Open gate isn’t just good for “fix it later,” it’s also really useful for stabilization in post, cropping 35 to 50mm 16:9 you can get a gimbal-like effect

This camera is massively underrated. Fuji’s new addition of the XS-20 seems to be spot on as well for amateur or new starter film makers. Mad specs on a great little platform. Glad they’re getting the recognition they deserve for all their hard work. Great video.

Another great review from my favorite videography/cinematography KZreadr. Keep the content coming!

Your channel is criminally underrated! 🙃

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

Aw thank you, I appreciate that

A nice refreshing take. I really liked the hot take on the rack focusing! Subbed.

Man great review! I’ve been thinking about doing one for mine after having it for such a long time now.

Can confirm the X-H2s is by far my favorite camera I have bought since the GH5, such a pleasure to shoot with, and even more a pleasure to color

@jakehayden998

9 ай бұрын

It is such an awesome camera. What lenses do you use for the XH2S?

@GlennUpgraded

5 ай бұрын

Just curious, why didn’t you go with the S5iix?

@matheussp13

5 ай бұрын

Bad rolling shutter, no 14bit readout, worst latitude, worst dr, no fuji juice 😅. The list goes on (S5IIX is great though)

@gichisen9474

4 ай бұрын

@@matheussp13But Cined results show s5iix has better dr?

@_trismegistus

4 ай бұрын

Only drawback is the 1250 base iso for flog2. Makes daytime exposure more difficult and more noise to contend with, even if it is cleaner. Hopefully the next gen will have it around 640.

Great review! I’ve been using FLog2 for everything but the Provia shots look so good. I’m going to have to try that out.

Dude! So glad i found u by pure coincidence! This video is basically what i needed to finally pull the trigger on this gem of a camera, as i am switching from the BMPCC6KPro to a lighter system wanting a look, solid IBIS, AF etc. But most of the example footage of others on YT ain't great due to them grading the footage into trendy vintage super grainy fake super8 bull.... i rented the XH2s for a day but wasn't able to get great footage out of it, guess there is a learning curve. In general: my dude ur channel is awesome, so glad i found it! Thx for the content!

@sbrownproductions

10 ай бұрын

THANK YOU for saying that about the grading to look like Super 8. Almost every xh2s video online is all graded the same, all desaturated, etc and was beginning to wonder if it couldn’t grade better.

@kevin.schie.videographie

10 ай бұрын

@@sbrownproductions ah i feel u buddy! It was getting to the point that i thought u can't achieve a great image with this cam due to all of these super fake vintage graded examples on YT. This video is one of the very very few where u can see that this cam can produce awesome looking stuff, even when not using LOG, but ALSO with LOG

@BTMovieSecondChannel

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, many video's are too 'vibey' or too saturated. With this camera, the colors (especially in F-log2) are actually amazing with just a simple LUT. Punchy, natural but artistic, rich, colorful, with a cinematic twang.

SUBBED. Great video sire. Might go buy this camera now...

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very very much

Bro, who are you? Criminally underrated! Keep up the good work!

Great Vid!:) I use my X-H2s for 3 months now. genuinely satisfied with it, amazing cam. Although I had to get into Log shooting, started with the bmpcc 4k. In a CST I transform it from REC2020 Arri CLog4 to rec709, which works pretty fine. I was little bit disappointed by ALL-I and expected a way smoother playback. Somehow harder to encode then Long Gop

@jakehayden998

8 ай бұрын

I bet those results look great. I was also disappointed in the weirdly slow playback of the ALL-I. So bizarre

Literally my same thoughts about the grain. It's so pleasant and really nice.

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

I really do love it, it looks so analog to me

I appreciate the slapstick at the beginning. Thanks for this helpful review... I can't afford such tech. but nice to look at.

The XH2s open gate image in pro-res is one of the cleanest and easiest images to work with. Fujis LUTS always look great and it’s so nice to be able to just throw them on for a quick grade on fast turnaround projects, but you can push the image around a lot in post when you have the time.

Great review. I’ve had this camera and lens since December. Got it for a do it all camera. Mostly only done photography so far and I’m happy. I Need to do more video tho

in ACES central you can find the F-Log2 IDT, so you can use the ACES Transform from that and convert it to Rec709 or Rec2100 PQ if want it to be in HDR. Another thing is that the camera has 2 native ISO, at 1250 and 3200. I hope fuji add GFX100 II exclusive features to their other gen 5 line up, especially the X-H2S

Absolutely agree.

Great video!

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate that

I cannot tell apart this footage from a Komodo. It's unreal what they've done with this rolling shutter at such high res. I'll be holding to my XT4 for now but man, i keep looking for an excuse to upgrade 😂

@Telliefloydd

10 ай бұрын

same here in the same exact spot lol 😂 just asked my wife if we really need to pay rent this month maybe we can skip lol

@itsbeaker6571

6 ай бұрын

Thankfully I’m in a position to where I can put 25% of my photography/videography earnings to the side for purchasing anything I need and this is for sure on the list. Hopefully by the end of the year! 🤞

@thyerriwolf

3 ай бұрын

Me too, I have a Fuji xt4 as well but I can't stop watching those h2s footage and wish the camera 😂

You’ve been thinking outside the box lately. I like that.

@maximevalenti8879

8 ай бұрын

True!

The royalties that box must be getting

you had me at the box fall ;-p

I find that the IBIS system seems to work best with non-native lenses (once the focal length is specified manually in the IQ menu). I haven't done any scientific comparisons, but it always looks and feels much more natural to me for whatever reason. I'm happy you made this video - it's amazing how quickly dismissed and underrated this camera is relative to the competition, and you are really nailing it's strengths here and I agree with you on all fronts.

@jakehayden998

8 ай бұрын

I totally agree. When I am using manual lenses on Fujifilm bodies I sometimes even reduce the stabilization a bit (For example: when using a 50mm lens I tell the camera body it's a 35mm lens) and I like the results a lot more than native lenses. Also thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it

@davidsikula3488

8 ай бұрын

That's an interesting point about "reducing the stabilization - I generally seem to get the best results when I "match" the literal focal lengths, but I'm going to revisit this and experiment more. I work with a speed booster on some FF lenses as well and I find it stabilization always works better when I apply the "math" (i.e. 35mm FF with a .71 speed booster I would set at 25mm in the I.Q. menu).

love this camera! the provia standard color profile there looks insane! I've shot Classic chrome and Flog-2, loving the Flog 2 for the dynamic range, I do reccomend checking out the phantom luts for it, how ever i'm still blown away how clean the provia looks, did you shoot it with any additional settings?

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

Classic chrome is really awesome. I ran through all the film simulations and tried them, but a bulk of my recording was in Flog-2. I did switch to provia a couple of times to test the colors straight out of camera, but all of the film simulations are so fun. I also really really love eterna

@gunnarbjarkiii

10 ай бұрын

@@jakehayden998 did you make any adjustments with the curve and the dynamic range on provia, in camera?

Could you do a video on xh2s codecs and recording settings?🤩🙏

Awesome video! Is there any way you can do a side-by-side comparison with the BMPCC6K Pro?

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

The BMPCC6K Pro would be a great camera to compare, that’s a great idea. I don’t own either camera, but maybe one day I can make that video happen

Coming from the X-T3 I chose the Lumix S5ii and even though I love it, I sometimes still wonder if I made the right decision over the XH2S upgrade path.. Great video, thank you for sharing!

@matheussp13

5 ай бұрын

Wrong choice, sorry 😅 Just kidding, there are no bad cameras today

Thank you for the great review. I am thinking of getting Mac Mini M2 Pro with 16GB Unified memory and 512GB SSD storage, for editing with this camrea for feature movie 24fp 6.2k do you think it would be suitable or should I go with a high spec for the Mac?

I wondered about the lack of an olpf for film making. I have read some partially debunked claims about the fuji bayer pattern resulting in less moire, but wondered about your experience? Many thanks for a great review

One thing I struggle with on my XT-4 is low light situations, any improvement here?

There one feature I would love to see added is direct recordering to SSD , I think this would be a killer .

Hi. May I ask which editing software you were showing in this video please. Great walk around. many Thanks.

@OnlyCitrus

5 ай бұрын

Davinci Resolve

Killer video

Have you had any issues with sharpness on this camera? Ive heard that its too digitally sharp. Can this be rectified im camera by using vintage lenses or using a diffusion filter?

I currently have the sony a6000 but I really want to get into the Fuji ecosystem. I was looking at the x-s20 which is like a baby brother to the XH2S. A big thing for me is feature of Opengate because I like to make 4:3 videos. Is there a Huge difference in performance from the XH2S vs the X-S20?

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

Yeah the X-S20 does look like a really cool option. I haven't used one just yet, so I can't give any concrete advice, but I'm hoping to get a X-S20 in for review in a couple of weeks

Are you guys having QC issues? I was mounting the tilta's cage the other day and I felt my H2s kinda loose. All the botom screws were 1/4 turn loose. It's an amazing camera but that scared the sht out of me

Nice video. But you didn't mention anything about the LCD screen. Is it articulating, tilt, or both?

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

You’re totally right, I forgot to mention that. It’s a fulling articulating flip screen similar to the one on the XT4 and XT5

When shooting in 6K Open Gate, roughly how big are the file sizes? Also, I’m a noob so I apologize if this is a stupid question, but can it shoot in 4K Open Gate, or only 6K? Loved the video btw. Subbed!

Hey man, awesome video! Thinking of selling my FX3 for the XH2S (I understand it's a downgrade but that's not neccesairly a bad thing) but in all honesty just feeling uninspired by sony as of late for my work. Picked up an X100v recently and have never had more fun taking photos and well hope that would translate over to video. I find for me colours is by the most important thing for any video I watch. Anyways my question is have you worked with the fx3 and or s-log 3, what's your opinion on it and do you find the colours to be nicer on the xh2s? Thanks!

@jakehayden998

8 ай бұрын

I think color science between cameras is super subjective, and I believe you can work with the footage between the XH2S and the FX3 to get really similar and beautiful images. Chances are I will spend a fair bit of time working with both in order to get the results that I want. However straight out of camera (or I guess straight out of converting log to rec 709) I definitely prefer Sony color science.

@kl00ver

8 ай бұрын

fair enough! I actually sold my fx3 to swap over to the xh2s and am having a blast. I'm finding the image coming out of this camera far more pleasing personally :))@@jakehayden998

How can you compare Flog2 with Slog3 from Fx3/a7IV ?

@jakehayden998

9 ай бұрын

That’s a really great question, I don’t have 2 cameras in front of me currently that I could do some testing with, but maybe one day!

x-h2s is best camera.... 720Mbs , proress , 6,2K, staked sensor is making this camera beast .

I wonder what you think of Lumix S5iix, try it if you get a chance to get one

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

I would absolutely love to, perhaps someday soon

Question for you or anyone who owns the XH2S or XH2, hows the autofocus now? I bought an A7IV but my heart has always been with Fuji, does the AF get the job done now?

@BurlapandLight

7 ай бұрын

I’ve had no issues with AF since owning the X-H2S. Just set it up how you want. But be sure to test and remember like he mentioned it doesn’t take effect until you press record.

@mewtwo34

7 ай бұрын

How is it for photography? @@BurlapandLight

@BurlapandLight

7 ай бұрын

@@mewtwo34 It’s pretty amazing. I’ve definitely had no issues with it in the photo area at all. Even picked it to use over my 50R before I traded it for another X-H2S.

I want to buy an X-S20, while waiting for a proper camera ergonomic and featured. I can wait a long time. But anyway, the difference of end pictures is not tremendous.

WHats your opinion on the xh1 in 2024??

maybe it is "16-55 f2.8"lens

What external monitor to record in open gate people tend to get?

@jakehayden998

9 ай бұрын

You don’t actually need an external monitor to record open gate on the XH2S, it records internally

@aramisgrey3711

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. Just realized that. Awesome. Looking forward to using it! @@jakehayden998

This camera seems to apply a very heavy chroma noise reduction in camera and a more subtle luma reduction aswell. It will definitely affect color fidelity. Much better to have all of that turned off in my opinion or done minimally at least

@Bocsaphoto

7 ай бұрын

This is also why people tend to say that Fujifilm noise looks so good, because color noise is suppressed. This is also applied to JPEG images. It’s only avoidable in photo raw images unfortunately. When I learned about the chroma channels denoising issue I couldn’t unsee it in my own footage hahaha. Really hope Fuji ditches this via firmware or just stops putting it in their newer cameras. Also crazy how little this is talked about in the fujifilm community.

Cfexpress cards and good battery life, I'm sold. Bye-bye v-mounts and external ssds. My next rig is gonna be lean and mean. Tired of building xmas-tree-looking rigs with cables left and right.

X-S10 IBIS is better than X-T4. Crazy.

It still looks too over sharpened in video compared to Sony, an odd sharpness that doesn’t go away with filters

@jakehayden998

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I totally agree

For $4500 including a lens, its a no go for me here in Australia. If you have that sort of money, you are better off with a dedicated Video Camera like the Canon XA60 and have no hybrid compromises. And no one in the industry wants 6K when your footage is downsampled to 4K or even UHD anyway due to the file sizes. Thats the real world.

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

Do you use the Canon XA60? I guess the main difference is sensor size. The XA60 definitely has the video assist features that make life easy, but the footage has a very broadcast look. So I guess it all depends on what look you are going for

nope

would be great camera for 1850$ but not for 2500$ . Too many flaws , but its more from Fuji system at all , not just this camera

@jakehayden998

10 ай бұрын

What flaws do you mean? I'm curious what issues people have had

@mex5341

10 ай бұрын

@@jakehayden998 unpredictable IBIS work , No tap focus in video, no touch-tracking, Bad af-c in video with 3d party lenses. Fuji did a good job working on af in video but still cant get close to Sony/Canon .

@theomerbarak

10 ай бұрын

@@mex5341 I’ve been shooting with this camera for more then a year now, and I literally have no idea what you are talking about. The Ibis is fine and very predictable, 3rd party lenses works awesome (the Viltrox 13 is amazing) and the auto focus is not great, but they are improving it with software updates and it is MUCH better from the day I bought it, which is insane. I had both the r6, which, combined with the 15-35 was heavy as fuck, and a couple of Sony cameras. They both have better auto focus, but Fuji has better colors, and there is no reason not to get one. You can say you don’t like it just like I didn’t like the r6 (amazing camera, not for me), but it’s worth every dollar that I spent on it, and doesn’t have any issues

@minktronics

10 ай бұрын

​​@@mex5341I got my body used for $1650 with a Fuji 35mm f2. Have since bought two viltrox lenses - the 23 1.4 and 33 f1.4. I've had no issue with the autofocus at all - the tracking is great and it seems fast and accurate in video. Yes it's not as good as my old R5 but the MF experience on that camera was dire. He's talking here about the XH2s as a cinema camera, where you almost never would be using AF. Same with IBIS. In terms of video-centric features, it's a complete package. Points for me include usability features such as being able to punch in to preview focus WHILE recording, incredible image quality, open gate recording, pro-res internal, 4k 120, incredible battery and rolling sugar, and to top it off amazing LCD and EVF with brilliant photo features. for video this camera is already incredible value, but the fact that it outperforms pure video cameras such as the FX30 is insane.

@fernandogarcia3185

10 ай бұрын

Those "flaws" are just in people's heads. I use the camera for both professional video and photo work and it is superb. Af and specially IBIS are super useful on this camera. I have been recording 5 min shots interviews just by handhelding the camera. Another different story is when youtubers try to run with cameras pointing at themselves in the middle of the street. But for real life video work this camera is amazing. Way better IQ sooc than the FX3 in my opinion, which I also considered buying instead of the X-h2s.

Annoyying, once he came out the box i stop watching. Just get to the point.

3:18 "rosy skin tones (...)" You are assuming everybody is White. Actually not true.