Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of the
Fuji Guys. My name is Jerry and today, we're going to go through the top features of
the X-A2 Fujifilm camera. So please sit, and
enjoy. So on this new the camera here we do have the
tilt screen at the back just like we did before but they're is
some improvements to this tilt screen. So it's the same 920 k display,
so lots of information on the screen itself. But not only does it tilt
down as well as up, but now it actually goes
all the way up. So now, we have the
the ability to now have a selfie mode if you will,
for video, for doing um being able to see yourself, and framing yourself in the
video this is also nice feature to have as well.
So what this will allow you to do is basically
be able to do a selfie. So in this case here, I can do my own selfie here.
So I can look and take myself he shot that way.
The other feature that does do as you can see is that it does flip the screen,
so you could see here that the screen is flipped,
and if you close it down, then the screen goes back into normal shooting mode
like so. So this screen does a
175 degrees basically, so it allows you to go all the way up.
And as soon as you flip over this way now it allows you to do
the selfie mode. Now, if you're in SR auto mode,
which is on the dial here the SR plus,
this will now allow you to take advantage of things like the
selfie,
the eye detection during the selfie as well. So face detection,
selfie mode will kick in and and it'll automatically detect the face,
and automatically detect an eye. So you can prioritize which
eye, so I'm using my own face, but you can see that it's picking up my eye,
and that I'm moving a little bit too so it picks up different
subjects and so on but it's able to actually pick up
the individual eyes and you can actually prioritize the left eye or right eye. So
if you're shooting right handed or left handed,
you'll have access to that mode, and it'll
prioritize the closest eye typically. So there's been some vast improvements on
the focusing
with the with this camera. So I'm just gonna go through some of the quick
modes. The first, when you're in SR auto mode, the first thing you'll notice is of
course you have face detection,
and now eye detection. So what that means with the
face detection, is when you have a face in the picture, let me just
square that up; you can see the green box that goes around the face
and the little white box that goes around the eye. So that allows you to
really make sure that you're you're getting the best possible focusing on
on a portrait, as well as when you're doing your selfies.
So when you're doing selfies and things of that nature, the eye is gonna
be chosen as your focus point and you can actually prioritize left eye
right eye depending on the circumstances.
Now, if we go into P mode, so just a program so that we can really see
the different
focusing modes. We're just gonna hit the Q button here, and we're gonna see here the
different
focusing modes. So even in P mode, you can still have your face detection on,
as well as the eye detection as well.
That's the mode that we see here face detection there and eye detection.
So using the little dial here, I'm just gonna change. So this is actually tracking AF.
So you can see the little yellow square there.
Just hit the left on the d-pad, so where the self timer button is,
and it'll actually lock on the subject itself.
So now it's actually locked on the subject and you can see that
it's gonna follow the subject all along. So this is great for sports and action
and things of that nature with moving subjects.
So this makes it really easy, just lock on the subject and start firing away.
Another mode of course,
is manual focus. So in using the manual focus mode,
that's using the ring on the front here to manually adjust your focus and you
can see the focus peak
highlight. I'm just gonna bring the little toy car that I've got here as
an example,
as an image. And just so you can see how this
actually works. So as you're focusing, you can see the little specular highlights
that show up in what's sharp and what's not.
And you can use standard as well as far as the
focusing assistance goes. So,
you see a sharp picture, you take your picture. If you don't like the image then
you can
certainly just by pressing and holding the wheel, it'll give you the focus peak
highlight, and then you can certainly then see what's in focus and what's not.
And then going back into the again...
So this is our area AF so what this allows
us to do now is to be able to really show
really show what you're shooting. Now right now, because we have the face detection
on,
it's picking up faces in that. So I'm gonna turn that off,
I'm gonna go up into the menu in the fourth menu, you'll see face detection.
So you can turn that off, and that automatically also turns off the eye
detection by
just naturally doing that. So now, you can see that with the multi points coming up
here,
you can see that that area AF is kicking in
showing you what is it's actually focusing on.
So, it you're really gives you an idea of what the camera's focused on,
and that way you can really make sure that you're getting um a nice sharp image with
with the subject that you're aiming at. And then of course, there's your regular multipoint AF
which is you know got 49 points of Auto focus
with the with this camera and with all of our X-series cameras.
So to get to that, you've got the AF button at the top here. You just press the AF
and now you can see that you've got forty nine points. You can make those
points smaller
or bigger depending on the needs. Smaller for more accurate focus,
larger for just ensuring that you know for larger subjects and things like that
and then you've course can pick any of the 49 points
as well. So that's the different focusing
features on the this camera,
and of course continuous autofocus for just regular
auto focus. So when you're locked onto the
center square, it will then give you a continuous focusing
as well. Something you'll notice actually on the back at the camera now is that
there's actually no
macro mode. So now you don't have to actually put the camera in macro mode to do
any
close focusing. You just simply with the
with the new XC16-50 version 2,
and the 50-230 version 2, you just simply
focus the distance you want to focus.
So you just point-and-shoot. There is no macro mode anymore.
It's automatic. See, whenever you need to get that close shot. Let me
just give you a better angle here so you can see what I'm talking about.
So if we do a close-up shot, no matter how close,
as long as I'm within that minimum focus distance, so I'll zoom out a little bit to get
that minimum focus distance.
You no longer need to
actually put the camera into macro mode.
Now when you're in SR Auto ,that- it'll actually tell you that you're in
macro mode. Here so it'll actually tell you I'm in macro.
Go ahead. Shoot and you'll be fine to
to do that. So with the new 16-50 version 2,
35-56 and the 50-230,
45-6.3 version 2. lenses. Now these ones will support the
auto macro. So you no longer need to worry about
putting the camera into macro mode to be able to take
those macro pictures. So
at the bottom here, we have the Q button here at the the bottom right-hand
corner
and this allows us to have access to all of our quality-
image quality setting. So in this particular case, I'm already set up in
the manual mode.
So this would give me things like my auto focus, my ISO,
my dynamic range, noise reduction, image sizing
and types. So I can go into raw from here,
a RAW JPEG, just fine JPEG, normal JPEG. Your film simulations are
here as well,
and things like colour saturation,
sharpness, tone, and highlight tones are also controllable there
You have access to of course, to your OIS, if you wanna turn that off.
This would be recommended if you're I'm doing
tripod work, landscape work, macro work where you're using a tripod. We'd actually
recommend you turn off your
OIS. You'll actually increase your sharpness, image quality,
even that much more. And of course your self-timer is lined up right there as
well.
You have a 2 and a 10-second self-timer. So the Q button or the Q menu
gives you quick access to those-
to the modes that you need the most. When you're in the SR Auto mode,
If we swing it around here, then you'll notice that
you are very limited as to what you can change. So the most you can change really
is
your image size: and your film simulation
as far as black and white standard sepia and so on.
So there's our sepia
film simulation. When you're in manual, you get
more access to the different modes that you would want
like the different film simulation modes that Fuji offers.
So you got your standard, your velvia or your
vivid, your Astia or soft film,
and things like classic chrome so we've added a chrome look which is a little
more muted of
colour saturation, and of course your black and white near sepia tones
as well. So we've added more film simulations
to the care to give you that much more creative input as well.
So on the top the the camera, we do have the dial.
It has several options here including your
PSANM so your program, shutter priority, aperture priority, full manual;
as well as a custom slot. We have the SR plus, the advanced features,
scene positions, and some pre-determined scene positions there
as well. For the SR plus, the advantage here is that you really don't have to do
anything.
The camera will absolutely do everything for you. So for example,
here we're in a macro mode and you could see that little macro symbol shows up
right away. I can't really show you landscape because
there's not enough distance in this room to show you that, but if there was a
landscape mode,
or landscape opportunity, the camera would go into a landscape.
If there's a portrait opportunity, the camera will go into portrait with
face detection and eye detection already kicked in.
If you're in of course selfie mode, where the camera is flipped up,
or this lens is flipped up like this, or sorry the screen is,
and then you get the selfie, there you get your face detection as well kicked
in right away along with your eye detection.
So these are the
the different modes that it'll pick up on It will pick up on moving subjects.
Like I said if it's a night or back illuminated
picture, night scene or or something along those lines, it'll automatically
determine that and try to maximize
what the camera can do. Now of course in the advanced features,
or sorry in the scene positions, you have a lot of these positions that
you could program yourself.
So just by going into SP, hitting the menu and you'll see the scene positions come
up right away
and then you have all the choices in the world from the night, tripod, fireworks,
sunset
and so on. So there's quite a bit to choose from there...
but the camera will determine a lot of those on their own,
and then some of the scene positions are actually on the dial itself.
So your portrait enhancer, there's the landscape and it would actually choose
that one automatically.
Same with sports if it detected something was moving.
And the night shot, and this is one that, where you're not using a night,
or you're not using the tripod. So you've got a few pictures on your camera now and
you want to be able to share them on social media, you're out and about.
So there's gotta be a way to be able to transfer those pictures to your phone.
So I've got the IOS here, so I'm gonna use the IOS device
to
to connect my camera to my phone and be able to then
download them to the phone itself. So the first thing you're going to do is go into the
playback mode. So just by hitting
the little arrow on the back here. And then after I hit the arrow on the back here,
I'm gonna hit
the Wifi button which is up on the top, the function button. So once I hit that,
it's gonna give me different um...possibilities like
being able to view and obtain the images on my iPad or iPhone or or,
Android device,
sending individual images. I'm gonna browse because that's probably the best
way to to do this.
And right away, it goes into the communication settings,
and it's now sending a Wifi signal,
and I gotta pick up that Wifi signal. So I just gotta look for it here,
there it is,
and when you see the little check mark there;
now that you see it you can now go into the
camera app. So there's a couple different ones. We want the camera
app for the X-A2, and now we can just browse the camera,
and hit connect. And now I can see everything that is actually
on the camera itself, and I can zoom in on them.
Now I can check for sharpness by zooming in, yup.
that's that's nice and sharp. That's the one I want and then you can hit import.
And now the image is now saved.
If you want to be able to do multiple, you just hit the little checkbox
version, or box there and then you just tap the pictures themselves.
It will import up to 30 pictures at a time,
then you can open up any of your applications that you want to do photo
editing and then share them,
or just straight share them straight out of the camera
as it is. So, a little bit of flexibility
with the app and with the iPads, iPhones, and Android devices as well;
whether it be tablets or
phones as well. So not only can you transfer those images to your phone,
but now you can also transfer them to the Instax SHARE printer.
So this is built-in through the Wifi feature.
So all you have to is you go into the playback mode. Now
before you actually do that, you've gotta do a bit of a setup. So you quickly go into
the menu,
and you'll see in the setup options,
you're gonna see here the Instax SHARE printer connection settings. So that's under
the
third tab, and you go to the right, and here you have to
type in the SSID number or the serial number of the device.
So the serial number's actually on the bottom of the of the device here.
Now everybody knows my device number. So if you ever see me and you're actually
gonna
wanna print to my printer you now have
the SSID to my printer.
And you just enter that into the field here,
and then it's gonna ask you for the password. In this case it defaults and they
all default to 1-1-1-1.
You just hit okay. And now, with the device on,
we're just gonna go into the playback, we're gonna hit menu,
and in the third playback menu, you're gonna see the Instax SHARE printer
print
and
it's gonna now connect to the printer. So now it's connected to the printer,
that easy, that quick, and it's showing me the last picture that I had up,
so I can hit okay to transmit the picture and that takes
a about you know twenty seconds for it to
to send it and to start printing it out like we're seeing now.
And then once it's printed, it'll take
about two to three minutes for the full image to expose
as with any of the Instax images.
So there it comes out, white for now, and then over time
it will develop into
to the image that you see here. Now of course
it will print exactly what you're seeing on the back of the screen.
So you can do a little bit of editing. If you did some RAW, you could do some RAW editing
and then convert it to a JPEG,
and then spit it out. Or you could just print it out as is.
So it makes a great great little
opportunity to to
to share some pictures instantly and that they're printed so that one I put
actually upside down. So we're just gonna put that right back
right side up. So now you can see the images actually developing
as I speak.
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