I spent most of the day with the Fujifilm X-H1 and the 60mm f2.4 Macro. The camera is great at 1250 ISO and the lens is sharp wide open. It's a great combo for shooting behind-the-scenes at a TV commercial shoot.
Daniel in make-up for Zach's TV commercial shoot for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
Hi Ash, I recently upgraded the firmware in my X-H1 to 2.0 and then upgraded the lens firmware to the latest rev. I've had no focus hunting, the lens+camera locks in quickly and it's very, very rare that I missed focus. If I did it was more down to my subject moving after focus lock. You can see by the proximity that I had very narrow depth of field. A bit of subject sway and things go out. The lens is great. I wish I'd ignored the web sooner and just bought it right away!
The problem is "professional" reviewers hardly ever go back and revisit old lenses or cameras despite the fact that their performance can be vastly changed through firmware updates. In the old days it was fine to review things once as they generally never changed once they left the factory but those days are long gone.
Just look at how reviewers (specifically consumer reports) doubted there was anything Tesla could do about the Model 3's poor braking performance. And yet one OTA update and things were fine. Look at how Fuji and Panasonic have been able to improve AF performance on older cameras over time and yet most reviewers never go back and do an update. Sadly it's left to owners to document on youtube and forums leaving the general camera public with incorrect impressions of products.
I hope that camera manufactures move to a payed firmware model rather than continuing to release new models. Hardware updates are being made in smaller and small increments. In most cases it doesn't make sense to release a new model before 4 years. Manufactures are also forced to release multiple similar models just for market segmentation. Wouldn't it be better for olympus to just have the one model that you could choose to pay to unlock pdaf focusing on rather than one model with and one without? This would also allow buyers to buy one model and upgrade it over time through paid firmware, which I believe would result in more loyal customers.
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Its nice to see the 60mm get some exposure. I've been using it as a family portrait lens for years now and quite like the images it makes.
Did you get frustrated by auotofocus hunting during the shoot?
Hi Ash, I recently upgraded the firmware in my X-H1 to 2.0 and then upgraded the lens firmware to the latest rev. I've had no focus hunting, the lens+camera locks in quickly and it's very, very rare that I missed focus. If I did it was more down to my subject moving after focus lock. You can see by the proximity that I had very narrow depth of field. A bit of subject sway and things go out. The lens is great. I wish I'd ignored the web sooner and just bought it right away!
The problem is "professional" reviewers hardly ever go back and revisit old lenses or cameras despite the fact that their performance can be vastly changed through firmware updates. In the old days it was fine to review things once as they generally never changed once they left the factory but those days are long gone.
Just look at how reviewers (specifically consumer reports) doubted there was anything Tesla could do about the Model 3's poor braking performance. And yet one OTA update and things were fine. Look at how Fuji and Panasonic have been able to improve AF performance on older cameras over time and yet most reviewers never go back and do an update. Sadly it's left to owners to document on youtube and forums leaving the general camera public with incorrect impressions of products.
I hope that camera manufactures move to a payed firmware model rather than continuing to release new models. Hardware updates are being made in smaller and small increments. In most cases it doesn't make sense to release a new model before 4 years. Manufactures are also forced to release multiple similar models just for market segmentation. Wouldn't it be better for olympus to just have the one model that you could choose to pay to unlock pdaf focusing on rather than one model with and one without? This would also allow buyers to buy one model and upgrade it over time through paid firmware, which I believe would result in more loyal customers.
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