for many cameras.
Really great images Jorge, I’m still undecided between the X-T5 (I love the dials) or one of the X-H’s, so for now it’s my trusty X-T4 (which works just fine). Be well.
Hello if you will be taking bird photography and action I would buy XH2s and keep the XT4 for the fun factor
@@jrperezphotography Thanks for the prompt reply. Most of what I photograph are birds (not necessarily in flight), squirrels, iguanas, alligators, etc., some landscape and/or seascapes, for people (street stuff) I’m using my X100VI wannabe, an X-T1 with the XF23 f/2 (until I can get the “real thing”).
the problem is that you see a green box on the camera but the actual picture isn't in focus, same for the human and eye autofocus it's worst of the market.
even if the overall focus is better than their older cameras they are still years behind all the competitors liek sony canon and even lumix and nikon
I’ve got hundreds of sharp photos and the video shows lots of sequences of photos in sharp focus. I also shot photos in pre capture auto focus that were in sharp focus. I’m also frustrated at times with the auto focus but if you talk to and hang out with enough photographers who are honest many of them will experience frustration with their camera system. I’m in no way defending Fuji and I’m frustrated with the auto focus system my self to the point that I’m considering other brands but part of the problem is that no other brand offers with Fuji does at this price range with Sony. You must spend $6500 to get a camera that performs with auto focus and motor drive at the level of Fuji XH2S the same with canon, the best option is Nikon and from videos I’ve watched it seems like you have to do a multitude of things to capture a picture and focus and their most affordable camera to compete with a camera like the XH2S is the Nikon Z8 at $4000. The price of the lenses for all of those systems are way higher than you can purchase with Fujifilm. The Fuji XF 200 mm 2.0 lens with the 1.4 extender is 420 mm at 2.8 it would cost you $15,000 to purchase one from the other brands, Fuji is running out of time though, and this needs to be corrected very very soon. Also, this year I’ve done some of my best bird photography using the Fuji system. Reason being that I used it so much that I became a better photographer using the camera and became much more comfortable with different settings people need to practice and learn realize that they’re making mistakes along with the camera
@@jrperezphotography OM-1 is cheaper and has better autofocus. Sony has 10 year old cameras that while they don't have tracking have better autofocus. Someone did a test online with a a6000 to vs their H2S and the H2S just kept hunting and going all over the place, where as the a6000 was fine enough. a6700 cost $1k less and has Sony's class leading autofocus. I don't disagree with having to spend more for a full frame to get the same drive speed. But that's because it's full frame, Fuji is only cheaper because it's APSC, don't think that gives them an excuse to have underperforming autofocus, especially when Panny/OM-Systems can come out of nowhere and drop better af as soon as they put PDAF into their cameras (Even MFT.)
As someone who's had H2S for about a year now, and has used Sony autofocus. I have to ask you if you've tried other system's autofocus when you said you find H2/H2S af outstanding. So far my experience has been quite bad with the camera having false positives thinking that the subject is in focus when it's not. And with firmware 6.00 things got even worse. I definitely get well under a %50 hit rate just for small birds sitting in trees/on branches.
Assuming Fuji probably won't/can't fix this issue due to probably hardware limitations, I am gonna have to move on from them sadly. Because H2S af isn't remotely competitive. It's like fools gold, the tracking looks fantastic through the EVF. But the actual autofocus is doing something different.
Thank you for your question. I can totally understand where you’re coming from. I shot Canon EF system for over 30 years had everything from 200 mm F2 .0 to 600 f4 I shot with theCanon R but we all know that the camera was not ready, I used Sony A7Riv and the Sony A7iv for about a year with the 200-600 mm lens. The auto focus was oustanding on the Sony, but those cameras are not good for bird photography because the frames slows down and you get blackout when taking photos of fast frame rate I’ve not had an opportunity to use high-end Sony,Canon or Nikon cameras.
To be honest with you. I did a lot of bird photography with the full system, mostly larger birds, which would be a better situation than the small birds that you’re talking about,.perhaps the Fuji camera has perform well because of the fact that it is larger birds, and also that I shot so much this season that I ended up witch a lot of great photos. I do agree with you that the Fuji autofocus system can be unreliable, but people may also not know what they’re doing with the camera. if people are relying on bird eye auto focus tracking all the time that’s a big mistake no matter what system. lots of times you end up having to select the box and place it on the bird and if it’s a flying bird you must have high shutter speed and close down the aperture so you can have more depth of field to help you with the focus. I look forward to hearing back from you, please keep it positive so we can help each other out. I am contemplating perhaps switching over to Nikon at least for Bird photography. Thank you
To be clear, you're saying you're only getting 50% keeper rate for small birds that are perched? I don't shoot Fuji anymore(thinking about it again, which is why I'm here), but my X-T3 and X-T4 did better than that for birds in flight. What lens are you using?
@@BrentODell The 150-600. The issue is the tracking, you turn off tracking then autofocus is fine. X-T3/4 do not have this tracking.
@@BrentODell I never said I had 50% keeper rate. The camera I used is the Fujifilm XT5 with the Fujifilm XF100-400mm lens.
@@jrperezphotography sorry, that was for the first post who said they had "well under a %50 hit rate just for small birds sitting in trees/on branches." I'm just curious what lens/settings/etc. they have to get such poor results. My Lumix G9 does better with moving targets, and it doesn't even have phase detect AF.