If you spent any longer than 30 seconds on YouTube the past couple days you probably noticed that Fuji launched the XT4. This is Fuji's brand new mirrorless camera. It is a successor to the XT3 which is filming me right now. It is a fantastic camera. It answers a lot of questions and checks a lot of boxes that people had about the XT3. So they've added a flip-be screen. They've got Ivis now. It's just a wonderful camera. Thankfully my friend Lee from Zed Pro Media let me have some time with it. On the weekend we actually shot his first impressions video so I shot some B-roll with Leo in the field using the camera. I didn't get a whole lot of time to spend with it but the brief moment that I did have with the camera I was like this thing is really nice. As you guys know I love the Fuji XT3. So the XT4 is just a better XT3 but what I was really curious about is the handheld performance and also the low light performance. Same sensor same processor so image quality is basically identical to the XT3 but with the Ivis the in-body image stabilization. I was really curious to see how the camera performed out in the field shooting B-roll, shooting handheld stuff because coming from a GH5 I can rely on that Ivis pretty damn well. If I'm running around shooting it almost feels very very similar to a gimbal. So I want to show you the footage first and then we'll talk about my experience shooting with the XT4 and we'll talk a little bit about some good things and some bad things about the Fuji XT4 and specifically with the Ivis. Without further ado please enjoy this reel. I guess reel? I don't want to say cinematic I'm tired of saying cinematic. This footage from the XT4 all handheld in low light downtown Toronto. Let's do it. So I think the footage pretty much speaks for itself. I think it looks really really good. I'd ever went over ISO 1600 so it looks really good in terms of a look. I even added grain in post just to give a little bit more grip for that blade runner vibe but overall I think it worked really really well. I think the footage looks awesome. 4K 24 frames per second and 420 10 but really nice. I wish it did 422 but you can always attach an ninja like I have an ninja attached to this right now. Just if you want some 10 bit 422 if you're doing crazy color grading but otherwise F log is really really nice. Pretty easy to grade. It looks kind of crappy right in camera but thankfully with the new Fuji XT4 you get a V-Log. I was gonna say V-Log that's penisonic. You get an F-Log assist so you can basically see like Eternah or like a REC 709 look while you're shooting because trying to expose log on a little camera motor even if it's a flipy screen is just not fun. So that's a nice little touch that they added while shooting and it made exposing a lot easier. So in terms of the glass that I used for this I shot most of it on this 35mm F2. This is a really really nice prime lens from Fuji. I really like it for photos. Not the best for auto focus. Right now this kit lens that I'm using is pretty damn good for auto focus on the Fuji as you can see when I put this up should catch it pretty damn quickly and then back to me relatively fast and smooth. But if I was using this lens which I tried to use auto focus on the XT4 with it was hunting constantly it would just never really lock and then you'd have it locked and you'd move just a little bit and the thing would go out of focus was really driving me nuts. That being said with the XT4 and having the inbuilt image stabilization it just puts this camera into a whole nother league. It just kicks it up in the notches really what the XT3 probably should have been to begin with but that being said it is everything that we sort of want in the Fuji system. Now you get the flipie screen now you get the in body image stabilization you get a little bit higher frame rate so it just makes honestly one of the perfect cameras that are out right now. Now specifically with the in body image stabilization I think it's good. It's not as good as the GH5. I think GH5 is still the king which is crazy because that camera is like three years old now but I have a lot of experience shooting with the GH5 and I know that when I'm out and about I can trust it and with this I don't know if I can fully trust it. The other thing to think about though is that this is pre production firmware. So this is a lot of stuff that could be fixed with tweaking the software, how it's handling the sensor. I just found that when I was moving sometimes a shot would just kind of get a little bit too jerky and jittery. It would try to catch up to my movements which really drives me nuts with optical image stabilization but to see it in IBIS2 is a little bit unfortunate. The other thing to note is that I had the digital image stabilization on as well which can tend to look like a warp stabilizer. So as of right now I think it's really good in promising. I just hope they'd refine it slightly to be a little bit better for handheld stuff. Thank you again to Lee's Abbots from Z Pro Media for letting me play with the XC4. I had a lot of fun with it. Hopefully you get to do a little bit more stuff with it too. But yeah, XC4 is pretty sweet. I'm soaked on it. Fuji's awesome. I love them for stills and now that they're like even better for video it's hard for me to recommend anything else. I still love the GH5 but still agree my main shooter for video. But if I had the XC4 I'd probably use it a lot more than I used the XC3 for video. More importantly though I would be curious to know what you guys think of the XC4 and what you thought of the handheld footage coming out of this camera. If you like the music in this video it is from the music bed. They just got me this new shirt too. You can kind of see that logo. It's pretty sweet. It says music bed right there. Oh yeah. So you can find music for your videos and products by clicking the link in the description of this episode. If you're looking to buy an XC4 guess what? Moment. Yes the company that makes smartphone lenses is now selling Fuji gears. So you can actually get the Fuji XC4 preorder right from my friends. At moment there's a link in the description for that as well. All that stuff helps me make more videos for you guys and I want to do that. It's fun. We'll do more of this stuff soon. Alright? You'll see me next time I feel like making a video. Cheers.