Hi, and welcome to another edition of the FujiGuys. My name is Billy
Today we're going to take a look at the Fujifilm X-A2 camera. This is Fuji's Compact
system camera that allows you to interchange different lenses.
This kit comes with the XC 16-50mm lens.
It's version II, so it does have some improved performance: including auto macro capabilities
so you don't have to push
the "Macro" button anymore to do close up shots. It's gonna switch automatically.
So, let's just take a look at the contents that you get with the X-A2 camera.
Let's un-box the new Fujifilm X-A2 camera.
This is Fuji's compact system camera
that comes with the XC 16-50mm F3.5-5.6
OIS version II lens, which has an improved
macro autofocus system so that you don't have to
turn on the "Macro" button in order to do close up shots.
There's been adjustments to this new lens
as well of course the X-A2 offers some really new
features like a a 'selfie' mode where you can flip the
LCD on the back to the camera up to about 175 degrees so you can,
obviously, see yourself when taking photos with this camera. So,
depending on the country that you purchase it from
there's different colour options. This one I'm un-boxing here though this is
what the picture looks like it's a silver and black, but it's actually a
white. So again you can look at the sticker on the side to tell you what the
colour you are buying for this particular model. So let's just
un-box this camera right away. So, first thing, of course
is your owners manual and registration information.
You want to obviously want to register your product so that you get more information about the
camera when we have new firmware updates.
Perhaps promotion and contests a good idea.
The quick start guide is also included, but there is also a full manual that you can
have it available from our support site from Fujifilm.
Looking inside the box content
is the X-A2 in white.
So, I'm gonna just remove the security bag here.
And there you have it. It's an X-A2. It's actually
very similar to the X-A1 in dimensions, but this is of course one of the new
three colours in this white, finished with the silver.
There's also, because this is a kit, you have the lens.
The lens, again, is a 16-50.
I'm just going to take that out of the package. Because it's an XC lens,
of course, the feeling of this is not as premium as say,
an XF lens from the compact system
XF lens lineup that Fuji offers. This is 16-50 with
a zoom control right here, a manual focus ring.
You've got the lens cover that's in black.
And the back cover is also a plastic piece
instead of a more standard screw-on piece like
some of the XF lenses that are available.
But, of course, you know, this whole kit is
relatively inexpensive compared to Fuji's
X-series system with the XF lenses.
So, of course, I'm gonna put this lens aside for now.
I'm just gonna leave the lens cap off.
It uses the NP-W126 rechargeable Lithium battery.
This battery is pretty decent and it's compatible with
the majority of CSC cameras from Fuji,
X-series cameras that uses the interchangeable lenses. So,
if you already own one, it's most likely it's the same battery.
Inside the box content, just below it, we have a few extra things here.
We have the charging cable
and dependent on the country that you purchase a camera from, this
piece will be slightly different. This is the North American plug.
We have the camera strap.
So the camera strap of course; it's not leather,
but it does have a decent feel to it.
It's free. It's included. If you prefer
to have a higher quality leather strap then by all means you can
obviously pick that up from a third-party.
But that's gonna be right there.
Gonna leave it there for now. You got the battery charger.
So the charger itself, as you can see; it's like any other battery charger, BC-W126.
It has a connection on the right here, and this is where
you would attach this piece to, and that end plugs into the wall.
So, I'm just gonna leave that there for now.
And the last thing that's in the box is the lens hood for the XC lens.
So to put that together,
you wanna match the little white spot here with the white dot there.
And it should just go right in and then
twist to lock in place.
To attach the lens to the camera you're going to remove the
body cap; and of course, the rear cap on the lens.
You match the orange tab to the orange dot. And it should just match like that
and click in place. That's your release button, so you wanna hold that down
and you can actually eject the lens that way. OK.
So there we go; the camera is really assembled.
The next thing you need to do of course, is to pick up
a memory card, whether it's an SD, SD-HC or SD-XC card.
And, it supports all the way up to 128 GB in terms of storage.
And as SD-XC cards become higher capacity
most likely it will work as well. So the first thing is the bottom.
You want to put the battery in. You want to match the
orange square here to the orange tab and the contacts will go into the camera.
You want to charge the battery at least four hours before usage.
It does come slightly charged out of the box, but
you can obviously play with that if you got this as a Christmas gift.
But, we do recommend you fully charge it and after two cycles you get the full
potential of the battery itself.
Turning on the camera. You're gonna turn it on with the on/off switch right here.
And, if it is your first time, it's going to ask you to things like the language options and you
and you can use directional pad to select the language.
I'm going to select "English". And course, you can set your date
and time here. and if you accidentally push "OK" it's okay and you can go back into the menu,
or the setup menu,
and you can adjust that. Now, again, as you can see here,
it's on SR-AUTO. So it's changing itself to macro mode when it's doing close-up shots
as it switches, it automatically switches for you.
It has face detection. It detects if subjects are moving.
So this is your "SR-Plus" auto but you also have
the ability to shoot and control shutter speeds, aperture
and fully controllable for them, as well as various
scene modes including "Advanced Filter" features.
So, I'm just going to leave it at the "SR-plus" for now.
Because there is no memory card in here, there is no storage, so you do have to pick one up.
You can push half-way down the shutter button here to pre-focus
and all the way down to take the picture. It's going to give you a preview
like this because you don't have a memory card in that you can use its
zoom in to check how
how good that that focus was. And when you tap again, you're
back to shooting. To playback you push the playback button. And, because again
there is no internal memory, you need to have a memory card in order to actually
see your images that you captured. You can record, pushing the record button.
You push that one time to start recording and push it again to stop.
There are different access controls here of course.
You can look at our "Top Features" video on the X-A2
to learn more about this camera and how to operate it.
But, this is really just the starting point of the camera.
You've got the built-in flash.
You've got the tilt LCD screen again, so you can shoot low angles as well as high angles.
If you're doing a "Selfie" shoot, you can actually flip up the screen and pull it out
and so of course, you can shoot yourself like that as you can see right there.
So, that's kind of a nice little cool feature and
it's really a quick unboxing of the Fujifilm X-A2.
So, there you have it, the X-A2 is complete with everything you need to take photos right out of the box...
Of course, you do need to pick up a memory card in order to actually capture those photos,
so don't forget to pick it up when you do buy the X-A2.
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Until then, I'm Billy of The FujiGuys.