1000 Days with the fujifilm x-t30
The Fujifilm X-T30, our first camera in the Fuji range. As you can see from the title we’ve had this camera for 1000 days. Well really it’s been 3 years which is more than 1000 days but it looked nice for the title I thought, wouldn’t you agree?
If you follow us over on YOUTUBE then you may have seen the video with the exact same titles as this blog post. If not you can give it a watch HERE if you like. It’s a little cinematic sequence I put together with some of my favourite clips using the X-T30 over the past 3 years and I must say I do love how it turned out and I really enjoy putting sequences like that together.
All the clips in this sequence were shot in 8-Bit 4k using the Astia Soft film simulation and 200MB video files. The footage straight out of camera normally always look amazing to be fair, so it has to take a lot of the credit. I do make some adjustments to white balance, exposure and some colour tweaks during editing in Premiere Pro but it usually doesn’t need much to get it to the point where I am happy with how it looks.
When you get your exposure right the footage you can capture with this little beast of a camera looks so good, and I mean really good. Now I haven’t used higher end cinema cameras before or even top of the range video cameras like the X-H2S for example but I know what beautiful footage looks like and this camera definitely punches above it’s weight. The dynamic range is great and that highlight roll off is super nice.
The lack of IBIS honestly hasn’t really been much of a problem for us to be fair, mainly because of our style of film-making. By that I mean we get most of our shots by either holding the camera quite steady or using a tripod so we don’t really need to worry about IBIS too much. The XF 18-55mm lens which we use for video does have stabilisation which really helps and is essential if your camera doesn’t have IBIS. We’ve tried video with the 35mm F2 (which has no stabilisation) combined with the X-T30 and the footage is super shakey to say the least, wouldn’t recommend it.
Honestly I think the footage with this camera speaks for itself so I don’t have much more to add. One thing I do get asked about quite often though is what focus mode I use for film-making with the X-T30. The answer to that is 99% of the time manual focus and I have back button focus set on one of the rear buttons so I can quickly grab focus then I’m good. No worries about focus breathing or my focus shifting on to something else, it’s quick and easy and works perfectly for our style.
A few more video stills taken from recent videos, I think you get the idea by now so I’ll finish it here.
In short, the X-T30 has been and continues to be an amazing little camera for us and what we like to create. It makes the process easy and gives you amazing results at the same time, you can’t ask for much more than that from a camera at this price range. It’s safe to say It will be part of the kit for quite a while I think.