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Quick Start Guide FUJIFILM X100F

Congratulations on your new FUJIFILM X100F! This quick start guide introduces your camera’s features and functions, and will help you get more creative with your photography.

Contents

  • Personalising your camera
  • Focusing modes
  • Advanced Hybrid Viewfinder Contents
  • Shooting video
  • Wireless connectivity Contents

Personalising your camera

Many aspects of the X100F can be customised to suit your preferences, such as controls, displays and shooting modes.

Controls and dials

Customise the behaviour of the camera’s function buttons to adjust settings more quickly.

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  • Press and hold the DISP BACK button to go straight to the function button customisation screen.
  • Scroll through the various Fn buttons, scrolling right to change the control’s default behaviour.

Customising viewfinder and viewscreen information

The information you see when you compose a scene can be changed so only that data you need is shown.

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  • Press MENU OK and scroll down to the SET UP menu tab.
  • Choose SCREEN SET-UP setting and scroll to DISP. CUSTOM SETTING.
  • Select either OVF (optical viewfinder) or EVF/LCD (electronic viewfinder and LCD screen).
  • Choose the items you’d like to see in the viewfinder and on the camera’s screen.

Customising the Q Menu

The Q Menu gives you information at a glance and quick access to camera settings. You can also change what’s on the Q Menu screen; to suit your way of working.

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  • Hold down the Q button for a couple of seconds, the customisation screen will appear.
  • Choose the menu item location you want to customise and press MENU OK.
  • Find the function you’d like to appear in this menu location and press MENU OK.
  • Repeat the above steps for each menu location you want to change. Press DISP BACK to finish.

Customising Film Simulation modes

You’ve probably discovered your camera’s Film Simulation modes by now, but did you know you can customise these to suit your own tastes?

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  • Press the Q button to display the Q Menu.
  • Adjust highlights, shadows and colour saturation with the H Tone, S Tone and Color options using the rear command dial.
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You can save these new settings as a custom preset for instant recall.

  • Press MENU OK, navigate to the IMAGE QUALITY SETTING menu and choose EDIT/SAVE CUSTOM SETTING.
  • Choose a custom preset number and scroll right.
  • Scroll left on SAVE CURRENT SETTINGS to save. The camera will ask you to choose OK to confirm your changes.
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Focusing modes

Focus point place and size

The size of the active focusing area used by your X100F can be changed in size and moved around the frame. In the camera’s Q Menu, choose from Single Point (highly selective), Zone (for erratically moving subjects) and Wide/Tracking (uses the whole frame) using the rear command dial. To move the active point or zone, or change its size:

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  • Move or press the Focus Lever.
  • Move the Focus Lever to shift the focus point/area up, down, left or right.
  • Rotate the rear command dial to change the size of the focus point/area.
  • Press MENU OK or half-press the shutter release button.

Did you know pressing the Focus Lever while you’re adjusting the focus point moves it back to the centre of the frame?

Making the most of manual focus

When you’re focusing manually, the X100F offers all kinds of focusing aids to help you nail critical focus.

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  • Put the camera in M focus mode using the focus mode selector, then press MENU OK and navigate to the AF/MF SETTING menu.
  • Scroll down to MF ASSIST and choose from DIGITAL SPLIT IMAGE or FOCUS PEAK HIGHLIGHT.
  • Switch on FOCUS CHECK from the AF/MF SETTING menu and the camera will enlarge a central portion of the scene when you begin to manually focus.

Switch on AF+MF from the AF/MF SETTING menu and you’ll be able to focus manually just by turning the lens focus barrel – no change of focus mode necessary.

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Advanced Hybrid Viewfinder Contents

The X100F features a unique viewfinder, which can be switched between optical and electronic modes at the flick of the viewfinder selector switch on the front of the camera.

Optical viewfinder

The optical viewfinder (OVF) gives a real-world, real-time view of the world, just as you’d see with a traditional rangefinder camera.

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  • The bright frame lines shift when you focus the camera, to correct for any slight parallax error.
  • You can see objects slightly outside the bright frame lines, allowing you to better anticipate when they might move into shot.
  • While looking through the viewfinder, press the Viewfinder Selector Lever inwards, towards the lens. This activates a small electronic display in the OVF, which gives 100% magnification to aid focusing.

Electronic viewfinder

The electronic viewfinder (EVF) previews what you’ll get when you shoot, from exposure and white balance, to depth-of-field and focus.

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  • Pressing in the rear control dial (as if it were a button) magnifies a portion of the EVF, centred around the active focusing point, to aid critical focusing.
  • When you don’t want the EVF to preview exposure and/or white balance (when shooting with studio flash, for example) this can be switched off in the SET UP > SCREEN SET-UP menu. Choose the PREVIEW EXP./WB IN MANUAL MODE option.
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Shooting video

Picking the right settings

The first thing to decide is which resolution and frame rate settings to use. You’ll find these options in the MOVIE SETTING > MOVIE MODE menu.

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  • Full HD 1080p resolutions offer the best quality on the X100F.
  • HD 720p resolutions take up less room on the camera’s SD card.
  • Frame rates of 24p, 25p or 29.97p are fine for most normal applications. 24p is sometimes favoured by creative filmmakers for its Hollywood look and feel.
  • Footage captured at frame rates of 59.94p or 50p can capture motion more smoothly. Plus, when played back at normal speeds (30fps or 25fps) during editing, it delivers silky-smooth slow motion.
  • Adjust the camera’s ISO sensitivity to get the proper exposure.

Did you know that 25p and 59.94p frame rates are best for European countries, while 30p and 60p are more suited to the USA? This is because of the different frequencies of mains electricity in these territories, which can cause lights to flicker slightly at 50Hz or 60Hz, respectively.

Exposure settings for cinematic video

Here’s a set of standard settings you can use in manual (M) shooting mode that will create great-looking, cinematic-style video.

  • Choose a frame rate – 24fps is a standard used in the movie industry and has a very top-end look and feel.
  • Select a shutter speed that is roughly double the frame rate you’re using, so each frame is exposed for 50% of the time. For example, if you’re shooting at 24fps, pick a shutter speed of 1/50sec.
  • Select the aperture you need for the required depth-of-field.
  • Adjust the camera’s ISO sensitivity to get the proper exposure.
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Continuous focusing with video

Switch to AF-C using the focus mode selector and the X100F will adjust focusing as you film, tracking people around the frame if face detection is switched on. You can turn this on from the AF/MF SETTING > FACE/EYE DETECTION SETTING menu. (You can also assign this to the Q Menu.) You can choose from two focus areas: MULTI, which uses the whole frame, and AREA, which lets you be more selective. Find this in MOVIE SETTING > MOVIE AF MODE.

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Wireless connectivity Contents

Your X100F can communicate wirelessly with your smartphone or tablet computer via Wi-Fi, so you can transfer pictures to your device where they can be edited and shared with friends and followers online. You can also use your smart device to shoot remotely, controlling the camera and even looking at what the camera sees with remote live view.

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Linking to the camera for the first time

  • Install the free FUJIFILM Camera Remote app on your iOS or Android device.
  • On the camera, press PLAY to view images and MENU OK to display the PLAY BACK menu.
  • Scroll down to WIRELESS COMMUNICATION and press MENU OK. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process.
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Transferring images to your device

  • Press PLAY to view images and MENU OK to display the PLAY BACK menu.
  • Scroll down to WIRELESS COMMUNICATION and press MENU OK.
  • Connect to the camera’s Wi-Fi on your device, then launch the FUJIFILM Camera Remote app.
  • From the app’s home screen, tap Import image to view images from your camera. Select those for transfer and tap Import.
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Remote shooting and control

  • Press PLAY to view images and MENU OK to display the PLAY BACK menu.
  • Scroll down to WIRELESS COMMUNICATION and press MENU OK.
  • Connect to the camera’s Wi-Fi on your device then launch the FUJIFILM Camera Remote app.
  • Tap the Live view shooting option to begin controlling the X100F.

If your device is already connected to a Wi-Fi network, the app may ask to switch to the camera’s own Wi-Fi before transfer can begin.

To make things even easier, why not map WIRELESS COMMUNICATION to one of the camera’s function buttons?

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