Hello everyone welcome to the Fuji Guys channel. I'm Gord of the Fuji Guys,
In this video I'm gonna spend a few minutes talking about the various flash
options you have with the Fujifilm X-T2 and similar cameras. Between the
on-camera flash that's included with the X-T2 or the EF-X500 or even working with
the FX-500 with wireless optical TTL. Looking at the flash menu options on the
X-T2 mounted on this camera is the EF-X8 which is the strobe that actually comes
with the X-T2 if you have an EF-20 an EF-X20 or the EF-42 this will have the same
functionality. A few different options for the flash to change those simply go
to the flash menu TTL lock mode is not used with the EF-X8 or any of those
strobes. It's used primarily with the EF-X500 that will be discussed in a different
module. There is red eye removal and that's turned off so at that point potential
your subjects will have red eyes. The X-T2 has a ability to remove the red-eyes
form people and what that is done is done through processing in the camera
after the images captured, or you can have the X-T2 fire a little pre-flash and
what that does is it helps to close down the subjects pupils minimizing red
eye or you can turn both of that functionality on where you have a little
pre-flash as well as the in camera software to help minimize red-eyes.
This is the main part of it though the flash function setting from within here you
have a few different options is TTL, which I'll come back to in a moment, as
well as manual and you can actually control the output of the flash from the
camera simply move over to the right and then, using the rear command wheel you can
decide what your flash output is.
Also commander mode. This is used primarily when you're working with
studio strobes and what this does is put a little bit of a flash out for the
slaves of the studio strobes to pick up and fire the studio strobes. Or you can
turn the flash off so even though the flash maybe popped up,
it's actually turned off. Let's go back to TTL mode. From within here all I have
to do is toggle to the right and now using the rear command wheel I can decide
my exposure compensation from minus 2 to plus 2 for the flash in one-third steps.
I can then go to the TTL mode and there's two ways of going within here.
I can either go into the menu or i can simply rotate the command wheel in the
back to choose the various options within there. TTL standard shoots with a
standard shutter speed of usually 1/250th of a second whereas when using
slow sync depending on your , lighting, ambient lighting you may be able to see a little
more ambient lighting. Great for indoor shots. Similarly, the other options is to
have the synchronization either the flash fires as soon as the first
curtain gets out of the way at the beginning the exposure or you can have
it where the flash fires just before the second curtain closes at the end of
the exposure.
Once you've made your choices hit the back button and you're ready to go.
With the EF-X500 mounted on the camera there are additional menu options that are
available that can be set directly from the camera. For the purposes of this
video in order to be able to show you this to screen side-by-side I've
actually got a cable running between them
however if you have the Flash mounted directly on the camera this is how it
would operate. In addition to those options that were available with the EF-X8
there are additional offerings on when you have the EF-X500. Going to the flash
menu, now my LED light setting has been enabled because the EF-X500 has a little
LED light you can either turn that on as a catch light so if you're using a
bounce flash you can actually have a little bit of the flash directed at the
subject. You can have it where it will assist the camera to find focus, you can
have both, and you can turn that off
Looking at the flash function setting going into TTL now you can see that I
actually have up to 5 stops of exposure compensation control directly
from the camera. Any changes I make on here are actually shown directly onto
the screen of the EF-X500 I can also decide whether I'm using the focal plane
for high speeds sync setting or first cut curtain or second curtain. I can have
the zoom on the EF-X500 be either controlled automatically or i can set a
specific focal length.
I can also decide whether or not that led is turned
on directly from this screen. I can also change, slightly, the angle of the
strobe and what that is doing is you can either have it where you make sure that
there's plenty of even coverage for the flash or you can make sure it's getting
as much power as it can. Standard is probably usualy where you want to have it.
That's TTL. There's also the ability to have manual control and there's also
multi control where I can have the flash, I can set the power as far as how much
of the power is going to be distributed per flash and then I can also determine
how many times that flashes going to fire and then also the hertz or how many
times per second that flash will fire. So if I'm going to have four Hertz I'm
going to have it fire eight times. I need to have a two-second or longer exposure.
And you can turn the
flash off directly from the camera so the flash will not fire. Those are the
settings that you have expanded when you have the EF-X500 mounted directly onto
X-T2 camera.
Here's the setup with the X-T2 and 2 EF-X500. You need to have one flash attached
to the camera and remotes are usually further away than this
however for the purposes of this video I have them side-by-side the EF-X500 comes
with a little base plate that you can mount to a table or there's actually
tripod socket in the bottom of it so you can actually mounted to a tripod.
Any strobes that are set to the master mode have a green tint to the LCD.
Any strobes set to the remote will have an orange tint. I'm showing wireless optical
TTL on X-T2 other models like an X-Pro2, an X-T1 will offer
functionality after a camera firmware update. Other Fuji models will have
limited operability. Check our website for the details. Before we start shooting
we need to set the channel on the camera. There is 4 different choices from there and
then you also have to have all of the strobes set at that same channel. Having
four channels allows for multiple users to have independent operations.
Go in to the flash settings and then a channel setting. From there you just make
sure that all of your cameras and strobes are set to the same channel.
There's also three different groups that are available A,B and C and this allows
for different settings within your flash set up so you could have one set of
flashes putting out just a little bit of power over on one side and other set of
sets of flashes putting out more power you can have an unlimited number of
remotes in any of given group. Looking at the set up options within the menu
first thing at the bottom is that channel setting again you have to have
all of your cameras and strobes set to that same channel then you can
decide what group your master is. Looking at the actual flash functionality as you
may be able to see I have three different groups have
within there. Because I only have two strobes and I'm using Group A and Group
B always a good idea to turn group c off and what this does is offer some
additional functionality and speed for processing.
A lot of the same functions
across the bottom we've seen in previous videos. Move it up across the top here
I have the ability to go full TTL and then I have plus or minus 5 stops of
exposure compensation. I can have it so if I want to decrease how much light is
actually coming from the strobe up on top
I can dial that in and then if I want to increase how much exposure compensation
is happening from the remote strobe I can dial that in as well. Up here on the
left hand side you see there's also exposure compensation scale that scale
works in conjunction with this exposure compensation in this example I don't
have any exposure compensation happening here but I've got some exposure
compensation happening. If I were to change any settings here I would
have to take that one into consideration when working with that one.
There's also the ability to have a percentage of TTL so moving of the
cursor over to TTL I can decide how much of my exposure is going to come from
group a and how much of my exposure going to be coming from the other groups
as well. There is also an option for multi flash so you can actually fire off
the flashes and have them go off several times during a longer exposure the EF-X500
also can be operated as a simple slave flash with other Fujifilm models
that don't have ability for wireless TTL as well as other camera systems.
That's just a couple of the flash options that are available with the X-T2 and the EF-X500
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