Welcome back to the Fuji Guys channel everyone. My name is Jerry and today
we're gonna go over two new features or two features of the camera in this final
video. One of the features is the time-lapse and how to set up a
time-lapse recording as well as the movie mode and we're also going to show
you how to set up the light trail mode and how to take advantage of that mode
Without further ado if you're interested in learning more about that, keep watching.
The cameras equipped with this new light trail mode as well as a interval
shooting mode and a movie mode but first I'm going to show you the light trail
mode because I think this one's really neat. When I first started shooting
photography it was one of the things that I wanted to learn that I struggled
with the most. What is my exposure? What do I have to do to get the
vehicle lights for example to trail off into the distance or to have that look.
I was always wondering how to get night shots and this camera is really
well equipped to do that for you. First we're gonna go into the scene
position modes and we're gonna hit the little triangle here the little arrow
here there we go. We're gonna see here the SP button and the SP button is
going to give us all the different options like portrait and night and
fireworks and so on but the last option is the like trail or the first option to
the left because it cycles around. We're gonna choose that, then we're going
to go into the menu and we're gonna go into the camera options and here it
shows us the light trail shooting settings. It's gonna ask how long you
want to release it for so is it a 30 minute exposure 1 hours 3 hours 6 hour
and what kind of release so do you want the shutter to be open while you're
pressing it so if you have a cable kind of like a bulb feature then you can
actually lock the cable kind of like the RR 100. Or, you can have it where you
press it once to open the shutter and then you press it again to release the
shutter. I'm going to do it by pressing. I don't have a remote handy with me right
now so I'm just gonna do it by pressing and the exposure setting I mean it's the
minimum or the, yeah, the maximum that rather that it will record. Once we've
determined that, what's going to happen now and because of my situation my
camera won't show it but we'll show you an example of
how the actual light trail works and as I press the shutter release, every second
the camera will show me a preview so I'll be able to determine just by that
preview oh that's the picture I want. That's end result I want I would then
end the sequence and then it would show me the image at the end. Pretty
straightforward don't have to think very much and the
camera does all the work for you. So, one of the other options that works really
well as as well as that long exposure mode is the the ability to do time-lapse
and the camera itself, I'm going to go into P mode and then what you do is you
go into your camera modes and this is where you set up your interval shooting.
You're gonna want to determine how long your video you'll want it to be and
then how many frames you need to fill that video so if you're shooting 30
frames per second times 30 that's 900 frames that you're gonna need to be able
to fill those 30 seconds so that's how the math works is to knowing how many
frames you're going to need for the duration in the video that you want to
do once you've determined the length of your video and the frame rate of your
video you can then also choose the interval of your video. So, do I want to
take a picture every day every like so every 24 hours, every hour, or every
minute or even every second depending on what kind of video you're doing and then
how many shots that you can that you want to shoot. Once you've determined how
all that you've determined what the interval is how many frames you're going
to shoot then do I want to do just the stills I don't want it to process the
video I'll do that myself or I can then process it in the camera itself so it's
going to tell you how many frames if it's stills and time-lapse movie and so
on. You can also delay the start time too, so if you're setting it up the night
before and you want it to shoot starting say the next morning then you could do
it say you know eight hours later or four hours later depending on what kind
of shooting or shooting conditions that you have. What's gonna happen is is
that every time it takes a picture the camera is actually going to go to sleep
after every picture. So, if I'm taking picture every 15 minutes the camera is
not going to be on for 15 minutes it's going to shut itself down
wake up 15 minutes later take the picture and then so on so the battery
life will be very well maintained you'll still get over 400 shots per battery
depending on the conditions and the temperature conditions as well.
This concludes this series on the top features of the X-A7. If you have any
comments suggestions or questions please post them in the comments down below.
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Jerry of the Fuji Guys.