0:00 so you've got a Fujifilm camera and you think you know everything about it we'll see about that hi everyone and welcome to Pal Tech today we're talking about some hidden features on Fujifilm cameras that you might want to know about they're not always obvious or easy to find but they're there now some of them may not be on all Fuji camera models hopefully they'll be on yours let's get started so number one is silent shooting mode some times when you're out shooting photos or videos you don't care if everyone knows that you're [Music] there but other times you might need to be very quiet and discreet so the first thing you'll want
0:46 to do is go right into your menu into the little wrench area under sound setup and just go ahead and turn all of these off now when you get to electronic shutter volume turn that off as well however your camera probably is still in mechanical shutter mode so you're still going to hear the shutter sound sort of like this that might still be too noisy for you so to fix that you need to change your shutter to electronic go into the menu under the camera icon right here and look for shutter type and go ahead and change it to electronic shutter you could also change it to electronic front curtain shutter as well now listen to how quiet it'll be the only sound you'll hear is just the pressing of the button which you can
1:31 do really quietly now keep in mind if you do decide to switch it to electronic shutter for the quieter shutter there are some things you're going to need to keep in mind when using electronic shutter for example you cannot use a flash with it I have an entire video on electronic shutter so be sure to check that out if you're not familiar with it next up is a setting that might help you when shooting photos or videos under certain types of fluorescent or LED lights you know these lights don't emit a con distant stream of light instead they sort of cycle on and off at very high frequencies and therefore shutter speeds on cameras that are either set too high or set too low they can cause problems with lights that emit those frequencies and what that does is it will create an unwanted flicker effect
2:18 particularly in your videos so have a look at this right here you see how they are flickering right now there is a fix that is built for this that's right in your Fujifilm camera it's located under the camera icon called flickerless shutter speed setting if you have your camera's mode dial set to still photography you also have an additional option of flicker reduction and I will be making an entire video on just this subject but for now let's go to flickerless shutter speed setting all you need to do is turn it on now as soon as you enable this the camera will adjust your shutter speed just slightly just a little bit to avoid those frequencies that cause the flickering that comes from the lights and when I say a little bit I mean weird numbers check this out I'll turn it on here when I adjust the dial for my shutter speed
3:05 have a look at this just little increments you see that so does it actually work let's take a look okay so on the left I have flickerless shutter speed set to off and on the right it's turned on I'm shooting at 24 frames per second at 148 shutter speed once I enabled flickerless shutter speed it automatically adjusted my shutter speed to be 150th of a second however in this LED light test it didn't really seem to make much of a difference and it's interesting because in some ways you're better off just adjusting the shutter speed dial yourself but in small increments until the flicker goes away still it's nice to have this setting enabled because you can adjust the shutter speed in very small amounts okay next on the list we have a setting
3:50 called Interval Timer shooting that's normally used for time-lapse photography however you can also use it for self-portraits so here's here's how you set it up the first thing you want to do is go into your menu under the AF MF section and turn on face eye autod detect just like that and you can leave it at I auto that's fine next go into pre- autofocus and turn that on as well I would also go into the little camera icon right here into ISO Auto setting and change your automatic ISO so that it selects the highest one in other words give it the largest range of iso options and while you're in your AFM section go into your autofocus mode and I would choose Zone and once you've done that I would press in on the rear joystick just
4:37 like this rotate the command dial to make your Zone area square a bit larger in terms of your exposure of course that's up to your shooting situation but a general guideline I would set your shutter speed to at least 1/200th of a second remember that your camera is going to be on a tripod however if you're moving around in the shot particularly if you have children you're going to want those higher shutter speeds as a good starting place I would set my aperture to F4 and finally we come to ISO that could simply be set as you see fit based on the lighting conditions or if the lighting conditions are changing constantly while it's taking the shots then put your ISO dial in a for automatic remember we went into the menu and we told the camera the range of iso that it could choose from
5:23 going all the way up to the highest native ISO that the camera has now that you've done all that set up your camera on a tripod to wherever you're going to be shooting yourself and go into the camera menu into the little camera icon and look for Interval Timer shooting and there's actually three options here the first setting here is the amount of time that the camera will pause between shots I generally set it between 2 or 3 seconds but you may need more time say you're doing different poses and you need a little bit of extra time to get ready for that you could certainly increase it and the other reason you would want to increase it would be if your using a flash because remember once your camera takes a shot the flash needs time to recharge you cannot just go and
6:08 have the flash firing off each time unless you've got some serious power pack for it so for a normal flash on the camera you're probably going to want to set your timer here to maybe two or 3 seconds something like that and the second setting is the number of times that you want to have your camera take photos until you're finished you can simply choose a numerical value you here but honestly the best thing to do put it on Infinity because you never know you may get that incredible shot right at the very end and if your camera ran out of shots before that you will so wish that you had kept it on Infinity so just put it on Infinity now once you select Infinity hold on a second just wait there's actually one more screen and it's hidden okay if I press the right
6:54 arrow d-pad key it goes to a third hidden menu which is basically the time that the camera will wait before it starts the process and really since you've got your camera already set up and you're ready to go you can begin it right away in other words just select the default of zero all you have to do is just press the menu okay button on the back of the camera boom and it'll begin taking the photos with the interval between them once you're all finished just press the shutter release button to end it now another option you could do is put it into manual focus and then set a focus zone phone that you know you won't be moving out of that might also work really well again experiment with this and see what you come up with now speaking of timers did you know that you also have the ability
7:41 to save your self timer settings even after you turn the camera off for example if you set yourself timer for 2 seconds but there's also this setting right below it and you also have the option to save those settings see turn it on so now even if you turn off the camera the next time that you turn the camera back on your self-timer settings will pick up right where you left them off our next feature is called natural live view however if you do have a different model of Fujifilm camera you may see it listed as preview picture effect either way it's located right in the little wrench area under screen setup normally the default is off
8:26 and what that means is that when you're looking through the L CD screen or the viewfinder you are seeing an exact representation of the film simulation that you've chosen not only that but some of the settings that are in your IQ section right here such as grain effect color chrome tone curve color sharpness and all of those settings are sort of baked into the preview that you're seeing when you look at the LCD screen or through the viewfinder you're seeing as close as possible what your final jpeg will look like computer programmers and people in Tech like to call this this whsy wig what you see is what you get however if you go into the menu and you turn on natural live view now you will see a preview of your scene without any modifications by the camera of what
9:13 that final jpeg will look like so why would you want to do this in the first place if you are shooting with a flash unit you can often end up adjusting your camera settings to make sure you have the correct exposure for your flash and you cannot see a preview that is bright enough to show you even what you're looking at or focusing on or what your scene looks like you turn on natural live view and then you can see your scene much better and the second reason you'd want to use this is that it actually helps you to preview the actual True Colors Shadows highlights and so forth of your scene all without the distraction of film Sims and the effects of the camera now one thing that's kind of weird about this setting even though it's supposed to strip all that away and
9:59 give you the natural live view if I set it to a black and white film Sim look at that I'm in natural live view I shouldn't be seeing any black and white but yet there it is and finally speaking of film simulations have you ever heard of film simulation bracketing if you shoot jpeg only or even jpeg raw then you are definitely going to want to give this feature a try go into your menu into the camera icon into drive setting and choose bracket setting scroll down to film simulation bracket and right here is where you will choose your three film simulations so for the first one I prefer standard the second one I guess I don't know velvia fine and then for the third one I'm going to go down and choose a black and white say acros now
10:45 that's not all there's one more setting you have to make while you're in this menu it's confusing but you got to do it or it won't work once you've selected your three film simulations go up to where it says bracket select you see that right right there choose that and then choose film simulation bracket now before you begin shooting you need to rotate the little adjustment area underneath your ISO dial and put it into bracketing mode once you have it in bracket mode you're good to go I'll go ahead and take a single demo shot right now so now let's play them back and see what we got there's acros Velva and Prova this can be so handy to get three different looks automatically processed in camera without having to do it in post- production and also allows you to more easily experiment with different
11:31 moods and styles keep in mind though that this will take up three times the storage space on your SD card we've got a brand new gagana Hall of Fame member to add to the studio wall let's welcome Stephen shutters Stephen thank you so much for joining the girag Guana Hall of Fame I appreciate your support so much it really helps out the channel and without any further Ado let's get your name added to the studio [Music] wall well Stephen there you go my friend your name is now a permanent part of this studio just out of frame but on the
12:17 studio wall nevertheless thank you again for all of your support and the same goes to the rest of you in backstage and the YouTube channel members your support keeps this channel running thank you remember every photo tells a story and your camera is the writing instrument that creates it I couldn't include all of the great hidden features of Fujifilm cameras in today's video but I hope some have been helpful for you and you know knowing more about the features of your camera I believe can help make you an even better Storyteller than I know you already are in the meantime thank you so much for watching today and I hope you found the video helpful or at least entertaining and if you did be sure to give it the like And subscribe I'm going
13:04 to be signing off now but have a wonderful weekend and I'll see you in a new video next week take care 5.7k at 30 frames a second 4K at 50 frames a second and I can't talk that fast have enough light what should happen Auto is auto ISO sh I had one job to do today
