Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Fuji Guys channel. My name is Gord. In this video
I'm going to spend a bit of time unboxing the X-Pro3, show you what's
inside as well as put it together and have some of the settings that I like to
start with. If you want to find out more, keep on watching.
I have an X-Pro 3 the Duratec black finish here. All three variations have
the same contents inside when you first open up the lid you'll see there's a
couple of QR codes on the inside flap. The first one is for the instruction
manual. Pretty good idea to have that available for you on your phone. At that
point when you're out in the field you can refer to the manual without having
to carry around the instruction manual with you. The second QR code is for the
Fujifilm camera remote app that's available on the Apple Store as well as
on Google Play. You can download that for free and have that in on your phone so
when you're unpacking the camera you have it all set up and ready to go.
Inside you'll find a cleaning cloth for the camera as well as an instruction
manual. Now, depending on your country it'll have different languages of the
instruction manual as well as the warranty cards it will really depend on
where you're located. There's also find some information on
Capture One. Capture One Express Fujifilm is free downloadable software that you
can use to capture and transfer and manipulate raw images captured with the
X-Pro3 as well as with other Fujifilm cameras. Opening up the lower half of the
box is where we'll find the camera. Let me pull that out and unwrap it and on
the side. The accessories is where we will find the strap, as well as the lugs,
to be able to attach the strap to the camera. This, as well as a
USB cable that's a USB-C cable and you'll also find a battery inside. I'll just
put these away for the time being. The battery will have a little bit of a
charge to it and we do recommend that you charge up the battery a little bit
before you start using it to take photographs. And, you can use that using
the USB-C cable and then plug that into your computer to be able to charge up.
As an alternative, you can pick up a commercially available USB charging
brick where you plug the USB cable in one end and the other half goes into
your mains depending on your country. Another option would be to pick up the
BC-W126S battery charger. At that point you can charge plug it into
your mains, to your AC and have be charging it much faster than it would be
in the camera. However it is charged it outside of the camera, when inserting the
battery there is only one way to you that you can insert the battery and you
line up the orange dot of the battery with the orange tab inside the camera.
If by chance you wouldn't put it in incorrectly, the battery will not stay in
place and you won't be able to close the door. The next thing would be to put
memory cards into the X-Pro3. The X-Pro3 does have two card slots and they both
accept the UHS-II cards, so those very fast cards that you can get with a very
fast transfer speed. While you can use just about any SD or SD-HC, I recommend
having an SD-XC, a fairly high capacity and make sure that that card speed is a
UHS 1, U3 or faster especially useful if you're shooting in with burst
photography or if you're going to be shooting and recording 4k videos.
We're gonna need a lens on the camera now. The X-Pro 3 accepts any of the
Fujifilm X Mount lenses. We take the body cap off. I always like to keep
the camera pointed down slightly when I'm taking doing this. If nothing else, it
helps prevent any dust that might be in the air from falling down on to the
sensor. Turning it pointing down slightly makes it so that you avoid that issue.
Here's a 35mm f/2 lens that I've mounted on to the X-Pro 3. Almost
ready to power on the camera. The first time I power on the camera I'm going to
have my smartphone available and as well as have the app running.
This makes it a lot simpler when you're connecting the camera up the
first time. If by chance you miss this step when you start it up, you can
revisit it. Start the app on my phone, at which point is going to ask which
type of camera I'm going to connect. I'm going to choose X system and it's an
interchangeable lens camera and here's my model number I'm going to choose the
X-Pro3 and click on "Add". Now when I turn the camera on and power it on for the
first time, it's going to ask me the language which point I can choose the
language that I want to I'm going to choose English. Now it's going to come up
with the question of pairing with a smart phone
and you'll see a QR code on there if you hadn't already downloaded the software
you can actually use the this QR code to be able to download the software and
install it onto your smartphone. The camera is asking me to pair with a
smartphone at which point I can click on "OK" and on the app I would then tap on
"Proceed". It does some initial communication between the two devices
and now I have my camera listed up here. At which point I can now connect up to
the camera and there's some additional confirmation that happens
within there on the camera. I now have it whether or not it wants to set the time
from my smartphone. I always say "Yes" for this because at that point whenever
I'm traveling, wherever my phone is it is going to have the right time on it that
will automatically transfer over to my camera. I'm going to say yes on the
camera and I'm gonna say ok on the on the smart phone next option on the
camera is what how it works with the geo-tagging and/or the time and I have a
choice of ignoring the time and the geo-positioning from my smartphone and
only work and set the camera manually or I can have it where the camera will set
the time from my smartphone or the location from my smartphone or both.
I like to use both and the reason for that is if ever I'm traveling it allows me to
know exactly where any given image was taken as opposed to trying to guess
where a particular fountain or the inside of a particular church was.
I choose ok and I'm almost ready to go on the camera side and I am ready to go on
the phone side. On the camera, because I like to shoot RAW plus JPEG, for my
images I now need to change that setting in the camera. To do that I've got a
couple of different options; one is I can push the Q button and I can then go
and make some changes in there. But here's where I want to do the first
time; going through the standard menu which point I scroll to the second item
image quality and there I can choose my Fine plus RAW files. The reason why I did
it; in here instead is because the next line down "Raw recording" you can either
choose uncompressed for that full resolution and full
or if you're using a newer version of any of the software including
Capture One Express Fujifilm, you can use lossless compressed. This
significantly reduces the file size, yet does not at all change the quality of
the image. So, I'm still getting that high quality image RAW file, but now I'm using
lossless compression to be able to store that image so that's one of the other
things I like to do. Scrolling a little further down one other thing I also like
to do is have it so that even when I'm using the optical viewfinder I have the
image playback in my electronic viewfinder after I've captured the image.
I can have that displayed for either half a second a second a half or
continuous that's done in the Screen Settings menu. I go to screen set up and
then I would go down here, on the bottom of the first page, to "Image Display" and
here's where I choose a second and a half. Now, after I've captured an image,
the image will play back in my viewfinder, either electronic or
optical and I can review the image without having to pull the camera away
from my I. This saves valuable time in case something happens when I'm busy
looking down at my LCD screen of the back of my camera so I'm going to choose
image display. The other thing I like to be able to change, by default when you
have the camera powered on on the back of the camera is the film simulation and
sort of a representation of the film box that you had from days gone by it also
shows what the white balance is as well as what the ISO is. I prefer to have a
bit more numeric information displayed on there so in order for me to change
that I go to screen setup and then on the third page. Now, to change
one screen at a time I use the front command dial. If I use the rear command
dial or the joystick I go one line at a time, but the front command dial does
to one page at a time. Here's where I can change the sub-monitor and I would
change the sub-monitor from classic to standard and then at that point I can
have it where it's more information that's being displayed on there such as
the shutter speed in a numeric display as well as the aperture and ISO etc.
Now I'm ready to take my first picture it's just
a matter of picking it up and taking that shot. That's a few things that I
like to do when I'm taking the camera out of the box as well as putting it
together and using setting up some of the basic settings that I like to start
off with. Hope you enjoyed and found out a few things about your new X-Pro3.
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