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if only is wasn't so expensive, and had a metal body (not that snapping plastic bottom plate), I would have looked at it a little bit more. For now, the E-M5ii is the only camera that interests me in the E-M5 line. Only other cameras are the Pen-F and the E-M1 series. MAybe I'll get the E-M1 mark II one day.

@@uncertainrelease indeed, the move to plastic body was disappointing. But the inside is much better, since its taken from the E-M1 mk3.

@@lacsarlacsar3566 I mean it better be looking how expensive it is !

not sure how I should take this comment. The principle of a camera review is to test a camera with the same initial parameters as the other, so that it could be evaluated fairly. If you do not do a fair evaluation, why do a review at all? The SDQH has many qualities, as highlighted in the video. But it also has many drawbacks. Not mentionning them would be dishonest on my part, especially for people that want to get informaed about this camera and would like to learn what it is. It's an awesome camera, but it needs a fair warning for people coming in, for them to know what they're getting into. All of that being said, if you really think that versatile hybrid cameras are "mediocre trash", I don't think you're on the right channel bud, because that's pretty much what I enjoy.

I really didn't like the feel of the camera. Also for someone like me that shoots full manual, the single control ring was a bit of a chore. Small and light camera with good image quality overall, but I wasn't sad to see it go.

@@uncertainrelease We will have to differ then. Personally I think it’s a great camera.

@@PaulWhite-zn9xx Never said it wasn't a great camera. It is a great camera. Just not made for me.

Yes, I was very lucky to get the Titanium limted edition with its original box and everything + 2 lenses for a very decent price ! I think besides the PEn-F, the E-M5ii Titanium might be the best looking MFT camera to date. Very happy with it so far, it's an incredible little camera :)

I ordered one ! It's roughtly the same size as my 25mm f/1.7 which makes it pretty much perfect.

@@uncertainrelease it is smaller!

Funny that I was telling myself that when I had 3 cameras... now I have 13 and I don't know what to do with them all ! (to be fair, some of those are museumpieces and are used as such)

@@uncertainrelease well I think I am close to 40 both film and digital. :-)

@@michelk5 Well, looks like I have some room to grow then lol

IIRC, this video was filmed on a 23mm lens

@@uncertainrelease 23?? aps-c? Looks very tight and the top of your head is being cut off. You had it zoomed in or something?

@@tomd4748 yes it was filmed with a 23mm f/2 on the Fuji X-H1.

I'm really enjoying the E-M5ii and I feel like it gets along the other two perfectly. Sometimes it overlaps a little bit with the X-T2 in its usecase, but when I want to shoot the X-T2, I wouldn't want any other camera. The Z6 in a whole other league of image quality and autofocus peformance. So far, even without traveling, the E-M5ii has been really great for hiking and for its computational features. playing quite a bit with the live composite mode currently and it's really a killer feature of this camera for sure (that and the fact that the IBIS is so good in a package so small)

I do a lot of hiking, and I usually carry around heavy gear in hikes, so I am quite trained for that. I honestly don't know. I've carries my D700 + 100-400 + 12-24 + 80-200 f/2.8 pretty much everywhere, and this camera is easily 1kg body only, each lens coming around another kilogram. I've carried those on top of mountains at the end of 5/6 hours ascents, and had no problem with it but I can totally see how someone wouldn't want to lug around several kilograms of gear around all the time. About the D2X/H though, I quite like using those cameras for regular walks, generally with a relatively small lens on it (either of my DX lenses really, 18-55, 55-200 or 35mm DX). They're quite good for that, but they're annoying to pack for sure.

a clean D300 should be around 100 bucks, and a tamron 18-200 should be a little cheaper than that, so I don't know, depending on the condition of it all, probably between 150 and 200 bucks?

@@uncertainrelease thank you. They are asking 180.

@@jmg221 that sounds like decent pricing.

cheap camera that is challenging to use when it comes to nailing the shot, prefereably. The D2H I took as an example is pretty good for that, as it is very hard to expose correctly and get great results out of it, but it's also super enjoyable to use.

thanks ! this is quite an old video, I have an updated "1 year later" video on the channel for the X-T2

Photography is a passion, a lifelong journey of self discovery and with limited resources to finally be recognised by society to be really devoted to your craft by the photographs that you manage to produce with whatever.

Yup. They only had to wait a couple of months for the X-Trans IV too, which makes it even more unfortunate. I think the X-T4 was meant to be the X-H2, but was switched back to X-T kind of body after the X-H1's flop. I think it would have made more sense as an X-H camera than X-T, with its flippy screen and all of that.

​@@uncertainrelease True. I feel the X-T4 was just a stop gap arrangement and a test bed to get the ibis unit into an X-T body. Would really like to hear your experience and feedback on the ergos of the X-H2S. I have the sdQuattro, used to have the X-H1 and now settled on the X-H2S. I like your viewpoints on camera design.😊 Keep up the great work!

@@JoaquimGonsalves The X-H2S is nice. I would have probably looked into the X-H2 if I didn't leave Fuji for my main system (as I use a PSAM camera now anyway). Grip is decent, button placement is good and size is kept in check. I would hve preferred a retro disl setup like the X-H1 had, but hey this is good enough. I tested it in a store, it seemed like an excellent camera, but I couldn't help myself noticing the way to change the ISO was a bit cumbersome.

​@@uncertainrelease that's great to hear! Enjoy the Nikon. They make really great bodies ergonomically. Yeah the XH2 is quite a far way ahead from the XH1. True about the ISO. Personally would have loved a third dial a la Canon, on the body but for now its good enough. I don't like their new joystick though. I like the materials used on it, better than the older bodies, but the electronics coupled to it are over sensitive. And of course Fuji's AF issues. Other than that, I love the XH2S. The image quality is excellent for my use cases in both photo and video.

@@JoaquimGonsalves The most important part is that you are satisfied with your gear ! Everything else is superfluous :D

not to your taste, not my problem.

Yes and yes. I use the Z6 for both.

only 150 bucks difference? That's a no brainer, get the X-T2. The T2 is an amazing video camera for the price, you get super sharp 4K video, Log profiles if you want to grade your footage, as well as HD 120p that doesn't look like it was shot on a 2008 compact. The X-T1 is nearly useless for video work, it's okay for occasional video snippets, but I'd avoid it for anything else, even if all you want to to is 1080p video. Dynamic range is atrocious, you don't have any control over the autofocus, or pictur eprofile being used, it's all you want to avoid in a video camera. Even when I wasn't doing video at all, I didn't bother with the X-T1, while I still use the X-T2 regularly for video work.

maybe you missed the point of the video then. The point was to say that for the money, unless what you wanted was a small camera (which the D60 really isn't, it's still a DSLR at the end of the day), you weren't saving any money by going for the lower end model, as D200s and D80s are just as cheap as the D60 / D40X on the used market. Hell, even my D300 was cheaper than what you'd pay for a D60 nowadays.

Oui c'est clair qu'en comparant avec du 33x44, un APS-C ou APS-H va avoir beaucoup de difficultés... La grande force du Foveon c'est vraiment dans les micro-contrastes, où je pense qu'il serait même encore un peu mieux que le 50MP qu'on trouve dans le GFX50S/R/SII, mais la différence serait vraiment minime. Comparé aux avantages énormes d'un grand capteur CMOS (plage dynamique, faible niveau de bruit,...) il n'y a pas photo. Le GFX50SII fait en 1 photo ce que le SDQ-H fait en 7 (en mode SF, du bracketing en gros). En plus je pense bien que niveau performance autofocus, même le GFX met une sacré vitesse au SDQ-H, et je dis ça sans trop m'avancer haha.

@@uncertainrelease , je n'utilise jamais l'autofocus car je ne travaille qu'en macro. Pour le coup, les performances de réactivité etc, je m'en tamponne un peu. ha ha Le 50MP du GFX est chouette, il rejoint le 24MP des séries X dans le grain et la gestion des hauts ISO. Je pense que le 100MP serait intéressant à essayer, mais je m'égare. Intriguant ce Foveon tout de même... Y a-t-il un obturateur mécanique, ou est-ce qu'il fonctionne uniquement en obturateur électronique (comme ses cousins les FP et FP-L) ? Merci pour ton retour !

@@colingentile justement l'inverse, c'est uniquement en obturateur mécanique ! Il n'y a pas d'obturateur électronique sur cet appareil

À part son capteur crop moyen format de 44x33, le GFX possède un simple capteur CMOS (ancien de 10 ans pour le 50mp) et n’offre absolument pas le même rendu qu’un Sigma Quattro H au niveau des tonalités et textures, tout bonnement incroyables jusqu’à 200 iso, voir 400 quand on maîtrise l’appareil et la post production. Le GFX est un excellent appareil, plus polyvalent, mais je préfèrerai qu’un appareil moyen format propose un type de capteur différent, ne serait-ce que pour un modèle particulier faisant partie d’un système offrant divers capteurs pour diverses applications.

@@etienneamien , pour avoir farfouillé un peu pour trouver des exemples d'images (en bonne résolution) sorties de capteur Foveon, je n'ai pas été à ce point bouleversé. Je suis certain que c'est un très bon outil, mais je reste curieux de savoir ce qu'il m'apporterait de différent dans mon travail photographique. Si j'en croise un, prochainement, sait-on jamais ! Merci pour le retour !

there are a couple of D300s at 73€ on MPB Europe right now. If you're okay with a larger camera I'd get that instead, it has the same sensor but much better AF and build quality. Otherwise this D3100 seems fine.

@@uncertainrelease Ok thank you. I was just confused because the d3100 im looking at right now is in good condition, 75 euro and has a shutter count at around 30k. Where there is also another d3100 in a heavily used condition for the same price with a higher shutter count.

@@auburn2020 if you want to use it for plane spotting, the better viewfinder of the D300 and the better autofocus would be beneficial I think. It's basically the same sensor as teh D3100 that was put in a much better camera body

@@uncertainrelease Thank you!

I definitely paln on getting another Foveon camera in the future ! I just felt like the SDQH in particular isn't the camera for me : I don't have the means to buy the lenses, which I generally want to share with my other cameras, and it's not really possible with the SA mount. Maybe I'll get a DP2 or DP3 quattro in the future ! If I find a good deal and if I have the income, that's definitely something I want to have again in the future.

I considered it actually (the D7000 and D600 as well), but switvching to Nikon at that time would have meant changing all of my lenses, which I didn't want to do, and would have been expensive. Getting an X-T2 was not only allowing me to keep my lenses and have the X-T1 as a backup, but it also allowed me to keep going in a system I knew well. Not mentionning the fact that getting that X-T2 was cheaper than getting a D750, even without counting the lenses.

In what software are you processing your files? X-Trans RAWs generally don't like Lightroom and will require software like Capture One to extract the full potential. The low light of the X-H1 is leagues ahead of the D700 (I know, I have both), and the old 18MP sensor in the 70D really isn't on the same level either. Pretty sure the 16MP chip in the G7 is also weaker on pretty much every front. I've used Fujifilm cameras for 3+ years and I've never had problems in low light, do you have some noise reduction applied (the NR setting in the quick menu). Always have that at -4 otherwise the camera will start softening thing pretty heavily at higher ISOs and you loose detail. Your comment about eh field of gradd is typically the kind of thing that would happen in a software that isn't really adapting X-Trans properly. For years Fujifilm cameras had problems in lightroom with everything green (grass, foliage,...) Focus peakinf is very accurate on the X-H1, be sure to set it to low instead of high and using the videfinder instead of the back screen (the back screen doesn't have that great of a resolution and it can get confused with peaking) I cannot comment on metering, I've never used it on any of my Fujifilm cameras. Having the live exposure view in the EVF makes it easy to simply use full manual mode. Also the files are flexible enough with more than enough dynamic range to allow for a lot of processing in post.

@@uncertainrelease I've used capture one, affinity photo, darktable and rawtherapee. Noise reduction might be part of it as it's set to zero by default. My focus peaking is set to high so I will try low. I use the viewfinder most of the time. I'm mostly a street shooter and shot a lot in manual but when there's very contrasty conditions and frequently changing light I use the metering and auto iso to enable me to act quickly to potential shots especially when moving between bright areas and cover and it doesn't seem to be as accurate as my other cameras. In every case I get better shots from my other cameras. I've often wondered if I have issues with the sensor TBF but haven't had the chance to try another copy. There's been cases where the light is fine, iso is 800 or below but have had the muddiest images. Random question actually but if you look at your sensor can you see a smaller rectangle within the main sensor? I've looked at images online and haven't seen that on others and wonder if there's an issue with the sensor surface

@@souldigital8148 the square in the middle of the sensor is where the phase detection points are, I have that as well on both my X-H1 and X-T2. if NR is set to 0, then there is some applied. You need to go to -4 to remove all of it. havving muddier images under ISO 800 is also "normal" as this is where the second base ISO kicks in

amazing deal too !

I compared that to my Nikon cameras. ISO 12800 on my X-H1 was pretty much the same exposure (using the same exposure parameters as well, so same aperture, same lens, same shutter speed) as ISO 6400 on my Z6. I didn't compare with other brand like Canon or Sony (since I don't have cameras of those brands), but this stayed true for all my Nikon cameras, whatever the ISO range or the range : the Fuji at the same ISO was always about 1 stop darker (cameras tested : Nikon Z6, Nikon D700, Nikon D300, Nikon D60, Nikon D2X. I didn't bother testing it with my D2H and D1X). Unless you want to argue that ISO 6400 on my Nikons is ISO 25600 in reality? I don't think that's accurate at all.

@@uncertainrelease That's correct, ISO 12800 on Fuji (SOS) will be somewhere around 6400 on Nikon (REI). What you're saying is Fuji "lying" about their ISO, while in reality Fuji, like Pentax/Ricoh and Olympus are using more objective measuring system - SOS. So Nikon 6400 (REI) will be closer to 12800 (SOS), ISO 64 will be closer to 125. Though with REI we can't really tell what the real ISO is, since that measuring system allows manufacturers to show whatever they want. So your "Fuji lying about their ISO" would better suit manufacturers, which are using REI like Nikon.

@@MikeRinz I get you, but the thing is, there are more manufacturers doing the REI thing than manufacturers doing the SOS thing. Worse, those that are using REI are all the largest companies and the most represented. The definition of REI is variable, but they all land in the same ballpark when it comes to exposure. So even though SOS is a more "accurate" way to do ISO sensitivitites, the fact of the matter is that most people are used to the REI "standard" rather than SOS. When you say that you took your shot at ISO 12800, but what you're getting on SOS cameras is about 1 stop darker than REI cameras, then you feel a little bit cheated. You feel like on the spec sheet you read something that wasn't what you expected (again, because the huge majority of users are using REI and not SOS). Nobody is lying there, I was talking about my feeling as a user. It's important to separate both. When you see "top native ISO : 12800" on the spec sheet but you get the same results as if it was ISO 6400, I think there are grounds to be a little bit dissapointed, don't you think? As for the companies themselves, they are not lying or anything like that, but there is a lack of transparency about this, mostly because everything is buried in tech babble that pretty much nobody pays attention to.

@@uncertainrelease Wish digital ISO was just abandoned and represented in gain instead.

@@MikeRinz yeah, that or everybody taking the same standard (SOS seems to be the obvious answer), but I guess we can wait a ton...

Yes, the autofocus is still completely functional. The autofocus is using a different mirror that reflects light down into the AF sensot, changing the focus screen at the top of the mirror box has no impact on it. Similarly, the posts you move to calibrate the focusing are different depending on the mirror you want to adjust, so you can adjust your main mirror (that will calibrate your manual focus accuracy) or the secondary mirror (that will calibrate the autofocus accuracy) without having any impact on the other.

Good intel thank you​@@uncertainrelease

I felt the "Nikon and Canon lenses are more affordable" part. I could say I was heavily invested in Fujifilm and that's ultimately what made me leave the system... selling most of the lenses I had and replaced all of it with a Nikon Z6 and F mount lenses... managed to fill the gaps that I had and saved money while upgrading cameras ! Fujifilm bodies like the X-T2 and X-H1 are extremely good value cameras but there is something to be said about tha absolute lack of affordable and good lens options on Fujifilm at the moment.