 Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Fujifilm Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about why your Fujifilm JPEG pictures are not coming out good. Before my Fuji XS7, I used Sony A5100 and I never had to change any settings or anything to take nice pictures out of the camera. So I'll show you some of the pictures right now and you'll see that you know the pictures quality were really good and all of these are just right out of the camera. I never change anything these are not edited. So when I started taking pictures with my Fuji XS7, I was shocked to see that you know the picture quality was not coming out as good as I was expecting. So at first because this was my first Fuji camera and I was a little bit doubtful that you know whether this is going to give me good picture quality because I don't shoot raw and I don't usually do photo editing. I always try to get everything right out of the camera because you know I spend my time on video so I don't want to spend a lot of time editing pictures and everything. So I was shocked to see Fujifilm pictures were not coming out as good as I was expecting. So I did I started doing some research online and then I found out that you know you have to change some of the settings to get excellent quality picture or excellent quality JPEG pictures out of your Fuji camera. So it's not like Sony that you know you don't have to change anything and you can expect superb quality pictures. What I noticed about Fuji is that right out of the camera without changing any settings the pictures you're going to get those pictures are going to have you know slightly more darkness and higher shadow tone. So for that reason the pictures I'm going to show you right now you'll see that you know the pictures they don't look very vibrant and they're like you know kind of like you know shadow tone or darkness. It's not you know very it's not bright or acceptable quality at least the way I want my pictures they're you know not too dark not too shadow and a very nice combination of you know highlights and shadow tone and color. So if you don't change any settings out of your Fuji camera the default setting is not going to give you you know excellent vibrant pictures you're looking for. So after doing my research and trying a few things what I found out that you know you have to change some of the settings very simple settings it's not a lot. If you open up menu and then from IQ you will see this section and then the dynamic range is going to be auto white balance is going to be auto and then the highlight tone is going to be minus one shadow tone is going to be minus one color is plus two and sharpness is plus two noise reduction is minus two and nothing else I changed. So these are my you know basic settings which I changed and I'm going to put this on this paper right here so you can you know have a look and you can come back to the section if you need to change this and my three film simulation modes are Provia, Velvia and Astia. So I set up my picture to take you know three pictures using this film simulation and then I pick or I keep the one which I like most so the result is you know dramatic I get excellent JPEG pictures out of the camera and I'm going to show you some of the pictures right now and you can judge by yourself. However let's say if you you know do not like something mentioned here then you can kind of change it and play with it and see how you like it but I did my you know homework and I changed these around but these are my final settings and this is what I like because I believe that you know I cannot get better I'm not going to be getting better picture quality out of my camera if I change anything beyond this so I just always use you know what's in here and so this is my these are my favorite settings for Fujicamera system. More videos coming up so I'll see you shortly. Thank you.