This video is probably the best on UA-cam for explaining the various autofocus settings for the Fujifilm X series of cameras, particularly for wildlife shots.
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.
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.
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
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! :)
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.
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.
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
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
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!
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!!!
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.
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.
Btw.: Fuji's 2/200mm is the only Fuji Tele lens which supports panning mode. This is very helpful e.g. in Motorsports photographie. For me this gap was the reason to leave Fuji. It's a great system and if you don't need IBIS with a panning mode, it's a pleasure to use.
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!
@@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? ;)
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Bonjour Mathieu, I enjoyed your video very much. I liked the precision, objectivity, completeness and factualness. I felt like a scientific, logical approach vs. a sales pitch or entertainment video (not that learning is not entertaining). It was important to me as a fuji user since it is so seldom that I meet anyone in workshops or in the field who shoots with fuji. LOTS of Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc but not many people to share and exchange and learn with on fuji. Anyway, I know the intent was equipment review focused and it did a good job. It would be interesting if you could do some technique videos also. Especially for Fuji and BIF. I think people would enjoy learning more from you. Thanks again.
Thanks for this tutorial, it's very helpful for me. I'm wondering why you recommend turning off face/eye detection. As well as pre-AF. Shouldn't this bring advantage, more shots in focus compared to older cameras / AF systems?
Face/eye detection doesn't work on animals, so there is no point leaving it on (plus Fuji cameras often mistake a person with something completely different, so the AF might get more confused on what it should prioritise). As for Pre-AF, it means the camera is constantly focusing, even when you're taking a short brake, and that can throw off the AF completely. I prefer to have more control on what the camera does.
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons didn't know that for animals. Tested Canon R6 recently and eye detection did a very great job even on small birds. Thanks Mathieu for sharing your knowlegde 👍🏼
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.
The best and most comprehensive and non-compromising , evidence based video tutorial lesson. An amazing video never made by anyone like this. Thanks to you for enlightening in depth review. 👌🏾🤩. I have a question for you. I am using Fuji XT4 camera. I have XF 70-300 mm lens. I don’t want to buy 100-400 mm lens because of the weight and cost. Please advise can I take sharp wild life photos with this lens? How about the reach of this lens? Do I need to use X 1.5x TC WR to extend the range? How is the sharpness and clarity of this lens? I trust your review. Please reply. Thanks 🙏🏽
I believe you’ve already found my video about the 70-300, but in short, yes, the lens is sharp and you can take good wildlife photos with it. The quality is very good with the 1.4 converter too.
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons yes after writing the above query I found your review on 70-300 lens. Yes it’s convincing.Thank you so much for your valuable reply. 🙏🏽
Good one. :) Any idea of should OIS be disabled on the telezooms, when burstshooting flying birds? I mean, will it fight the movement and cause even more blur......?
This video is probably the best on UA-cam 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!
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!
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!
This is such an incredibly useful and well produced video. 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!
As someone who's a beginner at bird photography and a X-T4 this video is perfect!
Also I feel more content now with my 100-400 after seeing little difference in the comparisons with the 200 f2.
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
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
Great; detailed and concise, thank you for posting this.
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 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! ;-)
Such an amazing Bird! The 200mm f2 images looked amazing!
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.
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.
Thanks. Going to photograph at bird sanctuary tomorrow. Very helpful.
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!
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 ;-)
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
Congratulations.my best education video on my X T4 for birds shooting...
Very well done! Thank you so much!
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!
Thanks for your work, really helpful video. I learned a lot and saved a lot of time by avoiding trial and error. Thank you!
*WOW! Thank You. This is super helpful and so well done! THANK YOU!*
You're very welcome!
best tutorial hands down. Thanks
Thank you for your tutorial, I did learn something today!
Absolutely amazing tutorial. Thanks a million!
You're very welcome! Thanks for commenting.
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!
Cracking video and information. Thank you for all your hard work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very detailed and well researched piece about birds shooting. Thanks
Spectacular video. Thank you so much for the amount of work you put into this. Definately a subscriber.
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you for making this.
I think yours is the best on the subjects like metering and mechanical/electronic shutter.
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!
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 :-)
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.
Thank you very much Mathieu. Obviously you are an excellent explainer! Will bookmark your tutorial.
Amazing shots with this camera thanks for the tips
Such a helpful tutorial. Thank you so much!
Amazing tutorial, thank you!
I hardly comment but this video is the bomb. Detailed and supported by data. I enjoyed this!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent data, information and production. Well done and thanks 👏. Subscribed!
Thank you!
Thank you so very much.You explain clearly and in depth. Most appreciated.
Fantastic, great analysis, great presentation. thanks a lot
Amazing tutorial, really helpful to learn BF Shooting
Thanks a lot for such detailed explanation!
Awesome video for a bif novice. Thankyou
OUTSTANDING! Thank you.
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.
Thank you very much for your terrific work, Mathieu!
Glad you like it!
Btw.: Fuji's 2/200mm is the only Fuji Tele lens which supports panning mode. This is very helpful e.g. in Motorsports photographie. For me this gap was the reason to leave Fuji. It's a great system and if you don't need IBIS with a panning mode, it's a pleasure to use.
Yeah I wish the 100-400mm has a panning mode.
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons ... and the 2,8/50-140mm :).
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? ;)
Thank you so much. You gave me reasons for the settings and that made all of the difference.
Glad I could help!
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.
Excellent job, very informativ Professionally done, two thumbs up thank you
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!
Thanks a lot! Very useful tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
excellent video by the way. hope you continue with more. your have done the work, that is quite clear.
Thank you!
Great video, and thanks so much for all of these tips and explanations. 👍👍
Great shoots.👍👍👍
Great video! Thanks for sharing this information.
a great video with lots of great info
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 explanations, very helpful. I could live with being forced to watch fewer ads !
Thank you for this video. It's exactly what I was looking for. 👊🏻💪🏻
Very well done video! Congrats
thanks!
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!
Great video. Although I don't have this camera. But I am planning to buy it soon
Thank you for this detailed information.
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.
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!
Fantastique vidéo ❤️🙏
Awesome tutorial
Fantastic explanation 👍
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.
Fantastic video. Could you quickly recommend the best autofocus settings for fast moving mountain bikers on a trail?
Fantastic tutorial! Are you planning to review Fujifilm 70-300?
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!
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.
excellent video thanks.
Excellent examples. Thank you.
Thank you. Very good tutorial.
Very informative video! 👍
Bonjour Mathieu, I enjoyed your video very much. I liked the precision, objectivity, completeness and factualness. I felt like a scientific, logical approach vs. a sales pitch or entertainment video (not that learning is not entertaining). It was important to me as a fuji user since it is so seldom that I meet anyone in workshops or in the field who shoots with fuji. LOTS of Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc but not many people to share and exchange and learn with on fuji. Anyway, I know the intent was equipment review focused and it did a good job. It would be interesting if you could do some technique videos also. Especially for Fuji and BIF. I think people would enjoy learning more from you.
Thanks again.
Thank you for the feedback and suggestion!
Thanks for this tutorial, it's very helpful for me.
I'm wondering why you recommend turning off face/eye detection. As well as pre-AF. Shouldn't this bring advantage, more shots in focus compared to older cameras / AF systems?
Face/eye detection doesn't work on animals, so there is no point leaving it on (plus Fuji cameras often mistake a person with something completely different, so the AF might get more confused on what it should prioritise).
As for Pre-AF, it means the camera is constantly focusing, even when you're taking a short brake, and that can throw off the AF completely. I prefer to have more control on what the camera does.
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons didn't know that for animals. Tested Canon R6 recently and eye detection did a very great job even on small birds.
Thanks Mathieu for sharing your knowlegde 👍🏼
Thank you! Very helpful and informative!
You're very welcome!
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.
Outstanding.
The best and most comprehensive and non-compromising , evidence based video tutorial lesson. An amazing video never made by anyone like this. Thanks to you for enlightening in depth review. 👌🏾🤩. I have a question for you. I am using Fuji XT4 camera. I have XF 70-300 mm lens. I don’t want to buy 100-400 mm lens because of the weight and cost. Please advise can I take sharp wild life photos with this lens? How about the reach of this lens? Do I need to use X 1.5x TC WR to extend the range? How is the sharpness and clarity of this lens? I trust your review. Please reply. Thanks 🙏🏽
I believe you’ve already found my video about the 70-300, but in short, yes, the lens is sharp and you can take good wildlife photos with it. The quality is very good with the 1.4 converter too.
@@MathieuGasquetMirrorLessons yes after writing the above query I found your review on 70-300 lens. Yes it’s convincing.Thank you so much for your valuable reply. 🙏🏽
very informative . Do you find any difference between IS modes continuous and shooting only. Which do you prefer ?
I set it to continuously because that way I get the stabilisation effect while composing the shot.
How does it compare to the XT5 by any chance any insights you could share
Very nice review Mathieu. Biggest issue for Fuji is lack of super telephone lenses. A 600/4 would be awesome.
Nikon makes a light wieght 500mm
really good! thanks
Good one. :) Any idea of should OIS be disabled on the telezooms, when burstshooting flying birds? I mean, will it fight the movement and cause even more blur......?
The x-s10 actually has the best AF focus system - improved over the xt-4. It is why I chose it over the X-t4.
wow, great shots
Well done review. Good job.
XT100 settings tutorial explained please sir