Savi

Many thanks for sharing your experience and thoughts with me eurotrash. You are probably right that no further significant firmware enhancements will occur on the X-H1, with a X-H2 coming out maybe next year. And same for the T3…a T4 will come up quite soon for sure. I indeed also checked the Sony 6400 & 6500 as alternatives, what I don’t really like on the Sonys is that, whatever you need to set you have to “dive” into the menus…mainly no fast wheel settings, just display work. For sure one gets used to it. I am not a run and gun shooter, I do mainly private “travel documentaries”, can take some time to set things, still do not want to invest a huge amount of time for a good shot…and when shooting I am not using a large external monitor to check the results. I would be very frustrated to discover later, 100 miles away from my "scene", that the footage is not good. Indeed my test was indoor, neon tubes lighting, the room had windows, outside it was cloudy and rainy…not the best illumination then. I think the contrast between background and subject was good: background was light grey/white, my wife as subject with dark hair, dressed in dark blue, that should have been fine? AF-Speed of the lens I don’t know and the other parameters I don’t remember…in case I go for a second test I will pay attention to that. But actually I start to think that it probably does not make a lot of sense to buy a XH1 that actually was already launched with a “not-state-of-the-art hardware” (the new hardware was launched few months later with the XT3). I ask myself “could I live without IBIS?”, especially since I am reading more and more about IBIS & OIS where OIS seems to do most of the job anyway. Actually the “biggest” problem is that talking about APS Sensors and “good” videography there is not really much choice on the market right now…basically either Sony or Fuji. Other brands opted for MFT, but I personally do not intend to go for a full frame (the larger the sensor, the more accurate/exact need to be the settings aspecially regardig DOF). The problem probably would not exist if I wouldn’t have experienced the great image stabilization of the X-H1 😉 Greetings from over the ocean 😊