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Fuji Rumors has just reported the leaked specifications of the XT4.

A big thanks to Fuji Rumors for allowing me to share these screen shots with you.

There are several bug surprises in this video.

One big surprise is the X tea four comes with the same sensor as the X tea three.

It has the same 26 megapixels, and costs sixteen hundred dollars.

At first, this seems to underwhelm and will be attacked from those that never liked Fuji.

But dig deeper, and you will find a refined version of the x tea three and key missing

features brought to the X tea four.

It still has the dual SD card slots, full sensor coverage, but we can now shoot photos

in Tiff.

That's nice, Tiff uses lossless compression.

A nice refinement to the camera.

We get the same bit depth as the X tea three, but if we use TIFF, we get a choice of eight

or sixteen bit.

Yes, we still have 26 megapixels, but the image quality has increased significantly

with sixteen bit TIFF images.

Sure, the Canon ninety D has 32 megapixels, but twenty six is more than adequate for the

ordinary filmmaker and photographer, especially if the quality has increased.

Another big surprise.

Well, this is one of those expected features that would have critics, including myself

give Fuji a hard time for leaving out, again.

The X tea four comes with in body image stabilization.

This is the single most, complained about missing feature in the X tea three.

This opens up a whole new world of opportunities to video shooters.

In body image stabilization provides 6.5 stops with five axis stabilization.

That is one stop higher than the XH two.

Battery life is improved providing five hundred shots versus three hundred and ninety shots

in the X tea three.

Six hundred shots is possible in economy mode.

Phase detection sensitivity has improved from minus three ev in the X tea three to minus

six in the X tea four.

That is another wow.

Better low light performance.

Another plus for both video and photo shooters.

We don't see any changes to the autofocus specs.

The X tea four provides the same 425 autofocus points in AFS and AFC modes.

But what has changed in software?

We just don't know.

Continuous shooting has improved with fifteen frames per second mechanical, up from eleven

frames per second in the X Tea Three.

No changes in electronic shutter with twenty frames full sensor readout and thirty frames

crop sensor read out.

The crop sensor crop is still one point two five.

The buffer has increased.

At eight frames per second, we now get 200 Jpeg, forty nine compressed raw, and thirty

nine uncompressed raw.

And now for what we have been waiting for, the video specs.

The X Tea Four comes with Four Kay Sixty with all basic frames rates.

Yep, the same as the X Tea Three.

But there is an improvement in Ten Eighty.

In Ten Eighty, we now get up to two hundred forty frames per second, but there is a time

limit of three minutes.

Drop down to one twenty frames per second and we get six minutes of recording time.

This sounds disappointing doesn't it.

Or does it?

For most of us, we don't shoot slow motion for more than a minute at a time.

Three minutes is pretty generous.

Six minutes recording is plenty in one twenty.

No other hybrid camera has these slow motion specs right now.

But the specs don't tell the full story.

In my desired capabilities, I am looking for one twenty frames per second in Ten Eighty

with autofocus.

I also want high detail.

This is why I don't like reviewing specs.

Is One Twenty and Two Forty detailed enough?

Does each mode come with continuous phase detect autofocus?

We will know next week for sure when Fuji officially announces the X Tea Four.

I have to apologize.

This is not the review I wanted to deliver.

I hate reviewing specifications.

They do not tell the full story.

In this video, I boldly stated that the X Tea Four camera would be an amazing camera

if they just gave us in body image stabilization, a flippy screen, and provided general improvements

across all desired capabilities.

This is the same graphic I used in that video.

Look how strong the X Tea Four appears against an already very powerful X Tea Three.

We did get in body image stabilization, and that is huge for the X Tea Four.

We should be celebrating this enhancement.

But wait, there's more.

We get hints that this camera is about providing overall improvements to all capabilities.

We get TIFF.

TIFF is a well known format offering up to 16 bit colour depth.

That's a big improvement over 14 bit raw as TIFF is a lossless format.

Would you rather see Heif?

Heif is limited to ten bit.

We get an big jump in image capture speeds.

Fifteen frames per second up from eleven frames.

This is the territory of the Canon 1DX mark III and the Nikon D6.

That's huge.

Sure these are powerful fast action full frame sports cameras.

But they are huge, expensive and not designed for the ordinary filmmaker and photographer.

The X Tea Four's buffer has increased in size.

We now get 200 jpeg files before filling at eight frames per second.

The Canon ninety d's buffer can only handle 58 jpegs before filling.

The LCD has more resolution with One Point 6 Million Dots versus One Million dots in

the X Tea Three.

And of course, we now get a flippy screen instead of that articulating contraption in

the X Tea Three.

When we first look at the specifications, they underwhelm us, but when we look at the

capabilities, the X Tea Four is an amazing camera.

It's powerful.

Sure, it does not have 6K or 8K, but honestly, how many of us would actually use these resolutions?

When I published this video, many of you commented that you have no need for these resolutions

and would like buy the X Tea Three at a discount once the X Tea Four is announced.

At Sixteen Ninety Nine, the X Tea Four is perfect for the ordinary filmmaker.

But lets not get too carried away.

We need to see what is behind each capability, how each specification actually works.

Did Canon's cripple hammer sneak in the back door while the fuji folks were sleeping

and bash the prototypes?

I'll reserve my judgement until next week when we have the official announcement early

in the morning of February 26.

Ignore those that are calling this a minor upgrade.

The X Tea Four is a powerful camera.

It provides high detail in Ten Eighty and Four Kay.

It does two hundred and forty frames per second slow motion, sixty frames per second four

kay.

We have lens and in body image stabilization.

We have access to a large lens library in video thanks to Ibis.

We have focus peaking, zebras and can record video in h two six five.

We have time lapse recording and can produce high quality sixteen bit photos up to fifteen

frames per second mechanical and thirty frames electronic.

It has dual SD card slots, and we finally got the flippy screen.

This is clearly a win.

It looks like this camera could put Camera Conspiracies out of business.

It looks like Casey now has his perfect camera.

However, It's impossible to tell if the autofocus system has been improved from the

specs.

If they have improved the thickness of the lines in focus peaking.

While the same sensor and processor are used, this does not mean autofocus has not been

improved.

Software and hardware work together to produce the capabilities we need.

If the X Tea Four has improved subject tracking, and use of the LCD, the this will be a top

camera for the ordinary filmmaker

in 2020.

Thanks for watching.

See

you soon