Remember Canon’s announcement earlier this month? Quite a few models can now be deployed as webcams for video calls and such. Hot on the heels of this announcement, FUJIFILM releases their own take on this: Convert your X and GFX series mirrorless cameras into webcams. Please welcome: X Webcam! When the current Pandemic gained momentum earlier this year, there was a time when it was really difficult to buy a half-way decent webcam. So if your laptop did not offer one you couldn’t really participate in the work-from-home-groove while staying connected via video call. Canon was the first to release their EOS Webcam Utility (as a beta). Now, Japan-based FUJIFILM has developed their own utility for that exact purpose, the X Webcam software. FUJIFILM X Webcam First things first. There’s one major downside we need to talk about: The freshly released tool supports Microsoft Windows only for now. Hopefully there will be a macOS version available shortly but for now we’re stuck with Windows. The tool connects to your camera via USB and from that point on you can use your favorite X or GFX camera as a good’ol webcam but with a tremendeous boost in picture quality of course! These are the FUJIFILM cameras that are supported by this new piece of software: GFX 100, GFX 50S & GFX 50R X-H1 X-Pro2 & X-Pro3 X-T2, X-T3 & X-T4 If you really want to use a FUJIFILM GFX 100, worth roughly ten grand (that’s without a lens), as a webcam...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 27 May, 2020