kciuk aka Ken60
Senior Member
A while back, perhaps a couple of months, I tried and discussed on here the Fujifilm Tether App for controlling the GFX 100S2 . Specifically I was trying to command a focus bracket from the WIndows Surface laptop/tablet, and after all sorts of fiddles and workarounds with the camera settings , became disenchanted.
This experience I shared with Fujifilm UK in my normal subtle colonial way, and to their credit they listened without offence. Today, just browsing I noticed an update to the App, 1.34.0.1, had just been posted and so downloaded and tried.
This time all I did was take the camera from its bag, place on a tripod and plug in the tether cable. I then started the App after switching the camera on, and ticked the box for focus bracket. It pondered and then after a second or two it offered the " Set" button. I pressed this and a new screen box opened in the main part of the window and allowed me to set point 1 and point 2 . I did this both using the dropper in the box , and then tried using the touch screen on the tablet and confirming with the dropper. Both methods worked well , though the dropper did not change the screen focus , it did alter the distance scale. One of my gripes ( there were loads) was that the camera chose about i/3 as many bracket points when used alone as the App did ! I can confirm that in my brief trial both returned 14 points for the same bracket.
Have looked at the shots in Helicon Focus and can say that I am absolutely thrilled at the change to the operation of this software, the nasty clunky experience is gone and I really look forward to taking this out into the wild to enjoy the union of camera and tablet.
For others that have similarly suffered, download and add your thoughts. To fuji, in the words of the proverbial darts commentator " One Hundred and Eighty " !
This experience I shared with Fujifilm UK in my normal subtle colonial way, and to their credit they listened without offence. Today, just browsing I noticed an update to the App, 1.34.0.1, had just been posted and so downloaded and tried.
This time all I did was take the camera from its bag, place on a tripod and plug in the tether cable. I then started the App after switching the camera on, and ticked the box for focus bracket. It pondered and then after a second or two it offered the " Set" button. I pressed this and a new screen box opened in the main part of the window and allowed me to set point 1 and point 2 . I did this both using the dropper in the box , and then tried using the touch screen on the tablet and confirming with the dropper. Both methods worked well , though the dropper did not change the screen focus , it did alter the distance scale. One of my gripes ( there were loads) was that the camera chose about i/3 as many bracket points when used alone as the App did ! I can confirm that in my brief trial both returned 14 points for the same bracket.
Have looked at the shots in Helicon Focus and can say that I am absolutely thrilled at the change to the operation of this software, the nasty clunky experience is gone and I really look forward to taking this out into the wild to enjoy the union of camera and tablet.
For others that have similarly suffered, download and add your thoughts. To fuji, in the words of the proverbial darts commentator " One Hundred and Eighty " !
