A look at Fujifil X-T2 camera footage

As part of my search for my next camera, I am comparing footage examples from the two contenders. I'm trawling through YouTube and studying examples created by the Sony A7 series cameras and the new Fujifilm X-T2, and today I have been looking at some nicely nostalgic looking X-T2 output...

Having acquainted myself with the technical attributes - advantages and disadvantages - or either make of mirrorless camera (with special attention to video features), I'm interested to see how these cameras can be used creatively.

There are all sorts of photographers and videographers each wth their own set of criteria on which they base their ownership of a particular camera, a camera that suits one user may be completely wrong for another despite it's professed technical advantages. This is what I am trying to assess at the moment, which camera best suits my specific set of creative preferences.

The above movie - by Palle Schultz using the Fujifilm X-T2 - interests me because it is reminiscent of a slightly 'retro' effect evocative of old Super 8 colour cine footage. This was partly created by using the X-T2's built-in 'Classic Chrome' film simulation mode, partly through the use of an old Voigtländer 35mm F/1.4 manual lens and partly through some colour grading in 'post'.

It's been a while...Here's why.

There's been a bit of a hiatus on 'Plan B' for a while now...This is been because of a bit of a real-life change (I've taken voluntary redundancy) AND - in part due to that - I've chosen to reinvest some of my redundancy money back into some improved videography equipment.

The principal contributing factor to the lack of post has then been my search for my next movie-capable camera!

Now, I had been writing a post about this process - but, to be frank ('hello Frank'), the convoluted post I was working on just kept getting longer and longer and messier and messier as I looked at the various camera platforms...

SO, I've decided (now I am towards the end of my quest) that this short movie kind of condenses where I am at the moment. The finalists in my search for a new camera are...

Note: The one thing this video does not take into consideration - which is very important - is the quality of the footage that these two cameras are capable of producing. To assess that, you will still need to rake through all the video on YouTube that I have been watching that shows sample output. Good luck!

[I won't be buying the camera until September so there is one caveat - that is that the new Panasonic GH5 is due to be announced then. SO things may still change!]