it actually works ok...i rarely have to change settings during shooting a clip....
eterna is one of the reasons i got the XH1, IBIS the other....
Fuji has a good color science when it comes to film emulation and the Eterna should work fine to get a nice footage with little need to post-produce later.
I would probably choose Eterna over F-log most of the time if I shooted with in order to avoid a log workflow, depending on the situation but having it is certainly a plus. Ibis is another one.
I like very much this body design. Much better than the XT2 and it seems solid and very well built. I almost buy one just for that but then I stepped back cause I really didn't need it, (then entering a all new system) but it's a very nice camera indeed.
Before you were talking about the F3 and it really reminds me the good old f3.
It seems competent enough for video.
The fact that the silent mode works well in operation puzzles me because as you point, we hardly have to change settings during recording and if it's nice not to have to use dials, touching a screen produces vibration anayway. That would make sense if those could be operated from an external device not physically connected such as a smartphone so an assistant can control the camera while the cameraman focusses on the handling and framing.
Maybe I don't fully understand the practical side of this silent mode because it would avoid clics on a mike but not vibration. Vibration can be stabilized in post easy though but is an extra pain.
I guess I don't get yet what Fuji was trying to acheive.
There are 2 aspects I like less which are the200Mb/s in 4k stands on the lower limit. Then the hdmi output that I know is not fully uncompressed but 8bits 4.2.2 maybe? One thing I ignore is if it does All-intra or not.
But surely a very very nice overall package. At least it looks chic. It does not have leather snake (I know you love leather and diammonds on cameras
) but it has the retro look and it's a camera one wants to grab and shoot with. I think the size is just right, not too small like an A6500 and not as big as a D5. (Although then with grip and all the external cableries, cages, wooden handle with jade incrustations of course and so on, we have a Red...)
The ad of a grip, according to the shape of the camera seems that the balance is not right and won't surprise me if it remained uncomfortable after a while but I suspect that the camera will have a tendency to rotate in the front but I'm just guessing here cause I don't have one. Anyway, Fuji seems to join the video train with interest, which is nice. Imo.
Cheers.