Fujifilm X100 VI: One 12 months of Journey & Work

The Fujifilm X100 VI is likely one of the most talked-about compact cameras in current reminiscence, and for good cause. Owning one for over a yr and placing greater than 10,000 frames via it throughout Japan, Mexico, Hawaii, Brazil, and Australia offers you a really totally different perspective than a two-week evaluate ever might.

Coming to you from Gerard Needham, this thorough real-world video covers what it is really wish to dwell with the Fujifilm X100 VI as a journey {and professional} instrument over the lengthy haul. Needham does not simply run via specs. He talks about what stunned him, what pissed off him, and what he really modified about how he shoots due to this digital camera. One of the larger surprises is battery life: he purchased two additional batteries anticipating the small cells to empty quick, however discovered {that a} single cost will get him via a full day of taking pictures, even on paid jobs. He additionally addresses one of the widespread complaints about fixed-lens cameras, the one focal size limitation, and the answer he landed on is genuinely value realizing about.

Needham introduced within the Viltrox teleconverter and huge conversion lens to offer the X100 VI successfully three focal lengths: 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm, with the in-body crop pushing it to a 100mm equal because of the 40 MP X-Trans 5 sensor. He examined each lenses extensively and located the outcomes principally sturdy, with solely minor nook softness on the huge finish and a small spherical flare on the tele aspect that cleans up simply in Lightroom. But the actual stress check on this video is what Needham does with the picture high quality comparability: he places the X100 VI up towards a Hasselblad X2D, a 100 MP medium format digital camera, to see how the information maintain up aspect by aspect, each as digital information and as massive prints.

There are additionally just a few trustworthy criticisms right here. Needham thinks Fujifilm has priced the X100 VI a bit excessive for what it’s, particularly on condition that the autofocus in steady mode nonetheless lags effectively behind what Nikon, Canon, and Sony provide. He makes use of single-point autofocus completely as a result of the continual monitoring hunts too aggressively to be dependable. The lens itself is sharp and compact, however Needham factors out that up to date coatings would have made a significant distinction: the flare the present lens produces is unflattering and has noticeably washed out a few of his pictures. He additionally covers a processing tip involving DxO Pure RAW 5 that addresses a identified Lightroom rendering problem with X-Trans 5 uncooked information and produces a noticeably sharper, cleaner end result, particularly for pictures the place you wish to extract every part the sensor has to supply. Check out the video above for the total breakdown, together with the Hasselblad comparability outcomes, from Needham.