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Own the xt50, really like it, actually think the auto works well for me, for a travel camera just switch and pass to anyone and bingo I'm in the shot aswell

I skipped the backstory lol

I love the Auto button on the X-T30. It's got me out of a lot messes. You can still use exposure compensation if you want to. Have they removed this facility from the X-T50? Can you change film sim. in Auto mode beyond the trio that you have on the X-T30 (standard, B&W, sepia)?

Totally agree, ditched my order for X100vi and got XT50 paired with my 23mm great travel camera. Used for 3 months in Thailand. I did keep my X100f which I still love.

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Small size fits Fuji the best, i agree. Sold my x pro3 for that reason which i felt was to big. I grabbed my good old x e2 much more often just for the form factor. For vintage glass i got a bulky Lumix full frame, but i love Fuji's low profile look and feel for everyday use.

135mm on aps-c is so fun! I have a lens like that too and its my favorite prime lens right now.

I forgot to mention the flash! But it’s in my blog post here blog.chrisfreitag.com/fujifilm-x-t50-review-the-essence-of-fujifilm-1fc9665e5b53

its my favorite lens, out of 14 I have. it rarely leaves my x-t5

Congrats! It's such an amazing achievement, and your images were wonderful to see everyday. I'm starting a 365 project, but of sharing, not necessarily taking. I tried a daily project in the past, taking/sharing a photo a day, but had to pull the plug after about 100 days. I have 3 young kids, two of which have special needs, and my wife has some chronic health problems, and there are days where just surviving is challenging enough. So I'm trying to get out at least once a week to shoot, and dedicating at least one evening a week to processing and prepping. Wish me luck!

The U.S. used to be safe.

The 75 f 1.2 is not a zoom lens in no way shape, it's a medium telephoto.

Great video, Chris. I have this lens and it is so reliable. I just wish it was a bit smaller too. I would not sell mine either along with my 35mm 1.4.

When certain things are done with dedication, it lends some of these things a kind of sensuality. Here I can feel this very clearly, because it inspires one. it's just so good man. Thank you.

What photographic styles do you use? Would you mind sharing your default adjustments to your favorites?

Started my 365 on NY Eve, I'm kind of not thinkin too much about it, just snap something that grabs my eye each day. Enjoyed your video very much, happy new year sir

Thanks for the video, you've inspired me to give it a shot, I've downloaded the Day One app and can't wait to start tomorrow. I'm in a position as well where I need to force myself out. Photography is not my 9-5 but it is my first love. Have you participated in the 52Frames project? thanks for the inspo...cheers!

Hi Chris , Lots of interesting and good thoughts packed into 13 min. Lots for me to think about. So glad you shared. - Tim

I watched a documentary yesterday on the Danish painter Hammerschoi. He often chose compositions where the light striking a subject created an image that many people might overlook. Your introduction reminded me of his approach.

Thank you so much for watching and coming along with me in 2024. And a big thank you to all who have subscribed! I would like to take this time to wish you all a happy and healthy new year and that each of you find what brings you joy.

If it's detail gathering you're after, the most is important part is the LENS. I would test this only on the newest viltrox lenses for fuji, 27 and 75mm and even stop it down from f1.2 to f8.

I enjoy your content. Thanks Chris

Great review, thank you. Recently I purchased a Voigtlander 23mm f1.2 and this one sticks to my X-T50 as it is such a handsome and perfect lens. This made me look to other Voigtlander lenses and I am tempted to get the 18mm as well the only hesitation is my concern, if the 18mm will perform in low light well enough. Maybe you could add your experience with low light situations?

Thanks for the video. I too struggle comparing my X-T5 results with full frame from my friends who shoot mainly Sony. I find it a little confusing because I have some pictures on my wall taken with previous cameras ( Canon 12 MP Rebel, Konica-Minolta 8MP, all the way back to my original Canon G-2 which had, as I remember 4MP. I have 13X19 prints on my wall that appear very sharp from each of these cameras. I chose APS-C because it was far easier to carry as a tourist and when bicycling, and that is still a major issue. for me

Really difficult to tell using two different lenses. Probably a more technical comparison could be done using the same lens on Sony's platform that uses the same mount for APS-C and FF. If I had to guess I'd say that the differences seen are more due to different lenses used or focal points rather than aps-c vs FF...

dude, the focus point in way off, which says a lot more about fuji if the focus point was set the same for both cameras, but still...

Hi Chris, I enjoyed this video alot. Reminds me of my own adventures out. Especially the fear of losing the drone, one of the reasons i have put that to the side and focus just on the camera. Also seeing areas that look awesome but cannot capture it the way i see it. One tip on improving the landscape is to focus more on the composition and not the settings. Look at what others are composing and pick out the ones you like and maybe you can see some similar landscapes and practise on finding them. Settings you are using should be good enough. And when you get the compositions you are happy with, you can fine tune the settings.

Not to say your observations are wrong, but since perception can be tricky: In your side by sides, you're relatively zooming in more on the 40mp Fuji than the 24mp Panasonic as zoom levels are generally handled on a display pixel parity basis, e.g. 100% zoom is you're zooming such that each pixel on your monitor is a pixel from the image, and having more pixels per area of the image means a greater enlargement of the photo in this scenario. This can skew perception, and is unusually unfair to higher res sensor outputs as generally in practice you'd be viewing both images at the same size (at least for digital distribution--in print you may be buying the high mp body specifically to print larger of course), which means the higher mp shot would usually get the benefit of being effectively downscaled to improve perceptual detail and noise performance when you ensure the image viewer zoom level is actually equal based on the size of objects in frame.

Hey Chris! I have noticed that Fujifilm x-trans raws are sharper when I open them in Capture One. Maybe even not sharper but kind of more detailed. The lack of detail here might be a Lightroom problem.

As someone who is a pixel peeper. I was chasing that high LOL! I had a Canon M6 MII with the 32 megepixel sensor but never found myself happy until i got a full frame. Even at 24 megapixels my A7c was tons sharper than my M6MII. not to mention better low light as well.

Looking to the images they should be normalized for exposure and especially for crop .Opening both images straight from the file results in a higher magnification images on a Fujifilm.Other than that it is obvious that FF has better dynamic range which appear in some images with shadows as better contrast. This is what bare eye perceve as better sharpness.You also proof that in front of such demanding 40mpix sensor one has to put nothing but the best glass out there.Same apply when comparing FF high mpix sensor camera results to a Medium format.

The focus point differs on almost every shot. What you describe as being less detailed is actually out of focus. Also that's not how you compare details with two different resolution images. You need to view them at the exact same size, not at pixel level with one showing a larger crop due to its higher resolution. The actual lenses used play the biggest role in all of this. I'm not trying to defend Fujifilm here, their firmware is still a mess in certain situations.

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Interesting but f number is different. For me you should have try at 5.6 for both and especially for landscape

details has nothing to do with Camera...it is feature of lens...how sharp lens is and what aperture used.

thanks for the honesty

Sorry, but this does´t seem to be a honest comparision. You can see at the second and at the third picture, that you have made mistakes. The pictures lack in dof, but they should have more dof in crop mode. We all know the comparisons beetween medium format, full frame and aps-c (Nigel Danson, Fototripper). For sure the full frame is sharper if you are pixel peeping, but there ae never such big diffrences as you are showing here.

I think this matters more if you're shooting landscapes, flowers etc. I really don't want too much detail when shooting portraits, just enough, so the XT series suits me fine. When you think a lot of portrait photographers will tend to soften the image anyway ...

The Fuji Lightroom demosaic process is not the best, it's not a fair comparaison. You need to use Capture One or DXO or Darktable to have a better comparaison

The Lumix images have a greater DOF focus , that's why. My guess

You should probably re-title this video I AM Wrong!

Good thing in photography no one judges how good a photo is by zooming in 100% to see how much detail there is in a branch.

wow i really love the color science of Fuji

In order to effectively perform a test such as this you should be able to take away the differences in your test equipment. You are using two different camera systems, and more importantly, different lenses. There is a very good chance that you are seeing the resolving limitations of the lenses in this test. Moreover, in real life no one will be pixel peaking at 100%. Real life for most people is viewing images on social media. But even printed no one will be able to tell the difference. I once did a test between my D850 and Z50: with a printed image up until A3+ size (the biggest I can print at home) I cannot tell the difference between the two images.

If you're seeing "more detail" in a 24mp image than you are in a 40mp image, well, pretty sure you ain't doing it right.

Go out in the late evening and take the same test comparison....You will see a huge difference

Haha. I love your honest bewilderment. I’m a big Fuji fanboy and found the exact same. Both Sony and Nikon gave me better results with direct comparisons like this. (X-T2/Xf56 vs A73/85mmf1.8 & X-T50/XF33 vs Zf/50mm1.8). I feel like you’ll tend to see more detail in the extreme tonal values like the highlights and shadows, which I imagine is because FF sensors pretty much always capture wider dynamic range. Maybe? 🤷🏻‍♂️

F2 for Fuji explains why you looking at the soft image And I’m not a photographer

I am in the same situation, my Fujis that I love (xt5/xe3/xt200) struggle against my new jump into full frame with Nikon z6 ii. But I do think some of the older Fuji lenses work better for my lower megapixel cameras than on the xt5 like others mentioned. Thanks for your great video. It’s definitely a struggle!

I think you should have set your exposure based on histograms, not just by adjusting the aperture/shutter. The cameras will meter differently, so I think it makes sense to look at the best focus and exposure for each camera before you can evaluate the outcome. Also, you should check to confirm if each camera uses the same ISO sensitivity scale (SOS vs. REI) to understand the implications of what your ISO value is set to on each camera. Some of the snow scenes in the Fujifilm shots seemed a bit overexposed, which might lead you to think there is an obvious difference in sharpness. That is one reason the histogram would have been useful.