Welcome back to the Fuji Guys. My name is Francis. As you might know, Fujifilm is
pretty well known for providing firmware upgrades to their cameras to extend the
life of these cameras. If you want to know more about these firmware upgrades,
keep on watching.
So these firmwares are for a couple of things whether it's to fix the minor
bugs in the firmware, to improve the performance of the camera or giving
completely new features. For this video we are going to use the X-H1,
since it's the latest camera that received a firmware upgrade and we'll go
through the different updates that's been done to the firmware.
First off, all you need to go on to the website to download the firmware, which is
fujifilmfirmware.com From there you can find the model of your camera and then
download the file from the website onto the root of your memory card.
Then you just put it in your camera and then begin the process; which is holding down
the "Display/Back" button and then power on the camera. From there you
can just click and then upgrade your firmware and after a few minutes it's
going to be done. If we're talking about the X-H1, the first feature that's
been added to this camera which wasn't there before is the the ability to do
focus bracketing; so you can shoot products for example at a wider aperture
and then take multiple shots to have everything in focus from the foreground
to the background. Next up is going to be a compatibility update so as you might
know we just came out with two new MKX lenses which are cinema lenses, perfectly
suited for the X-H1, so that firmware allows these lenses to be compatible
with the camera so they can transmit the aperture and the focusing distance which
are really important for the IBIS in the X-H1. Having these contacts and this
information coming to the camera you can get the 5 axis of the camera working in
body. And it also allows for a lens correction profile to be communicated to
the camera so that they can correct barrel extortion, shading in the corners
and stuff like that. Next up is a feature that allows you to
have bigger icons on your screen; whether it's for the film simulation, the shutter
speed, aperture and everything that will be displayed bigger on your screen than
before so you can get the big ones. If you have trouble seeing these little
icons, then you can have them set bigger. Next up you have the auto focus
performance that's been enhanced by a new algorithm which makes it snappier
and tracks better, the subject, when you're either photos or video and then
also when you put it to the smaller point now it's it's actually able to use
phase detection on these smaller points which before was using contrast only.
Next up, as you might know the X-H1 features Bluetooth built in so there's
been some improvements there so before you could only pair the camera with one
smartphone now you can actually pair it to up to 7 devices so you can have your
iPhone and your iPad working in Bluetooth with the X-H1, but as well
there's been some improvement on the app itself and the camera firmware so you
can now trigger the camera using your smartphone as a wireless trigger.
That's really cool that's something that's been asked and it's been done now.
That's really nice, because you really always have your iPhone in your pocket
so you always have that wireless trigger and it's not like a remote control of
the camera where you don't see your screen anymore it's really just a
trigger itself so you can still see in the back of the camera and just trigger
it from a distance. And the last one would be in the customizable options for
your buttons there's been a new option where you can actually put the "IS" mode
to a function button so you can quickly change if you want it on all the time
only when shooting and stuff like that so you can just set it to one button and
just access it quickly. So, there's all these documented official improvements
but sometimes there are some things that's been done that are not really
said and one of the big things to me is actually the improvement now of the auto
ISO when shooting in video. Before, if you would be shooting video and you
were in auto ISO and you would come from a dark spot to a brighter spot, so for
example from indoor to outdoor or vice versa it would be like some steps
between the ISO but now that's been improved and it's really like
seamless you can just see that transition being so smooth so I think
that's really really good. And I think Fuji should have put it in the official
enhancement that's been done to this firmware. Alright, so this is
going to be it for this video. I hope you enjoy it and I strongly recommend you
make sure you have the latest firmware for your Fujifilm camera. To do that
just put a memory card in there hold the "Display/Back" button and power on the
camera and see which firmware your camera is currently at in compare it to
the latest version on the fujifilmfirmware.com website and if it's not
up-to-date, download it and bring it up to date because you might be missing out
on some really cool features. If you should have any questions, please leave
them in a comment section down below. Make sure you follow us on Twitter and
Instagram and until the next time, I'm Francis of the Fuji Guys.