{"id":6723,"date":"2016-10-13T05:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2016-10-13T05:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:39:28","slug":"experience-with-xt2-fujinon-100-400-mm-video-coverage-in-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/experience-with-xt2-fujinon-100-400-mm-video-coverage-in-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience with XT2 + Fujinon 100-400 mm (video coverage in Mongolia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a previous post, I conducted a photography workshop in Mongolia recently<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/golden-eagle-festival-2016\/\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/golden-eagle-festival-2016\/\/<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But at the same time.. I was playing around with the video function of the XT2<\/p>\n<p>I am not a videographer.. so I cannot really comment much about the technicalities..<br>\nI shot alot of footage of the action scenes in Mongolia..<br>\nAnd I really liked what I see\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It worked very well with the Fujinon 100-400 mm lens<br>\nEspecially in a harsh condition like Mongolia, with strong winds and dipping temperature<\/p>\n<p>I have already commented on the lens with the xPro2..in a previous post..<br>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/xpro-2-fujinon-lens-xf100-400mmf4-5-5-6-r-lm-ois-wr-in-dalanzadgad-mongolia\/\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/xpro-2-fujinon-lens-xf100-400mmf4-5-5-6-r-lm-ois-wr-in-dalanzadgad-mongolia\/\/<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So how does it perform with the Xt2 ?<br>\nI think its great !  Especially with the battery grip of the Xt2<br>\nThe weight distribution definitely felt better.<br>\nIt is a big lens.. and I definitely feel more comfortable using it with a grip.<br>\nAlso, with the grip, I now have 3 batteries in the camera, and I can continue shooting photo\/and video with less<br>\nworries about the battery life.<br>\nThe lens again did not disappoint with its image stabilization.. performed extremely well even at 400 mm<br>\nBearing in mind that the wind is very strong in Mongolia, and I was not using any tripod for the coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The videos below are shot with the Xt2 + 100-400 mm combination ( except the last video which was taken with the 10-24mm lens)<br>\nThey are out from camera with no editing yet<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/187126758\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/187126758\">GOlden Eagle Festival 2016<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user18056517\">William Chua<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/186441923\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/186441923\">Golden Eagle Festival 2016<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user18056517\">William Chua<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/186416228\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/186416228\">golden eagle festival 2016<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user18056517\">William Chua<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/186417042\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/186417042\">Golden Eagle Festival 2016<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user18056517\">William Chua<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a previous post, I conducted a photography workshop in Mongolia recently https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/golden-eagle-festival-2016\/\/ But at the same time.. I was playing around with the video function of the XT2 I am not a videographer.. so I cannot really comment much about the technicalities.. I shot alot of footage of the action scenes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,53],"tags":[290,342,327,270,355,291,289,269,325,288,50,352,279,32,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.williamchua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}