Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Fuji Guys Channel. I'm Gord of the Fuji Guys.
The X-A5 is Fujifilm's latest entry-level mirrorless digital camera. In this video
I'm going to help you with some tips and tricks on taking it out of the box,
putting it all together and start taking photos. If you want to find out more
about the X-A5, stick around.
Depending on your country, the X-A5 is available a
couple of different ways; including body only or with the 15 to 45 power zoom lens.
For this video, I'll be working with the zoom lens kit version. If you open up
the top of the box, you'll find, up on the very top things like your warranty
information as well as a quick reference guide. Always a good idea to keep that
handy for you can reference it a bit later on. If you take the top cardboard
off you'll find the camera as well as the zoom lens. It's easy enough to pick
up through the center portion of it. And then from there they're actually holes
in the bottom of the inserts to be able to push the camera up ever so slightly
to take it out of the box. Same thing for the lens. The bottom of the box we'll find
a few other pieces including: the camera strap for the camera as well as a
microUSB cable, the NP-W126s battery and a USB to AC adapter. Now, that includes
the AC mains plug portion depending on your country. So, let's start with opening
that up as well, as the USB adapter. It's just a matter of inserting the mains cable
plug into the USB adapter. Then, take the battery out of the packaging as well as
the USB cable.
Then the lens and the camera. The camera strap's fairly easy. It just loops
through the two lugs on the sides of the camera, so I won't be bothering putting
that on. Taking a look at the actual portions within here. The battery as well
as an optional SD, SD-HC or SD-XC card goes in the bottom of the camera.
Opening that up first let's put the battery in. There's an orange marking
on the battery and you line up the orange marking on the battery with the
orange tab in the camera. If you inadvertently put it in the incorrect
way you'll find that the battery door cover doesn't close properly. So let's
put that in. The SD card goes in one way only and the way I remember that is
looking at the gold contacts of the card, lining that up with the gold sticker on
the battery door, and it slides in there locks in place. It's just a matter of
pushing it in again to be able to take the card back out. The battery will have
a little bit of charge in it but it's always a good idea to charge the battery
up before your first use. To do that, open up the door on the side of the camera
and inside here you'll find a micro HDMI as well as the micro USB port and it's
just a matter of plugging in the micro USB cable to the port and then plugging
that into the AC mains adapter. And plugging it in and charging it up.
Alternately you could plug this into a computer although it will take a little
bit longer to charge up. Putting a lens on the camera is fairly easy to do. It's just
a matter of taking the body cap off. Whenever I take the body cap off and
have the sensor exposed I always like to have the camera pointed down ever so
slightly. This will prevent any dust from inadvertently falling in on the sensor
and messing up my pictures. Take the lens rear lens cap cover off. To put the
lens on the camera you'll line up the orange marking of the lens with the
orange dot on the lens barrel and turn it clockwise about a third of a turn.
Well, you're just about ready to take a picture in just a second.
Power on the camera, the lens will extend and it'll actually go
through the process of starting up When you first power on the X-A5, it'll
actually want to pair it up using the Bluetooth with your smartphone. So, it's a
good idea to have it handy. When you first power it on you'll actually have
the ability to register the pairing. And, from there you'll actually find a QR
code on the camera that you can scan with your smartphone to take you to a
webpage to be able to download the app. I already have the app installed on my
phone now so I just matter of going into "Pairing Registration", looking for the
camera name, clicking on it and it will
automatically connect up. If you want to you can actually now transfer the date
and time from your smartphone to the camera. That makes the setup process a
lot easier. Alternately, you can hit "Back" and go past
all of these to be able to set the date manually. Once that's all done, now
I'm ready to go and if I can choose my program selector on the top.
SR+ is a good place to start. I can compose my picture by using the
zoom lens. The power zoom lens zooms using the toggle or I can fine-tune my
positioning and take my first picture. To play the picture back now I can zoom in
if I want to toggle around and be able to share that very quickly and easily
with my friends and family on Facebook etc., using the smart phone app which
we'll talk about in another video. There you go, that's how you can get the X-A5
out of the box and start taking pictures fairly quickly and easily. I hope you
enjoyed it. If you should have any questions about this video feel free to leave them
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I'm Gord of the Fuji Guys. Thanks for watching.