Zoom Photo on the Fujifilm X-H2

Fujifilm completes its mirrorless camera offer with the new X-H2!

Looking for high resolution in both photo and video? Stay tuned, because with its 40 megapixel APS-C sensor, it has what it takes to make its competitors with a full frame blush!

Pierre-Yves, our Social Media and Digital Content Coordinator got his hands on the mirrorless camera before its release (thanks to Fujifilm Canada), here's what it's like!

The Fujifilm X-H2 looks remarkably like a compact version of the GFX with its look, the thumb-wheel and the small screen on top. Economically, it's pretty lightweight, well-balanced and fits really well in the hand with its very deep grip that will appeal to people with small or very large hands.

It has a 3-inch swivel touch screen of 1.62 million dots and an electronic viewfinder of 5.76 million dots with a refresh rate of 120 frames per second. On the button side, there is a designated shutter release for photo and video, others for basic settings, fully customizable buttons and dials as well.

We also appreciate the Q button that allows us to display in real time the settings of our camera – whether we are in a photo or video mode, it allows an overview of the current settings of our body.

We find that famous PASM C1 to C7 dial, space for an express CF and SD-UHS2 card, headphone and microphone jacks, a full-frame HDMI port and a USB-C port.

We immediately think of food or portrait photographers, or web content creators who have to drastically crop their images, but also landscape or wildlife photographers, those who would like to see their images printed in large format.

By the way, the Fujifilm X-H2 is equipped with the Pixel Shift Multi-Shot mode, which allows you to take pictures in very high resolution. What will happen is that the camera will take multiple photos, shifting the sensor slightly each time to enrich the pixelation and give you a 160-megapixel image.

The burst is a bit more modest than the Fujifilm X-H2s, but still beyond the competition for the same price. We are talking about 15 frames per second with the mechanical shutter and 20 frames per second with the electronic shutter.

As for the ISO, we work between 125 and 51200 ISO.

In video, we shoot 6.2K or 8K at 30 frames per second, 4K at 60 frames per second or full HD 1080 at 240 frames per second - all in 4:2:2 10 bits.

Also very interesting: the codecs. You can work in H.264, H.265, but also in Apple ProRes and Blackmagic Raw. We find the F-LOG, F-LOG 2, HDMI raw, HNG and, of course, the FUJI film simulations which are, themselves, valid in photo as in video.

Back to the C1 to C7 modes. These are completely customizable! You can first on C*, identify that it is a video or photo mode. Then, we set the camera according to our parameters, according to the context in which we must work.

For example, for a portrait photographer, he could program his C1 adapted to his studio, to his equipment, to his lighting.

His C2 for when he does outdoor photography where the parameters are completely different.

His C3, why not for making slow motion video, so: video mode, 4K, 60 frames per second.

You can do this for the 7 modes that are completely customizable, also all the buttons and their assignment are.

By the way, you can tell the device if it should remember, in a given C-mode, the changes you might have made during use, or if it should reset itself as soon as you leave the mode.

To continue with the characteristics of the camera, we find inside the 5-axis stabilization, a very fast autofocus, we also have the tracking, and the subject detection with an improved algorithm that makes it very powerful.

We can choose first if we want the autofocus to adjust on the eyes, the left, the right, both.

We can also combine the function to the subject tracking; on animals, for example.

Subject tracking is offered on an animal, a bird, a car, a bike, train and airplane.

If you choose, for example, eye and bird tracking at the same time, the camera will focus on the eye, and in case it loses eye contact, it will switch to the head or body of the subject until it can recognize the eye again.

The connectivity menu is particularly elaborate. This is where you can make the Fujifilm X-H2 a webcam capable of streaming in HD or 4K / 60 frames per second.

And if you have the optional file transmitter battery grip, you can manage a WI-FI connection sharing with another device, manage a multi-camera recording up to 4 signals or even, for a photojournalist, connect the box to the servers of his employer so that the files are directly transmitted.

Several tools are extra with the Fujifilm X-H2: a cooling fan that attaches to the body of the camera allowing you to work for long periods or in hot environments.

For example, at 25 degrees, they say you could shoot 8K for 2 hours and 40 minutes. With a fan, you would go to 4 hours of shooting.

At 40 degrees, it would be more like 13 minutes, but with the fan you go to 1 hour.

There's also an audio station that can attach to the camera's hot shoe, which was developed by Tascam for Fujifilm. It acts as an XLR adapter that has 2 analog channels, two digital. You can also provide the microphone with phantom power using Tascam's HDDA preamp.

To conclude, with the X-H2, Fujifilm really offers a versatile and powerful camera, with a very high resolution that will appeal to many content creators.

For those who are already on Fuji's APS-C, it really opens up their horizons by offering a high resolution that will allow them to continue working with their arsenal of lenses.

In fact, for wildlife photographers, the 40 megapixels in APS-C format, combined with the XF 150-600mm f/5.6-8 R LM OIS WR lens, is definitely the most affordable resolution/range ratio on the market today.

The camera will also appeal to a new clientele of advanced content creators who have high resolution needs.

If you want to know more, we invite you to come and discuss it with one of our advisors in-store.