Fuji is the Japanese Leica. I just bought an X-H1 for less than half that price. It's still an amazing monster of a camera.

Considering now you can get a used XH1 for 700 and a a7iii for 1500 used I’m convinced the xh1 is the better deal.

The shutter sound is even better in reality. It's awesome.

You can tilt the screen for portrait mode. Push the little button on the side of the screen and you can tilt the screen in portrait mode.

Thank you for your impressions and thoughts! I also still in love with my Fuji’s and the x-h1 impressed me. I will get one soon.

great review, you got me into fuji with your X100 review 7 or 8 years ago! Keep up the good work.

I love the enthusiasm over the shutter sound. I haven’t experienced in person but seen some other videos go into it and it seems that dampening Fuji did was a serious win.

Nice review but there are a couple things that are incorrect. 1. The screen does tilt horizontally via a button on the left of the screen. 2. The 16-55 is not just 24-70 but actually 24 to like 83mm 👍👍

Love it so far. Still getting used to the shutter release moving from XT2..so light but i think will work out much better in long run.

Yeah I’m digging this review.😀 I gotta pick one up now!

Kindly suggest one camera system(camera/camera+lens) for filmmaking & street photography. I am looking for something I can carry along with me everywhere but also on budget.

When Covid broke loose where I live, I saw myself obliged to sell my whole Fuji kit. XT-4 , Xpro2 bunch of lenses, because my job closed and nobody else was employing for a while. Yesterday I finally grabbed one of these (Body only) used. All lenses I have now are Minolta's MDs or MCs from de analogue era, older than myself. But the in body IS is covering up sublimely. and I have a bit of experience with the Fuji system. Fuji X 100, then the 100s that got me to do the jump completely from Canon. The the XT series 1,2,3,4, and Xpro 2, loved all of them, but I do notice with this one that IQ is a blast. currently permanently using a Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 55mm f1.5. And so far am flabbergasted. i would recommend it any time.

Incredible camera. Checks all the boxes for me and is dam near , in impossible perfect camera world , almost that.

Nice review and the Fuji cameras certainly deliver wonderful colour. I bought a Fuji XE2 and the results were great, that is when I could actually see what I was taking as the LCD and the EVF were difficult when there was a strong light behind or to the side. Problem is I wear glasses, the EVF couldn't shut out enough light and the LCD was not bright enough. Also the camera did not feel solid, felt sort of hollow and though I loved the results sometimes, I gave up Fuji and bought into Olympus and now own the EM1 ii and some nice (small) fast lenses. The Fuji is a large camera as are the lenses and I can't imagine carrying the extra weight now, although this looks like a great camera.

I love the good hard slap of a medium format camera myself.

Just got one of these a week ago an ex demonstrator with a 1000 shutter count. Over the last fifteen years I have had Kodak and Fuji bridge cameras, Olympus and Pentax DSLRs, Panasonic and Olympus MFT cameras. In terms of image quality, colour accuracy , focusing speed and over all control the X-H1 just blows them all away.

I am hoping that the X-H2 will definitely be more mature with far more advance features maybe this will be sometime in 2021.

I’ve just tried to go to stevehuffphoto and it’s saying your IP address is blocked! Not sure why?

Thanks for your review which is absolutely great! I also own the A7RIII and the Fuji X-H1 and I was thinking a lot to buy a A7III and sell my Fuji... but the feeling what I get when I shoot with the X-H1 is so unique and special... I can't do this...☺️ even the specs on the Sony are better... I will parallel go on with Fuji as well...

Is it just me or is that new Fuji shutter sounding very similar to the M? I need to hear them A/B but.....when you put it close to the mic....it was more reminiscent of the M. Butter indeed.

How is the durability ? I have heard of a lot of issues with extra 2

That camera is even BETTER than he claims, very seriously.

Modern day Fuji sensors especially the xtran III have this weird blue color in day light shooting landscape. I use a xt2 and still have it for 2 years. I love the camera. But when I got a used S5 Pro a month ago and started using it, I just noticed how beautiful the old Fuji colors can be! I really hope Fuji revives the super ccd sensor. Images from the xt2 is nice, but sometimes they have too much blue and they are impossible to get rid of post processing.

Good review. I had many of the qualms you had about previous Fuji bodies and I've gone back to a DSLR system. I have a X100F for lightweight travel/casual pics and I find that camera with my Nikon gear covers all my needs. Now if I were to completely switch systems, I'd serious consider the X-H1 despite what Sony's done with the A7III. Fuji's lenses are far more affordable and arguably better performers across the line than Sony's non-G glass.

Great review. I rented the X100 and X-Pro when they originally came out, and had similar negative experiences, which turned me off of Fuji. So I've been on the sidelines during the more recent models, but now I may give Fuji a try again with this X-H1.

is it the shutter sound is audio sound? i can choose 3 different the shutter sound on my fuji in menus. (mine is not Fuji X-H1)

one thing you forgot, the card slot is NOT in the battery compartment, :))))) at last, no need to take the grip off just to remove a card. they also have a batt grip, with TWO batteries, yes, you can use all three, two in grip, one in camera( fantastic idea, esp. since they use a live view all the time as well as exposure simulation!- uses a lot of juice).

I think Minolta were the first to implement IBIS not Olympus

The auto white balance for jpegs is the best that I have ever seen in any camera and the XH-1 includes flicker reduction for indoor lighting.

There are many issues with this camera that are not covered here. You can get a huge discount on this camera now (Aug 2019) but check out other user experience. It has been taken over by the XT-3 as the go to in this price range.

Would love to see a comparison to the Pentax KP

What’s the difference between the Xh1 and the Xt2? As far as performance? Besides the 5axis stab.

OK.... getting it for the shutter. I have a shutter thing:)

As far as I know, 23mm f1,4 is from second generation of Fuji's lenses, which are naturally better in autofocusing than the first one, but still relative slow and noisy than the third, the last one (16-55/2,8 included), and of course, not weather sealed...

So should I get Olympus or Fuji

I got mine brand new off ebay for $900 almost two months ago now. It's a great walk around camera for daytime but I went out at night and didn't get great results BUUUUUUT I have yet to actually read the manual. I also have the Sony A7RII and Canon EOS-R and I'm finding that I'm taking the Fuji out to shoot with far more often.

I dont get it, you was just about to say what you prefered between xh1 & sony a7, but you didn't .

I'm seriously Fuji curious now that the XH1 is 1299 US and that INCLUDES the grip and extra batteries.

Agreed. The X-H1 is their best X camera. But I dislike so many things about it. The joystick should not still be a tiny nipple. The EVF on the X-H1 is great, but it is so unnatural looking when it constantly changes aperture prior to taking, and then stutters after exposure sometimes. It's a big improvement, but Fuji have only to look at a Nikon pro-level dSLR like a D500 to learn about high quality buttons, joysticks, button placement, as well as button travel. Maybe in a few generations Fuji will focus on great haptics.

They are coming closer and closer to perfection (Nikon)

I am probably the only guy on the Internet who likes the appearance of the BMPCC 4K over the Leica and Leica-wannabe look that is very popular.

I have to wonder why the contrast on the Batis is so low.

How is it better then the xt2 its basically the same camera except for the stabilization that thing is to big for a apc no thank you now where is the xt3 fuji

The shutter from the Fuji sounds really good, but I like the shutter sound from the A9 much better because it is noiseless 😜

3/4 of battery left? That should easily last you ten or fifteen minutes! :) (just kidding)

...do not sacrifice Olympus :( ( the best image stabilization) :) please....

S2 Pro, S3 Pro, both junk. I had to use these duds professionally and wanted to smash them off the nearest wall on several occasions.

I had Fuji side by side before I moved completely to Sony with the new A9 and A7r III. According to the manual dials: this is only nice to look at. But it is NOT functional. Try to switch very fast from normal one shot to sports program which you need to do at a wedding. This is clunky and takes way more time.

Meh. I'll stick with my D500.

The Fuji X-H1 is Blocky, kind of like the Angry Photographer.

How much were you paid to say all of this?

mediocre camera and lens to me, the result are flat in all sense, keep a Canon FF and you will see what is a good pro stills camera, i always worked with the 1DS Mark II, 16 bit output don´t know why now the most are 14 bits is a lot less color rendition, Prophoto vs adobe RBG see the graphics, as well the scales of grey are a lot more in 16 bits than in 14 bits, 14 bits are 16, 000 tones 12 bits are 4000 grey tones as you get ab idea this numbers matter a lot for edition, anyway 14 bits capture can be edited as a 16 bits in PS, that means the software conver the file, but not sure if it allows pro photo color workflow with all the wide color range of this format at 16 bits, which is a third more definition than Adobe RGB, where are your beautiful reds from Leica here they look orange

Your videos don’t look too great. Washed out.