A pleasure to watch. Thanks.

Thank you!

This test convinces me not to purchase the 16-80 mm from Fuji. There where issues with this lens when it first introduced I remember.

Very very good I enjoyed the information something to pay attention when creating images. Cheers.

For jpeg and heic, you use any of iPhones "photographic styles" or you keep it on "neutral"? In generell, if you use "photographic styles" wich one would you recommend?

Although the use of a third party camera app may not be, to some, the ideal way to use the iPhone camera, I think it would be a more accurate comparison between the RAW files if you were to use an app like Reeflex that allows you to shoot RAW as opposed to ProRAW. The RAW setting in Reeflex doesn't use the Apple computational stuff like Deep Fusion, SmartHDR, Noise Reduction, etc. Reeflex also has the ability to shoot ProRAW, JPG and HEIF, but the RAW option would give you a more fair comparison. Doing so would likely show that the Fujifilm gives better image quality due to the larger sensor, and as an iPhone only photographer (not professional for those who might jump all over that admission), as much as I like using the iPhone, I'm fully aware that traditional cameras will produce a better image. I used to have a Canon DSLR and all the fixings, but I'm quite happy to use the iPhone and even take a photographic approach to it. It's my camera of choice. And yes, it is a real camera.

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Super presentation. I have one question: since the jpg and heic files do not have the same characteristics as the raw files, why apply the same edits? It seems to me that they should be edited based on their individual characteristics and not all get the same edits. Keep up the good work.

Hi Jason. I’ve recently discovered you on the socials and just subscribed to your channel here. I’ll touch on two points you brought up in this video. 1. The issue of camera snobbery. Seven years ago I made the decision to sell my DSLR gear and become a mobile photographer shooting with an iPhone. This has done more for my photographic life than anything I did or could have done with a DSLR. I have the longest running podcast dedicated solely to iPhone photography and I’ve recently published a book about macro photography with the iPhone. Over the years I’ve heard photographers who use traditional cameras make comments that deny the fact that the iPhone is a real camera. You are the first one who has actually stated a justifiable reason for any such claim by saying it’s because they’re good enough at their craft that they can determine what settings to use to make the capture. While I see that as a justification, I still don’t think there’s room in the photography space for this kind of snobbery. We are all artists who just paint with different brushes. 2. How I get out of a creative rut. I find macro photography to be a great way to revive my creativity because once I start finding subjects, the photos just keep coming. I look forward to more of your videos. Cheers, Greg

im trying to figure out whether this is ironic or not im sorry if im slow or not. can yu use any standard 35mm film with it

The iPhone pictures have a lot of artificial lighting and sharpening, which gives them a look. If you like that look, than these images are compatible. The iPhone pictures aren’t awful but I don’t like the artificial look. Film>digital>larger sensor>smaller sensor

I would expect the Fuji to have similar lens flare to the iPhone if you'd use the 16-55mm f/2.8 lens.

Brilliant thank a million for this 😊

To me at least the difference is stark. The processing on the iphone shot makes it look artificial and ugly (not your editing, bit what apple does internally). It is far from a true raw. The easiest way to see that is the blue sky in the first shot. Dynamic range scales with sensor size, so the iphone's must be worse - hence the blue sky is an hdr effect in a "raw" photo. Resolution is also on a different level. While it's difficult to resolve 40 megapixels on aps-c and the 16-80 certainly doesn't it is possible, and the interchangeable nature of the xh2 lets one accomplish it. The iphone resolves around 10-12 megapixels; not only is the sensor not a true 48mp (it has 48m pixels, but only 12m micro lenses and a 12mp bayer filter) but the optical system simply cannon resolve such a dense sensor. For the xh2's pixel size diffraction affects the image at apertures smaller than 5.6, the iphone's are much smaller still. While the iphone's camera has been improving over the past few generations, those steps pale in comparison to how far it is still from any serious camera. Frankly I don't think it is possible for a iphone sized sensor to reach the optical performance of an xh2, and computation still has well over a decade until it can make up for the difference. The iphone is nice if you don't happen to have a camera on you, but in no situation would I pick it if i had the chance to bring something else. Side note, I own both the 15 pro and the xh2 among other cameras. I'm not just talking specs; I have used both of them.

Great! Really nice comparison. I've gotten much more natural looking images on my Pixel 7 using the OpenCamera app. It's free, though I would pay for it. I've done some really nice video with it as well and it has a lot of different format options. That said, I'm not replacing even my RX100m3 with a smartphone. Subbed.

finally done right. this is e best camera-to-phone comparison by far.

Great video. I'm looking to "replace" my 1" sensor camera with the upcoming iphone 16 (which should be pretty similar to the 15) and I was interested in seeing how the small sensor reacts to challenging light like the one you showed. I do some heavy editing, increasing contrast quite a bit, and I've had issues with banding and halos even with big sensors. Something to keep in mind when using the iphone. Still a great device for many situations, and one you are likely to have with you all the time. Thanks for the video.

Dedicated cameras have few reasons to exist anymore, outside of the professional environment. I suspect this will only become more true over time.

* iPhone 15Pro main camera is 24mm f/6.3 equiv (ultra wide is 13mm f/10 equiv) * That's about 16mm f/4.2 on APS-C, so this is a good and fair comparison :)

There is no comparison, one as one has a viewfinder and the other one doesn’t. I’ve been doing street photography for sometime now and the XT5 blows away any iPhone period! Just helped the lady get rid of her phone for street and get an XT50. The results speak for themselves

Would have been a better test had you used a prime lens on the Fuji. Besides that, your test was skewed forcing the Fuji to use an extreme focal length for it's larger sensor, and also with a compromised zoom lens. For your next test, use a 26mp X-T3 with the awesome 23mm 1.4 and use the equivalent lower megapixel 35mm equivalent lens on the iPhone. Game over.

I would use bracketing if I was doing an iPhone. I would take three images and stack them. I'm not sure if the iPhone does that. I'm pretty sure it would. The reason I prefer cameras over. Phones is not so much the Photography quality. It's actually about the experience when you're using a camera it is tactile and it is buttons and you become immersed in the process. Whereas is when you are using phone you are just looking for that instant photo. No one talks about the mindfulness suspect of Photography because that's the way I teach Photography and one of the things I teach is allows students to immerse themselves in the experience and they just don't get that with a phone. The other thing that happens with phone photographers is as soon as you get a pop-up they will answer their message or their phone call or whatever because no one put their phone into Aeroplane Mode. Well not many people do anyway.

The same settings do not equal the same exposure. You could have gotten closer to your goal if you had alternated exposures between the two cameras. Frankly this is not a comparison at all.

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I'm sorry but the color grading is awful

Love the bus collection, mate. ;)

Totally unreal, the fact that this was made on a mobile phone!

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Thanks for your exposé. I am a pro photographer with over 40 years of experience. I am all in Fujifilm, with 3 x GFX bodies, that is 2 x GFX50S and the grips which I love, a GFX50Sll, which I appreciate for the IBIS but less for the ergonomics, a couple of X-H2's, XT4's, XT3's and a X-T20. Although the output on all of them are outstanding and overkill for most applications, I find the output of the GFX sensor more pleasing than that of the X-H2 and cleaner at their native iso's. I may be getting a GFX100 series, but still not sure as the output of the GFX50 sensor is so spectacular, I may not need to do so unless I need faster continuous AF. But for all intent and purpose, even 26mp is overkill.

For me this shows up the weakness of the 40MP sensor in tonality compared to the medium-format, especially in the fall-off of the highlights. I know you've done some heavy editing, but there's a stark difference between the two in the way the highlights in the sky are rendered, even at the lower ISOs. I sold my GFX50R and replaced it with an X-T5 when it came out. The X-T5 is leaps and bounds ahead in terms of portability, ergonomics and speed, but I'm missing that tonality and "depth" from the MF sensor; so much so that I've ordered a (relatively) cheap 50S to use when I know that tonality and fine detail are going to be especially important. I shoot quite a lot of astro, which the 50R particularly struggled with (very noisy viewfinder in low light) and I do get much better results with the X-T5. So, for me, although it's an extravagance, I'll be running two systems.

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It’s not good at all and I’d like to hear what Adobe have to say. They’re losing subscribers and over fist right now, so they’d be well advised to make some serious changes. Let’s watch and wait…

Excellent....Always been too lazy to read up about this, now I can watch and learn :)

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Honestly I felt 100mm to be way sharper than 400mm on the tele lens. At least on my two copies that I went through before giving up on the 100-400, it was noticeably soft on the long end even on my 26mp sensor xt3. I couldn't believe it made it on the ok-list for 40mp. Maybe you could compare long end to long end on the lenses. This introduces other unfairnesses, I know, but provides another point of view. Remark: Was doing wildlife so needed a wide aperture of 5.6

Thanks for the video. I wonder whether you could compare the corner sharpness at 80mm?

Your opening remarks are quite misleading - Fuji has never said it doesn't recommend this lens (or any other not on their infamous list!) What it does say is "this is a list of all the current lens that will resolve the new 40mp sensor. It also says...albeit in the small print at the bottom....that all of it's lenses not on the list (including the 16-80) will perform as well, if not better, with the new sensor. This is because the non listed lenses will resolve between 30 and 35mp depending on the lens, so this is more than you would get from the older 26mp sensor and therefore a better performance. They have actually teamed up this lens with the XT5 as a kit....they wouldn't do that if it they actually said it wasn't recommended. This has been a bad move by Fuji to issue that list and confusing people by doing so.

Thank you Jason

I find it interesting that Fujifilm sold this lens as the “kit lens” for the X-T5. It seems to me that, at the very least, doing that was hypocritical.

Awesome. You CAN do both denoise and super resolution on the same image. Denoise first, then edit in photoshop, make no changes, then exit back to Lightroom. Right click, enhance, and super resolution is now available.

Great video. I read your article about growing your YT channel. I found it very inspiring and was an important reminder to remain consistent.

I find it hilarious how some comments are inquiring about your methods, when this is your personal video, and there is nothing stopping them from doing their own review comparison. Anyways, thank you so much for taking the time to do this, i found it extremely helpful!

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Good test. Thank you.

In my experience on the Fuji film XT5 and my GFX50s ii (and I've done similar experiments myself) these are my numbers that I find that I can still get very sharp photos....F10 fine on XT5, F16 fine on the GFX 50s ii and yes, I shoot professionally in the landscape space and I shoot weddings as well obviously I'm not shooting wedding photos at those kind of numbers but I've shot a lot of landscapes and printed a lot of work over the last seven or eight years. I haven't found F10 on the XT5 to have any diffraction. F13 yup I can see diffraction.....F10 is what i would use depending on what Im shooting ...on My GFX 50s ii I shot F14 for landscapes. And yes, lenses make a difference. I've used the 8 to 16 mm on the XT5 and I've used the Viltrox 13mm on the XT5. I have used the 20 to 35 and 100 to 200 on my GFX so good lenses does help also where you focus which you did not mention is critical. You did not mention once where you focus and this is critical to image sharpness. One critical aspect also that you didn't mention is hyper focal method where you focus will determine how much you're out of focus area is sharp as well. This is critical to retaining sharpness in images. It's just a point that I tell my students that I teach where to focus is critically important that's not necessarily defraction that's actually just image sharpness. I'm not sure if you use the hyperfocal method or not.? And this is critical, which I know you didn't mention but maybe that's something you could've added as well great video and yes, I've hit the subscribe button. I'm also on the FujiFilm Facebook page as well.

The xh-2 is a 40meg sensor and diffraction starts about f8 but how about on a 26meg Fuji ? Would diffraction start around f11 instead?

I have a classic Canon 30D I'll trade you for that Full Frame Fuji!! ?? Deal? LOL, I shot for years on a Mamiya 645 (Film) I have only held the Digital Fuji FF once, and it's sweet!! Great video!

I dont think anyone says F22 is a great aperture for shooting anything other than one-shot macro. Who has ever told you this?

I found this very helpful Jason. Great video.