Fuji X100T Direct Printing to Instax SP-1

robertdc · Mar 7, 2015

Hi,

Just bought this amazing little printer as a way of distributing street portraits taken using my X100T. When I print edited photos at home the output is fine but so far all the direct prints from my X100T on the street have been really washed out and overexposed, despite looking fine in-camera.

if anyone else is using this combo, or XT-1, and has any tips on how to tweak the camera setting to boost the colur/contrast that would be great. I've tried just flipping between the various film simulations without much success. Any other settings that might help?

I can get much better shots by editing on my iPhone first using a third party app but would much prefer to direct print from the camera.

I shoot in RAW+JPEG fine so can be flexible with the JPEGs to suit the printer output.

Thanks!

bobh121 · Mar 8, 2015

robertdc said:
Hi,

Just bought this amazing little printer as a way of distributing street portraits taken using my X100T. When I print edited photos at home the output is fine but so far all the direct prints from my X100T on the street have been really washed out and overexposed, despite looking fine in-camera.

if anyone else is using this combo, or XT-1, and has any tips on how to tweak the camera setting to boost the colur/contrast that would be great. I've tried just flipping between the various film simulations without much success. Any other settings that might help?

I can get much better shots by editing on my iPhone first using a third party app but would much prefer to direct print from the camera.

I shoot in RAW+JPEG fine so can be flexible with the JPEGs to suit the printer output.

Thanks!

I have no expierence with the Instax printer. I do have a Fuji XT-1 and have turned my LCD brightness down to get a better match to what I see in Lightroom. The fact that your editing in an external app to get a good print indicates that your images may be over exposed.

robertdc · Mar 8, 2015

Thanks but I don't think the photos are really overexposed. Even without further editing they look fine on my computer screen. It seems that this is a quite widely reported problem with the Instax printer. On another thread it was suggested that all photos should be adjusted in Snapseed first to Brightness -45 and Ambience +100, even though the on screen images will then look very dark. What I was hoping to find was a way to adjust the Fuji camera settings to achieve something similar for the JPEGs prior to direct printing to the printer.

xXrenXx · Jan 20, 2016

I had the same problem with my X100T too.

Here's what I do to overcome the washed out look in-camera (mostly).

For B&W, use the raw conversion tool and make these adjustments (assuming your photo is properly exposed)

Push/Pull = -2/3EV
Sharpness = +2
Highlight = -2
Shadow = +1, +2 or even 0 depending on how much of the shadows you want in detail or not (I prefer +1)

For colour, use the same settings with these additions

Film simulation = Velvia
Colour = +1 or +2 (I prefer +2)

These have worked pretty decently for me. The most important points are to drop the exposure and the highlights, and to use velvia and boost colour for colour prints.

Hope that helps!

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