

{"id":26199,"date":"2022-06-06T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=26199"},"modified":"2022-06-06T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T23:34:22","slug":"thoughts-on-the-new-fujifilm-xh2s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=26199","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the New Fujifilm XH2s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26200\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-960x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-960x551.png 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-270x155.png 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-768x441.png 768w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-600x344.png 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-880x505.png 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-580x333.png 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-350x201.png 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-400x229.png 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-370x212.png 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-500x287.png 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM-750x430.png 750w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-06-at-12.44.30-PM.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">First it is great to see that Fujifilm is addressing the needs of action, sports and wildlife photographers. \u00a0While the most recent Fujifilm cameras have been much improved in terms of auto focus speed and tacking ability they still were not competing with Canon, Nikon and Sony for the action shooters out there! \u00a0 If the specs are to be believed, and Fujifilm is pretty conservative company when it comes to claims, I \u00a0think we have a winner for those photographers needing this kind of camera!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>A 5<sup>th<\/sup> Generation X-Trans CM\u201dOS 5 HS Sensor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>The new X-Processor 5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>40 fps blackout free burst shooting \/ 30 fps for over 1000 frames!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>Much Improved Autofocus and Tracking<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>6.2K 30P and 4K120 P\u00a0 video<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>7 Stops in body stabilization<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>0.8x magnification 5.76 million Dot EVF<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>40 minute recording time<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>Weather Resistant body<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">So what does all this add up to? \u00a0A great addition to the Fujifilm line-up for &#8220;those&#8221; photographers needing this camera!!!! \u00a0Sadly, I&#8217;m not one of them. \u00a0My friends jokingly say everything I shoot is either;<\/span><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong> Dead &#8211; Dying &#8211; Or Petrified!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">For me, I miss the analog type controls that allow easy setting of shutter speed, aperture, ISO and Exposure Compensation. \u00a0For me those are far more important! \u00a0 I don&#8217;t think Fujifilm is making mistake, I think they simply building a camera to meet the needs of other photographers rather than me. \u00a0Hey they already have the X-T4 which I consider a great camera and perfect for my needs, I don&#8217;t need or want more mega pixels, in fact I think the early X-T1 camera with a 16 mega pixel sensor was, for my kind of work, the best imaging sensor of all!!! \u00a0I was not excited about a 40 mega pixel sensor either, I don&#8217;t need that much resolution for my work and I fear the noise will not be as great as the current 26 mega pixel sensor exhibits, but technology marches on and I could be wrong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think the X-2Hs is a wonderful accomplishment and will be well received and enjoyed by shooters needing it&#8217;s stellar specs. \u00a0So if Fujifilm is listening, I want an X-T5 with the new high resolution viewfinder, the old style (X-T3) fold up and out for verticals LCD, and change nothing else!!!!! \u00a0But then, the number of dinosaurs like me are getting further and fewer between! \u00a0i am thrilled with what Fujifilm has done to improve my photographic life, so I wish them only the best! \u00a0They&#8217;ve already made me a very happy camper!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">But then, that&#8217;s only one guys opinion!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; First it is great to see that Fujifilm is addressing the needs of action, sports and wildlife photographers. \u00a0While the most recent Fujifilm cameras have been much improved in terms of auto focus speed and tacking ability they still were not competing with Canon, Nikon and Sony for the action shooters out there! \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26203,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199\/revisions\/26203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}