How to: Make Better Images Indoors

Here in Europe, you can already feel it… Winter season is here. The days are getting shorter, it is getting colder outside, and in some parts it is already starting to snow. Of course, such conditions create perfect outdoor sceneries to capture in your photos, but shooting portraits and other pictures involving people or pets might be challenging due to the unpredictable weather. Therefore, it is time to move back inside and make use of the cozy vibes of our homes. Especially, since Christmas is around the corner, and we are about to take the perfect cheesy family pictures. For beautiful indoor images with perfect color, you need to know how to respond to available light.

Remember, what you see is what you get!

Utilizing your camera’s electronic viewfinder, or the main LCD screen, gives you an accurate view of how the picture will be when you hit the shutter, eliminating any kind of guesswork. Even if you make adjustments to exposure or other settings, you are able to see these in your viewfinder. Thus, you get the picture exactly the way you want to.

Did you know if you add a live histogram to the display, it shows how bright or dark the image you will make is? In your camera’s settings, simply go to ‘screen set-up > display custom setting > activate histogram’.

Make use of auto ISO

As always, available light is inconsistent and therefore, it is important to be adjustable. ISO is every photographer’s secret for that! For everyone who is lazy or as we like to call it ‘smart’, simply set the ISO to Auto, so it adjusts automatically, ensuring you get a good exposure every time. If you prefer adjusting the ISO to your specific requirements, you can as well do so manually by altering the ISO handle.

In addition, you can set a minimum shutter speed with the Auto ISO. Now, it will not drop below that setting – as you can see, all you need to do is tell the camera to do what you want it to do! By choosing one of the auto ISO modes you will be able to change the three settings ‘Default Sensitivity, Max Sensitivity and Min. Shutter Speed’.

Significant to note is that control over Auto ISO is only available in the Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, or Manual modes. In other options, the camera uses Auto ISO automatically.

Adobe Camera to Cloud for FUJIFILM X Series

Isn’t it insane how fast 2022 went by? Only a couple of weeks left until we enter 2023. Luckily, we are already excited to welcome 2023 because something new is waiting for you… A new feature for our FUJIFILM X Series.

We are happy to announce the world’s first Native Digital Stills Camera Integration for Adobe Camera to Cloud, which is coming to FUJIFILM X-H2S Series. Now it is easier to connect, create and collaborate by simply connecting to Frame.io using X-H2S and an attached FT-XH file transmitter to send files directly from the camera to collaborators anywhere in the world.

Key features:

  • Send images and videos quickly and safely with global standards in Cloud Security
  •  Automatically send JPEG, HEIF or RAW files to Frame.io directly from the camera
  • Deliver Apple ProRes Proxy files and get bandwidth-efficient, high-quality files into Frame.io
  • Make your content available to collaborators worldwide within seconds

More information will definitely follow. Stay tuned and keep your eyes open because it is planned to launch in early Spring 2023 as a special firmware update for X-H2S.

September – Beginning of Grape Harvest Season

That’s right, grape harvest season is here and it is probably the favorite season of all wine lovers and connoisseurs.

X-Photographer Thomas B. Jones is a German/American photographer specialized in portrait and documentary photography. Meeting interesting people, exploring exciting places and capturing otherwise fleeting moments nourish his passion for photography. 

In Germany, grape harvesting usually starts around mid-September, fitting this occasion, we found this xX-story documentation “Generation change at the Kusterer winery” by @thomas_jones_fotografie.

Since July 2020, Maximilian Kusterer has been the owner of the Kusterer Winery in Esslingen, which he took over from his parents. In 2012, he created his first own wine and today, he focuses primarily on elegant fruit and a discreet use of wood.

X Summit NYC: September 2022

Are you already as excited as we are?

Introducing FUJIFILM X-H2

Equipped with the new 40.2MP “X-Trans™ CMOS 5 HR” sensor to deliver the highest image quality in the history of the X Series

FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) is pleased to announce the launch of the mirrorless digital camera “FUJIFILM X-H2”. The camera joins the lineup of the X Series of mirrorless digital cameras, which are renowned for their outstanding image quality in both stills and videos, delivered with Fujifilm’s proprietary color reproduction technology.

The X-H2 features the new back-illuminated 40.2MP “X-Trans™ CMOS 5 HR”1 sensor and the high-speed “X-Processor 5.” This is a new flagship model boasting the highest resolution in the history of the X Series in both stills and videos, delivering high-resolution stills as well as becoming the world’s first2 APS-C camera to enable 8K/30P Apple ProRes*3 internal recording.

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Introducing GF20-35mmF4 R WR

GF lens series’ widest-angle zoom to expand wide-angle photographic potential
FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) is pleased to announce the launch of the “FUJINON GF20-35mmF4 R WR”. It will be a new addition to the lineup of interchangeable GF lenses designed for the GFX Series of mirrorless digital cameras, incorporating a large-format sensor approximately 1.7 times larger than a full-frame 35mm sensor.

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Introducing XF56mmF1.2 R WR

Stunning bokeh from this fast mid-telephoto lens broadens the potential of visual expressions
FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) is pleased to announce the launch of the “FUJINON XF56mmF1.2 R WR”. It will be a new addition to the lineup of interchangeable XF lenses designed for the X Series of mirrorless digital cameras, which are renowned for their compact and lightweight design and outstanding image quality delivered with Fujifilm’s proprietary color reproduction technology.

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X Summit Livestream

We brought some exciting reveals to “The Big Apple”, New York City, USA on September 8, 2022. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and we cannot wait for the next X-Summit in…

Did you miss the live event? No worries! Watch the whole live event here again and get all necessary information about our new products.

NEW Firmware Updates for X-Series

Fujifilm is always striving to improve its products and quality for its customers. Therefore, it is essential to keep our camera system’s firmware up-to-date. Subsequently, we launched many new firmware updates for all our X-Series cameras in June and July 2022, providing you with the latest bug fixes and improvements.

If you are an owner of an X-T3, X-T4, X-T30, X-t100, X-T200, an X-A7, X-A5, X-S10, X100V, X-Pro3, X-H1 or X-H2S then you should check NEWS | FUJIFILM X Series & GFX – Global for all relevant information about the latest firmware version. Additionally, all GFX 50S, GFX 50R, GFX100 and GFX100S owners can also rejoice since there have been new updates for these camera systems as well.

X-H2S Meets FPV Drone

“In the wake of excitement and fulfillment after each project passes, our desire to go bigger and do more continues to go on,” explains the filmmaker duo Double Vision from New Zealand. One major aspect that needs to be addressed appropriately is the seemingly endless equipment.

Every photographer or filmmaker will at some point be part of a project where all you can possibly carry is just one compact system covering it all. In their last two projects, the duo tested the FUJIFILM X-H2S hybrid camera system without experiencing any other X-Series camera before. Therefore, having a totally unbiased approach towards the X-H2s and its performance.

They never shot with an X-Series camera before, they never shot a mountain bike movie before, and tested the camera to the fullest by putting it on an FPV drone.