Fujifilm x100vi Part 2: Buttons, knobs, and dials

13 Oct 2024

So much stuff in this thing. What are all the buttons and knobs? What are they called? What can you do with them?

At the top of the camera

Function 1 button to the right of the On/Off switch. (The un-labeled one.) It turns face detection on and off.

The exposure compensation dial is right next to it. This is for when you want to over-expose or under-expose your photos.

The big dial towards the center is the shutter speed, and ISO dial. More on this soon … because I admit that I have a lot to learn.

The “hot shoe” is where you can place your external flash (The light. Not the memory.)

At the front of the camera

• Front command dial.

• The “function two” button which brings up a menu that allows you to loop through common settings with the control ring while you are shooting. Eg: cycling through different “film simulations” you can choose (sepia, black and white, etc).

  An example of the utility of “function two” is providing fast access to “tele-conv” (or “teleconverter”). To go from “off” to 70mm or 50mm:

  1. Press function two on the front of the camera
  2. Cycle through the options to “tele-conv”
  3. Now when you’re ready to shoot, turn the control ring to zoom in with 50mm to 70mm modes.
• Around the function two button is a little toggle where you can switch between your optical viewfinder and your electrical viewfinder.
• Between the control ring and the body is the aperture ring.
• At the very front is where you can attach filters by unscrewing the very tip, or front of the lense, and placing your filter attachment and filter. Like the Moment Cinebloom filter, as mentioned in the video.

To the left of the camera

The focus mode switch where you can select “manual focus”, which turns your control ring on to focus your shot, well … manually. Clicking on the dial in the back of the camera, at the top and on the right, to zoom in.

“Continuous” is great for when you’re shooting moving objects.

“Single” is better for shooting things like portraits.

The back of the camera

The viewfinder and the diopter immediately to the left where you can adjust the focus of the viewfinder. Immediately to the right is the sensor that will turn the screen off if you’re placing your eye up to the viewfinder.

The “Drive/Delete” button which will display the menu to switch between different shooting modes - most common for selecting whether you’re in “Still Image” or “Movie” modes.

“AEL / AFL” button, is the exposure and focus lock button.

The rear command dial to the furthest right at the top controls the shutter speed.

The little “Q” button on the edge of the back, on the right side, is the “quick menu button”. This gives you quick access to different settings so you don’t have to dig through all the different deep menu settings. You use the little joystick to move around to the different quick menu items and then cycle through each of them with the rear command dial.