Fuji includes a plastic strap-clip tool to attach the supplied split-ring strap without marring the Fuji X100. Still playing around with my X100 and experimenting, but quick question: Can I use the OVF for composing and taking my shots, but then how do I quickly see ift on the rear LCD? This selects the sound of the fake shutter sound. TIP: Just slide the AF switch from AF-S to MF to lock a focused distance. This locks focus and/or exposure as set at AE/AF-LOCK MODE and AE/AF-LOCK BUTTON in the SET UP Menu. I'd try the Red outdoors to keep the skies from washing out. This defines the junk written over the finder in the Custom Finder mode, which is selected by hitting the DISP BACK button. This combination of imaging brilliance and processing power means high-quality photographs, superfast operating speeds, and precision autofocus in extremely dark conditions, right down to -5EV. A defect in the X100's firmware, even in version 1.10, prevents vertical images from expanding past their narrow vertical borders even when zoomed, so I set this to OFF, in which case vertical images aren't rotated, but fill my LCD as best they can. WARNING: The battery goes in four ways, but only one way works! HINT: Forget this button; I prefer to slide the focus switch to MF and press the AFL AEL button to spot-focus instead. I ignore this because I ignore the focus ring: it's useless. Nothing else fits over the front of the lens. Here is where we set the Fuji X100 to capture great highlights. Hint: Preset the focus and exposure by pointing the X100 at something representing the brightness and distance of most of the image, press and hold the shutter halfway, point the X100 to the beginning of the panorama, and only then press the shutter all the way to start the panorama. It's amazing how easy it is to set and shoot panoramas along with normal photos without ever having to take the X100 away from my eye. Set it to A as I do, and the shutter sets itself automatically. The biggest help is when you use any of these links to Adorama, Amazon, eBay, B&H, Ritz, Calumet, J&R and ScanCafe when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. Note: we need a filter with a screw-in retaining ring, which will have two small slots at 180º to allow a spanner wrench to tighten and remove it. The EVF preview won't necessarily match the playback color; the X100 does some auto white balance and other magic after the image is captured. I select P, meaning that I have to keep it held, and that it cancels as soon as released. have had to take, feel free to help me continue helping everyone. Unzooms playback, or hold it and press the big dial while shooting to move the AF area. WARNING: My X100 usually crashes, requiring I remove the battery, if I set this to AFL and hold it for a few shots. Oddly, it doesn't do this in aperture priority mode. The Fuji X100 prefaces all the file names with "S" so they won't fit in your usual file sorting with the rest of your shots. To see more photo info, move the rear control lever left and right. Unscrew its retaining ring and remove the glass. The bad news is that the SELECT CUSTOM SETTINGS feature is almost useless because it only stores some very limited image settings, not the entire camera's state for every setting. Silent Mode hushes this, too. These work with JPG images. GRID 9 is a coarse graticule. If both are set to A, both are set automatically for professional (P or Program) mode. This selects the highlight color for menus, both in the menu system and as making screen selections while shooting or playing back. Therefore, instead of screwing with the macro mode menus, simply slide the focus mode switch to MF, and hold the AFL AEL button to focus. Browse Models - Fuji X100F, Fuji X100V, Fuji X100T, Fuji XP130. Press the DISP BACK button and you'll get whatever other items are selected in the Custom display section of the SHOOTING menu. In some focus modes, holding the rear AF button and flicking it left or right will change the size of the AF area. Fuji recommends only SanDisk and Fuji memory cards. This knob gets knocked by accident far more often than I need to use it. If you also set the shutter dial to A, they both set themselves. 180º panorama mode, hand-held, Auto ISO 200/Auto DR 100%, 1/240 second at f/14.) Storage and Use Storage and Use If the camera will not be used for an extended pe- If the camera will not be used for an extended pe- riod, remove the battery and memory card. At the moment, these cameras are a bit hard to get your hands on, due to the unfortunate occurrences in Japan. Fuji should have named these AUTO and MANUAL, but instead named them MULTI and AREA. For me, I never need to do this with ISO 3,200 being so clean, but if I do, I have to use the menu to deactivate OVF POWER SAVE and I have to flick the aperture ring to any position other than A. Here's the EVF at idle, without pressing the shutter: This is with firmware version 1.01, which shows the maximum ISO to which Auto ISO may climb. Only one AF area works at a time, and you may move it around in manual and AF-S modes. This is all through the optical viewfinder! I have not tried the fast wake-up mode. Oceanside Harbor, 10:34 AM 25 June 2011. 3.) The Fuji X100 instead splits this into two separate highlight and shadow settings: Because the Film Simulation modes clip the shadows, you may wish to set this to MEDIUM SOFT or SOFT to compensate in either of the Vivid or Soft modes. A 49mm filter would fit backwards, except that the X100's lens would be damaged as it attempts to move forward to focus more closely. No worries, I use a plain filter, and simply pull it off when shooting directly into light sources. This chooses either automatic or manual AF area selection. There is no need for an exposure-mode knob; the X100 figures out what we want by how we set its aperture and shutter controls! Forget about it. google_color_url = "008000"; My filter protects my lens. I always use MULTI, the default. Easy: put the X100's trim ring back over this filter, and we're done. As shipped, there is no way to protect the front of the lens. This selects whether to display added information about whatever you're doing. Use any other brand and Fuji warrants nothing. CS1 uses CC and CS2 uses Acros or the other way around. When you half-press the shutter, the focus locks, the flash icon at top tells us that the flash is going to fire, the AF spot goes green, and the actual shooting ISO shows at the bottom along with the exposure: Fuji X100 Optical Viewfinder, shutter half-pressed and ready to fire. Whether it is merchants, restaurants, vacation spots… etc., I derive comfort in familiarity. Sadly, if you're shooting in the 16:9 crop mode, the X100 isn't smart enough to choose this automatically and expects you to come here and do it yourself. Here's the catch: when focussed at the closest distance, the lens now extends (pokes out by) 2.83mm in front of the the trim ring, and with the trim ring removed, extends 6.25mm from the bottom of the 49mm male-threaded seating surface. MAX SENSITIVITY selects the maximum ISO to which we want to allow our X100 to set itself. Each display has two modes, the normal display and the "custom" display which displays all the stuff selected in this menu. Fuji cautions that the longest exposure time available in this mode is 1/4 second. Even if it worked, AFC stops focusing with a half-press of shutter — oops! The optical finder brighter in daylight, and the electronic finder is brighter at night. You can solve everything with black tape. If you’ve never used a lens hood or teleconverter on your X100-series camera before, you may even be surprised to know there is a ring that comes off the front of the camera. For each display, the rear DISP BACK button to swap between the normal and Custom displays. I don't use it either. Fujifilm has also improved the X100’s Face and Eye Detection features, both of which you can use simultaneously. Here are crummy snapshots, made with my iPod Touch, of the view through the optical finder. If you haven't helped yet, please do, and consider helping me with a gift of $5.00. This isn't a problem, since photographers don't use lens caps. When focused at infinity, it is recessed by 1.99mm inside the front trim ring, or recessed 1.00mm inside the front of the threads left exposed when the trim ring is removed. You could buy Fuji's $50 AR-X100 adapter ring and use a 49mm UV filter, or buy the $140 AR-X100 adapter and LF-X100 hood kit, except that they are rarely available. I haven't tried this and set mine to OFF. Fn button works as selected in the menu system. The MENU button always starts in the SHOOTING or PLAYBACK menu. This alternates among three different ways to run the displays:, eye-control switching between rear LCD and viewfinder, viewfinder only, or rear LCD only. © 2011 KenRockwell.com. To see what firmware you're running, hold down DISP BACK and turn on the camera. This has four choices: STD (standard, or Provia film), V (vivid, or Velvia film), S (soft, or Astia film) and B (black and white). As of firmware version 1.10, you may set this to ON, and a second AF frame appears to show the real location of the AF area in the optical finder. If you find this If you play files from other cameras, you'll see a little package icon, which Fuji calls "Gift Image." No longer do we have to sight through the filter, and then be sure to maintain the same alignment when we attach it over the lens. My first digital SLR was a Fujifilm S2 Pro, which was a Nikon N 80-based film camera body, with digital elements “grafted” on. This sets whether or not, and for how long, the image plays back right after it's shot. I use Adorama, Amazon, Ritz, B&H, Calumet, J&R and ScanCafe. The X100 is so good that I rarely need to move this. If we unscrew the front trim ring, there is a male 49mm thread! There is a 1/12 second (80ms) delay for the playback image to pop-up on the EVF, presuming you have IMAGE DISPLAY enabled in the SHOOTING menu. The EVF never clears the compensation scale out of the frame. And it all started with that quirky little box of tricks known as the X100. It doesn't change size in the optical finder. Larger cards can take very long — like 20 seconds — for the X100 to recognize every time it wakes up. ISO 3,200 looks great, and looks a whole lot better than a blurry ISO 1,600 image. To move the AF area, be sure "AREA" is selected as the AF MODE in the SHOOTING menu, then hold the rear AF button and press the four sides of the rear control dial. This give the same increased color and contrast as Vivid, while preserving shadow detail.