You're killing it. Animations showcasing how focus works, clear and easy-to-understand tutorials and explanations. You're going to go far man! Thanks for these videos!
@@JayRegular Thanks for the video. How did you record the optical view finder? I'm trying to create a tutorial where I need to see inside the viewfinder. Thanks!
@@JayRegular I found that its slightly innacurate that box in viewfinder I notice that some things was inside the box but in result was not or it was cut by that box but was inside.
@@JayRegularI accidentally dropped my Fujifilm X100VI from the coffee table but I thoroughly explained it and not a mark on it but I wonder if the following is normal regarding the Optical/Electronic Viewfinder Selector Lever, when I look through the viewfinder and flip the lever, it works perfectly but when I hold the camera well away from my face and flip the lever it doesn't always work, can you all try it, point the camera at certain things and plus the ceiling and flip the lever, does the optical/electronic viewfinder Selector only work when you have your eye up to the eye viewfinder and sensor.
Jay, love the content! I don’t know how many times I’ve watched your “Focus Modes Explained” video, as I’m always struggling to find the right AF setting when taking photos of my 3yr old son, as he quite as fast mover and good opportunities appear and disappear within a split of a second and I seem to get more out of focus shots than focused one. You did mention in the video that you may do another video explaining the AF-C Custom Settings menu and I am definitely looking forward to that. I was dabbling with OVF when I first picked up the X100F and eventually, over time, found myself using the EVF more and more, and now I use the EVF 100% of the time.
Thanks Hirokazu, yes the AF-C video is in the pipeline. And yes the EVF is a lot more simple and straightforward and that's why a lot of people prefer it 👌
Thanks for this, Jay. I’m new to the Fuji system. Trying to figure out this feature on my own would take some time. But having this tutorials got me up to speed.
@@JayRegular Hey Jay, I disable the eye sensor on all my Fuji cameras. Most of the time I have my cameras on a strap and years ago I noticed that my batteries were draining pretty fast. I discovered the eye sensor enables the EVF or OVF overlay as soon as it's covered by my eye or my clothes or finger. I think it's just a proximity sensor based on light. So it's basically ON almost all the time. It's the same on the XPRO3. I prefer to set the camera to go to sleep after 1min and I just hold the shutter for half a sec to wake it up. I think I tested years back a Sony and actually it was better because it had to detect a real eye to enable the camera or that focus where the eye is looking.
@@REMY.C. thanks for the tip! I see the logic behind setting sleep for 1 minute, but I want to have my camera ready for anything, and having to wake it from sleep could make me miss a shot. I find just having a few extra batteries as backup makes me not worry too much about the quick drains
@@JayRegular Having multiple batteries is a must, you're totally right. To counter that short wake up delay, wether I have the camera on a shoulder strap or in my hand with a wrist strap, my finger is always ready on the button, I half press the shutter before I take my camera to my face. By the time the camera is at eye level, it's ready to go. I think the wake from sleep takes like half a second, way faster than arm movement.
Nice video. One point that seemed strange to me is when you call it a disadvantage of the EVF that it turns black if you set low ISO, small aperture, and high shutter speed. The thing is, any photo you take with a the EVF black will also be black, because the EVF is giving you a preview of your image. So why would you do that? To the contrary, it is an ADVANTAGE of the EVF that it gives you a complete image preview, because this way you can see if your exposure is correct BEFORE shooting. It also allows you to shoot accurately in very low light situations where you wouldn't be able to see well enough through an optical viewfinder.
For most practices, yes the EVF is effective at showing you what exactly will be the outcome of your image. But I'm assuming you've never tried flash photography before? if I want to simulate night time during the day, I need to rely on the flash to expose a subject because I want a shallow depth of field but I want to keep the ISO low and the shutter speed high, looking through the EVF would be very dark, and would make framing and composing very difficult
@@JayRegular I've shot with flashes, I just prefer not to; I like natural light. But yeah, I see what you mean, in that specific situation the EVF will look darker than the final image.
One thing that may not have been mentioned, for those of us who have lost some of our near vision due to age (welcome to 40 baby!), the OVF is actually much more practical than trying to use the EVF, which often would require use of progressives, aka, bifocals to see the screen then look at the subject, etc. So for older photographers, use of the OVF is key. I realized this with my Sony full frame, and it's been great to have this feature on the x100v.
You don’t use the ERF patch? I find it very useful for manual focus and for estimating exposure. To make that useful, I set the Fn button to focus check, so that I can quickly switch between “exposure mode” and “focus mode”. Since the camera bases auto exposure on what it sees in the ERF, I keep it in exposure mode unless I want to refocus.
2:58 the major problem is with Fuji's OVF vs a rangefinder optical system is that a rangefinder is perfect for accurate manual focusing, on the Fuji, the OVF gives pretty no information about the accuracy of your MF result. You should enable EVF to make sure focus accuracy.
Interesting video, I learned something new, I never did fully understand the paralax viewfinder until now. I'm sorry for your loss...and empty bottle of a 12 year old Aberlour is a tragedy. Still it could be worse, it could be an empty bottle of an Islay malt! :)
glad you got something out of this video Wallace! Yes, but fortunately aberlour 12 is not TOO hard to obtain... though I think for my next dram I'll try something smooth from the Americas ;) Islay malt when I reach 10k subs! xD
It's outdated and was designed for the older x100 and xpro cameras that didn't have the small focus assist window. Doesn't really make sense to use it now
For truly analog I would have fixed the ISO (even at higher level than an average film). Very good channel Ray. Keep posting for those like me who are in love with this camera!
I would like to suggest shooting in full auto mode with the view finder completely off. I have enjoyed relying on my pre-selected auto shoot settings and looking into the view glass not distracted by ANY digital reference. Initially one may experience fear of the unknown in this way, but have faith in your ability to pre-set auto features and in your camera's ability. It is a truly blind fly by wire experience.
sounds like a very liberating way to shoot Kevin! I can kind of see the intentions of this technique. And for personal projects it might actually be a great idea!
Hey Jay! I love your videos! Congrats on doing such good informative work. I am thinking of buying the x100v but I love the OVF and square format and I am wondering: If we change the camera to square format, does it change the frame in the OVF to a rectangular as well, or the squaew format works only with EVF?
how would i switch to the ovf but then switch back to the evf with a button? also i am unsure how you activated the mode in which you can see more and outside what the evf can see, thanks
Dang, i learned a lot from this. thank you. I'm a bit confused about the frame lines though. I tried all the settings you mentioned but I'm getting short yellow arrow lines at each corner of the rectangle...rather than seeing a solid white line for the whole rectangele. Any recommendations? For reference i'm using the WCL converter as well. Thanks again man!
Nice vid! Havent seen a detail ovf setup like yours online....EVF pre shutter blackout is an issue when one raises their eye to the viewfinder and have to wait til EVF displays. It terrible for other systems and not much people mention it. Especially critical for street photography...
Ah I knew I forgot something in my video! Glad you mentioned it Marc! It's pretty annoying on the x100v too, everytime the flap covers up the viewfinder window when you have the eye sensor activated for the EVF
I accidentally dropped my Fujifilm X100VI from the coffee table but I thoroughly explained it and not a mark on it but I wonder if the following is normal regarding the Optical/Electronic Viewfinder Selector Lever, when I look through the viewfinder and flip the lever, it works perfectly but when I hold the camera well away from my face and flip the lever it doesn't always work, can you all try it, point the camera at certain things and plus the ceiling and flip the lever, does the optical/electronic viewfinder Selector only work when you have your eye up to the eye viewfinder and sensor.
Dear Jay and other folks in here - - I received a gift for father's day. A new X100v but I had to return it. When using the OVF I could see a bit of the lense on the lower right side of the OVF frame. Took it to the store, they told me that's the way it is in some rangefinder style cameras and should it be a problem with the actual picture. I didn't buy it. Can you advise if in fact that is the case with the X100v or should I just buy somewhere else? Thanks much for any advise.
it seems you have never used a rangefinder/rangefinder style camera before. its normal to be able to see the lens in the lower right corner when in optical viewfinder mode. it will not show up in the final image
I'm so new at this. Can these settings be saved as a profile? I set up my camera using other recommended settings, not in Manual mode, or do these settings only come in when in M? Thanks for your tutorials. A lot to learn.
Unfortunately you can't save these settings as a profile, the video was intended to make the shooting experience on the x100v as close to an analogue film camera as possible, so having these settings for other types of shooting styles may not work optimally.
@@JayRegular thankyou. I'll have a play with the camera on your suggested settings. I actually bought the x100v hoping that it would be more like analogue than my Canon slr. Wish me luck. Thanks again for your videos.
Hi @jayRegular, your video is very clear an tidy, thank you very much for that content. I have a question: Though I follow each and every step of this "tutorial" I don't obtain the same results as you. @7'15, that's clearly an analog like experiment there, the picture is taken imeediatle one after another. I can not obtain this with my X100V. When I take a picture there is those 4 littles squares spining, you know like loading the picture, those squares indicating the that the picture is loading and you need to wait until you can shoot again. It's like I can not take pictures continously like you do. Have you any idea what i could have set wrong ? Thank you for your help.
@@JayRegular hi, thank you for your answer, I did have seen on @fujixweekly films simulations articles that clarity could indeed make the camera to take more time to record pictures. I kinda presume that it could be that. So that means that I would loose that setting if the film simulation calls for it. Thank you very much for your time.
Very helpful video, but there's one thing that really bothers me. The lens is always partly obstructing the frame in the lower right. Is there any way around that? If I want to tightly control, what elements are in the periphery, I just can't. I have to guess what's in the frame in the lower right.
That is unfortunately one of the thing that you need to deal with when shooting optical, the best way to minimize this would be to have no hood on the camera, but that's not the best workaround.
But the big question is, how do I get my X100V in EVF mode??? I have it for 6 weeks now and still can't find how. I prefer EVF because the framelines in OVF make it hard to make a good composition.
the front switch with the red indicator, with your eye to the viewfinder, pull the switch to the right and it will toggle from OVF to EVF and vice versa
@@JayRegular tnx for your reaction. This is according to the manual but it didn't work. After 4weeks I finally have the answer. The camera was set in "sportsfinder mode" and in that mode it is not possible to switch.
Is there some special setting for that little screen to turn on while in optical viewfinder mode? I push the lever the opposite direction and nothing happens.
6:57 Zone focusing with OVF, sounds brutal. So, the OVF gives no feed back about the focus accuracy, if you want to make sure your MF is sharp, you should switch over to EVF? This is totally Ok to, I just want to understand the OVF system for MF avoiding false expectations.
I would like to take your analogue setup, and add autofocus, with the least possible loss of the analogue experience. In other words, I want the speed, OVF experience and situational awareness of your analogue setup, while rapidly moving the focus square with my finger on the touch screen and getting everything else out of focus. I was doing this with a display model in a shop, but would like to know the optimal setup.
This is difficult to achieve because any form of autofocus box showing up on the OVF display is going to detract from the experience. The fastest and most reliable way to autofocus is to utilise single point af, in conjunction with focus range limiter set to your desired distance range and have the aperture set to a higher value around f8 or above (the lower the aperture value the longer it takes for the camera to autofocus)
@@JayRegular I think a rangefinder patch is more distracting :) But I really like the idea of a focus range limiter. I'd never even heard of that before watching one of your vids. I hope you keep doing this! Reviews don't tell me how-to, while most tutorials don't tell me why. Trust a fellow Aussie to link both ends together :)
@@JayRegular but if u accidentally bump it and it sticks a lot. Is there a way to just fully disable it. Or to reassign that dial so it doesn’t trigger it?
Really insightful video, those youtube algorithms really know what I'm looking for but it made me realize that even though it's incredibly-stupid-expensive I would save up to get a leica M or Q just because you get that experience you wish you'd had on the fujifilm cameras or better said having that "film experience" but with the digital conveniences. Still, I enjoyed this vid and definitely helped me reach my conclusions. keep up the good work
It's probably a long term goal for me too, to eventually acquire a Leica camera for that very same experience, but obviously the price is what sells the Fuji x100v
@@JayRegular Totally and this is the best what you can do with x100. That really made me stop for a moment and think about the fuji again, damn you jay lol
I cannot seem to turn on pop-up focus assist when in OVF (I mean that little square screen that comes up on the right below corner). As I know, when in OVF, I should turn the viewfinder lever on the left (towards the lens) and it should be seen, but in mine, it doesn't. Any ideas?
I would assume you know that you have to put your eye up to the viewfinder in order to have the focus assist patch show up. If that doesn't work I would do a factory reset of the camera and try again. If that still doesn't work I would definitely take it to where you bought it and have it looked at
@@JayRegular thanks Jay, for taking your time to answer my questions. As some of the community members of x100v users explained, the pop-up screen doesn't work with any other focusing than spot. It seems I was it zone focus, that's why it wasn't showing up.
The range finder will not have as much of a parallax issue. In terms of focus accuracy, it depends how well calibrated the range finder is. If the internal components are misaligned then, even though there's no parallax, it could be out of focus
@@davidharrison8948 when you have your eye to the viewfinder, if you are in EVF and you push the viewfinder selector dial to the right, it will change to OVF, if you are already in OVF and you push the selector dial to the left, it will show the pop up focus window. To disable it just push the viewfinder selector dial to the left again.
how do you manually focus perfectly without using EVF? i am trying to learn the focus meter using OVF. since i use OVF i do not see anything focusing on the x100v but the focus meter. so i often have blur when i look back at the pictures.
You won't be able to focus accurately with the OVF unless you enable focus check in the settings, but if you do that the OVF will switch to EVF for focusing and switch back to OVF after focusing, so it isn't very intuitive. If you haven't checked out my zone focusing video, consider taking a look. The whole point of my settings is to be able to not rely on manually focusing and just setting a 'zone' from one distance to another where everything is certain to be in focus. And this is strictly for street photography, I wouldn't recommend these settings for any other usage
sometimes it might overlap depending on how close you are focusing the white frame will shift to the lower right portion of the viewfinder and obsttruct the MF distance bar
Is anything else displayed on the OVF? Try pressing the display back button and see if it makes a difference, if not you can go into settings and choose what you want to display in the ovf
I thought the problem was I had Large Indicators Mode on, but I turned that off and now there are no indicators in the OVF other than the frame lines and autofocus patch. Not sure how to get regular sized indicators to appear.
You're killing it. Animations showcasing how focus works, clear and easy-to-understand tutorials and explanations. You're going to go far man! Thanks for these videos!
Always crushing the support man! Gunning for 5k 🤞💪
@@JayRegular Thanks for the video. How did you record the optical view finder? I'm trying to create a tutorial where I need to see inside the viewfinder. Thanks!
Definitely killing. Awesome content for the X100 lovers. Thank you Jay!
@@JayRegular I found that its slightly innacurate that box in viewfinder I notice that some things was inside the box but in result was not or it was cut by that box but was inside.
@@JayRegularI accidentally dropped my Fujifilm X100VI from the coffee table but I thoroughly explained it and not a mark on it but I wonder if the following is normal regarding the Optical/Electronic Viewfinder Selector Lever, when I look through the viewfinder and flip the lever, it works perfectly but when I hold the camera well away from my face and flip the lever it doesn't always work, can you all try it, point the camera at certain things and plus the ceiling and flip the lever, does the optical/electronic viewfinder Selector only work when you have your eye up to the eye viewfinder and sensor.
Thank you for making detailed and well thought out videos. Straight to the good stuff without any "lifestyle" fluff. Perfect. Thank you.
I’ve always thought the Fuji X100V to be the proverbial missing link between digital and film cameras. Love these detailed informative vids, Jay.
I never understood why there was a cult following for the x100 cameras until I picked one up for myself. Now I've become an evangelist 🤣
JayRegular guilty
You mean the xpro3?
Thanks for this! This is really an excellent video and overview. I've been all over my X100V's menus and still learned a ton from this.
Thankyou Sam! Glad you found it helpful in some way ✌️
Jay, love the content! I don’t know how many times I’ve watched your “Focus Modes Explained” video, as I’m always struggling to find the right AF setting when taking photos of my 3yr old son, as he quite as fast mover and good opportunities appear and disappear within a split of a second and I seem to get more out of focus shots than focused one. You did mention in the video that you may do another video explaining the AF-C Custom Settings menu and I am definitely looking forward to that.
I was dabbling with OVF when I first picked up the X100F and eventually, over time, found myself using the EVF more and more, and now I use the EVF 100% of the time.
Thanks Hirokazu, yes the AF-C video is in the pipeline. And yes the EVF is a lot more simple and straightforward and that's why a lot of people prefer it 👌
Use higher shutter speed, ISO.. well some AFC mode not as fast to track really fast subject, unless its really designed to do so..
Another great and informative video Jay. Cheers
Thanks for this, Jay. I’m new to the Fuji system. Trying to figure out this feature on my own would take some time. But having this tutorials got me up to speed.
what a clear and simple intro 😺
Thanks for this, Jay. It explains what I've been wondering about with settings. Very helpful!
Excellent review of several settings which will result in more effect zone focusing. Thank you.
Very clear and simple information. Thanks a lot.
Cheers from a happy French F100V owner!
Thankyou Jean!
wow. thank you so much. you have the right approach with this camera.
finally someone telling something everybodt needs, THANKS!
Great! I already fixed my OVF setting to yours. One extra advantage of using OVF is battery life..
The battery life will improve slightly if you have the LCD off and viewfinder set to eye sensor 👍
@@JayRegular Hey Jay, I disable the eye sensor on all my Fuji cameras. Most of the time I have my cameras on a strap and years ago I noticed that my batteries were draining pretty fast. I discovered the eye sensor enables the EVF or OVF overlay as soon as it's covered by my eye or my clothes or finger. I think it's just a proximity sensor based on light. So it's basically ON almost all the time. It's the same on the XPRO3. I prefer to set the camera to go to sleep after 1min and I just hold the shutter for half a sec to wake it up. I think I tested years back a Sony and actually it was better because it had to detect a real eye to enable the camera or that focus where the eye is looking.
@@REMY.C. thanks for the tip! I see the logic behind setting sleep for 1 minute, but I want to have my camera ready for anything, and having to wake it from sleep could make me miss a shot. I find just having a few extra batteries as backup makes me not worry too much about the quick drains
@@JayRegular Having multiple batteries is a must, you're totally right.
To counter that short wake up delay, wether I have the camera on a shoulder strap or in my hand with a wrist strap, my finger is always ready on the button, I half press the shutter before I take my camera to my face. By the time the camera is at eye level, it's ready to go. I think the wake from sleep takes like half a second, way faster than arm movement.
@@REMY.C. interesting, I think I might give it a try next time!
Thanks for awesome video. Definitely will check this mode on the streets.
Bought the X100V even though I already have the GRiiiX mainly because the OVF. I couldn’t ‘get into the scene’ with the GR at all
Nice video. One point that seemed strange to me is when you call it a disadvantage of the EVF that it turns black if you set low ISO, small aperture, and high shutter speed. The thing is, any photo you take with a the EVF black will also be black, because the EVF is giving you a preview of your image. So why would you do that? To the contrary, it is an ADVANTAGE of the EVF that it gives you a complete image preview, because this way you can see if your exposure is correct BEFORE shooting. It also allows you to shoot accurately in very low light situations where you wouldn't be able to see well enough through an optical viewfinder.
For most practices, yes the EVF is effective at showing you what exactly will be the outcome of your image. But I'm assuming you've never tried flash photography before? if I want to simulate night time during the day, I need to rely on the flash to expose a subject because I want a shallow depth of field but I want to keep the ISO low and the shutter speed high, looking through the EVF would be very dark, and would make framing and composing very difficult
@@JayRegular I've shot with flashes, I just prefer not to; I like natural light. But yeah, I see what you mean, in that specific situation the EVF will look darker than the final image.
Jay very well explained video keep up the great work. Cheers Frank
I always wondered what that little box was, thanks !
One thing that may not have been mentioned, for those of us who have lost some of our near vision due to age (welcome to 40 baby!), the OVF is actually much more practical than trying to use the EVF, which often would require use of progressives, aka, bifocals to see the screen then look at the subject, etc. So for older photographers, use of the OVF is key. I realized this with my Sony full frame, and it's been great to have this feature on the x100v.
You don’t use the ERF patch? I find it very useful for manual focus and for estimating exposure. To make that useful, I set the Fn button to focus check, so that I can quickly switch between “exposure mode” and “focus mode”. Since the camera bases auto exposure on what it sees in the ERF, I keep it in exposure mode unless I want to refocus.
2:58 the major problem is with Fuji's OVF vs a rangefinder optical system is that a rangefinder is perfect for accurate manual focusing, on the Fuji, the OVF gives pretty no information about the accuracy of your MF result. You should enable EVF to make sure focus accuracy.
Great video! How do i find a grid overlay for composition?
Thanks Jay, i learned more. Greetings from Toulouse, France
Thanks Sebastien!
Interesting video, I learned something new, I never did fully understand the paralax viewfinder until now.
I'm sorry for your loss...and empty bottle of a 12 year old Aberlour is a tragedy. Still it could be worse, it could be an empty bottle of an Islay malt! :)
glad you got something out of this video Wallace! Yes, but fortunately aberlour 12 is not TOO hard to obtain... though I think for my next dram I'll try something smooth from the Americas ;) Islay malt when I reach 10k subs! xD
Another great vid. Had no idea what those two focus boxes did 👍
It's outdated and was designed for the older x100 and xpro cameras that didn't have the small focus assist window. Doesn't really make sense to use it now
For truly analog I would have fixed the ISO (even at higher level than an average film). Very good channel Ray. Keep posting for those like me who are in love with this camera!
Thanks Antonio! Yes I agree, setting ISO to 1600 actually gives a 'slightly' film look due to the noise 😁
Very interesting take!
I would like to suggest shooting in full auto mode with the view finder completely off. I have enjoyed relying on my pre-selected auto shoot settings and looking into the view glass not distracted by ANY digital reference. Initially one may experience fear of the unknown in this way, but have faith in your ability to pre-set auto features and in your camera's ability. It is a truly blind fly by wire experience.
sounds like a very liberating way to shoot Kevin! I can kind of see the intentions of this technique. And for personal projects it might actually be a great idea!
Actually you can turn off the EVF exposure preview: Menu SCREEN SET-UP > PREVIEW EXP. IN MANUAL MODE > OFF.
Thank you! Very informative and helpful :)
Awesome mate!
Thanks man! 👍
Hi! What is you exposure metering setting? I geuss you can’t really do this with spot metering? Is the analogue way average metering?
Thank you! Very clear and very interesting !
Thanks Fabrice! 🙏
Excellent!
amazing how little you know about this camera
Hey Jay! I love your videos! Congrats on doing such good informative work. I am thinking of buying the x100v but I love the OVF and square format and I am wondering: If we change the camera to square format, does it change the frame in the OVF to a rectangular as well, or the squaew format works only with EVF?
I never actually tried it myself, I'll have a check
I took a look and it seems like the framing does indeed change to square in the OVF when you change the format
@@JayRegular Thank you so much Jay! This is awesome!
Hello, does this setting disable the half shutter working completely?
how would i switch to the ovf but then switch back to the evf with a button? also i am unsure how you activated the mode in which you can see more and outside what the evf can see, thanks
Jay - how did you record the optical view finder? I'm trying to create a tutorial where I need to see inside the viewfinder. Thanks!
Dang, i learned a lot from this. thank you. I'm a bit confused about the frame lines though. I tried all the settings you mentioned but I'm getting short yellow arrow lines at each corner of the rectangle...rather than seeing a solid white line for the whole rectangele. Any recommendations?
For reference i'm using the WCL converter as well.
Thanks again man!
I think that happens when the lens is wider than can fit on the ovf. So you have like an 18-23mm lens?
Nice vid! Havent seen a detail ovf setup like yours online....EVF pre shutter blackout is an issue when one raises their eye to the viewfinder and have to wait til EVF displays. It terrible for other systems and not much people mention it. Especially critical for street photography...
Ah I knew I forgot something in my video! Glad you mentioned it Marc! It's pretty annoying on the x100v too, everytime the flap covers up the viewfinder window when you have the eye sensor activated for the EVF
I accidentally dropped my Fujifilm X100VI from the coffee table but I thoroughly explained it and not a mark on it but I wonder if the following is normal regarding the Optical/Electronic Viewfinder Selector Lever, when I look through the viewfinder and flip the lever, it works perfectly but when I hold the camera well away from my face and flip the lever it doesn't always work, can you all try it, point the camera at certain things and plus the ceiling and flip the lever, does the optical/electronic viewfinder Selector only work when you have your eye up to the eye viewfinder and sensor.
The ovf/evf switch only works when you have your eye to the viewfinder and the sensor detects
Thanks! Very useful info!👍🏻📷 ✌🏻
Thanks Joe!🙏
Thank you, very informative. Subbed.
Thanks for watching!
Dear Jay and other folks in here - - I received a gift for father's day. A new X100v but I had to return it. When using the OVF I could see a bit of the lense on the lower right side of the OVF frame. Took it to the store, they told me that's the way it is in some rangefinder style cameras and should it be a problem with the actual picture. I didn't buy it. Can you advise if in fact that is the case with the X100v or should I just buy somewhere else? Thanks much for any advise.
it seems you have never used a rangefinder/rangefinder style camera before. its normal to be able to see the lens in the lower right corner when in optical viewfinder mode. it will not show up in the final image
I'm so new at this. Can these settings be saved as a profile? I set up my camera using other recommended settings, not in Manual mode, or do these settings only come in when in M? Thanks for your tutorials. A lot to learn.
Unfortunately you can't save these settings as a profile, the video was intended to make the shooting experience on the x100v as close to an analogue film camera as possible, so having these settings for other types of shooting styles may not work optimally.
@@JayRegular thankyou. I'll have a play with the camera on your suggested settings. I actually bought the x100v hoping that it would be more like analogue than my Canon slr. Wish me luck. Thanks again for your videos.
Hi @jayRegular, your video is very clear an tidy, thank you very much for that content. I have a question: Though I follow each and every step of this "tutorial" I don't obtain the same results as you. @7'15, that's clearly an analog like experiment there, the picture is taken imeediatle one after another. I can not obtain this with my X100V. When I take a picture there is those 4 littles squares spining, you know like loading the picture, those squares indicating the that the picture is loading and you need to wait until you can shoot again. It's like I can not take pictures continously like you do. Have you any idea what i could have set wrong ? Thank you for your help.
In menu Under IQ settings, there is a setting called Clarity, make sure that is set to 0.
@@JayRegular hi, thank you for your answer, I did have seen on @fujixweekly films simulations articles that clarity could indeed make the camera to take more time to record pictures. I kinda presume that it could be that. So that means that I would loose that setting if the film simulation calls for it. Thank you very much for your time.
Very helpful video, but there's one thing that really bothers me. The lens is always partly obstructing the frame in the lower right. Is there any way around that? If I want to tightly control, what elements are in the periphery, I just can't. I have to guess what's in the frame in the lower right.
That is unfortunately one of the thing that you need to deal with when shooting optical, the best way to minimize this would be to have no hood on the camera, but that's not the best workaround.
Why is the best screen setting for better battery life? Lcd? Optical view finder? Or evf?
I would guess evf on eye sensor and lcd off would save a bit of battery
When I look into the ovf for some reason the big white box used to compose your photo isn’t there. Is there a way to turn that on and off? Thank you!
not quite sure I understand, when you say look into the ovf, did you switch to the viewfinder to ovf or are you still in evf?
My OVF got shut close by a friend and I can’t for the life of me open it :( does anyone have any idea on how I can open it?
But the big question is, how do I get my X100V in EVF mode??? I have it for 6 weeks now and still can't find how. I prefer EVF because the framelines in OVF make it hard to make a good composition.
the front switch with the red indicator, with your eye to the viewfinder, pull the switch to the right and it will toggle from OVF to EVF and vice versa
@@JayRegular tnx for your reaction. This is according to the manual but it didn't work. After 4weeks I finally have the answer. The camera was set in "sportsfinder mode" and in that mode it is not possible to switch.
Is there some special setting for that little screen to turn on while in optical viewfinder mode? I push the lever the opposite direction and nothing happens.
Never mind, sadly I figured out it only works in manual mode.
6:57 Zone focusing with OVF, sounds brutal. So, the OVF gives no feed back about the focus accuracy, if you want to make sure your MF is sharp, you should switch over to EVF? This is totally Ok to, I just want to understand the OVF system for MF avoiding false expectations.
Can you change the size of the frame lines in the ovf?
No you cannot change the size
I would like to take your analogue setup, and add autofocus, with the least possible loss of the analogue experience. In other words, I want the speed, OVF experience and situational awareness of your analogue setup, while rapidly moving the focus square with my finger on the touch screen and getting everything else out of focus. I was doing this with a display model in a shop, but would like to know the optimal setup.
This is difficult to achieve because any form of autofocus box showing up on the OVF display is going to detract from the experience. The fastest and most reliable way to autofocus is to utilise single point af, in conjunction with focus range limiter set to your desired distance range and have the aperture set to a higher value around f8 or above (the lower the aperture value the longer it takes for the camera to autofocus)
@@JayRegular I think a rangefinder patch is more distracting :) But I really like the idea of a focus range limiter. I'd never even heard of that before watching one of your vids. I hope you keep doing this! Reviews don't tell me how-to, while most tutorials don't tell me why. Trust a fellow Aussie to link both ends together :)
Can you fully disable the evf so it doesn’t turn on at all?
Technically you can switch it to optical viewfinder and just never switch it back to evf
@@JayRegular but if u accidentally bump it and it sticks a lot. Is there a way to just fully disable it. Or to reassign that dial so it doesn’t trigger it?
Wich is Better in a very sunny day, OPV or EVF?
EVF
Really insightful video, those youtube algorithms really know what I'm looking for but it made me realize that even though it's incredibly-stupid-expensive I would save up to get a leica M or Q just because you get that experience you wish you'd had on the fujifilm cameras or better said having that "film experience" but with the digital conveniences. Still, I enjoyed this vid and definitely helped me reach my conclusions. keep up the good work
It's probably a long term goal for me too, to eventually acquire a Leica camera for that very same experience, but obviously the price is what sells the Fuji x100v
@@JayRegular Totally and this is the best what you can do with x100. That really made me stop for a moment and think about the fuji again, damn you jay lol
I cannot seem to turn on pop-up focus assist when in OVF (I mean that little square screen that comes up on the right below corner). As I know, when in OVF, I should turn the viewfinder lever on the left (towards the lens) and it should be seen, but in mine, it doesn't.
Any ideas?
I would assume you know that you have to put your eye up to the viewfinder in order to have the focus assist patch show up. If that doesn't work I would do a factory reset of the camera and try again. If that still doesn't work I would definitely take it to where you bought it and have it looked at
@@JayRegular thanks Jay, for taking your time to answer my questions. As some of the community members of x100v users explained, the pop-up screen doesn't work with any other focusing than spot. It seems I was it zone focus, that's why it wasn't showing up.
Do you really think that true range finder camera do not have the same paralax problem?
The range finder will not have as much of a parallax issue. In terms of focus accuracy, it depends how well calibrated the range finder is. If the internal components are misaligned then, even though there's no parallax, it could be out of focus
Thanks for the vid. Any idea what setting stops the pop up working? I have scrolled the book with no lunch. Cheers
by pop up do you mean the pop up focus window while in OVF?
Hi sorry yes I do lol
@@davidharrison8948 when you have your eye to the viewfinder, if you are in EVF and you push the viewfinder selector dial to the right, it will change to OVF, if you are already in OVF and you push the selector dial to the left, it will show the pop up focus window. To disable it just push the viewfinder selector dial to the left again.
JayRegular Hi and thanks but still doesn’t work I think it’s disabled somewhere in the settings 👍🏻
JayRegular sorted I did a soft reset now it works. Thanks for your help 👍🏻
how do you manually focus perfectly without using EVF? i am trying to learn the focus meter using OVF. since i use OVF i do not see anything focusing on the x100v but the focus meter. so i often have blur when i look back at the pictures.
You won't be able to focus accurately with the OVF unless you enable focus check in the settings, but if you do that the OVF will switch to EVF for focusing and switch back to OVF after focusing, so it isn't very intuitive. If you haven't checked out my zone focusing video, consider taking a look. The whole point of my settings is to be able to not rely on manually focusing and just setting a 'zone' from one distance to another where everything is certain to be in focus. And this is strictly for street photography, I wouldn't recommend these settings for any other usage
thank you! i do street photography so this helps!
Why is the mf distance bar mixed up with the white frame of the ovf? I am suffering exactly the same... any fixes?
sometimes it might overlap depending on how close you are focusing the white frame will shift to the lower right portion of the viewfinder and obsttruct the MF distance bar
Battery level won't appear in my OVF and I'm not sure what is wrong.
Is anything else displayed on the OVF? Try pressing the display back button and see if it makes a difference, if not you can go into settings and choose what you want to display in the ovf
Hmm, everything else is displaying fine.
I thought the problem was I had Large Indicators Mode on, but I turned that off and now there are no indicators in the OVF other than the frame lines and autofocus patch. Not sure how to get regular sized indicators to appear.
Omg I just figured it out. I had to push the DISP button.
@@sigilvii yep pressing the display back button usually fixes things
Hello there is a black box that has appeared in my OVF in the bottom corner when the is camera off, does anyone know how to remove this?
You need to learn the menus in this camera. The exposure settings affect the lcd unless you TURN THAT SETTING OFF!
C'mon man....