Welcome back to the Fuji Guys channel my name is Gord. It doesn't often snow
here in Western Canada, but when it does, that's a great day to be able to take
along a Finepix XP140. In addition to being waterproof to 25m under
water, it's also great for up to -10 degrees centigrade.
It's also drop proof and dust proof. So in this video I'm going to first go
inside and warm up and then I'm going to take a look at some of the top features
of this camera. So if that really interests you by all means keep on watching.
One thing that makes taking photos with the XP140 real easy is the
Auto SR mode or automatic Scene Recognition. The camera will analyze the
scene and choose one of 58 different scene positions this optimizes the
settings for that particular scene. If you have people in your picture then the
subjects eyes will be in proper focus every time. When you first power the
camera on and it's in the Auto SR+ mode, you have the option then of having subject
tracking. If you have faces in your photo pushing that button each time we'll
alternate and rotate through the various people that are in the picture
that point you can get exactly the face that you want to be in proper focus. If
there's no faces in the photo what happens is when you lock on the subject
no matter where your subject ends up going through the frame the camera will
automatically stay with it and track the focus directly on to that main subject.
There are other modes that you can use in addition to Auto SR. When you push the
menu button you can go into shooting mode and from there you have a choice of
standard program, multiple exposures some creative filters in there as well as
scene positions like sport or landscape or nigh. Make your choice hit the menu
button and now you're ready to take photos again. The XP140 also has face
and eye detection. This helps to improve portraits. Means people's faces will
always be a nice sharp focus, and there's a few options you have within there.
When I power on the camera, because I know I'm going to be taking a
picture of a portrait of someone I'm going to under the portrait mode. So I
push the menu button and then shooting mode, I choose portrait from there now
I've got my choice of whether or not I want to have the face or the eyes
in focus and then which one. So I push the menu button again and then I go drop
it down to AF/MF setting and then move over to face detection and eye detection
settings. From there you have a choice of the face detection is on but the eye
detection is turned off. It doesn't matter whether it's one or the other
then you can have it where it's automatic and the camera will decide
whichever is closer of the two eyes to the camera it will focus on that one.
Then if you want you can purposely make it so it's only they pick the right eye
or only gonna make the left eye. When you're in certain modes you'll notice
that the FACE ON/OFF is disabled. This is because normally when you're taking
pictures of people you want to have the face in nice sharp focus. If you have the
scene position set to landscape for example you won't have
eye or face detection enabled and at which point FACE OFF and EYE OFF will be
enabled on the menu screen. Once you've made your choice hit the menu
button go back and take your great portrait photo. The XP140 offers
seamless Bluetooth with Wi-Fi connections so you can very quickly and
easily transfer images from your camera to your smart device as well as transfer
geo-tagging information from your smart device over to your camera. When you
first power the camera on it walks you through the steps. If you miss that or
wanted to re-pair another device you go into the menu setting and then you go
down to the bottom part where it talks about connection setting on page 2 of
the setup menu and then you have the choice for your Bluetooth settings. Go
into here and you want to set pairing registration. If you don't already have
the free Camera Remote App installed on your smartphone there's an QR code on the
back of the camera you can scan that and it the smartphone will automatically
take you to the correct location. The smartphone app is due for an upgrade
about the same time that the XP140 becomes available so what you see on my
screen might be a little different than what at the app actually looks like. So
start the app on my phone and now I want to choose pairing registration and then
the camera will do a little bit of communicating. I see my camera listed on
my smart device I tap on that and then it's going to do some further
communication and we've got it connected. On the back of the my camera now it
will ask whether I want to set the date and time from my smart phone. I always
like to say yes. The reason for that is now when
I'm traveling the camera will automatically update the time from
whatever time my smartphone has. Let's take a look at some of the options we
have within the Bluetooth menu on the camera. So again going into the
connection settings side and then Bluetooth settings we can, if we want, we
can delete that pairing registration you can actually have up to five different,
sorry 8 different pairing registrations per the phone so you
can have eight different devices all connected. You have to choose which
device you have connected up at the same time if you ever lose your device or you
want to delete it from the list you can delete it from here. You can turn the
Bluetooth on and off if you want to and you can have this auto image tagging and
you can have it where it's set to automatically tagged the image to be
transferred over to your smartphone. What I like to have instead is the seamless
transfer and what that does is it will automatically as soon as I take a photo
transfer the image over to my smartphone. So let's turn that on for the time being
and then I also have the smartphone sync setting on the second page and what that
enables me to do is to set the date and time of my phone over to my camera if I
want to, or if I want I can have the location transferred over, or my favorite
choice, is to have location and time. At that point every five minutes or so
the camera using, Bluetooth technology, for low power will automatically
update the location as well as the time. This is great when I'm traveling,
allowing me to be able to know exactly where my photos were taken as far as
which waterfall or which fountain or which museum I was in. So let's go back
and take a photo of my friend here and over on my camera on my smart phone
rather I have a few different options within there. I can have a remote release
when I push the trigger button it will automatically take a photo. I also have
the option for remote control after a few seconds it will populate the
information through here the first time around. I do have to connect it up to
allow it to be able to talk to the network. On my camera now the first time
out it wants to be able to connect I just want to make sure that I'm talking
to the right device. I don't my devices don't get pirated
Now on my screen I can actually see all the different things live view and I can
control the camera from my device and take photos from my device. If I want
then I can actually push playback and now I've got all these
images that are currently on the camera and I can pull them over one at a time
or I can select all of them and import all of them. I have a few controls on my
smart phone as well things like if I wanted to I can start
recording a movie. So those are some of the different options you have using the
Bluetooth and the free remote to be able to connect up to your camera and talk
directly to your camera.
the XP140 features image stabilization. It's based
on the sensor and what that does is helps to counteract if ever your hands
are shaking or if by chance you're taking to take a photo in the wind and
you're blowing ever so slightly and there's a few different options you have
within there as far as the different types of settings for image
stabilization. If you push the menu button and go to the second screen down
at the bottom is where you'll see image stabilization mode from here you have a
few choices including continuous and shooting. What continuous
is the image stabilization will always be on so even when you're looking at the
image, the image stabilization is active. If you choose shooting it's just
when you press the shutter button when the image stabilization kicks in. There's
also OFF depending on the setting scene mode that you happen to have the camera
in. Why would you want to turn image stabilization off well if ever you have
the camera mounted directly onto something that's very stable you want to
turn that off. Otherwise the camera will go looking for movement and
inadvertently create a little bit of a feedback loop. You wouldn't want that to
happen. The camera also has a five times optical
zoom. It starts at 28mm which is a fairly wide angle which allows you
to take landscape shots. There's a five times zoom so when you press the
T button or telephoto, that will zoom in more and more on your subject. The W
makes it more wide-angle. Up on the top left hand corner you can see a
scale as far as where you are on the within the zoom range. There's also an
intelligent digital zoom you need to enable that first be able to be able to
use the extra zoom power on camera and that's located on the third
screen of the shooting menu. You need to turn that on. Once you've turned that on
you'll notice up in the top left-hand corner of your screen, your zoom
area now has a blue as well as a clear or black area and so what happens
is you zoom first where the entire zoo optical range. You need to let your
finger off of the T button and then you can push it again to be able to get into
the additional digital zoom within there. When you're choosing the wide-angle
again you need to let go of the W button first to be able to zoom out
through the entire range. So that offers you a really nice wide range of shooting
options when you're looking at zooming on your XP140. The XP140 can record
movies including up to 4k at 15 frames per second. Full HD at up to 60 frames
per second or even 720p. There's also the option in full HD or at 720p of square
movies. Kind of fun for Instagram. There's a few choices you have within there to
record a movie all you have to do is push on the very top button there's a
dedicated movie record button. Press it once to start press it a second time to
stop. Let's take a look at setting up the various menu options when it comes to
movies. Pressing the menu button going to the shooting menu to the second page is
where you'll find the movie setup. The first top line is you'll see the movie
mode. This is the resolution and the aspect ratio. Whether you wanted to have
it in Full HD at 16 by 9 or square at one to one. After that when you make your
choice you can then go to full high-speed recording. I'll come back to
that in just a moment. There's also the focus mode depending on the mode you
have the camera set up to you'll have choices in here. If you have it set to
scene recognition it will automatically figure out the appropriate focus mode to
be in but otherwise you have a choice of either continuous AF or single AF.
There's also the wind filter, if you are in windy outdoor situations you probably
want to turn that on. That helps to cut down on the wind effect that you
sometimes hear in microphones. Going back to high-speed video modes you can record
up to four times high-speed movies so when you play them back they're up to
four times slower than they normally would be. You first have to turn that on
in order to start the high-speed movie, but let's go back to our standard movie.
Once I made my choices I just hit the DISP/Back button. Go back, press the
video button on the top of the camera to start the recording. Press it again to
stop. Easy as that. The XP140 features an interval timer and you can create, in
camera, resulting movies from those series of images. There's a few choices
you have in there as far as the resolution you can record it in. 4k at 15
frames per second, Full HD at up to 60 frames per second, from the images that
you capture in the camera. There's a couple steps you need to do to be able
to make that happen. First is you go into the menu and you go
into the second page where there's the time-lapse movie mode. Here's where you
would choose what the resulting resolution of the movie will be
beforehand. So let's choose from this instance 1080p at 59.94. I know and
go into the interval timer shooting mode and here is where I want to choose what
the interval is between each image capture. If the image captures are more than
a couple of seconds, the camera will power down in between the various
exposures. This helps to save battery power. Just before it's ready to
capture the next image, power back up again capture the image and then go back
into power saving mode. So in this particular case I'm going to just
choose a couple seconds just for demonstration purposes. So I'm going to
choose five seconds in between allowing me to move my little friend here. Then
there's the number of times I need to choose. I need to choose how many times
the camera will take pictures that's for this instance.
Let's take 10 images and then I want to choose and then I hit OK and I choose
whether I just want to save a series of still images. These are the full
resolution images or if I want the camera to create a time-lapse movie from
within there. Let's create a time-lapse movie within there, I hit OK and whether
I want to start it now or whether I want to start it in a few minutes or an hour
or two later on from now. I can start up to 24 hours later than when I start.
I push the shutter button to start things happening. Let's set it to zero so we're
all ready to go, let me take my first shot I'm gonna move my little friend a
little bit just so we capture some nice images here. So I am going capture a total of
10 images. Each time around I'm going to move him ever so slightly and then I'm
gonna bring my other little friend in here and bring him in
so he starts to show up. The camera does a countdown and also account up
as far as how many images it's captured each time around.
Couple more to go here
It's now captured all the images and it's doing a little bit of processing
work to be able to put all that together again. Now when I have my resulting movie
it's a captured image of all the different things in there.
Again if you're going to want to have a time-lapse movie you probably want to
have a lower frame rate the reason being when you have a lower frame rate it
won't playback nearly as jumpy or as quickly if you are going to go with the
higher frame rates you want to have either a little bit less movement or a
lot more movement in between each one otherwise it doesn't quite look quite
proper. It might take a little bit of experimenting to you for you to be able
to get the various settings to make sure you've got the right frame rate, as far
asthe right interval, but it can be a lot of fun. One thing we do
recommend whenever you're going to be doing interval shooting put it on a
tripod or put it on something solid so you don't
inadvertently have some camera movement within there. That's how you can
quickly and fairly easily make interval time movies that are quite a bit of fun
with your XP140.
The XP140 has a couple of different burst or continuous modes
this is great for capturing action like people jumping off diving boards or
jumping over ski hills. You can capture up to 15 frames per second if you want. You can
capture up to 10 frames per second at full resolution or capture up to 15
frames per second in 4k resolution. The resulting images are about 8 megapixels.
Which still will print up very nicely as well as show on your screens. Here's how
you get in a couple of different modes of the burst modes for the XP140. On the
back of the camera you'll find a dedicated burst mode button. Pressing it
the first time will get jump you into high speed mode and you have a choice of
either 10 frames per second, 5 frames per second or 3 frames per second. Depending
on the mode that you have the camera set into. You may not be able to jump down to
4K resolution. I suggest you put it into
the P mode first and then you can jump into 4k resolution. Pressing the button
again and will drop down to 4k burst mode. Now when you press the main shutter
button it'll capture 15 frames during one second at 4k resolution and
you'll be able to play those back on your TV set again or be able to share
those images directly and immediately. So that's a great way to be able to capture
exactly the a point of action that you're looking for with the XP140.
The XP140 has a few different self timer modes allowing you to either get into
the frame yourself or wait until your subject is smiling before it starts
taking photos. Here's how you get into those various modes. Press down on the
control ring and you've got the self timer mode and you can choose either two
seconds, this is great if you have the camera on a tripod and you want to make
sure there's no camera shake. When you press the shutter button the camera
will wait two seconds and then take the picture. Alternate there's ten seconds
this will allow you to time to be able to get into the frame yourself.
There's also face auto shutter. As soon as the camera recognizes the face it
will start taking photos. There's also a smile. The camera will wait until the
subject is smiling before it will start taking photos.
There's also buddy and you have three different choices of the two people that
are in the picture you can either have near, close up or super close. There's
also a group shot at which point you can choose between one and four people and
the camera will wait until it's recognizes the specified number of
people before it starts taking the photos. Let's see face auto shutter.
Press the Menu/OK button to confirm your choice and now the camera will wait
until it sees a face and as soon as it sees a face it'll start taking photos
and continue to take photos until you press the display back button. Those are
just some of the features found on the Finepix XP140, hope you enjoy it and
found out a few things about your camera. If you should have any questions about
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