While probably many of you were sleeping, Fujifilm made two things happen:

• new firmware for X-T200 and X-A7 that allows to use those camera as webcam without need of Fujifilm X webcam software
• announcement that Fujifilm X Webcam software will be Mac compatible starting from mid-July

Now the Fuji Guys have released a follow up video to the new X-T200 and X-A7 webcam feature, that you can see down below.

Here is what they say about the new X-A7/X-T200 webcam feature (not to mistake with Fujifilm X webcam software).

• supports a universal USB video format, meaning it’s a true plug-and-play
• change only one setting in camera to make it work (Connection Settings → USB mode → USB webcam)
• connect camera and it automatically gets detected by your computer
• works for Windows or Mac
• you can’t use film simulation or other video parameters
• no control over autofocus, it is automatically set to continuous with face and eye detection enabled
• works also with OBS
• no power provided to camera while connected to computer
• fully charged battery gives you 2 hours of usage
• best use a battery coupler
• AF assist lamp on the front of the camera will turn on when battery power is low
• no audio when camera is connected to computer. Best pick up a high quality microphone
• max. 720p @ 30p

Down below you can read what is different by using Fujifilm X Webcam compared to the X-A7/X-T200 solution described above.

• You must install the Fujifilm X webcam software in order to use your X/GFX camera as a webcam
• more settings to change in camera: set drive dial to “S”, in connection settings set USB-AUTO, set Pre-AF ON for focus, recommended setting is Single AF
• you can enable face/eye detection if you want (but also keep it disabled)
• you can select film simulation
• video quality: XGA (1024 x 768)
• does not support OBS (but we reported about a workaround)

So, Fujifilm X Webcam gives you still more control, but given how reliable Fuji’s eye autofocus has become (and I talk from experience, as I used it a lot for my video-online lessons), I would feel totally confident to go full auto.

However, having a webcam that outputs ETERNA and higher qualiy video is great.

So, between the two, I’d still go with Fujifilm X webcam, and make the few extra setting changes in camera.

But hey, let me know what you guys prefer by voting the survey down below:

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Video Below

According to a chart published somewhere, you get 0.05% sharper images using lens x vs lens y

No, wait… that’s not that kind of post… today we fly high… and we fly far… we are going to meet the wonderful diversity on this world.

And who could introduce us better to post like this, than big tech vloggers Michel de Montaigne, my most loved author ever, who once said:

Travel is in my opinion a very profitable exercise; the soul is there continually employed in observing new and unknown things, and I do not know a better school wherein to model life than by incessantly exposing to it the diversity of so many other lives, fancies, and usances, and by making it relish a perpetual variety of forms of human nature. The body is, therein, neither idle nor overwrought; and that moderate agitation puts it in breath.

In the spirit of Montaigne’s quote above, I share a Fujifilm X travel images roundup that hopefully inspires you to go out, meet, embrace the wonderful diversity there is on this planet.

You want more of Montaigne? Then what about this one:

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And even on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own ass.

If you are interested, you can read the complete (and massive) essays of Michel de Montaigne.

But since it’s a really fat book (that I have read all), maybe you better start with the wonderful Michel de Montaigne biography by Sarah Backwell, “How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer“.

You might fall in love with Michel’s work, just as Friedrich Nietzsche did, since he said:

That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on this Earth.

And now, travel images… of course all taken with Fujifilm cameras.

I would like to send a big hug to those, who have come that far in reading the text. If there is a group of “rumor-readers” that can appreciate such articles, then it’s definitely Fujifilm X/GFX shooters. Thanks for the time you dedicated to this blog post.

Images

Hey all,

It’s done, I made it. An unreal school year is over.

It was A LOT of work for me, to teach online, but I took it also as an opportunity to explore new creative ways of teaching.

And surely it came to my help, that I can use Final Cut Pro X, I have several tripods and cameras etc, as this allowed me to have the tools and skills to translate into video my creative ideas.

X-T4 for my My Job

You must know, that I live in Italy.

But in a part of Italy, where a German minority lives (video of my province). This is why I speak both languages, Italian and German, fluently.

Also, I am a primary school teacher, so I teach German to kids that belong to the Italian language group. Hence German is their second language.

And since my “customers” are kids, I’ve tried to always throw something fun into my lessons, just to put some lightness into a situation that was very hard for them.

For example, in one video, I triplicated myself and made up a fun conversation between three Patrick’s during Grammar lesson, as you can see from the screenshot here.

Looks like it was rather successful, as you can hear from the Whattsapp audio one of my students send me. Who would have said that grammar can be so fun ;).

That’s something I could have never done in the classroom, and only the online teaching allowed me to do.

I started by filming everything with my X-E3, but once I got the X-T4, I switched to it as my main camera, and it has surely served me better than my X-E3, because:

• the selfie screen was useful and practical
• ETERNA was glorious
• longer recording times
• better video quality
• more creative tools (like super-slow motion)
• IBIS for when my wife had to film me handheld for stable footage
• solid battery life

So, my first impact with the X-T4 was pure love! Everything I needed, it did it better than my X-E3.

But life is not only video…

X-T4 for my Passion

Last weekend I drove down to Tuscany with my wife (it’s a 4 hours drive only from my home), as a little reward for a frankly extremely busy time.

On that trip, I used the Fujifilm X-T4 only for photography.

Here is what I liked, and what not.

Loves

• overall performance… it’s a beast
• shutter sound is so buttery smooth
• battery life: it just kept running, and running, and running… awesome!
• I have my ISO dial back
• oh… a D-Pad, how nice is that

Hates

• no more one handed operation (on my X-E3 every button and dial is on the right side of the camera and can easily be operated with the right hand only)
• bigger and heavier (although with some lenses this is actually better)
• for reviewing images on LCD, I always have to flip screen out. On the other hand this helps to review images less, like with the hidden X-Pro3 LCD

And the Selfie Screen?

Well, the selfie screen deserves a special chapter.

I found some unexpected love for it, as well as one hate.

Loves

• keep it tilt inwards protects the screen
• keep it tilt inwards makes the camera look so wonderful vintage
• keep it tilt inwards and you’ll review images way less, like on X-Pro3
• keep it tilt inwards and you won’t accidentally activate the touch screen, which happens to me now and then on the X-E3 (I keep the touch LCD always deactivated on my X-E3, but it activates if I accidentally touch the upper right part of the screen)
• for my video lessons, I just loved it
• unlike the X-T100 screen, the X-T4 can tilt also in portrait mode

Hates

• I use the Peak Design Leash camera strap, and when I tilted out the screen, sometimes the strap covered the screen, so I had to move the strap behind the screen. Hence, not only it takes a bit more time to tilt out the screen (as opposed to only flip it out on X-T3), but then also fiddle around with the strap. This was probably the most annoying aspect of the selfie screen. So much so, that I think I am considering to get Peak Design Cuff camera wrist strap and solve the “problem”

Conclusion?

Well, if it wasn’t for the selfie videos I had to do, I’d still consider the X-T3 and X-H1 screen design superior for my needs. But on the other hand the selfie screen has some advantages, that you can’t get with X-T3 screen, especially if you use mostly the EVF and want to keep the LCD tilted inwards.

Hence, I am happy with the X-T4 screen.

Images Anyone?

So, how was my Tuscany mini-trip?

Awesome!

And although we had only one day of good weather, and the other two were rainy and misty, I had lots of fun to be simply out and photograph again.

I shared one image on my Instagram page already, where I tested Classic Negative.

Classic Negative is great. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all, but when it works, it’s just awesome. In street photography it will surely shine, but also in landscape photography, as you can see below, it can give lovely results.

Now I have to get some paperwork done for the end of the school, and after that, I might share more images of my trip on Instagram… and bring you with me on my summer holidays, where so far I have planed nothing actually, except to climb my beloved Dolomites.

take care and have fun with your photography,
Patrick

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Ein Beitrag geteilt von Fuji_Rumors (@fuji_rumors) am Jun 16, 2020 um 12:03 PDT