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Connecting a Fujifilm Camera over Wi-Fi

Fujifilm has you create and save a network setting. Skip the saving step and you will start over every time the camera is switched off.

What you need

An Android phone that can share a hotspot, a Fujifilm X or GFX camera, and the CamCon app. No cable and no router.

Indoors with a router available, joining the camera and phone to the same router works exactly the same way. In that case skip the first step and start from the second.

This brand has not been verified on real hardware yet

The connection path is in place, so following the steps below has a good chance of working. We simply have not been able to test it on a camera of this brand ourselves. Telling us either way helps a lot.

Connecting

Five steps. Most people get stuck on the third and the fifth, so pay attention to those two.

Turn on the hotspot on your phone

The camera joins your phone directly, so nothing passes through a router. In CamCon, the Wi-Fi connection screen has a button that opens the hotspot settings for you.

Turning on the hotspot usually switches your phone Wi-Fi off automatically. That is expected, so just leave it.

You will type this name and password into the camera in the next step.
Open configure and you can see the name and password. These are what you type into the camera.
If the band is on 5GHz, a camera that only does 2.4GHz cannot find this hotspot. The phone warns you about exactly that. When the camera will not show up, switch to 2.4GHz here.

Join that hotspot from the camera

In network setting, take an empty slot and create a wireless LAN entry. Set access point settings to manual setup, pick your hotspot from the list to register it, and finally select the entry you made, or it will not take effect.

MENU ▸ Network/USB Setting ▸ Network Setting
Camera screen
My phone hotspot name
Other nearby Wi-Fi
You can look up the exact menu location for your model in the maker's official manual. Official manual
In network/USB setting, open network setting.
There are five empty slots. Take the first one.
Choose access point setting.
Choose manual setup.
Choose select from network list.
Pick your phone hotspot from the list. The 2.4G and 5G next to each name are the band.
Once registered, it shows completion along with the camera name.
Press finish to complete the entry.
The entry you made now appears in the list.
You have to press select for that entry to actually be used. This is the easy one to miss.
The chosen name now shows next to network setting.

Switch the connection mode to wireless tether shooting

Open connection mode under network and USB setting and pick wireless tether shooting fixed from the list. The wired entries sit in the same list, so make sure you take the wireless one.

In wireless tether shooting, photos are not saved to the card

The camera itself shows this warning under the list. Your shots reach the phone only and nothing is written to the card, so if you need the originals on the card as well, use the cable instead.

On the same screen, move down to connection mode.
Choose wireless tether shooting fixed. A warning below says images are not saved to the card.
The connection mode now reads wireless.

Search for the camera in CamCon

Open the Wi-Fi connection screen in the app, select the phone hotspot tab and tap search. If the camera has joined the hotspot, the model name appears within a few seconds.

With the hotspot on, the app says so here. Tap search for camera and it starts looking.
Cameras found
My camera name
Auto discovery · maker confirmed
The model name and maker are identified before connecting. Check that it is your own camera before selecting it.

Select the camera in the app to finish

Select the camera in the app and it connects. Fujifilm uses its own communication scheme rather than the shared one, so it also appears a little differently in the search results.

Information shows the IP address the camera received.
When it has joined, the lamp on the body turns green.
Once connected

Photos land on your phone the moment you press the shutter. If a film simulation is on, they arrive with the look already applied. Live view and shooting settings can be controlled from the phone as well.

If it does not connect

Work down the list in order. The first three solve most cases.

  • Is the connection mode set to tethered shooting?

    In smartphone transfer mode the camera only hands over photos and accepts no shooting control. Check the connection mode again under network and USB settings.

  • Did you save the network setting?

    If you entered the password but never confirmed the save, the setting is not kept. If the connection disappeared after a power cycle, this is the likely cause.

  • Has the camera actually joined the hotspot?

    Check that your phone hotspot is the selected entry in the camera Wi-Fi list. A single wrong character in the password prevents the connection.

  • Has power saving switched the camera radio off?

    Cameras switch their radio off on their own after a while without input. Half press the shutter button to wake it, then search again.

  • Is the phone hotspot still on?

    Battery savers sometimes switch the hotspot off on their own. Also check the option that turns it off after a while when no device is connected.

  • Still nothing? Turn the camera off and on again

    A previous session can linger on the camera and block a new one. Power cycling clears it.

You can also connect with a cable

All you need is a USB cable, and it works with far more models than Wi-Fi. Use this route if wireless will not hold, or if you need the originals on the card as well.

Connecting with a Cable