Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of The Fuji Guys, and my name is Jerry, and today
I'm gonna go through the latest in the bridge style zoom cameras,
the S9900W or the S9800. So depending on what
market your in, it'll apply to both cameras except for the wifi feature. So,
the S9900W has a wifi feature, and the S9800 does not have the Wi-Fi feature.
So please sit and enjoy.
So with our S series bridge style cameras, one of the big advantages is having
the 50x zoom.
So as you can see here I've got the zoom
extended here all the way out. So it gives you
up to like 1200mm which is a huge
advantage with the 50x and the and 2x digital zoom.
So you have two zoom switches. You have the one on the outside here
just around the shutter release and then, of course, you do have the one on the
side of the camera here
as well. Now on top of the fifty time optical,
as I'm alluding to with the 100x
zoom is that there's also a two-time digital. So to activate that you just have to
go into the menu,
and go into the setup of the menu and you'll see here
the digital zoom, and this is off right now. So I'm just gonna turn that on,
and now what that allows me to do now is
in the auto modes, so whether you're in the "P" mode or in the
little red camera mode or any of the other manual modes, you'll have access to
the digital zoom.
You don't have access in SR Auto. There's many reasons for that the camera needs
those extra pixels to be able to do things like determine the scene. So
for the zoom itself for the digital zoom, you gotta be either the
auto mode, the P mode, or any of the manual modes there, and then
when you go and use the zoom, you'll see the
bar here shows you your optical and your digital. So the black bar here is your optical
and anything beyond that is digital so now I'm into the digital zoom and you
can see the hundred times and come up right there.
So that gives you access to the to the zoom,
optical and digital zooms up to a hundred times.
Now with the big lens like this too, a a lot of the
things that we want to be able to shoot are things like macro,
and this camera has amazing macro capabilities.
I'm just gonna grab one of our, a little example here, a little
statue here; an inukshuk I believe is the right term for it,
and I'm just gonna show you some macro capabilities of this camera.
So if I'm just in regular mode
I can get at fairly close. So I'm gonna actually
have to back up so there you could see I'm hitting
about that distance there. Now if I go into macro mode
and regular macro mode at wide-angle,
I can practically touch the subject
and I'm able to still get a nice focused shot.
I get a nice macro shot nice close, and if I go into super macro,
I can actually touch glass. So I'm actually touching
the subject and it focuses for me.
So it gives me a nice nice real shallow and
and a nice you know,
close-up macro mode. Now, if you're using regular macro, then you
you can actually use the zoom and get a little further away, so I'm just going to
use this particular prop here so I can get
nice and close, up to a certain extent depending on the zoom range that you're
working with,
and you're able to get a nice close-up shot.
So with the S9800 / S9900's,
we have some new features with the advanced
shooting modes. So I'm just gonna go through the dials real quick
as far as the advanced shooting goes. So you have the advanced
mode dial right there. I'm just gonna bring my zoom back in a little bit here,
and right away you'll see that we're actually in the toy
mode, and if you hit the menu button
and you go back to the first page, so I'm just gonna go right back to the top here,
and we're gonna go to the advance modes,
and we go to the right and it gives us all of our different options.
In the basic advanced filters we have things like the Pro low light,
HDR shooting natural shooting with flash and without flash
and also the zoom bracketing so it's going to take three shots
and it's going to re-crop for you to get a closer image.
But in the more advanced filters this is where we get a little creative so we
have the toy camera.
We also have the miniature mode. So that's when you're shooting
a landscape and you want to make it look like a diorama. We have pop-colour
so it's a really
poppy, high saturated colour;
hi-key, over saturation or sorry, an overexposure
that gives kind a fashion look to it if you will;
a low-key, so it gives you a little bit in the opposite, a dynamic tone.
You could do fish eye where it gives it like an ultra wide-angle look,
a soft focus for portraits, a cross screen for night shots with where you're
going to get stars in your images,
and then you have things like a sketch mode, a partial colour,
red, blue, orange, green, yellow, and
purple. And what those colors basically is black and white
and then whatever's orange or whatevers blue in the shot will show up, depending
which color you choose.
So there's a new mode that we've added, it's the sketch mode. So I'm just gonna show
you how this one works.
So you choose the sketch mode and you could see right away
that the image it's hard for me to angle this right,
so let me bring a subject in a little bit more here, now you can actually see
um, how it kinda looks like as if I sketched out this car.
So I'm just going to zoom in a little bit, I'm going to focus my shot,
and I'm gonna take a picture so it basically creates
the image like it's a sketch. That's one of the
creative filters that you can shoe with when you're shooting with
the "S" series cameras.
As always we've always got some new features that we add to the
to our cameras and the newest is an intervalometer, so this allows you to
shoot interval shooting or if you will, it gives you the opportunity to do
time-lapse type photography,
and it's really easy to get to on this camera.
The first thing I'm gonna do, I'm just gonna put the camera into P mode just to make it
easy
and down at the bottom we have our self timer
button so I'm gonna hit the self-timer and you're gonna get your options here. So we
hit the self-timer
1,2 is for the two-second and now we've got the interval shooting.
So once you do that, now it's gonna bring up the menu to do your setup.
So you can shoot up to
every 15 seconds and up to every 10 minutes
and choose that...
try that again. Let's bring that up again. I didn't mean to go that fast. So there's our
interval shooting.
So 10 minutes and if I hit to the right, now I can choose
the duration. So up to six hours at a time. So I can shoot
one picture every 10 minutes for six hours,
if I wanted to do it, I could also do it every 15 seconds
up to six hours. So this would create a tremendous
image. So just for fun, I'm gonna
set this up now so we can do a little bit of a time lapse. I'm not gonna run
it too too long,
but let it take a couple shots. So, and just while I'm talking, so it'll take a
picture
as you can see, and then the screen goes black and that's to conserve your battery
power so that the long durations, the camera's not gonna
take too much time or...too much battery power during that time.
So now we've taken 2 pictures. It's taking one every 15 seconds. I just wanna
wait for third picture to show
and maybe I'll just move the car and let it take the next picture.
There we go and it's taken the next picture, and I can move one more
subject and it's going to take one more picture, cuz I wanna show you how it's gonna
show on the back at the screen itself.
...And there's the fourth picture. So I'm just gonna stop the operation now,
and so now we've been in the interval shooting, so it's gonna shoot one more shot.
So now I've cancelled it, there we go
... there,
we've canceled it. Now I go into playback and what it's gonna show you is
the last frame you shot, and then in the bottom it's gonna show you the actual
time lapse video of all the pictures.
So it'll actually go through all the pictures that are in that time lapse
sequence to
give you an idea of what your time lapse will look like at the end of the day
when you go in,
edit it, and put it through whatever software you need to get it
to as a video itself. So that's how you do time-lapse photography with this camera.
So one of the uses for bridge camera is being able to shoot things like action sports,
nature things of that nature, and these are all subjects that are very
hard to predict.
So we need to use some high-speed shooting, so we're gonna go through the high-speed
shootings of the camera.
Um, so on the top the camera here, we have our Drive button
and we just hit the drive button and it's gonna give you a whole bunch of
different options in continuous.
The first one is best frame capture, and what this allows you to do is shoot
up to 10 frames per second;
up to 10 or 20 frames, and here we can see that there's a setup option, so
we're gonna go into the setup,
and this'll show us how many, how fast we're gonna shoot, so we can shoot
low frame-rate, so a higher quality image,
or we can shoot up to 10 frames per second, and we can shoot
how many frames? We could shoot 10 or 20 frames. So just for the
for the example, I'm just going to shoot in 20 frames,
and it does reduce your image size. It shows you right here that it's gonna go to
a smaller image size.
If I want full res, I stick to 10 frames.
So, um now I've got the 10 frames. Now hitting left and right
will now determine how many frames I'm gonna save
after I've released the shutter and before I've released the shutter;
and I'll show you kinda why that is. So here we've got 11 and 8.
So I have 11 before, and 8 after I've released the shutter.
So what happens is, as I focus the camera and press the shutter halfway,
you're gonna hear these frame rates, firing,
the images firing. So what this is doing
is that it's actually priming those images but not saving them.
So if I was to go back in a playback none of those pictures which show up
Now, what this allows me to do
is if I press and hold
and I hear the clicking and then I see what I wanna shoot,
by the time I I've shot it, it's gone. But because I've
primed it now the first 10 shots are gonna save,
and then the eight after are going to save,
I'll make sure that I don't miss that moment. So when your daughter is scoring
that goal,
you can you know set it up so that she's on her breakaway, where you're pressing that shutter button,
and right as she kicks the ball you release the shot
you'll get the 10 pictures before she kicked the ball, and the 8 pictures
after she kicks the ball so you get the kick and the goal,
all in those in that sequence. So that's what that
best frame capture allows you to do and going back in there,
into the continuous shooting, we have you know,
different continuous speeds and and image quality. So
L for larger image quality medium, and then
H for high speed and super-high,
and then this is where we get up to 60 frames per second.
But at 60 frames per second, your image quality is only at 640 by 480. So it's a
very very low resolution, but
in one second you get 60 shots. So
you're certainly not going to miss any moments with that.
So of course this camera comes equipped with HD video.
So, basically it's a one touch video system,
it's right here that big red button right there. You just press that and your
video will begin
recording. So right now I have it in full HD 1080 P
and you do have some choices. So that's how you
start and stop your video. I'm just gonna go into the menu here and just show you the
different menu
the different movie recordings. So there's the movie mode,
go to the right here and this gives you up to 60, 30,
frames per second depending on which resolution you want.
So you get 60 frames per second at 1080,
and you can get up to 480 frames per second
but at a very low resolution. Now
you can also take pictures during your video recording and all you have to do
is hit the shutter release. So as I'm doing a video,
I can zoom in and just take my picture
as I need to take it. And it just blinks as you can see. So it's gonna keep
a very nice high resolution image during your video.
Now of course as you can see we also had access to the zoom,
and you have access to both either zoom lever, the one on the
side to the camera or on the front. But the one on the side gives us a
little bit
adjustment. You can actually adjust the speed of the zoom lever itself.
So we are just gonna go into the menus again
and we're gonna go over into the setup
and we're gonna see here "zoom lever type".
Now we're just gonna go here, and H is for high middle and low,
and there's also an auto back. So it's gonna zoom back automatically for you.
In the low, what it does is it actually slows down the zoom itself.
So when you're doing video, you don't want to be so jarring you want kind of a
creeping zoom,
that's where this little feature comes into play.
So the video is very, you know simple and easy to use,
quick one-touch for everything. Whether it's
one touch for a picture during your video, one touch to start the video,
and one touch actually bring the zoom back as well. So there's different
features in that respect.
So a new feature added to this camera
on the S9900 W camera, so this is
only applicable to that camera. If you have the S9800 unfortunately,
it will not have a Wi-Fi feature built into it.
So this allows us to of course control the camera. Some markets will have
the 9800 only, some will have both, some will have 9900W
only. So first and foremost, you wanna
be able to connect the camera to to your IOS device.
The first thing you want to do, is you go into your menu,
and you'll see
in the setup options of the menu,
the wireless setting. So you hit to the right, and this gives you the General
Settings and so on. So this gives you
different options. One option here is to resize the image before
the smart, to the smart phone. So this gives you a more manageable size
when you're talking about shooting or transferring your videos (photos) to your phone. So you
can actually turn that off
and have a full resolution image as well.
Of course now we want to actually set it up
so that's in the actual,
in the actual,
went too far, there it is wireless communication. So you hit to the right,
and the screen comes up and then with your iOS device,
you are going to have to go to your settings, and go under Wi-Fi,
and you'll see the camera show up here. So there's the camera there.
Once you see the check mark come up like that,
then you go into the actual application which is the
"Fujifilm Camera Remote". So now
here you have options, you hit the camera remote option,
and now the screen turns off and
now we've got a complete blank and you get total control now
on the smartphone itself. So you don't have manual control on the camera, but
you do have zoom control
you can go to video and do videos. So now it's recording a video so shows you how
much time is on your video.
If you go back
over to picture mode, it'll take pictures. If you have
your flash up now you have access to your flash modes.
So you can actually have auto or forced flash, so it's going to flash
all the time or only when when it needs it,
and it's got access to your self timer as well,
and to any of the images that are actually on the memory card. So you hit the playback button,
now it shows you everything that's on the memory card itself.
So now, if I want to pick up to 30 pictures to download I just have to
tap them and then hit import and it will import
all of the pictures that I've selected.
I can also zoom in on the picture and if I select the picture that I wanna zoom in on,
I just pinch and zoom
and I can import the picture that I've actually magnified.
So that gives you a little more flexibility when you are
traveling and things of that nature and it gives you also
a battery indicator there to tell you how much battery power
is left on your camera. So this is great for you know tripod shooting, even
um, inclement weather when you wanna come to keep warm and leave the camera
outside and do its thing.
Um, of course it's not a weather sealed camera so
we don't want to necessarily leave it outside and in the
in wet but in the cold it should be okay, and this gives you a little more
flexibility on the control of the camera itself.
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