On the main screen you can adjust aperture remotely, trigger video recording, and also go to a playback screen to review the images stored on the camera’s SD card. So you can override the camera’s settings for ISO, Film Sim, WB, Macro, Self Timer. There’s also a menu to the side of the shutter release, which allows you to change the settings on the camera remotely. You don’t get all of the HUD info from the camera – no focus distance, horizon etc etc Not sure how much of that would be relevant to tethered shooting? The image display is also showing the film style chosen – so if you selected B&W, you’d see the B&W image on the remote device in real time – so it behaves just like the EVF/LCD. real time – so you can see movement on your remote device, and should be able to trigger the camera to capture something that’s moving in front of the camera. The two devices are now paired, and the App displays a live picture from the X-T1, along with all the settings currently in place. You are in effect building a two device WLAN, with the camera and your smart device. You can be in the middle of nowhere, and it’ll work perfectly. You do not need any other WiFi network (WLAN) in place to make this work. The first time you connect with a smart device, the camera asks if you accept that connection – this prevents unknown users from taking over your X-T1! WIth the X-T1 transmitting WiFI, you then go to your WiFi enabled device, and look for the X-T1 WiFi SSID – when you see it, you connect your device as if you’re joining that WiFi network. It shows up on channel 10 – no idea if this varies at all from time to time or model to model, I’ll test more as time goes on. The camera can be configured to have a custom name (SSID), I quickly edited mine to add my initials. The X-T1 has a WiFi button – you press this to switch the WiFi on, and the camera then pops up with an SSID on 2.4GHZ 802.11B The App gives you a number of options: (Clink on images for larger versions)įor today I’m going to focus on the Remote Control features. Initially I figured this was somewhat of a gimmick for the FaceBook generation, so that they could quickly upload their selfies, which indeed they can.īut after I’d downloaded the App from the Apple App Store – and installed it on an iPad Mini, I came to a different conclusion. One of the new features on the Fuji X-T1 is the ability to tether the camera to a smartphone or tablet device via WiFi.
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