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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone this is Dmitry with hurricane axe and welcome to our first ever camera review on the channels give us a like if you want to see more camera reviews in the future but this is the fat - this is a Soviet made SLR in the 1950s it still works it's my grandfather's and the reason why I'm mentioning this is because this type of retro design is now coming back in today's world with of course optical mechanical and digital differences so on the review table today we have this this is a few G film X 30 keeping true to that form factor that's beautiful aesthetical retro / vintage design but is it trying to compensate for something with its pretty body let's find out so the x30 runs for $600 and it's definitely and step out from your standard point-and-shoot and I feel the build quality or the manual controls and all the features are all worth the price and to quickly get the specs out of the way the sensor here is 2/3 of an inch Extron CMOS - it's likely smaller than what is found on competing cameras it captures 12 megapixels jpg and broad 1080p movie recording at 60 frames optical zoom or 4x ISO range of up to 12,000 800 there's a 256 zoom metering for exposure control built-in image stabilization maximum shutter speed or one for thousands of a second there's full manual control for bracketing white balance focus and even more an electronic viewfinder a 3-inch display at the back wireless communications and it survives for about 500 shots per charge coming back to the form the camera is gorgeous you can see the metal frame combined with this rubberized mid section brings an awesome sense for handling and this is no doubt will be one of the main selling points of the X 30 even the table dials are made of metal like the exposure compensation on the right the mode dial right decided and the shutter button itself strongly resembles the release design on my own 60 year old camera now let's talk about handling the camera is fairly compact not exactly pocket-sized as you can see the lens protrusion there but if you want to do some street photography you will still be able to remain that low-profile and low-key of taking pictures and not really standing out the gigantic lens and a DSLR the large rubber dimple at the front helped to secure the grip plus a small one at the back for your thumb keeps the camera in place just in case you switch the camera on by turning the lens and if you are looking for that DSLR feel this is definitely in line with the manual zoom lenses and that seems to be the trend with the X 30 offering all the manual controls for this sort of high profile point-and-shoot camera although I would prefer a standard on button as the lens protrudes when you on the camera the landscape can be displaced easily and say just want to view your pictures you have to sort of go through this cumbersome process the lens is a 28 to 112 millimeters on a full-frame equivalent focal length it provides a good range of optics from wide enough angle to close enough zoom which is on line two competing cameras like the Sony rx100 Mark 2 the zoom could be smoother though that's really the only downside of being manual it hiccups on our sample at 35 and 50 millimeters almost like a hard stop but you avoid the common lag you get with automatic zoom lenses the aperture is not constant throughout the zoom you get F 2.0 at the widest angle and F 2.8 with a telephoto still letting plenty of light in for low-light shooting the ring behind the lens is an awesome feature that can be programmed to change any of your exposure parameters can be used to pull focus even cycle through different picture modes and profiles and the best part is how smooth and responsive it feels there's also another dial at the back for your thumb that's a little bit too light and almost always I nudged it without noticing and change my settings all of a sudden it's mainly used to adjust your f-stop and the shutter speed and using this discreet button at the front of the body that can be easily pressed with your middle finger you switch between these two parameters in manual mode the 3-inch 920 K dot display the back has some articulation but it is quite limited for only low and high angle shooting it's unfortunate you can't fully rotate it it's not a touchscreen but the viewing angles are good and response time is fast it's bright enough outside but there's also an excellent electronic viewfinder with two point three six million dots and it's also a LED it's large and detailed with 100% coverage meaning what you see through the viewfinder is what you'll get the sensor beside it can be modified to switch the display or EVF only or turn off the display when you approach the EVF which is that perfect hybrid the built-in pop-up flash is easily accessible for direct flash only you cannot angle it for bounce and it's automatically disabled when in silent or macro mode so keep that in mind the 12 megapixel 2/3 inch CMOS 2 sensor is quite capable you can still achieve shallow depth-of-field with a bit of zoom and awesome macro abilities with one centimeter minimum focus distance with the lens at 28 millimeters the image stabilization works well for handheld macros all the pictures he now are all shot with handheld and given the sort of large form factor it's not exactly compact future film could have outfitted this with a larger one-inch sensor similar what is found on the Sony rx100 line but as you can see clearly funding was distributed somewhere else and that's your compromise the battery life is pretty decent you'll get a few days of shooting no problem and everything is recorded to an SD card video mode on the X 30 is present there is a dedicated record button beside the shutter release this is a terrible spot that sort of blocked by the exposure comp time but good thing that you can remap the movie mode to any button on the back and there was the first thing I did the camera records at 1080p at 60 frames a second so you can do some slo-mo effects pretty cool internal processing isn't terrible plus it has a fairly high bitrate and my only points of critique here would be the incredibly inaccurate and slow autofocus especially if you're doing any type of zooms it has very difficult time catching these subjects in focus the stereo microphones pick up reference audio just fine but there's a side mini mic jack unfortunately that's not three-and-a-half millimeters but there's also an odd micro HDMI for video output don't know why that's there and there's also a microUSB for charging the battery and transferring things from the camera if you are feeling artistic you can set focus to manual with the dial on the front and your options are single continuous or manual and this way you can actually achieve some interesting video format and the smoothness of the control ring really benefits manual focus so the x34 pictures I find satisfactory it can shoot raw and JPEG at the same time just make sure you have fast as a card for this dual format capture the externa can do 12 frames burst in JPEG and I found out a focus reliable and very impressed with the dynamic range that you can fine-tune from 100 to 400% in the settings and it gives the extra detail in highlights here's a side-by-side JPEG versus edited raw and this extreme to dark to light picture shows that even the JPEG while still blowing out the highlights shows an impressive amount of dynamic range aiyah so performance is OK up to 3200 but this is not a low-light shooter anything about 3200 and you get smudgy pixels loss of detail but I do have to praise them for a noise reduction the default setting can seriously clean up your images without super negative after-effects it does leave your shadows and all those spots a little bit soft but if you really want to touch up your images just shoot wrong the x30 has Wi-Fi capabilities for remote shooting and transferring photos and I love that I can connect my phone to the camera either iOS or Android and transfer the photos to Instagram and maybe back up a few my favorite captures of the day you do have to go through this process every time so a name of the Wi-Fi and connect to the camera through the Fujifilm app but it's still faster in my opinion for sharing than having to offload the SD card and from my time with the camera you really get a sense of handling something like this a combination of retro and modern with the X 30 really the best camera feature all the manual adjustments if you want to a full accessible control of everything that's there on the body and you can remap things you can adjust what the Rings do and that's really good to see the electronic viewfinder is awesome fast focus for pictures and even Wi-Fi link is great 1080p video capture at 60 frames a second is alright and really amazing macro results round this up for an all-inclusive package but don't forget raw capture pictures come out to a really sharp with great lighting but you come in door and the conversation changes as the smaller sensor has difficulty with retaining detail and high ISO performance is just not possible I really wish to dedicated the exposure compensation dial at the top was something else because the only time I've actually used the exposure compensation was when I was outside I didn't want to blow out the skies set it to negative one and went on my way but that's easily done in a software regardless and if this was customizable dial you can put it meeting through ISO or shutter speed then you'll actually come to use it more often I also not a big fan of the turning on mechanism especially because if you want to just view your pictures you have to take off the entire cap and it's a little bit good conversin process plus the video record button beside it is on a very difficult spot to access if you have bigger fingers luckily that's remappable so the bottom line the x30 you know it's high in appearance it's having features the best feature is all the manual controls that are right there but the main compromise is its sensor size so if you can you know face limitations if you can work around the sensor size and it's a high poor ISO performance and poor low-light then you might actually love the X 30 so guys thank you so much for watching this concludes our future film X 30 review let us know how we did on our first ever came a review here at hurricane axe don't forget to like if you found this review helpful I don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and we'll see you in the next