Peter's Paris a la X100

 The following arrived from my good friend and colleague Peter Sanderson.

We purchased one of these cameras each to use on a trip to UK and Paris last year, and we are delighted with the results, especially at high ISO.
 Not wishing to reinvent the wheel, I used the Fuji instructions and those published by Ken Rockwell as the basis for my camera set up.
 As I do not mind using disk space, I chose not to use Ken's recommendation of NORMAL JPEG, and opted instead to shoot in RAW.
 After some experimentation I arrived at the following settings which have served me well.
 The attached shot in the Paris Opera House was taken hand held f2.8, 1/60 sec. 2000 ISO.

                                            Eiffel Tower (pocket tripod)  f2, 1/40 sec. 3200ISO.

  

SET UP Menu

SILENT MODE: ON

IMAGE DISP: 3 seconds.

FRAME NO: CONTINUOUS.

OPERATION VOL: OFF,

SHUTTER VOL: Min.

SHUTTER SOUND: 1.

AUTO POWER OFF:  2 MIN.

OVF POWER SAVE MODE: OFF.  The histogram is not active if OVF is turned ON. Turn this “OFF” if you want to see the histogram in the optical finder.


QUICK START:  OFF.

Fn BUTTON: I have programmed mine to select the self timer which I very often use for long exposures

RED EYE:  OFF

ISO AUTO CONTROL: ON  I set mine to 3200 ISO with minimum shutter speed of 1/60 sec.  This is excellent for travel shots, especially in low light conditions.

AUTO DYNAMIC RANGE:  100%  I find this setting works best for RAW.  Auto is OK. For JPEG’s.

FOCUS CHECK:  ON.

FRAMING GUIDELINE: GRID 9 (Rule of 1/3rds)

COLOR SPACE: Adobe RGB.

LONG EXPOSURE:  ON.

SAVE ORG IMAGE:  OFF.

AUTOROTATE PB:  OFF. (Shows full screen preview)





SHOOTING  Menu



SELF TIMER: Accessible  via “Fn” button

ISO: I set ISO to 200, and leave “Auto ISO” active.

IMAGE SIZE: (3:2) RAW

IMAGE QUALITY: I normally shoot RAW, but occasionally use Large JPEG’s.

DYNAMIC RANGE: Auto works well for JPEG’s, but I find it overdoes the colours in RAW. I leave this on 100% (Default).

FILM SIMULATION: STD

COLOR: MID.

SHARPNESS:  STANDARD.

HIGHLIGHT  TONE: STANDARD.

SHADOW TONE: STANDARD.

NOISE REDUCTION:  STANDARD.  I use Photoshop to deal with any noise issues.

AF MODE: AREA.



 I use "Full Custom Mode"  for Optical Viewfinder, Electronic Viewfinder & LCD Screen.


 While some of these setting may use a little more battery power, we found that one spare battery was sufficient backup for our 4 week trip.
 As Lithium Ion batteries do not have a memory, I do not run them flat, and normally recharge them as a matter of course after a day's shooting.


If as I do you have several cameras that use different batteries the Ansmann Digicharger Pro is a great accessory as it will charge all batteries and USB devices both from mains and 12volt DC.